This afternoon Scott took his "girls" on a date. They went to Cold Stone Creamery:). I stayed home and had some time with my "little men". Love those stinkers! Cabub's taken to kissing me on the arm or the cheek and declaring"I kissed you!" as though I didn't know who did it. As they ran off to play Legos I found myself with some extra time. I haven't blog surfed in quite some time. There is usually a long "to do" list waiting for me. Today it was pretty much done. The house and dishes were clean. Not much calling my name. I was planning to make some phone calls, but our phone was on the fritz again. Mom Skyped me and we talked for awhile, til she had to get off because of the thunderstorm on her end. I came across a blog that gave me yet another reason to be thankful. It was a blog written by a mother who lost her baby girl to SIDS this year. The little girl was 4 months old. It makes me want to go and hug each of our kids, but most of all to thank the Lord for His gifts. So many people out there are hurting and dealing with the loss of a child and here we are blessed with 4 and soon to be 5. I can't seem to even find sufficient words to express how thankful I am for these children. One of the girls I grew up lost a baby to SIDS and one lost one right after she gave birth. Another one lost her baby in the womb and many have gone through miscarriages. I know that God must have a reason for each of these and I honestly don't feel like I deserved to have all these healthy children more than any of my friends. Each story is another reminder to treasure each moment that we have with these little ones. They're far from perfect, but SO... AM... I...!
Another reason for this post is to ask for EXTRA Prayers on behalf of a friend who's adopting. The adoption courts in Ethiopia are closing tomorrow and they're waiting for their papers to be approved. Meaning they can bring baby "K" home. I was reading her update today and it's heartbreaking. The waiting, the separation, the love and desire for this little boy to be home with them. They got to be with him last week, but couldn't bring him back yet. Please pray that God would work a miracle here. We know that our God can do anything! I know that sometimes his answer is "no" or "wait", but He does want us to come to Him. To bear one another's burdens. Right now this is the only way to help, but also the BEST way to help. Please be in prayer for this family. That God's will would be done and that they'd have the grace to accept God's answer whatever it might be...
I'm not a very patient person and the 9 months of waiting during the pregnancy often seems quite long. God, however, knew what He was doing when He designed us this way. If it was any shorter we'd have kids a couple months apart and LOTS of kids in diapers:). Thanking God for this summer. This time to enjoy the other little ones and look forward to meeting this new little ... Looking forward to seeing Deb with her little boy one day soon:).
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Where we've been...
This week we've been here and there. Picking raspberries and lilies with a friend. Weeding the garden, harvesting some of it and also starting school with the kids. Originally I'd planned to start in September, but with this baby due in November I thought we should start early. This will allow for time off to enjoy the new baby or to move more slowly through the work, if needed. So far Elyssia, Garrison and Caleb LOVE their work. Elyssia is in 2nd grade this year. Garrison is continuing the learning to read process and working on learning to write and draw. Caleb is working on letter identification/flash cards, coloring and following directions. I think the biggest challenge is getting them to work quietly. They did pretty good for about 20 minutes, but then the younger two were done coloring. Kiersten LOVES to color! She is getting pretty good at identifying her colors too:). She gets quite upset when it's time to put them away. Her other big thing is that apparently she doesn't like Scott or I to sing when we're not at church. She says, "NO SING!" or "Stop that!" We don't obey her and find it quite amusing. Not sure why she doesn't like it, but something is going on in that little head of hers. When Scott measured the kids yesterday we found that Garrison is only 1 inch shorter than Elyssia! He's quite happy about that. She doesn't seem to mind too much. They're all getting quite brown from the sun, more so than any other year.
Here are some pictures from the last two days:
As I'm writing this post I can see Kiersten and "Cabub", as she calls him, out the window. They're sitting in the grass and eating lunch, while 2 butterflies circle around them. Scott is mowing the lawn and it's an absolutely gorgeous day! There's so much raw beauty around us and it's fun to see it through the kids eyes. I wouldn't trade this for city life, even if someone paid me:). The only way I'd go is if God called us there.
So, it's off to enjoy another day that the Lord has made(and possibly a nap with the little ones;).
