My quest for the perfect tea kettle

In this quest for the perfect tea kettle I have been rewarded with the discovery of the Simplex Tea Kettle. It is made in England. copper lined with tin. whistling lid and all.... beautiful and shiny. i feel like an ostrich.

baby magic

I just wanted to take time to give a really good piece of parenting advice. No, it doesn't have to do with how often to feed or whether you should spank. Its all about the Symphony in Motion mobile w/remote (at least until they are 5 mos old). this is the most amazing form of baby paraphernalia I can think of when it comes to getting a shower or ready for church undisturbed. It even worked on Bronwynne. the songs are classical composers bach, beethoven, and mozart. its not annoying music. but very soothing. you can get it on ebay. it comes in really bright colors or one like this one so it doesn't clash with nursery decor. the remote allows you to turn it back on from a distance.....b/c you know if they see you... you turn into a pumpkin. so... here it is, my gift to anyone else on here thinking of having a baby, anyone with newborns to 5 or 6 months old..... freedom to shower, do the laundry, cook dinner, be with the husband, do your makeup... (oh the days of spending hours in front of the mirror!), whatever you want to do (in fifteen minute intervals) with the Symphony in Motion Mobile.

Dafydd Roeland MacFarlane Carroll

21" 7lbs and 11oz Aug 26th 2007
thanks everyone for your congrats. We are very excited about our little boy. every time I have a baby, I am just overwhelmed with how wonderful it is and want another immediately. He is very sweet..not very much screaming. LOL. thanks for all your concern and prayers for Roeland's birth. everything went very well.
love charlotte

brownie is using the potty.

we are so proud of the little brown. She has been using the potty consistently for over a week. She has had no accidents and is wearing her big girl panties. We are sooooo proud!

Psalm 107:1, 8-9,21

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast Love, for his is wondrous works to the children of men.

For he satisfies the Longing soul!!! and the hungry soul he fills with good things!

Monsoon in GA

I got up this morning about 6:30. for several reasons... none of them including children...wait that isn't true b/c Roeland kept me awake by pummeling my insides, so, I will say none of them including the ordinary 2 and 3 year old reasons I am usually awakened early.... I woke up b/c of worry and the stink of a dead rat that has taken up residence under our bedroom floor (the glory of south ga humidity). the rat's presence was unknown until yesterday afternoon. We had a torrential downpour in which my backyard flooded and all of the radio flyer wagons were filled to the brim with water within a matter of about 5 minutes. Apparently the particular poison which we searched for specifically to avoid the stench problem does not work if the decomposing body is rehydrated. EWE. The downpour lasted about 45 minutes total. Now, normally, I love a good downpour provided that I am in doors and am able to relax. And I was praying yesterday in my unmotivated prenatal laziness that I could find some way of not having to water the plants. I love landscaping but the responsibility of bending over and turning on a faucet... standing in the heat as my ankles swell beyond recongnition just doesn't seem worth it at present. however, due to this downpour, God answered my prayer and provided my plants with enough rain that I will probably be able to skip watering for a couple of days!
This blessing came with, the word escapes me, "set backs". which brings me back to the reasons I could not enjoy my morning of sleeping in...(that being expected due to the fact that the girls spent the night with peachy and papa).

As the downpour began, brownynne got my attention to a leak in our sunroom by saying "mommy its raining on me" This was to be expected as we have known that there is a leak however small and as inconsequential as a leak can be. But then as I was dealing with the expected leak I was distracted by a "mommy it rained on me again" from bronwynne sitting in another portion of the room. I then noticed water running down the wall and dripping off of a door frame that leads into the main portion of our home. Well, in my pregnant mindset where any catastrophie seems unmanagable, any expense seems to present no other recourse but bankruptcy, and overwhelming insecurity sets in with the slightest inconvenience..... I somehow kept my cool. That is until I went into our bedroom (another appendage to the home) where I found a puddle of water had soaked through the roof and onto the entirety of my limited maternity waredrobe that was neatly folded on the end of my bed. this all to be topped off by the stench of dead rat and realization of the duration it would entail (the last one took a month to totally decompose). suddenly fear and insecurity crept over me. a laundry list of items that needed repair came to mind. Rotten window sills... the need to replace all the siding on the house as well as any rotten wood underneath it, replace windows, trees that need to come down in the backyard b/c of the impending threat of falling on the house, and of course the leaky roof. I began to panic. although I placed the panic in the back of my head with the montra of "God is a good God, He is soveriegn over everything" ...it woke me up at an hour that I would never willingly arouse myself by choice, so it indeed is bothering me. So, if you reading this please pray for God provision to be swift and for peace of mind on my account. Thanks. ps also pray that smell of decomposing rat goes away very soon b/c its bad enough when you aren't pregnant... but when you are- ugh.

I can't even create a coherant thought, I am so sick.

I volunteer for a crisis pregnancy center. I feel sick. I feel sick when someone calls asking for the abortion pill or an abortion. at 8 weeks a baby is moving arms and legs, feels pain, and has all brain activity and heart function.
sick sick sick sick sick. ugh. I feel sick.