Showing posts with label Foster Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foster Care. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Well...

Lots going on here. Counting down the days until we leave for FL! I don't even care how hot/cold it is there. We are going away! Haven't done a vacation like this with the kids, EVER. Such a blessing.

Meanwhile...
We are spending as much time as possible with very close friends of ours who are leaving as soon as we return from FL. They live at our house (almost!) and are such a part of our family that it will be super hard to see them off. We know that they are doing what they feel God wants them to do, but we are still gonna miss them!

Dallas and Michael finished their b-ball season. Now I have my hubby and two older boys home by 3:30 each day. We just invested in really nice hockey skates for all so now the last few days have been spent playing hockey with their dad and friends at the town rink. Although the skates were expensive, we are learning that some things are worth investing in JUST so we can do something with our kids that they love (it helps that we actually love it too). So much more to say about this, but...another time.

Dallas finished the season with 130 points!



Michael did great in b-ball too for his first year. He had several baskets! He continues to "wow" us with his beautiful photos. Here are a few samples:


Ethan continues to want to do whatEVER his brothers are doing. He has been skating too. He and Sabrina are taking ski lessons through the town and doing great. They can both ski independently and Ethan was skiing down the big trails even last year. It will be so fun to all ski together. Sabrina is almost there.

I just started Ethan in 1st grade Math. It looks like that is what he was already doing so we are doing some jumping to figure out where he should be. He is so easy to teach. He is reading everything he can...including things that are just laying on the table....papers, bills, etc. So funny.

Here is a sample of him playing something on the piano. He is so cute.


Thursday, January 7, 2010

My willingness...

Am I willing? Am I willing to follow Christ's example in Eph 5? (Thanks, Mom.) Live a life of love and give myself up (dying to our desires and what is "comfortable" to us) as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God?

Eph. 5:1-2 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Had a rough morning with girly. Praying for wisdom. Little things, but things that reveal the heart. Hers...and mine.

What do these verses mean to me? I will be meditating on them today. Thinking of them in light of our situation here with her. Praying for wisdom as I need to stop at school and talk to her.

This is hard. So glad we are not left to figure this out on in our own wisdom. *shew*

Thanks, Mom for the encouragement. You help renew my hope!