Comments on: On baby names, the garden, and true love

By: Shelly

Shelly — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:34:34 +0000

Just noticing on the baby names….if you go to the social security admin website, what folks actually name kids vs. what’s trendy are two different things. I found no “Aiden” in the top 10 for 2004 - in fact it was number 60. The top ten was instead full of traditional names like Jacob, Joshua, Matthew, Andrew, etc…the girls were a little more trendy. I think some of the polls are what people like vs. what their husbands let them name the baby.

No suggestions here - but just thought this was interesting. Let the Lord lead you! Blessings,

By: Amy Scott

Amy Scott — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:30:27 +0000

Gen, I remember reading about not letting it bloom to develop the root system. Thanks for the reminder; I’d forgotten. I don’t know if I have the fortitude to cut those blossoms off. Wow–am I getting weak in my old age?

Thanks for the labor stories and other notes, Ladies! Appreciate it!

By: Scooby

Scooby — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:56:10 +0000

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By: Sheri

Sheri — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:35:48 +0000

Amy,
I also measure labor in days, but it is apparently the fault of my own sensitivities. Things were going along smoothly with baby #2 when I found out that my midwife wasn’t available. I wasn’t about to give birth with a stranger, so labor stopped at 7cm. Instead we went to the mall and then for a walk on the beach(stopping for the occasional contraction, scaring all the sunbathers). After our midwife arrived, we went out to dinner with her, went back to the birth center, broke my water, and had a baby an hour later.

Baby #3 was already 1 1/2 weeks late when we went into labor. Things were pretty good until the midwife let slip that she thought he might be breech and need to be born at the hospital! That was not acceptable, so labor stopped at 5cm and stayed there for a week. That allowed us to have a sonogram verifying proper positioning and to go shopping for appropriately blue baby clothes for our precious Jared Michael.
Our God is wise and just and good. He is also very efficient - developing in us the fruit of the Spirit while He develops the fruit of the womb!
Sheri

By: Ashlee

Ashlee — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:16:55 +0000

I can’t believe you’re only 29. You’ve got a lot of wisdom in between those ears. Hopefully in five years I will have acquired half as much as you.

Oh yeah, and I just have to say I love the name Amos, although most people in the world don’t, and my brother’s name is Zane, which while only being one syllable is still not a very popular name.

By: Mrs. P.

Mrs. P. — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:11:10 +0000

Amy, no contest–your husband’s a true find!

When I was twenty, I worked part-time at a trust company (like a bank) while I attended university. That Christmas, my father gave me a Dust Buster. I was evidently so thrilled with this that another young person with whom I worked confronted me when we came back to work after the holidays and said, “Kel, do you realise you’re BRAGGING that you got a DUST BUSTER for Christmas? From your DAD?”

I just couldn’t make her understand. Maybe you have to be a daddy’s girl to “get” these things . . . .

Now, a DB in a vehicle . . . oh, dear. Envy is a sin.

By: At A Hen's Pace

At A Hen's Pace — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:56:49 +0000

Amy,

You should enter this in the Choosing Home Valentine’s Day contest–sounds like your husband’s gifts are award winners!!

(I feel free to suggest this as we wouldn’t be competing in the same category–I also have a competitive streak!)

Jeanne

By: Jennifer D

Jennifer D — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:39:27 +0000

I know what you mean about measuring in “days”. They say that with the more children you have, the shorter the laors get. If that’s true, with this one, I should be looking at maybe 2 days?

Jennifer

By: Sheena

Sheena — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:55:32 +0000

Strawberries in February, wow! It must be a good deal warmer where you are than here in London! I’ve just ordered some blueberry plants they should arrive soon, mine will need to go in a pot as they need very acid soil apparently,we have very heavy clay soil. I will consider Gen’s advice about the berries very carefully!

I hope your baby wait is not too long, I think all the talk of ‘late’ babies from the medics is sometimes tiresome,like you say, God’s timing is perfect.

By: Gen

Gen — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:08:12 +0000

Just a tip from your resident landscaper, if you can stand to do it, don’t let your blueberry bear fruit (pick off the flowers) for the first three years, because a lot of the nutrients that they use to bear fruit also are used for developing a strong root system, and those first few years are crucial for developing a good root system.

But if you took my sage advice and didn’t let your blueberries bear the first few years, you’d be the very first. Evereyone gets so excited when their berry blooms that they can’t bear to pick the flowers off, no matter how much they understand that it is wise! LOL.

I too would take the onboard dustbuster over a golden ring, by the way! Us gardeners get a lot of dust and mulch in our cars!