Here are some pictures from the last two days:
As I'm writing this post I can see Kiersten and "Cabub", as she calls him, out the window. They're sitting in the grass and eating lunch, while 2 butterflies circle around them. Scott is mowing the lawn and it's an absolutely gorgeous day! There's so much raw beauty around us and it's fun to see it through the kids eyes. I wouldn't trade this for city life, even if someone paid me:). The only way I'd go is if God called us there.
So, it's off to enjoy another day that the Lord has made(and possibly a nap with the little ones;).
Monday, August 1, 2011
The LONG weekend...
Our company started arriving on Friday. They were all here by 8 and had a bit of time to visit before the kids went to bed. Saturday marked the start of the big building project. Friday Shirley surprised us by delivering a load of sand for the sandbox! I spent most of the time preparing food with Scott's mom and taking pictures. So, instead of writing a mini epic about the weekend, I'll just post the pics:).
We found that Kiersten can climb halfway up the climbing wall unassisted when wearing crocs. Yikes! The good news is that she can't seem to get any grip when she's wearing tennis shoes. Praise the Lord!:) The other 3 have no problem going up and down and are really enjoying their "treehouse". Scott put a bucket on a rope for them tonight. They can pull things up to play with and it makes their climb a bit safer. Caleb would climb with cars, etc, in his hands.
We had lots of good food this weekend, but were too busy to take pictures. 4 homemade pizzas that we thought were the best tasting so far. A ham dinner, homemade floats, fruit. I feel stuffed just thinking about it.
Sunday we had missionaries, but we can't post pics of them. They're headed to Turkey and the less info out there about them the better. We really enjoyed getting to know them and brought lunch to the church to eat with them before they headed out. They have 3 little kids that are close in age to ours and it was neat to observe them playing together. The new Sunday School curriculum arrived last week and the kids said they REALLY like it:). We had 2 other visitors. They were the parents of one of the men in our church. They actually help with cowboy church at rodeos. It would have been interesting to get to know them better, but there was only so much time.
After the company left it was time to get to Extra Foods for sale day. They actually helped me pack them in bags and out to the car today. Maybe it was the fact that I had two carts or the comment about being pregnant. Whatever it was, I was thankful for the help. It was another warm day, but not up to 100 like on Sunday. Oh, we also had a bizarre wind/rain storm on Friday night that made the power go out for about 30 minutes. The kids enjoyed the candles though.
That catches us up for now. Hoping for a slower week. The new guy should be headed out to the oil field tomorrow, so once the kids adjust to the lack of visitors, it should be a good week.
We found that Kiersten can climb halfway up the climbing wall unassisted when wearing crocs. Yikes! The good news is that she can't seem to get any grip when she's wearing tennis shoes. Praise the Lord!:) The other 3 have no problem going up and down and are really enjoying their "treehouse". Scott put a bucket on a rope for them tonight. They can pull things up to play with and it makes their climb a bit safer. Caleb would climb with cars, etc, in his hands.
We had lots of good food this weekend, but were too busy to take pictures. 4 homemade pizzas that we thought were the best tasting so far. A ham dinner, homemade floats, fruit. I feel stuffed just thinking about it.
Sunday we had missionaries, but we can't post pics of them. They're headed to Turkey and the less info out there about them the better. We really enjoyed getting to know them and brought lunch to the church to eat with them before they headed out. They have 3 little kids that are close in age to ours and it was neat to observe them playing together. The new Sunday School curriculum arrived last week and the kids said they REALLY like it:). We had 2 other visitors. They were the parents of one of the men in our church. They actually help with cowboy church at rodeos. It would have been interesting to get to know them better, but there was only so much time.
After the company left it was time to get to Extra Foods for sale day. They actually helped me pack them in bags and out to the car today. Maybe it was the fact that I had two carts or the comment about being pregnant. Whatever it was, I was thankful for the help. It was another warm day, but not up to 100 like on Sunday. Oh, we also had a bizarre wind/rain storm on Friday night that made the power go out for about 30 minutes. The kids enjoyed the candles though.
That catches us up for now. Hoping for a slower week. The new guy should be headed out to the oil field tomorrow, so once the kids adjust to the lack of visitors, it should be a good week.
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