12 or 13 Week Twins

Look at how perfect they are! So stinking cute, I just wanna hug them. But they kinda need to grow quite a bit more, so I'll let them bake for just a little longer. 

So I say 12 or 13 weeks cause at my initial ultrasound they measured at 8 weeks 1 day. At today's ultrasound which was supposed to be my 12 week they measured at about 13 weeks. So who knows. My official due date is September 25th, but I'm predicting the beginning week of September, maybe last week in August. We'll see though! 

This one makes me laugh. Baby A which is the one on the bottom had its head down the whole time being stubborn and showing its little bum. Little stinker. Were thinking it must be a boy. 

Both of them were moving like crazy, it was so awesome to see! Waiving their hands and dancing up a storm. So amazing. It feels more real now, seeing that they have actual bodies now and are moving around. Seeing their cute, tiny fingers and feet. Makes me so happy. Both of them had healthy heartbeats and good amounts of amniotic fluid. They each have their own placentas so were pretty sure that they are fraternal, but really no way of know 100% until birth. Or until we find out genders if ones a boy and ones a girl, which I am seriously hoping for. How awesome would that be! But I'll be happy with whatever Heavenly Father decides to give me. 

Baby B waiving hello. Friendly little thing.

Motherhood

This article struck a huge cord in me upon reading it. It's something I feel very passionate about and want to share. We had a lesson in our church meeting for women on the role women play and how important our role is. It's been lost in today's society just how important it is by telling women to work and be successful elsewhere outside the home. It saddens me. I felt the Spirit so strongly when reading this that I actually cried. Might also be that my hormones are going crazy right now being pregnant:)

Well the advice given in this article is given by Dave Ramsey. I knew I liked that man. He's incredibly smart when it comes to budgeting and saving money. Well turns out he's also smart when it comes to the home and structure of it.

Dave Says: Why Can't She Get Another Job?

March 08, 2011

When a family is broke, and the woman is at home raising one child, why can’t the wife get a “second job?”

Dear Dave,

I listen to you often and enjoy your radio show, but why don’t you ever ask women to go to work? When a family is broke, and the woman is at home raising one child who is already in the fifth grade, why can’t the wife get a “second job?”

George

Dear George,

I think far too many ladies, in the name of paying for stuff they don’t need, have left the household and the children for the workplace. Many of them didn’t even want to do this; they just felt obligated to do it by people like you. There are a lot of ladies who have sacrificed their ability to be full-time moms on the altar of the car payment.

Now, sometimes ladies have to go to work. There’s a time and a place for that kind of thing. But if there’s any way I can financially and budget-wise figure out how mom can be waiting at home with a big hug and a plate full of cookies when that fifth grader walks in the house – and if that’s what she wants to do – then you’re going to find me fighting for her opportunity to do that. There’s no higher calling on the planet than motherhood. We’ve lost that in our culture, and we’re suffering dearly for it.

I’m no Neanderthal jerk. I don’t say every mother has to be at home or they’re a bad person. But these days we’ve got very few people who defend full-time, in-the-home motherhood. The inference you’re making is that she’s not helping, or worse, lazy. Why don’t you go take over her job for a week? I think you’ll find out in a hurry there’s not a lazy bone in her body!

—Dave

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