This Is Where Twins Come From

A beautiful place to visit:  Basilica of St. Louis, King of France "The Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, formerly the Cathedral of Saint Louis, and colloquially the Old Cathedral, was the first cathedral west of the Mississippi River and until 1845 the only parish church in the city of St. Louis, Missouri." from Wikipedia.  Click to learn more about the Old Cathedral.  

So do you remember when we were in St. Louis for the girls First Holy Communion in October/November of 2011?  When J left for a business trip and Pooker had gone home, Miss Brenda and I took the rest of the gang to the Old Cathedral in St. Louis along the riverfront near the Arch.  If you click on those words it will take you to the that visit.  

We gave money to help with the upkeep of the beautiful old building and I let each one of the kids put money under the statues of their favorite Saints and light candles.  I then gathered everyone in one pew where we all shared our intentions and prayed together.  I asked each of the kiddos what they were praying for.  "I want to do good in school, I pray for Pooker and her school, I pray for Dad,  . . . oh and I pray we have another baby."  Each child had a version of this except princess.  I responded to each of them with, "I pray that God answers your prayers but I am too old to have another baby", to the next child, "I also ask God to Bless our school work but I am not sure there will be another baby coming, mom is old. (I had not had a visit from my monthly friend in well over 6 months - I thought I was finished.)   I had to keep from giggling as each child added the request on for more children as we prayed together.  I love how pro-life and pro-family they each were but when Princess said, " . . .  not only am I praying for another baby I am praying for TWINS!"  Cheers were heard from all the other kiddos when I made the fateful statement, "I am too old, God CAN'T do that!"  Looking back I know that the egg split right then and there.  You see we use natural family planning so once I discovered that I was pregnant I knew how far along I must have been at that moment in the church.  As it turns out our babies were identical twins that shared a placenta but not a sac so the split happened around a certain day after conception.  As it turns out it the split must have happened on that very day that I told the kids that our ALL POWERFUL GOD could not do something.  I am sure he laughed about it as he made sure we were having two babies.  I love His sense of humor and that my children all wanted more babies and prayed for our twins.

God answers prayers, my children know this as a fact.  A few days after praying for twins we find out that mom is expecting.  The kids all suspected twins.  J and I laughed at those thoughts until the ultrasound.

Thank you so much God for these beautiful special ladies.

We had to go back to that special church to give thanks.

As strange as it sounds the girls are connected to this place.  They lit up when we came in the doors.  They were happy and talkative.

Thank you.

Adorable

Jumba - Beautiful - Princess - Bagel - Pickle - Adorable all giving thanks for our precious twins.

Precious Adult Time with Miss Susie

Miss Susie is my cousin's wife.  We were close when we lived in St. Louis.  I miss all of my family but I especially miss her friendship.  They have 4 children so have been very busy through the years.  It has been difficult keeping up but we made up for that with one very long breakfast.  She is Pickle's God Mother and my hero as she had twins and survived.  You met Nicholas and Chandler at my family's get together.

Adorable

Beautiful

Just gorgeous inside and out.  Love ya and miss ya!

Big Kids Head Out

We now get to the reason for our visit.  Goobers, Bear, Sugar and Possible were here to leave with Fr. Tom's parish to go on the March for Life in Washington, D.C.  Pooker wasn't able to join us this year so another "Flat Pooker" was crafted.

The littler ones and I stayed behind. We were sad to see them go and yet a little excited to enjoy a quiet house.  Isn't that funny.  You know you are from a huge family when 6 kids is a light number.  

We told Fr. Tom to take care of the big kids and I think that he told the little ones to take care of me.  

Good bye guys - have a save trip.  

Visit with Dad's Family

We were so blessed to have Dad's family include us on a family dinner so all the cousins could visit.  They all had so much fun!  We loved them all so much.  (Adorable is in Green and Beautiful is in Red.) 

I know J wishes he could have been with us to enjoy his family.  Times like these are just another reason why   I miss St. Louis so much.

Magical Time

We walked into the Magic House ready for some fun.  Miss Brenda and Fr. Tom  and MK were both able to spend the day with us.  That was wonderful!  Adorable is in the green shirt and Beautiful is in the red.

This was such a relief to find out how much the babies grew.   Funny thing is that Beautiful was just a smidgen heavier than Adorable.  The smaller twin no more.

Favorite picture of the day was in the shadow room with Goobers and the babies.  Fr. Tom took this one.

So much fun can be had at the Magic House ( - just don't get recognized LOL) !