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So, you may notice the little ticker at the top of my blog. Yep. We are expecting another teeny tiny Finey this Fall. October is my favorite month so how appropriate that our last little one will make its debut during that colorful season.

I know what you are thinking. I was SO DONE after Teagan was born. But, alas, I made a deal with the devil {ahem} Jimmy and agreed to invite one more little spirit to join our family. I kinda thought it might take a little while...like maybe several months...but this little spirit obviously was in a hurry to get here so we are welcoming it with open arms. We thought we'd share our exciting news with you. But do me a favor and don't tell my father-in-law. I plan on keeping it a secret from him until....November.

"I'm So Offended!"

I came across a great quote the other day while looking for some copywork
for my girls. I.love.this.quote. Life is about choices. We may not choose
what happens to us but we have control of how we are going to respond to it.
Oh, yeah. And we will doubtless be responsible for where that takes us and
how that affects others as well.

David A. Bednar:
When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel
insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy,
embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our
interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However,
it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend
me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally
false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted
or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

In the grand division of all of God's creations, there are things to act and
things to be acted upon (see 2 Nephi 2:13-14). As sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father, we have been blessed with the gift of moral agency, the
capacity for independent action and choice. Endowed with agency, you and I
are agents, and we primarily are to act and not just be acted upon. To
believe that someone or something can make us feel offended, angry, hurt, or
bitter diminishes our moral agency and transforms us into objects to be
acted upon. As agents, however, you and I have the power to act and to
choose how we will respond to an offensive or hurtful situation.

("And Nothing Shall Offend Them," Ensign, Nov 2006, 89-92)