"A Wink and a Smile"

life goes faster than you think One January evening ... the day before my boyfriend's 24th birthday ... the test shows a + sign. I'm a 23 year old girl ... 4 months from college graduation ... not yet married ... totally scared. I let my boyfriend know ... he is scared too. We think ... and talk ... and think some more. This is LIFE and so we choose it ... God has a plan. FAST FORWARD 41 year old mommy of 5 wonderful girls ... I am busy ... I am often tired. My first baby is a senior in high school ... where did the time go? Graduate college, get married (to that boyfriend), have a baby ... then four more ... did all that happen? Joy, tears, tantrums, cuddles, smiles, frustrations, giggles, and oh so many pictures to show for it! This nearly 17 year old is such a GIFT ... not in my plans at the age of 23/24 ... but I TRUSTED. Straight 'A' student, National Merit Semifinalist, active in our Catholic church and in her youth group. ...

And thinking about this post from last year because I just read THIS POST a little while ago. WILL YOU MARCH? "Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning." ~Ronald Reagan ( Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation) "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself." ~Mother Teresa

The beautiful pumpkin carved by my husband ... H/T to SARAH via Margaret