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[familyof6]

Hi everyone!

I took a couple months off theologyweb again, but now I'm back and logging on almost everyday. It's been really busy around here.

I am 6 months pregnant now and we found out that we are having a girl! So we will have: boy (age 9), girl (age 5), boy (age 2), and another girl.

The pregnancy is going fairly well, I'm just annoyed that I can't sleep on my stomach.

I have thinned my daycare out to 2 full time kids and I plan to let them go by December 1st. This wasn't the original plan, but I have begun something new. A friend of mine is in charge of a large non-profit organization. They produce bulk mailers, newsletters, etc, in order to organize events and such. They were paying a lot of money for printing and design work. I told them I'd do it cheap. (Before my daycare business, I worked in the print/design industry for nearly 10 years.) Anyway, it's going so well that they have cancelled the leases even on their own in-house machines. I purchased some machines that handle quantity printing and, voila!...I have quite a little business running! It's fun, and easy work for me...and I can choose when I want to work.

My husband has had three job offers in the past month. He hasn't decided if he wants to leave the company he's with (he's been there for 8 years), but it looks like either way our income will be increasing just in time for baby!

We're having a new roof put on the house before winter and I'm rearranging bedrooms and painting them. We also adopted 2 kittens.

My daughter started preschool this fall and I'm sending her to a lovely little school that's run by a Lutheran Church. I did the same thing with my oldest. Preschool is mostly just fun for them, and they get to learn all the basic Bible stories early on. This encourages them to ask questions on the subject and have discussions at home. I think it's important for them to be well-informed when they start grade school; this way they aren't taken off guard when they find out most people believe in a god, while Mommy and Daddy do not. Anyway, I love the school, the teachers are wonderful, and they take an informative approach. I don't get a feeling of 'brainwashing' from them.

I am procrastinating right now...I should be cleaning/organizing the house. We have company coming on Saturday and a friend staying with us next week. Somebody tell me to get back to work!! ARRRRGGGH!

Hope everyone is well!

-Heather

[gharfish]

I noticed you had posted (yesterday ?) Welcome back ! AND, Congratulations on y'all's third baby girl, on her way into your family ! Hoo, you all are so busy--good busy; but just reading of it exhausts my lazy bones. Will you be changing your Tweb name to "familyof6" ?! --(Hey, and how are those adopted kittens doing ?)

[Johnny MacManky]

Hi FamO'5, good to hear from you & everything's going good.

[Crow]

Nice to hear from you again! I'm glad that all is going well for you.

[familyof6]

Thanks everyone!

La Ghariyal- Yes, I plan to change to familyof6 after the big event! The kittens are hilarious. They are both well. One is black and white calico with a faint brown moustache/beard and the other is beige and white calico with one hazel colored eye and one blue eye! We have a third cat...he's 1/4 Bobcat; they really enjoy getting him worked up. He's so lazy that he rarely goes after them. He usually just sits and whines about it. He's so much larger than the kittens, I think he knows they aren't a threat. The kittens like to chase each other around the house. The smallest thinks she's tough and she was chasing the other around in circles and ran smack into a wall. I couldn't stop laughing. Also, a few days before, we had a box fan in the window and she must not have seen it. She jumped up from the floor and SMACK!...headfirst into the box fan. Very entertaining.

[gharfish]

That's funny ! Cats are great. I don't know how I'd be able to get along in life without their company. If they are not entertaining you, they are calming you - or maybe even fascinating you.

My parents have a new kitten (well, of course he's new) that is fearless. For some time now they have had one male cat who for whatever the personal reasons enjoys attacking their other cats. It doesn't matter whether they are male or female; he torments them. He isn't big; in fact, he is smaller than the average full-grown male would be. And he is so tame with people. Odd. His favorite target (so sad) is their largest male, who is about 18 pounds. Imposing-looking to any visitor. But this giant is terrified of him; he doesn't realize he could easily squash the little terrorist.

Back to that new kitten ! He is all over the little terrorist now ! The tiniest cat in the whole cat zoo my parents have has become his nemesis. Unfortunately the devil cat still ambushes the others, as always, but now there is someone who does the same to him. Ha !

How did you find the hybrid cat you spoke of ? Interesting. I bet he looks neato.

Like your leaping box fan basher, my sister has a cat that as a kitten would run through the house and up onto the couch and WHAM hit the wall--down he fell behind & straight to the floor ! What a nut. I suppose it didn't hurt, and he badly wanted to keep on riding into the horizon--he just wanted more space to roam (tear around in !)

Again, congratulations on "the little bun in the oven" ! (Y'all thinking of names yet ?) I'm glad that you all have the work opportunities coming together to provide well for your robust group :)

Vance.

[Kelp]

That's all great. I'm glad things are going so well for you!

And welcome back!

[familyof6]

That's funny ! Cats are great. I don't know how I'd be able to get along in life without their company. If they are not entertaining you, they are calming you - or maybe even fascinating you.

My parents have a new kitten (well, of course he's new) that is fearless. For some time now they have had one male cat who for whatever the personal reasons enjoys attacking their other cats. It doesn't matter whether they are male or female; he torments them. He isn't big; in fact, he is smaller than the average full-grown male would be. And he is so tame with people. Odd. His favorite target (so sad) is their largest male, who is about 18 pounds. Imposing-looking to any visitor. But this giant is terrified of him; he doesn't realize he could easily squash the little terrorist.

Back to that new kitten ! He is all over the little terrorist now ! The tiniest cat in the whole cat zoo my parents have has become his nemesis. Unfortunately the devil cat still ambushes the others, as always, but now there is someone who does the same to him. Ha !

How did you find the hybrid cat you spoke of ? Interesting. I bet he looks neato.

Like your leaping box fan basher, my sister has a cat that as a kitten would run through the house and up onto the couch and WHAM hit the wall--down he fell behind & straight to the floor ! What a nut. I suppose it didn't hurt, and he badly wanted to keep on riding into the horizon--he just wanted more space to roam (tear around in !)

Again, congratulations on "the little bun in the oven" ! (Y'all thinking of names yet ?) I'm glad that you all have the work opportunities coming together to provide well for your robust group :)

Vance.

Ha! Cat stories are awesome. The 1/4 bobcat we have is from a breeder in Arizona. I believe my husbnd found the breeder online and he picked Jim (the cat) out from a set of pictures that she sent and then he was flown to us in Illinois. He's got a funny personality. You can walk him on a leash like a dog.

As for names for the little one...for some reason, our other 3 kids all have names that begin with the letter "A". Austin, Amelia, and Addison. So...we figured we may as well continue the trend. We've pretty much narrowed it down to three choices; unless I hear something else I like in the meantime. Ava, Abigail, and Alex.

[Dave G]

oh kitties...

[$cirisme]

welcome back! I'm exhausted just reading this.

[mossrose]

Glad to see you back!

:glomp:

Let me know when it's time to change your name.