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2010 December Daily :: 24 :: Selah's Birth Story - Extended Edition

By Shorel & Sandra on December 24th, 2010

Warning: this is a birth story. If those details seem gross to you, then feel free to click on the chinglish category to the right.

Christmas Eve

5:15am
I woke up with a contraction in my back.

I was:

thankful that we were going to finally get this party started.
sad that I was about to labor another posterior birth.
so

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2010 December Daily :: 18 :: Hubs takes a work day

By Shorel & Sandra on December 18th, 2010

This morning, I woke up and realized that Hubs has been so concerned about the needs of our family that he has not “worked” a full day in the past 2 weeks. Oh sure, he conquered the occasional e-mail or Skype call here and there, but I had a feeling (literally a light bulb moment)

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2010 December Daily :: 17 :: Happy Birthday

By Shorel & Sandra on December 17th, 2010

This morning, Hubs gave me the best birthday present of all: the privilege to sleep in and take a shower before greeting the kids.

Of course, they were standing outside the bedroom door chomping at the bits.

Poor Schäfer was about to spontaneously combust if he didn’t get to ask me what kind of cake we were

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2010 December Daily :: 8 :: The Travel Tree

By Shorel & Sandra on December 8th, 2010

This morning J called and asked if she could drop by in 15 minutes.

Well, do you think you could babysit so I could go for a prenatal visit?

Sure!

Oh my word. People continue to bless us. Not only did she show up in 15 minutes, but she also had gifts in hand: hot chocolate, Cherry Dr.

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2010 December Daily :: 6 :: No Room in the Inn

By Shorel & Sandra on December 6th, 2010

This morning, we dropped the kids off for a couple of hours with a new friend. We are so thankful for everyone who has volunteered their time to watch the kids. We figured we could take the kids with us to meet the doctor & have a prenatal exam (read: run around the hospital) or

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