Welcome Josephina Maria Jacobs

First of all, Christina and I thank everyone that has prayed for our family over the last nine months.  We are extremely grateful for the loving family members, friends, doctors and hospital staff that have supported us throughout all of our pregnancy and child birth journeys.

We also must thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as well as all the Saints in Heaven (known and unknown) that interceded to Our Lord Jesus Christ for our family throughout this pregnancy and childbirth.  Especially the Blessed Virgin of Childbirth, St. Joseph, St. Therese of Lisieux, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Fr. Daniel Cooper and any others I've missed.

On a personal note, I thank you Christina for the love and self sacrifice shown throughout pregnancies and childbirths.  Knowing in full detail, what you will endure and continuing to say "Yes" freely, despite fear or uncertainty, giving all of yourself for our family, is truly an inspiration to me.   I cannot express my gratitude and admiration for you my Love.

Why the name Josephina?

Christina's ultrasound was on March 19th, the Feast of St. Joseph the worker and while driving to Mass that morning, the name Josephina found it's way into Christina's mind.  As we did not know the gender of the child, we were discussing potential boy and girl names along the way.  If it was a girl the name was already agreed upon and settled (GIRL NAME DISCLOSURE PROHIBITED), as for boy names, like always, each was pretty much an option, aside from a few of my unique names (e.g. Urban, Ignatius, Isidore, Xavier, etc.).

The ultrasound technician provided us a piece of paper identifying the gender, which we opened the following day.  Seeing that God had blessed us with another girl, the name Josephina was chosen to honor St. Joseph.

Maternity Photo Shoot on location in back yard

 Francis is trying to figure out what a baby is and what impact that has on him??? (He is a pro with Tia Helena's iphone)

 Percy "Josephina I really hope you enjoy graham crackers as much as I do."

 July 30th - 1 day to Go!!!

July 31st - 6:00 AM (Almost Time) 

 She's Here!  

 1st Meeting of Mama and Daughter

August 1st - Here come the Big Brothers and Sisters!

Police Officer and Our Kids

This summer is going by quickly!  I hope to do more catch up posts before Josephina arrives.  A police officer in our area was super kind to our kids and rewarded Magdalene for wearing her bike helmet.  He even passed out free helmets to the others.  Aren't our little ones getting big!!

Trying to Blog More

I was trying to make it a goal this Lent to write more blog posts.  I have enjoyed reading old posts so much....the kids really love to see the old pictures and videos.  It's fun to remember how we were feeling during certain times of our lives.  I have also been meaning to write about the birth of Francis.....poor Francis.  I think Jordan will be placed in charge of writing that post.  He has the true talent in writing. 

Tomorrow will be such a special day in the Jacobs' household.  We have the honor of attending Holy Mass early tomorrow morning for the feast of St. Joseph.  Magdalene and Francis will be joining us as well.  We scheduled our ultrasound tomorrow as well so that will take place sometime in the afternoon.  Originally we were going to let the gender of our baby (babies according to Jordan) be a secret to us all until "the birthday" but dear Magdalene had her heart set on knowing early.  She is so excited about seeing the baby on the screen and finding out this coming Saturday whether she will have a baby sister (her heart longs for that) or a baby brother. 

She has planned even what treat we will enjoy after the ultrasound.  Our precious daughter would like some ice cream, and since tomorrow is a first class feast...we can get some!! 

We can't wait to share the news with you all soon! 

All Saints' Day 2017

Our little saints were very excited for the upcoming feast day!  Magdalene originally wanted to be St. Therese, but she has this beautiful princess dress that would only fit for one more year so she decided to be St. Elizabeth of Hungary.  She made her crown too!  

Well Tobias....what can I say...he is brave?!  He has been learning about St. Anthony of Padua for almost one year now.  I was happy to see him dressed up as St. Anthony, the patron of the church I was baptized in and received my first Holy Communion.  Plus....he sure made a cute St. Anthony.

Yes, he wanted to cut his hair like St. Anthony.

 I think Philomena's costume had my heart in it.  I love Our Lady of Fatima....and I spent time studying the veil of the Pilgrim Virgin statue that visited our church back in September.  The crown on Philomena's was the crown I gave Jordan the night before we got married.  I wrote him a note about how he would be the king of our household (something like that), and my sweet sister dropped off the crown and note at night....I think in the middle of some kind of rain.

"I wove tools.  I wove Mary.  I wove Jesus."  Theodore was practicing his lines preparing for St. Joseph the Worker.  I never thought he would say those lines in front of others, but it sure was cute to hear him saying it at home.

St. Philomena Mission

Saints for 2017

OUR LADY OF FATIMA, PRAY FOR US AND FOR OUR POPE!  

Happy Feast of the Virgin of Childbirth!

Today is a very special day! I am deeply grateful for this wonderful little prayer that entered my life through the hands of my dear brother-in-law (via Fr. Abbet).  Today we honor the Virgin of Childbirth!  Here is the prayer that helped bring courage, hope, and a deeper love and trust for God and Blessed Mother. 

Virgin of Childbirth

Basilica S. Augustine--Rome

Prayer

Holy Mother of God, Virgin of Childbirth, we

come to you to sing your praise.  You are the

beloved daughter of the Father, the Mother of the

Word Incarnate, the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  

You are the Virgin of God chosen from eternity to realize

our salvation: ask your Son Jesus to grant us a

strong faith, a solid hope, and a generous charity.

Virgin Mother, we put under your care all the

mothers who pray for the integrity of their children

and for a successful birth, so that the life in their womb

may be preserved from all dangers.  

Grant them to come back to you with their child

to give thanks to the Lord who works wonders

for those who hopefully trust in Him.

Virgin of Childbirth, protect all children with

your love, so that, cleansed from sin by baptism

and received in the Holy Mother Church, they 

may serenely grow up, full of virtues, in order to

become courageous witnesses of your Son Jesus, 

and may persist on the path of sanctity, with the 

favor of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Ave Maria...

Virgin of Childbirth, pray for us!

Festivity:  2nd Sunday of October

A New School Year Begins!

 Twas the night before school started

 Tobias found a baby snake

 Magdalene picked out her brother's clothes.  He had to wear a tie!  And white!  And dark pants!  He was more than willing to hear her advice on fashion.

Miss Philomena Jacobs was excited for  her first official day of school!  We started a bit after her birthday, but now it's official that she is in Pre-Kindergarten.  She was so excited!  Ziggy the Zebra from Tobias' Pre-Kindergarten year joined us as well.

Tobias was so excited to see his pencil pouch and then he wanted to get back to snake catching.

Magdalene was very happy to start school!  She browsed through her new books, and she couldn't wait to begin.

Principal Daddy and Dr. English joined us for our first day.  Oh, Ziggy has been waiting a long time for Philomena so he joined us too.

Then it was time to play.

Homeschooling Motto

"Teach children with joy. They will be attracted by joy to the Source of all joy, the heart of Jesus." 

~ St. Katharine Drexel ~