Chilson Family

Today Son-in-love #1 is celebrating his birthday!  What better way to spend a birthday than it also being the first day of spring!  At least this year the first day of spring has the feel of spring unlike last year! Son-in-love, We trust your day is special! We are glad you are part of our family! Have a wonderful day! Happy Birthday!! We love you! ~~Momma and Daddy   

...Daughter #3!  Today is her 19th birthday.  She is our 7th child and my first of seven C-sections!  (Thank you very much, kiddo!)    I know, I always say, "Where has the time gone?"  But times goes so quickly.  Each child is so different and I must say she has the most spunk out of them all!  She is our child that thinks any hour before noon is too early to be up.  But she is the one who is willing to stay at her siblings homes and babysit for several days--giving up sleep if necessary--to help out.      HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAUGHTER! YOU ARE OUR "MACKIE-DOODLE-SWEETHEART" AND WE LOVE YOU SO VERY, VERY MUCH! WE PRAY YOUR DAY IS EVERY BIT AS WONDERFUL AS YOU!   XOXO Love, Momma and Daddy 

  We usually do not babysit Granddaughter J on Wednesdays.  But her other grandma needed to switch days today.  So here are three scholars that abandoned their school work for a quick "niece" hug!  One can never get too many hugs!       

I found out there was a problem with the link I had on my last post.  I corrected it for the previous post o r you can click here . Have a terrific Tuesday!

I am posting on my other blog today at Raising Warriors and Maidens .

Today is our oldest son's twenty-ninth birthday!  Wow!  Twenty-nine!  I can remember when I gave birth to our 9# 3oz baby boy WITHOUT pain meds!  His labor was a total of eight hours from the time my water broke, IN PUBLIC, to his first breath!  (actually I felt a little cheated, all the anticipation of waiting for this little human to come into my life and BAM! over in eight hours!  and he was my longest labor!) Anyway... HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON #1! DADDY AND I ARE SO THANKFUL GOD GAVE US A PRECIOUS SON!   WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU! We love you so much! xoxo <3 Momma and Daddy   

Every morning when I get up at 5 am I look out the window.  I don't know what I am looking for, but I look anyway.  Except for today.  I thought about it, several times, but could not bring myself to peek out the curtain.  The family starts waking about 6:30 and Hubby come out to the dining rooms and asks Son #7 and I if we have seen our birthday card.  Clearly the card for Son #7 is on the dining room table and he can see it, so I inform him of such.  He said, "No, look outside."  So we did and this is what we saw... (Son #7's name is spelled Job, like the OT prophet, I guess not everyone knows that!)     I am glad that there is not a lot of traffic in our neighborhood at 6:30 in the morning.  Because they truly would have thought we were nuts being outside in -4 degree weather in our robes!