Runnels Rhapsody

Due Date

It's been a long while since I've written, though I have been online enjoying others' blogs.

Today is my due date. No baby yet, but we are more than ready. My hormones and emotions have been out of whack this week. I feel disappointed that the baby hasn't come yet. For the last 4 months I've been measuring big and heard from doctors, midwives and every person I meet on the street that I look huge and there's no way I'll make it to my due date. Well... here I am, as huge as ever and still pregnant on my due date. One of these days...

Until then, life continues on as normal. DD just finished lesson 50 in the "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" book. She continues to do very well grasping the new concepts. It is amazing to watch, really, as things "click" in her little mind. My husband and I also got more serious in the last month or so about family worship/devotions in the morning. So we've purchased a few books - one on scripture memorization and a one-year children's Bible that we're working our way through. That is going fairly well. And again it has prompted good questions from DD about the Lord and has led to good discussions about His character, etc.

A friend and I canned some grape jelly recently, which I greatly enjoyed and hope to do more of in the future. We have plenty that will be given away at Christmastime this year.

My sisters-in-law and I do a lot of Christmas baking and then exchange our goodies to put together trays for friends and neighbors. We used to spend Thanksgiving weekend together baking for 2 days straight, but this led to a lot of stress and basically made us not want to see each other again until Christmas!  So now we each have our "assigned" items (the ones we make the best) and a date to get together for the exchanging. It seems to work out ok, though I need to get cracking on my baking - and when the baby comes I'm not so sure I'll be up to much.

That's life on our home front. Homeschool continues - and I'm trying to find a Kindergarten curriculum I want to implement next year with DD. Currently I'm leaning towards Sonlight because she likes to read, but I am a bit concerned about the cost of their program.  Pregnancy continues - though obviously not for much longer!  Life continues on and soon we will be a family of 4 instead of 3.

God's blessings!