Print Friendlyby Vyckie OMG ~ I am in such horrible pain! I guess part of what’s got me feeling so cranky lately is that the pain which is focused in my hip and radiates over the whole left side of my body ~ from my fingers down to my ankle (oh ~ my elbow!) ~ is back. I used to live with this pain night and day for years and years, but not long after the divorce, when things started settling down for me so that I was no longer chronically stressed, it went away Full post …
There Is No “You” in Qivering
Santa vs. Satan
Print Friendlyby Laura When I was growing up, my moms worked craft shows to support us kids. They often worked right through Christmas Eve and so we never celebrated Christmas actually on Dec. 25. We would usually have our Christmas celebration in the second week of January. That way my moms could take advantage of the awesome after Christmas sales available back then. It took the pressure off and I always felt like someone special when I told my friends that WE were celebrating Christmas on January 10th or what ever it was. The date Full post …
Did I *really* trust Him?
Print Friendlyby Vyckie I had lunch with Hazelle at school on her 13th birthday ~ this year was the first time that I didn’t cry as I remembered the trauma of my 4th pregnancy and delivery ~ in fact, I hardly thought of it at all ~ so yeah, time does bring healing and I’m grateful for that. There’s an interesting discussion going on over in the NLQ forums about quiverfull families who are “trusting the Lord” with their family planning and at the same time, accepting government assistance to support their children. themomma Full post …
There Is No "You" in Qivering: He Preferred Crest
Print Friendlyby Laura I have seen comments here on the blog that say that Vyckie and I chose this lifestye. That it was a conscious decision on our parts to live this QF/P life. I can only speak for myself and I can attest that it was definitely NOT a conscious decision on my part. I took what was the “frog in the pot of hot water” path. It is said that if you put a frog into a pot of cool water he will be content to sit there enjoying his soak in the Full post …
When am I supposed to sleep…?
Print Friendly by Laura When my 11th baby was born, he had feeding issues. He just wasn’t getting the hang of nursing and I think my “plumbing” was getting a bit worn out. After two weeks of trying and trying and him crying and crying, I took him to a Lactation Clinic an hour and a half away. The nurses and doctors were wonderful and remembered me from the last time I had a baby with these problems. They told me that I needed to use a breast pump every two hours all day and Full post …
Sing, sing a song….
Print Friendlyby Laura Now I sing what ever I want…..and I play guitar when I sing…..and no one chooses the songs for me….and my husband appreciates and enjoys it when ever I pick up my guitar. So different…so nice. I have always been a singer. Some people would say “I’ve got the music in me”. I loved to sing but never had the “stick-to-it-iveness” to learn an instrument. I tried many but they just took too long to learn! But my voice was already there and I already knew how to use it. I couldn’t Full post …
What’s That I Feel?
Print Friendly Several people have told me that I looked sooooooooo tired and worn out in the photo I used with this post. It’s true ~ for years I was seriously exhausted and felt like it would be so easy to die ~ all I had to do was surrender to that feeling of being completely spent… Now that I am “No Longer Quivering” ~ that’s all changed and I have my health back ~ Hooray. I remember when I first realized that the horrendous stress I’d been under for so many years was mostly Full post …
Three Lilacs and a Statue
Print Friendlyby Laura I had 9 perfectly normal pregnancies and deliveries. Well, my ninth baby was premature but things worked out fine and we had her at home and kept her at home. She was just a bit on the tiny side but all went fine. Over the course of the next 2 years, I experienced 3 devastating miscarriages. One right after the other. I was stunned. My body had never betrayed me like this before. I never had trouble conceiving or bearing children. Why was this happening to me? I had never felt this Full post …
Michelle says, Never enough babies!
