Lil' Phil is a week old!!!

As we celebrate the 4th of July we are also celebrating our baby boy being with us for seven days!!!

Lil' Philip,

We love you and are so happy that you have been with us for one week. We have enjoyed you and have grown in knowing and seeing our Heavenly Father's love through you. We look forward to many many more healthy and happy days with you.

Love,

Your family that is so blessed to haved you!

Philip Lawrence Johnson, Jr. has arrived!!!

Well my lil' Philip has been born and it has been almost a week since his arrival. I am going to post some pics soon and I am working on his birth story and will post that too. Please be patient with me as I am adjusting to his schedule. He loves being awake at different times of the night...especially around 4 am. That is when I can actually sit down and type and catch up on e-mail...

So I am enjoying every moment with him as I know that these days are going so quickly and he soon will be crawling and walking and doin' all sorts of grown things.

For now, I enjoy him looking at me with those dark brown eyes...I enjoy holding him and feeling his soft skin and soft hair...I enjoy changing his diaper...I really do. It is different than changing a girl....and he has sprayed my hands many times, so you think I would have learned to cover him with a clean diaper right away....
but, you know, I don't care because he has brought me so much joy and delight with these things that I laugh and kiss and hug on him even more...

I thank God for this precious little one...the days are passing so quickly, yet I am hoping to slow down the minutes as I hold and feed and care for our little angel...

I hope to share him with you all soon.

God bless.

39 weeks!!!

Hello blog friends and family,

Here I am at 39 weeks...not the best pic but just wanted to post this since so many were asking just how big I really am!!!

I am looking forward to seeing him and holding him and the girls are wanting to see him too...even Anaya seems to understand that I am having a baby...although she points to my breast and says baby, Mama, baby? (in an inquisitive sort of way..)

I hope my next post will show pics of our new little blessing....

Thanks for the prayers.

37 weeks-no picture

I am 37 weeks today and I am sorry I do not have a recent pic to post. Hope to get one on here soon as time is flyin....

Babies head is down and seems ready for labor...

Mama (that's me) is preparing my mind for the pain because I know once I feel that first contraction it'll all come back to me of all the labors in my past. I wish each kid you had the labors become less painful but so far for me they have not.

It is so worth it though and I can't wait to see him and look at him and praise God for another little miracle.

Love in Christ,
mk

It feels like summer time here!!!

Hello hello hello blog fans and friends.

I know it has been a while since I last posted...and I got so many comments about how much you missed me blogging so I just knew that tonight I could not let my blog followers down....

So...

This is what we have been up to:

-lots of fun since the weather has warmed up. Swimming, playing outside, eating ice cream and popsicles and inviting friends over to play...
-which leads to distractions from school work...but that's o.k. because we are having fun....
-and having some disappointments. Nothing major, just the Cavs losing, pet snails dying, and having to take 2 baths in one week after playing in the dirt and mud....
-still waiting on baby. I am 36 weeks....
-praying for a quick and safe delivery...and dreaming of one too!
-noticing that our lawn needs some major attention and the property owners' association noticing too...
-and I am noticing how I have changed my mind about not needing help after baby is born. Looking forward to my family coming to help and looking forward to meals being made as I humble myself to these gracious people helping me (so so hard to do, but I can get used to it!!!)
-so thankful that His mercies are new every morning....

Love,
mk

Baptized

Kamelah was baptized yesterday and I am trying to post the video but it is not working...this computer does not like me....(Kristen...help me!!!)


But anyway I hope to post the video soon.

Here is Kamelah and the other kids right before the baptism:

Kamelah is coming down to get baptized:

This was a very exciting day for me to see my daughter being baptized. She asked Jesus to come into her heart at three and then at a VBS she asked Jesus into her heart again when she was six. She made the decision to be baptized and in doing so has made it public that she will follow Jesus the rest of her life... it is a celebration... it makes me feel overjoyed to see her doing something so important that will impact her forever....

yet I know the celebrating is not over. It is a moment by moment decision to follow the Lord. It is not easy. She will have to continue to work out her salvation through trials, tribulations, hardships....Jesus said to pick up His cross and follow him daily even when others are not. Even when the road He has you on seems to hit a dead end...

Let me preach a little bit more to ya because I need to hear this myself...(can I get an amen!!)

I am proud of my daughter and what she is becoming. I am thankful that God is working in her at an early age and I hope and pray that she continues to seek Him with all her heart. I pray that her relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ would continue to grow and that she would continue to glorify Him in all she does.

For His glory alone.....

32 Weeks!!!

I am thirty-two weeks this week!!! (Does it look like I am carrying twins because two people have already asked!!) I do feel like I am carrying bigger with this one than the other three. My youngest was 8 lbs. when born so I hope he won't be much bigger than that. Looking forward to this little one coming soon....

I found this verse in 2 Cor. 4:16-18 that really speaks to me this season in my life. "Therefore, (I) do not lose heart. Though outwardly (I) am wasting away, yet inwardly (I) am being renewed day by day. For (my) light and momentary troubles are achieving for (me) an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So (I) fix my eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

Each day brings new trials, challenges, and sometimes heartache but there is purpose in all that I do and all that I go through...which renews my soul and strengthens my spirit day by day. I am to fix my eyes on what is unseen, what is eternal...that is what counts. Eternity seems so far away to me while living day by day here on Earth, but in retrospect it is not that far at all. Eternity looks like this:

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That dot represents my life here, but that line represents eternity. The scripture commands me to fix my eyes on the line, where there is no more pain, suffering, hurt. That line means experiencing loveliness, holiness, perfectness, and total oneness with my Creator and my Lord and Savior forever. I am sure looking forward to that....

But in the meantime there is a purpose here on earth in which I need to strive to achieve. God has given me a purpose here and so I need Him to renew me day by day in order to go and do the things He has called me to do.

That means going through hardships and trials and.....pain sometimes in order to get there. I hate pain....I am thinking about labor pains right now. I know once that first contraction comes the pain and the memory of it will come back to me. But I also know that with each contraction it will bring me closer and closer to seeing my son whom I have been blessed and priviledged to have and whom I have been praying for, for a very long time. God is so good in creating and bringing this precious little one into the world and I pray and hope he and I will be glorified, shining the light of the Son of Man to others through the truth of God's word and through the Lord Jesus Christ.

For His glory.....