The Huffmaster Family

I shared this with a special group of online sisters this evening, but decided I’d like to share it with my readers as well.

I’ve decided when my babies hit about 4 months old is when they begin to get much easier! We’ve plugged along through our nursing issues, I think our baby girl is doing much better, and I don’t feel like a milking machine anymore now that she’s stretched out her waking hour nursings to about 3 hours like clockwork on her own.

Once she seemed to be gaining to me I just let her fall into her own pattern as long as she didn’t go longer than that. At this point though there is little chance of that! This morning I nursed her at 8am and we got ready for church and headed out, then back home for the other group, then back to church and she was happy and content the entire time. She’s also given up her pacifier I think so no need to bother trying anymore…anytime you try to give it to her, say if I’m in the car and she starts to fuss, she sucks once or twice then grins like she’s saying…”You can’t fool me mama, so I’ll get happier for ‘ya and wait for the real deal!”

She fell asleep in the car seat during the second trip and stayed that way during the Sunday school hour. As we were starting the morning service it was about 10:55 and I mentioned to our oldest daughter that the baby will be awake in 5 minutes. She was awake in 3 and ready to eat!

For the first 4 months it feels like all I am doing round and round the clock is nursing and changing diapers and I probably am but one minute slips into another and then the hour slips into another and one day into the next and you just keep plugging along to get through it.

Sometimes that isn’t so much fun and it’s hard to just “enjoy” the babies once you are out of the “first few weeks then you feel like you should be up doing other things” period, but it’s a necessary thing.

As I was nursing her to sleep tonight…she was just gazing into my eyes, and every time I would smile at her she would smile back and loose her latch and we’d have to start all over again. We’d repeat the process over and over because I just couldn’t stop smiling at her. She doesn’t just smile in her face but her whole body lights up it seems. I so enjoy her presence in our home and her daddy and siblings will tell you the same. Each new baby changes the entire dynamic of the home, and it’s an adjustment, but when we work together as a family to make those adjustments, we reap the blessings and joy soon enough!

As she finished up I lifted her to my face, smooched her ever so slightly chubby cheeks and said I love you SO MUCH, but Jesus loves you more than I ever could! Then as I drew her away she again looked at me and smiled as if she was saying…”and I love you both Mama!”

Lord, never let me forget these special moments and my prayer is that she loves You someday much more than she loves me. I want YOU to be her Everything!

Blessings,Dawn

I’m just a couple of weeks late though, but here she is! Little Miss delight of our hearts was 3 months old on 11/16 and these pics were taken about an hour ago on 11/28.

Aww Mama, do we have to take pics again?!? OK I’ll play along cause I love ya!

Hey warn me next time…that flash is kinda bright!

Look I can do fun things with my tongue!

Ok I’m serious…how many more pics are you going to take?

I see she’s not going to stop anytime soon so I guess I’ll just strike a pose!

OK enough sweet mama of mine! Feed me or my face will freeze this way.

Ahhhh a full tummy and I’m happy again!

OH a clean diaper too and now life is even better!

Opps, sorry mom! I think you’re about to have to change me again!

I got a little card in the mail to sign up for 3 free issues of Homeschool Enrichment magazine! I LOVE free stuff so I thought why not! LOL To get your own free issues please visit

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Enjoy!

Blessings, Dawn

FINAL UPDATE: Jack had his stitches removed last Monday and he’s healing up very nicely! The best news is he also got his final biopsy report and it was ALL CLEAR!!!!!!! There’s nothing further he’ll need to do and we are Praising the Lord!!

UPDATE #2: Jack made it through the procedure very well! They took out quite a bit of tissue (they had to go 3 layers deep and then took out more on each side and over/under where the original mole was removed) and he has a bunch of stitches both inside the wound that was left and on the surface. They did another biopsy to make sure there are no pre-cancerous cells left and we’ll have those results within the week. He’ll go back in 10 days to have the stitches removed, and he’s to be off work this weekend. Please pray for quick, uneventful healing!

UPDATE: Good news!! Not the best, but not the worst Praise The Lord! The biopsy results came in a few days early and it is pre-cancerous. Jack will be going in to the doctor tomorrow morning (11/14) to have some further surgery to remove more tissue around the perimeter of where the mole was originally removed. Please pray it’s not too painful and that this is all that’s needed to be rid of the pre-cancerous skin cells.

My husband Jack had two moles on his back that looked suspicious and he was able to go in Monday (11/10) and have them examined.  The one we were most concerned about didn’t see to be too much of a concern, but the other one did concern the doctor. He said at first glance they didn’t look to be melanoma, but the one did look dysplastic to him. The doctor removed both moles for pathology and we should have the results back on Monday morning (11/17) which will tells us if either or both are benign (no cancer or otherwise), dysplastic (pre-cancerous), or malignant (cancer).

We are praying they are both benign of course, but if not dysplastic would be the better diagnosis vs malignant, since a diagnosis of dysplastic would only require a bit more surgery to take care of and complete the treatment.

Please pray for my husband when he comes to your mind. He is my everything and only comes 2nd to the Lord in my heart and life. We are praying for the very best outcome of benign, but we will accept whatever the Lord has for us and take it one day at a time!

Blessings, Dawn

But they aren’t my words…they belong to someone much more important, the MOST important! JESUS!

Daniel 2:21 He (God) changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Romans 13:1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities , for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities ; all things were created by him and for him.

John 19:11 (speaking to Pilate) Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above . Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

Daniel 4:17 “`The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.’

Daniel 5:21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he wishes.

I’ve been reading online and so many are so very distraught over the fact Obama was just elected. Yes I admit I cried real tears and not of joy! I was heartbroken and just pitiful or so I thought at the time. Once I pulled myself up by my bootstraps though and dug into the Bible where the answers to ALL of life’s questions can be found and read the above scriptures, my heart was settled and peace then flowed into it.

It comes down to these thoughts:

The duty was ours…we fulfilled our duty in this election by doing our best to promote our candidate in our community, and subsequently voting for him. The results of that election are God’s. To those of you reading who did not vote for President-Elect Obama, keep the faith! The Word says Obama is our President-Elect because God himself established that position. (Romans 13:1) I beleive the Bible means what it says, and the Lord will not forsake us.

Now that he has been elected I am committed to praying for him, and for our country…he is now the President of these United States, and history was made in America on November 4, 2008 and we and our children got to witness something that many Americans thought would never come to be.

Blessings, Dawn