Sunday, November 22, 2009

Happy Birthday Jonathan! God gave us Jonathan Terell, our first child, on a Friday evening/Saturday morning early in our marriage. Terell was finishing his bachelor degree at Southern Oregon University majoring in Biology and minoring in Outdoor Education. His dream was to teach at New Hope Christian School. He applied to New Hope and was accepted to teach, not Biology since they had a science teacher, but Math. Robert Giddings, Principal of New Hope, hired him. One of my dreams was to have a big family. Another dream was to have our children born at home. God said yes to the first dream and no to the second one. As I labored to have Jonathan, the bearing down part which can take a few minutes turned into over two hours and thankfully he was born safely by Caesarean. The Lord is good! And he was beautiful! We were so thrilled and enjoyed every minute of our firstborn! No one believes us when we tell them about him saying "hi" to us when he was 6 weeks old! We said hi to him all the time and he surprised us by saying hi to us! And no, with our eight children I did not need a Caesarean each time - only with three of them. God blesses and enables us.