Rite-Aid was having several give away items on sale for the week last week. I am trying build up my money orders and gift card totals so that I have very little out of pocket here as well. This was $18 and I'm getting a m.o. for $18 back for this sale and I am still waiting for a $5 Gift Card from last month.
I used my 20% off coupon from Big Lots. I found these two books for $.80 one on planting onions and garlic and the other is about making pillows, both had a retail price of $19.95. The total for this was right at $11. We are saving an enormous amount by just not eating out and when you factor in the CVS and coupons I have been able to stay on budget this month.
Nane and Grandaddy, We Love You
My Precious Daddy
My Lovely Mother
William Levi Micajah Powers born December 29, 2007
Our home birth started about 7 years ago when I was expecting Gabe. After 3 hospital births I knew there was a better way. Not knowing any midwives though I was reading books about Unassisted Homebirth, Kevin was not comfortable being responsible for delivering a baby with no help (Huge Understatement). So Gabe was born at the hospital.
Then with Ella a few years later I was even more convinced I wanted to have her at home. By this time we had met or knew of a few people that were having their babies at home but still no midwives in sight and Kevin was still not going to go it alone. So Ellie was born at the hospital (the Lord gave us a wonderful birth but still way too much intervention and aggravation).
With Levi the Lord heard my prayers and at my first visit to the obstetrician he told us that because Emmy and Ivey had been born by C-Section the new insurance policy required that the new baby be delivered by C-Section, never mind that I'd delivered 2 babies naturally before and 2 more after. He told us that he believed that this was 'bad medicine' and that it wasn't a good choice for either baby or mommy but if he did delivery the baby naturally not only would his insurance increase $40,000 per year but all of the other doctors in his practice would also experience the same $40,000 per year increase. He said that he knew of no doctors still doing VBACs in our town or even in Atlanta (about 100 miles from us) and suggested that we find another option.
He knew that I had been wanting to have a homebirth so we understood what he meant. Also, some new friends of ours just about 50 miles away had a homebirth with a midwife so we were very hopeful of finding someone to help us.
We found a lovely, sweet and most importantly Christian lady who has delivered many, many babies. She was such a blessing and so helpful. We saw her once for lunch and then talked to her several times on the phone. We knew then that our Heavenly Father was overseeing this birth and both Kevin and I had a great deal of peace.
I carried Levi longer than any other of our babies and at 38 weeks I finally went into labor. Saturday morning I was on the phone with mom and I was holding Ella and I had a hard contraction. It wasn't particularly different than the other Braxton Hicks I'd been having for the past 2 weeks but there was something about it, so I showered and we recleaned everything. After a couple of hours I was sure this was finally the real thing and Kevin called our midwife. She arrived 1 hour before Levi was born and 4 hours after my phone call with mom. My water never did break until his birth but it was an easy and peaceful birth and Kevin is now convinced that home birth is the very best option.
To God be the Glory
Here is a blog with alot of excellent information on having our babies in our home
