2012-05-30T17:02:28Z http://themarshfamily.name/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:themarshfamily.name,2006-11-09:4b849a6d-259c-4584-be52-d85505edc6f2 Esther Marsh 2006-11-09T07:33:00Z 2006-11-09T07:33:00Z <FONT face=Arial size=3>Tuesday&nbsp; Chelsea and Chaylee celebrated one year on this earth.&nbsp; The time has just flown by.&nbsp; I can't believe that they are one.&nbsp; Chelsea especially seems too little to be 1 years old.&nbsp; Chaylee began walking at 10 months.&nbsp; Chelsea is going to be there soon she's a little more "wobbly" than any of my others.&nbsp; She's my first child to not be walking by 10 months!&nbsp;But I did tell themt&nbsp;to take their time!&nbsp; <BR><BR>This year has really been a lot easier and more fun than I had anticipated.&nbsp; The Lord is sooo good!!&nbsp; When first returning to South Africa for the birth of the twins and thinking of all the traveling we would have to do on furlough, &nbsp;pg. and then with two newborns,&nbsp; I have to admit that I was not looking forward to it.&nbsp; But the Lord made it such a special time and now I look back with such fond memories!!&nbsp; Robert made great effort to plan fun things during our times visiting churches in both Durban and the Cape.&nbsp; Durbs was great spending time on the beach and with friends at our churches.&nbsp; Cape-- we got to spend 5 weeks living at the Paadeburg camp retreat.&nbsp; The kids loved living in the mountains and climbing and playing there each day.&nbsp; We also got to have Louise Morrison, our future school teacher, come and spend that time with us helping with school, and just another pair of hands to help all around.&nbsp; We also got to bring Winnie, our Congolese daughter with us from Congo.&nbsp; The whole experience was great for her too as well as a great help to me with the children.&nbsp; <BR><BR>We looked quite funny traveling in our 6 seater Mitsubishi, Pajero with 8 people and 2 newborns piling out at each stop.&nbsp; There would be bodies coming out of doors AND windows!&nbsp; At one rest-stop&nbsp; an older couple watched in amazement as we kept getting out of the car,&nbsp; and as the last of us piled out, &nbsp;the gentleman walked over to Robert and asked&nbsp; "Anymore coming out of there??!!"&nbsp; Then there was the fact that there were 3 ladies to 1 man and 6 kids.&nbsp; What a joke!&nbsp; Try picture yourself as a by-stander and figure that one out!&nbsp; Having twins brought stares and coversations from all kinds of people.&nbsp; It was actually amazing the amount of mothers of twins I bumped into.&nbsp; All of them though would marvel at how I was able to carry my twins to 38 weeks, as most twins are premies.&nbsp; I could testify to the goodness of the Lord!<BR><BR>Well I could go on and on, but I'll leave it at that.&nbsp; My aim is to write a little here and there for posterity's sake.&nbsp; </FONT>