Feathers in Our Nest

a blog about faith, family, food, & more written by a wife and stay at home mom of five

Week Seventeen

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I feel like I’m really looking chunky in this picture… but in a good, “I’m-kind-of-looking-pregnant” way. 🙂 Compare with last week here.

This week our baby is about the size of an onion and has his or her own individual fingerprints! How cool is that?

I’ve been feeling pretty well lately, though I have continued to deal with some nausea. Nothing like at the beginning, though! I feel pretty energetic today, and I’m getting VERY excited about (hopefully) soon moving into our house where I can start getting everything settled.

Thanks for your continued prayers for us and for our baby!

(You can vote in our “Is-it-a-boy-or-a-girl” survey on the right until Wednesday. We find out on Thursday! But we might not tell you until Friday or so…)

When Creativity Strikes

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“My business is to create.” – William Blake

Sometimes I just get a creative urge. You know … the feeling where you haven’t done anything creative lately and you feel like if you don’t you’re going to explode. (I’ve been told that this may not be entirely normal…haha.)

At any rate, I’m definitely feeling the need to start a new project soon. I’m waiting until next week when we find out if our baby is a boy or a girl to finish the bird mobile and other accessories for the nursery.

In the mean time, I really want to work on something fun and crafty. This blog is really inspiring, listing projects from bloggers all over the world who are willing to share step-by-step tutorials of their creative endeavors.

Maybe tomorrow on hubby’s day off we’ll head into town and go to Michael’s. I’m really wanting this project to involve paint, I think.

Recently (three weeks ago?) I made a little felt case for my sewing needles.

Quotations that Inspire

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“God doesn’t just give us grace, He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.”
– Anne Graham Lotz

“There is no greater recommendation to the truth and power of the Christian faith than a Christian husband and wife, a Christian marriage, and a Christian home.”
– Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“I believe in the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that if God had not chosen me, I should have never chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love.”
– Charles Spurgeon

“A Christian woman does not put her hope in her husband, or in getting a husband. She does not put her hope in her looks. She puts her hope in the promises of God…She looks away from the troubles and miseries and obstacles of life that seem to make the future bleak, and she focuses her attention on the sovereign power and love of God who rules in heaven and does on earth whatever He pleases. She knows her Bible, and she knows her theology of the sovereignty of God, and she knows His promise that He will be with her and help to strengthen her no matter what. This is the deep, unshakeable root of Christian womanhood.”
– John Piper

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