37 1/2 Weeks!

Closer and closer we get to having our new little bundle. Every day we are just one day closer! Today at my appointment my midwife checked my progress from last week. This week I am dialated to 4 cm, about 80% effaced, and the baby is head down at -1 station (right there in the pelvis). So it’s looking like the baby may come sometime in this next week or so! They also told me that I tested positive for Group B Strep. 🙁 So that means I have no choice but to have IV antibiotics while I’m in labor so that the baby doesn’t catch it on the way out. BUMMER! But that’s nothing new, I had to have the IV antibiotics with Jeremy and Dinah’s pregnancies too. So we’ll see how the next week plays out. 😉

FHE #20

Testimonies

Opening Song: “My Redeemer Lives” Hymn #135

Opening Prayer: Tyra

Lesson: We talked to the kids about what a testimony meeting at church is and then went on to talk about what a testimony is. We pointed out the 5 major parts of a testimony.

  1. Jesus is the Christ and our Saviour
  2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true church
  3. Joseph Smith is a prophet of God
  4. The Book of Mormon is true
  5. President Thomas S Monson is a true prophet that receives revelation for the Church on the earth today.

Closing Song: “Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam” Children’s Songbook pg 60

Closing Prayer: Rebecca

FHE Treat: Brownies with vanilla ice cream and chocolate & caramel syrup

36 1/2 WEEKS!

Well it’s time to be finishing up the preparations for baby’s arrival. I’m 36 1/2 weeks and had my appointment today and I’m already dialated to 3 cm! So I need to finish packing for the hospital, and make up some bags of stuff for the kids in case they need to go to cousin’s house or Granny’s house while I’m in the hospital. I’ve got to finish clearing off my recliner so I have a place to nurse the baby during the night (that has been a 2 day project already and my room looks like a bomb exploded). We still need to go and have maternity pictures taken for the baby book…..the list goes on. But we registered at the hospital today so that’s taken care of. 😀 The lady asked me for my birthdate to verify who I was, and so I told her but Kyle (being silly as always) said “we don’t know the birthdate yet” 😛 At least she laughed. I get so embarrassed when Kyle tries to be silly and the other person doesn’t get it.

So the anxious awaiting begins…..STRESS!

FHE #19

Family Council

Opening Song: “A Happy Family” Children’s songbook pg 198

Opening Prayer: Jeremy

Scripture: Abraham 5:3 “And the Gods concluded upon the seventh time, because that on the seventh time they would rest from all their works which they (the Gods) counseled among themselves to form; and sanctified it. And thus were their decisions at the time that they counseled among themselves to form the heavens and the earth.”

Lesson: We as a family need to start having regular family councils. So we discussed with the kids that a family council is when we get together, and make plans (meals, vacations….), and talk about problems, and discuss schedules (making sure everything is on the calendar), and maybe a time to discuss the budget.

A Family council has three parts

Part 1: Mommy & Daddy

  • Talk about our commitments/schedule for the week
  • Discuss each member of the household
  • Discuss extended family commitments
  • Discuss anything else that comes up that we need to discuss between ourselves

Part 2: All family members

  • 1 by 1 each family member mentions their commitments for the week and all will be recorded on the calendar. Next week return and report.
  • Anyone may bring up a problem that they have observed, BUT they MUST also have a possible solution.
  • Everyone must say something nice about everyone else (and NO you can’t skip anybody).

Part 3: Father & Mother interviews (with each child individually)

  • Start with a compliment
  • Ask what is going on in their life. Problems? Challenges? Triumphs?
  • Share information with the child. The point of the interviews is to work on your relationship with each child as an individual, and to help each child learn to trust you with their problems. We want our kids to feel like they can talk to us, and this is a perfect setting to establish a relationship like that.

SO as a family we decided that Saturday morning we would have our first family council, and we’ll see how it goes. 😉

Closing Song: “Families can be Together Forever” Children’s songbook pg 188

Closing Prayer: Kyle

FHE Treat: Rootbeer floats