The van Ormer View: What do YOU think the baby is???

Thursday, December 15, 2011

What do YOU think the baby is???

I guessed right on the first try! :-)

4 comments:

Katie The Lady said...: Boy, boy, boy!
Poor Sammi, having to live in a house full of little brothers-hahaha.; 4:57 PM
Bethanie Jimenez said...: Congratulations, I know how much you and Sam wanted a girl, but boys are fun too. Now you'll have to figure out a name. I got to see our little one which was a extra treat. I guess I'll find out in a couple months what she/he is. Love you.; 7:30 PM
The Holden Family said...: even though some of you wanted another girl, there's something special about it just being you and sammi...."assuming" this is a boy of course. ;); 9:02 PM
Mom4ever said...: I hope he's a Mama's boy at least. ;o) Congratulations!; 2:24 PM

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God bless you, dear friends. Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days. I hope that when that occurs you will not be led to exclaim as did King Lear, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” (King Lear, I, iv, 312). Rather, I hope that you will have every reason to be proud concerning your children, to have love for them, to have faith in them, to see them grow in righteousness and virtue before the Lord, to see them become useful and productive members of society. If with all you have done there is an occasional failure, you can still say, “At least I did the very best of which I was capable. I tried as hard as I knew how. I let nothing stand in the way of my role as a mother.” Failures will be few under such circumstances.

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