Teaching 6th grade!

Wow! I never would have thought that I would love teaching 6th graders but they are my heart now. I have a fabulous group of 6th graders this year. This week I told them that I was pregnant and that I would be leaving in March to have a baby. They were so cute in their excitement and questions? Are you having a boy or a girl? What are you going to name the baby? With that question they had some opinion on what I want to name my child! Are you sick? But over all they were great and happy for me. Even though their teacher last year left half way through the year to have a baby too! Oh well, that is what happens we newly married women teachers...just a fact of life. Thankfully I did not have to explain anything about the "facts of life" when I told them I was pregnant. Whether they still think a stork brings a baby, mom and dad just magically get a baby when they get married or their parents have already told them. Either way, I don't care, as long as I was not the one explaining!

As I teach 6th grade and I can't help to think back to when I was a little six grader at Greenville Middle school with my tight rolled jeans and my NKOTB buttons on my jean jacket and my 6 inch bangs! I think about how insecure I was, how I worked so hard to recieve everyones approval. I think about how hard I had to work in school to be successful and felt like a failure so many times. I think about how boy crazy I was and how dumb I acted to get the attention of a boy that did not even matter. I look back at my life as a little six grader and thank God that I made it through and that I am now a happy, well adjusted, married, pregnant 31 1/2 year old. God has been so very gracious to me each and every day of my life from the time I was in six grade until now. I think God for incredible parents, family, brother, new friends, old friends! I think God for amazing memories and experiences I made at Marietta Baptist Camp, Edwards Road Baptist Church, Gardner-Webb University, Southeastern Seminary, First Baptist Woodstock! God is good all the time and all the time God is good!!

As I wait and pray and seek God as this little grows inside of me, I pray that I can use all of the experiences I have had and all the influences that have poured into my life to become the best mother I possibley can be. In fact I was telling a friend the other day, that if I can be just half the mom my mom was to me, I would consider that successful. I pray each day that God helps me lead and guide this precious child in the way that HE has already laid out for him/her. From the time we started trying to have a child, up until now, I have given this child to God. He or she is not mine. I am but a clay pot that God is using to carry and care for His precious creation!

Here is Abbey at 10 Weeks

Since we just posted a picture of Baby Cooler at 10 weeks, I thought I would post a few pictures of me at 10 weeks pregnant. My stomach is really not growing out the front, but my hips and waist are sure getting wide! Even though I am only about 10 weeks along, I am already in either drawstring pants or maternity pants! Enjoy!

10 Weeks!

I had my ten week appointment on Monday. It went really well and me and the baby are doing great. I got to the appointment about 3:00 and spent an hour with a nurse answering a bunch of questions about my past, family tree, sicknesses, surgeries and anything else embarrassing they could possibley ask. I then went in with the doctor and he did an exam and everything was great! After the exam, I was given a ultrasound and was able to see the baby, see the heartbeat and hear the heartbeat...AMAZING! The best part of the ultrasound was that the baby is moving now. No surprise the child was very active! I told Adam I think the Baby is a girl because the baby kept on doing "jazz hands" during the ultrasound! One part of the ultrasound did make me cry! While the tech was doing the ultrasound, when she would talk the baby was just being still but when I started talking the baby started moving around alot. Amazing! He or She already knows her mama's voice! Adam and I are still overwhelmed with this blessing God has given us. Please continue to pray for the health and safety of this precious life!

Abbey:)

Please pray for my friends Casey and Dan

I am asking my friends and family in blog world to please pray for my friends Dan and Casey. They were my friends at Southeaster. In fact Casey made me look beautiful in seminary by doing my hair. On 8/8/08 there precious little boy Asher was born and took just a few breaths and then went to be with our Lord and Savior. Dan and Casey knew Asher had some major complications, but you are never prepared. Please lift this precious couple up to the Lord today.