Joshua Douglas

The story of Joshua Douglas starts back about a year ago. It is a story of how God hears us even when we don't speak our thoughts, prayers and disappointments directly to Him. It's a story about a God who knows what we need even in a circumstance where our hearts are closed. A God who cares enough to intervene and provide joy, happiness and second chances.

Mike and I were so blessed to be a part of the birth of two wonderful babies, to two very special families, a little over 12 months ago. We had a great time celebrating the new life of Berlyn and Judah, with our friends at the hospital, very shortly after they were born. It was fun, happy and joyous! They were born 2 days apart, in the same hospital. How special is that! But that night, after leaving the hospital, I felt my heart break. I really had no understanding why. My closest friends had just received the most special gift and I was overjoyed, I thought. I was able to confide in Mike that I thought what was happening was that I was morning the loss of something we had not experienced with the girls' births. I felt selfish and confused at my emotions. These thoughts had been long dealt with, so I thought. After Nicole and Rachel were born, the fuss and scariness of their births was stressful. They were taken away right after being born and sent to the ICU. With Morgan, I was so pumped up with drugs to lower my blood pressure, I was too sick and weak to really even remember her birth or holding her. I realized that night after Berlyn and Judah were born that I longed for a birth experience uncomplicated and joyous, with the ability to show off my baby to those I loved most. It was, what I thought, a selfish desire in a world of much more complicated things to fuss over.

Now even after I realized what all this crazy emotion was about, never once did I say, "Ok let's try this again and see if God won't bless us with this type of experience". No I was very closed and down right opposed to another pregnancy. But as we all know, God knew best. And this is the beginning of Joshua's story.

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
Psalm 116:1

Joshua Douglas Nugent was born Sept. 15, 2010 12:26pm
A birth that was calm, comfortable and joyous.
Preceded by the best pregnancy I have had.
Psalm 116:2 Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

Weighing 5lbs, 15ozs. The biggest baby delivered!
Psalm 116:5 The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.


Psalm 116:7 Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.



Psalm 116:12 How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me?



The girls' were so overjoyed to finally meet their little brother. It caught me off guard and my heart swelled with love and joy and happiness to see them meet him for the first time.

I loved being able to hold Joshua from the second after his birth until we went home without fear of something else going wrong and him being swept away at any time.

Joshua went home about 30 hours after he was born. Whew, a Nugent record for sure! And he even sorta fit in his car seat HA HA HA!










Psalm 116:16 O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant [fn]; you have freed me from my chains.

Psa 116:17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the Lord.

Thank you Lord God. May Joshua's story bring Glory to you!

Rachel's Turn

Rachel had her first soccer game last week. She is playing for a U5 AYSO team, the "yellow lighting". She is #7, which is Morgan's number this year also. For the most part Rae likes to play. She gets in there and loves to kick the ball. At times, if the kids are "bunching" up, which they do often, she can't be bothered to try for the ball. We are working on that. It's not because she is afraid of the contact, I truly believe she thinks, "I will wait until I can have the ball all to myself".






We have two games of the fall season under our belt and we already see progress!

PS...loving this new camera and the big ZOOOOM lens.

A Day of Firsts

Today was a day filled with excitement, anticipation, a little uncertainty and joy!
Today was the first day back to school for Nicole and Morgan, Rachel's first day of kindergarten and Morgan's first soccer game. On top of all that, we are anxiously awaiting to know when our newest little Nugent will be born. We have had a few scares these past few days, and we are taking it day by day at this point. So it kinda makes for an exciting time. This mom was just really glad to be able to see everything first hand and not have to rely on dad for pictures and good recall(you know how guys are with details)!


Nicole our fourth grader this year. She was placed in Mrs. Costandi's classroom this year. Mrs. Costandi moved to 4th grade after being Nicole's 2nd grade teacher. I love this, Nic is familiar with her and so is mom.

Rachel is going to Endeavor Elementary for kindergarten. She wasn't sure about going to a different school than her sisters but didn't mention it at all yesterday. She woke up very excited and ready to go.

Morgan my ever confident third grader. She squealed with excitement when she found out her teacher was Mrs. Sikorski. Apparently this is the best teacher because she hatches little chicks in her classroom come spring.


Rachel rides the bus to school. Sierra is our neighbor that is Nicole's age, but will ride the same bus as Rae.

Rachel got on the bus, got to the top of the stairs and turned around and came back down. She didn't want to go. Very uncharacteristic for Rae. I assured her she would be fine, tried again without success. I then had to ask Sierra, our neighbor to sit with her and this seemed to work for the moment. Ms. Doris the bus driver was trying to be patient. Ms. Doris was Nicole's bus driver for a couple of years and she is no nonsense so this was trying her patience!

Of course I had to follow the bus and make sure she got there right???

A locker seems like a big responsibility for a little girl, but Rae thinks it is really cool.

Rachel's preschool friend, Ava, is in her class.

Rachel will be in Mrs. Lennon's classroom all day. Sounds like a busy day to me. We will have to see how September turns out, this is a big adjustment.

Morgan is playing soccer this year for the first time. She is on an all girls team called the "Purple Tornados". She is really enjoying this and aldready wants us to committ to letting her play again next fall. She has a lot to learn, but isn't afraid to get in there and go for it. Her team lost 3-2 last night, and she didn't get to try out goalie, but she still came away from the game excited and said she had fun.




All in all, a pretty packed day. It went as smooth as it could have. God knew I needed to spend today with my girls and not an appointment in a birthing suite!