http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org Adventures in Love and Life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:15:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1451 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1451#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:15:17 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1451 ]]> http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1451 0 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1443 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1443#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:24:11 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1443
As you can imagine, Samuel’s death left Bear and I with empty arms and feeling very very lonely for him for a long time. We still feel that way at times. When we found out that our little Wildchild was on the way, there was a tendency to surrender to fears of all sorts… Would he survive? Would the birth go okay? Would he remind us of Samuel? Would we bond with him the way we bonded with Samuel (and we did even though Samuel did not survive until birth)? As it turned out, the answer to those questions were quite different than we would have thought.

Wildchild’s birth was quite an event. He decided to come early due to his umbilical cord being wrapped twice around his little neck, but, due to medical intervention, he did arrive quite safely. We did NOT bond with him the same way that we did with Samuel because he was not the same child. For that matter, we did not bond with him the same way that we bonded with Tech, Kutless, Flash or Hulk either, but we DID bond with him just fine! As for him reminding us of Samuel, well, he just doesn’t. He didn’t act like Samuel in the womb at all. He didn’t look much like Samuel when he was born. Quite frankly, Wildchild has clearly been his very own little person from the moment of conception and we should have been trusting our Heavenly Father to know what we needed and could handle much better than we did!

The truth is, we will always love and adore our Samuel. His life was horribly, painfully short, but it was important to us and impacted all of our lives forever. Our other children and their lives are just as important. No more, no less. Every individual is uniquely created by G-d and is a completely unique creation and important in his or her own right. I will be the first to admit that we probably did hold Wildchild a little tighter, spoil him a little more and take turns cuddling him until we began to wonder if he would ever learn to walk (which he did just fine). Samuel’s left a mark on our lives that will last forever but the best thing he gave us was a newer and deeper appreciation for each other.]]> http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1443 0 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1439 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1439#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:16:42 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1439 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1439 3 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1434 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1434#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:08:24 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1434 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1434 2 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1428 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1428#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:13:33 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1428
Please be praying for our continued good health. We are having to be super-cautious right now. But the praises being lifted would almost deafen you if you were here to share them with us!]]> http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1428 6 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1421 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1421#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:54:48 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1421 … and why, oh why didn’t anyone ever tell me that homeschooling would mean that I would never see or have access to my sofa again?]]> http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1421 1 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1414 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1414#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:18:36 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1414 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1414 4 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1410 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1410#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:10:33 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1410 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1410 2 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1401 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1401#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:56:59 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1401
We managed to get the truck taken care of enough to get it inspected and registered in our name. It does still need a few repairs, but it is safe to drive. Our car is currently not running well, however, so we are still waiting on a chance to do things as an entire family once again.

The garden isn’t dead yet and has even produced actual food that we have actually been able to eat. It is even continuing to do so much to all of our amazement. Don’t worry, though, we are still managing to kill off quite a few plants for no apparent reason so my record as serial plant murderer still stands.

Homeschooling is somewhat back on track once more, except for those days when it isn’t. Also, there was a very unpleasant week of head colds and sinus infections when almost nothing got done, but we don’t want to talk about that bit of nastiness, do we?

After many years of trying this and that with our homeschooling, we seem to once more be back to the formula that has served us so well again and again. Everything is centering around science, reading and the Bible. All of the other subjects just seem to fall into place on their own when we do things this way. I love that.]]> http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1401 1 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1397 http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1397#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:05:43 +0000 Birdie http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?p=1397
Until Saturday. Why? Because on Saturday Kaylaugh called to let us know that she and Cardoc wanted to bless our family with Cardoc’s little truck which has, by the way, four seat belts (can you hear my heart fluttering with excitement over that one?). After a few days of scheduling conflicts and weather problems, we were able to pick it up and bring it home yesterday. The excitement here has reached an almost uncontainable level with constant pilgrimages out to the driveway to make sure that the little truck is really really here. I am pretty sure the boys, in particular, are in love.

Thank you just seems so inadequate right now.]]> http://wingsandprayers.eaglewoodsnest.org/?feed=rss2&p=1397 5