number 8

We are expecting out 8th...Due September 15 2014!  Eight seems a lot to most people and I hear so much negativity about having that many children.  I used to think how could I keep having children and survive. ;)  But then my view on children starting changing.  I don't see them as children forever anymore, they are growing up and becoming people.  The kind of people I would have over to my dinner table, watch my children, hire to work for me, confide in, seek biblical advice from, the kind of people that I would call friends.
Yes times are hard sometimes, but it was hard even with two.  The only difference is when times are hard now we have more people to pray and pitch in. 
I look forward to watching these people that the world considers a hindrance become husbands, wives, parents, best friends, MY friends.
I look forward to graduations, collage, careers, weddings, births, seeing them develop their own lives.
Mostly I look forward to seeing this "army for the Lord" raised up for Him and seeing the powerful lives that He has chosen for them, lived out!

Blessings,
Joyful Mother