7 QTs

Linking up with always awesome Hallie this Friday (or Thursday) for some QTs. 

1) I am sure this will be #1 on every body's list, or at least every body's mental list, but I am keeping Jen in my thoughts and prayers this weekend. I cannot imagine dealing with anything in addition to just being pregnant + having 5 other kids-- definitely offering up diaper changes and screaming toddlers and praying for her.

2) Did you see Grace's "Birth Story Link-Up"? It is the best thing ever for the lover of birth stories, which I do happen to be. It's like a snack platter of birth stories-- a smorgasbord, if you will. Oh, you don't want to use food comparisons when talking about birth? Why ever not? Head over and pick out a birth story like your getting something from a vending machine. Too much? I will stop.

3) I am writing these a tad early since we are having a veritable deluge of company this weekend, and after the detox from family post-Christmas break, I am just a wee bit excited. Lucy will get to see her closest cousin in age, little Charlie, and we will attempt to take a Charlie Brown-esque photo of the 2 wee ones. Only if I can scrounge up a little blue dress for little Lucy and find our stuffed snoopy, we'll see and so will you if it happens.

from their first meeting around Thanksgiving

4) In honor of the fam-a-lam visiting and then the ND championship game on Monday, I will be making a few favorite recipes

Click it HERE and HERE for these bad boys

5) Did anyone else have a heck of time taking their kids to Mass so many times in one week due to Christmas, Sunday and the holy day?? I am the biggest wimp alive and I am pretty sure that I am failing %100 at teaching my children how to behave at Mass, but seriously the holy day of obligation nearly did me in. Mike leaned over to some friends sitting behind us afterward and said "to their credit, they have never actually been to Mass before". Because that is what they acted like.

6 )I just weighed Lucy and our scale just said she is already 15 pounds. Which means that when we eventually kick her out of our room (soon, I hope) she will be too fat to go in the bassinet. If she wasn't so cute I would reprimand her for her gluttonous ways, but alas I cannot:

too much? never

7) This was one of the funniest things I've seen, especially since having kids.
My favorite part is when he says "Do you want to know what it's like having 4 kids. Just imagine you're drowning... and someone hands you a baby"

Head over for some more Friday fun.