1/52 Be grateful

For the weeks in January I am going to focus on........BE grateful

Grateful: (Adj.) feeling or showing gratitude

Psalms 100:4   "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name."

I feel it is hard at times to be grateful for the things the Lord has brought our way.  That is why I chose it as my first BE.......

I am extremely GRATEFUL for a healthy little boy by the name of Gage Matthew.  The nine months I carried him was very hard on me physically and emotionally.  But now as I hold him I couldn't love a little boy more then I do now.  I'm so grateful that God decided to make me his mother and caregiver while here on earth.

Birth Story:

For the first 25 weeks of my pregnancy I physically could not leave the couch as I was so ill.  There were so many foods I could not eat because they would cause me to be extremely ill.  Weeks 26-38 I was finally able to move around and leave our home once and a while but not often.  Week 39-42 my hips decided they did not want to stay together and every step was extremely painful.  I had to commandeer my hubby's belt to try to hold my hip bone together in order to move around.  

I am very grateful for the OB we found here in CA.  The whole office worked with  me and my issues.  They encouraged me and was so sweet to my three yr old girl. 

On Aug. 20, 2014: I went into the OB's office to have my membranes stripped to help induce labor naturally.

On Aug. 21, 2014, 6:00am my water broke. (funny story: for two weeks I had been having nightmares that my water broke while out in public.  I was so scared to leave my home because of these nightmares.)  But I was in bed praying that the Lord would bring our little man very, very soon as I was having a very hard time with the pain.  He heard and answered right away by having my water brake.  I called the Hospital and they said shower and then head their way.  We arrived at the Hospital around 7:30am and was settled  in a room right away.  By 8:30am I was given an epidural as this girl can not handle extreme pain. My body shuts down and I pass out because of the pain.  This is not ideal while in labor. :)  By 10:15am my OB showed up for a check up and found that I was ready to push.  At 10:42am a little 7lb 7 oz Boy was born. 



A Names Sake:
Gage means "measure" in middle English but in French it means "one who is defiant", but as you can imagine we didn't choose it for the meaning.  Gage is my husband's middle name and his grandfather's middle name.

These 3 newborn pictures where taken by Sweet Pea Photography.