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Today I led Charlotte and some of my teens in an activity designed to get them thinking about their future spouses! Since Sienna already has a special friend in Michael from Willow Creek and Simon in Mackenzie Robinson, they were excused. The rest of us had a wonderful evening that centered the sanctity of marriage!

Excerpts from devotional activity led by Sophia Wagner and completed by several Wagner children, August 2051:

Caleb:

Nice

Christian

Pretty

Nice

Good at cooking and stuff

Charlotte:

If I get married, I would want my husband to still be my friend. I don’t want him to be just a stranger I live with. I’d like someone who never disappears and never accosts me with unwelcome surprises. We’ll be the kind of married couple that does things together, like weekly date night. And he’ll help me clean up after coffee & cake hour on Sundays. I won’t be like Sadie, fawning over someone as incompetent as her four-year-old. I won’t submit to a husband who can’t even lead. He definitely won’t be from Brindleton, because I’m pretty sure I know all of the single Christian men my age here and they’re all such…

Catherine:

La la la la abcefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz [in cursive] the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog [end cursive/resume print] I DON’T KNOW but he better be handsome :)

Cierra Joy:

I pray that my future husband is a strong man of God who provides for our family and is always pointing us back to Jesus. I would also like a husband who is open to any blessings the Lord gives us and willing to properly discipline them when needed. It would be really nice if his name started with C or J so we could name our kids all one letter and then share initials as a family, but I know the other things are more important. I’m prayerful that…

Stella:

My future husband has to have a good heart. I might like it if he was a pastor or something like that. Maybe a doctor. Someone who helps people, and by being his wife, I could help him help people. I hope he has a nice smile. And I hope he’ll use a gentle voice with our children and never raise a hand in anger against them. They’ll feel the love around them every single day and it won’t matter what kind of person God makes them, because they’ll know we’ll always…

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Cierra Joy is 13! This one is the big talker of our family: she always has something to say, whether it be about her siblings, her schoolwork, fashion, or the Bible. Let's hope her future husband is deaf--that way, he can use his hearing aids to "turn her off" whenever he needs a break, ha!

Right now I'm helping her to connect with her siblings more. Her sisters right above and below her, Sienna and Stella, are such peas in a pod that CJ often gets pushed out by accident. As a result she spends a lot of time with her "girl group" at church. While Colin and I are glad she has found a group of responsible, Christ-centered friends, we wouldn't want anyone to feel like her family isn't her number-one priority. That's why I've been singling that trio out for devotionals and other activities; I'm hoping to encourage more of a bond there.

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brindletonbaybaptist Happy Valentine's Day from all of us here at Brindleton Bay Baptist! Youth Pastor Elon Perry (and young volunteer Rylee Sinclair!) organized a sweet social for our congregation's teen couples, with plenty of chaperones in attendance as well 😉

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(first photo, L-R top row: Sophia (48*), Cadence (21), Cierra Joy (13); L-R bottom row: Caroline (10), Sabrina and Caitlin (6))

I marked the end of another wonderful summer by flying out to visit Cadence and Milo in Willow Creek with some of our girls! At the time Hadley was only a month postpartum with sweet Scarlett Sophia, so unfortunately she couldn't join us. Nor could Charlotte, because we needed to leave the house in her capable hands. A few of the other children had prior commitments with church, and Sienna and Stella decided they'd rather stay home and hang out together. So in the end it was me, Cierra Joy, Bree, Cait, and Caroline. We had a wonderful time swimming in the Russos' backyard pool and walking around downtown! One woman even mistook me for the girls' sister. It made the outing all the sweeter!

And yes, that is a baby blanket Cadence is knitting! She and Milo have been praying fervently to be blessed with a baby this past year of their marriage and finally He has answered those prayers. Cadence quit midwifery after the wedding and the move to Willow Creek, so she's been enjoying a season of quiet relaxation. Until now, that is! Since she's only eight weeks along they are holding off on announcing publicly until the fall, when a new season of Follow the Wagners will air. Still, we are all so excited for them! Cadence wants to do a gender reveal so we're certainly looking forward to that. Those of us that went to visit her have already put in our predictions. Cadence, Milo, Caroline and I are all guessing boy, while Cierra Joy, Sabrina, and Caitlin are on team "more girls"! We'll find out in a few months when we're all back for the party.

Headship or helpmeet for Milo and Cadence?

headship 💙🏈💪

helpmeet 🩷🧹🎀

Voting ended onMay 13

(* and preternaturally youthful because I simply keep forgetting to go into CAS and add more wrinkle skin details. Luckily there's an in-universe justification for this, which is that Soph is exactly the type of person to do alllllll the anti-aging treatments and learn all the lighting tricks for photos. Also she's a reality TV star which I think explains enough on its own.)

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mrs.sadie.nicholson🔒 My old buddy team, all grown up 🥹❤️

heathernich🔒 Awww. It was such a pleasure to have the kids over today! ❤️❤️❤️

carapoppygoodwin Absolutely adorable!!

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Sweet Cierra Joy celebrated her 5th birthday today with a delicious strawberry cake! As she enters this new season of life we are praying that the Lord will continue to soften her heart and make her meek and quiet. In particular, we are hoping for an improvement in her relationship with her sister Sienna. With such a close age gap (only 10 months!) and their shared tendency toward the sin of stubbornness, they're often at loggerheads. Some families might find that annoying, but we LOVE every part of raising up our children. It is such a pleasure to guide them down God's perfect path for their lives.

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On tonight's episode of Follow the Wagners...

Stephen: The best thing about living in this family… there’s always enough people for a game of kickball. If our Mom allows us. A lot of the time she's scared our clothes will be all messed up. And the worst thing? Probably waiting for the bathroom in the morning.

Cierra Joy: We only have two bathrooms for 17 people! And one of them is attached to our parents' room!

Caleb: My favorite thing about my family is my sister, Catherine.

Sienna: …and in the morning, there’s always a line on the landing upstairs, ‘cause Momma doesn’t think it’s right for the big kids to use her and Daddy’s bathroom.

Shepherd: MY BUDDY SADIE!

Simon: There’s never enough toilet paper!

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On the series premiere of Follow The Wagners...

Next we have the second set of Wagner twins! That's right, folks: the Wagners saw double...double! At seven years old, Catherine and Simon spend a lot of time wandering outside. That's certainly not how all families do it, but the Wagner children are an independent group! Just a year younger than them we also have Caleb, who's about as easygoing as they come. He's always willing to make a friend, and surprisingly good at knowing his audience!

Sienna, Cierra and Stella aren't triplets...but they sure are close in age! Four-year-old Sienna came first, followed by almost-four-year-old Cierra Joy just 10 months later. And then there's Stella, who joined the family exactly one year, two weeks and two days later--yes, we counted.

Finally, we've made it to the last three! For now, that is. Claire and Shepherd--another set of twins, oh yes--have just reached one and a half. Their main hobby is screaming their little lungs out, and it looks like their newborn baby sister Caroline is following in their footsteps.

We'll return after the break to learn more about Sophia and Colin’s marriage, what exactly everyone eats, and how the kids manage school time while at home.