Skip to main content

Herding cats

Lately that's how I've been feeling...like I am herding cats...er...my children. They are great kids but they all seem to want to go separate ways at the same time. Because the kids and I have been sooooooo busy and my hubs has been working a lot it was nice recently to get a few minutes of quiet time as a family. We had no plans but filled a day with no phones and no deadlines and no dance class or swimming lessons or the stuff of life. We just spent the day together.....taking it in and enjoying the togetherness.

So as an update to the child #2 potty training fiasco....we've had success! She was sitting last week on the potty when she asked her sister to come in. Needless to say there was a moment of up close and personal demonstration that went on and then KERPLOP #2 did #1. And this week has been a week of a few more hits than misses. Which is exciting because the amount of $$ that goes out in diapers for 2 babies is not pretty people.

I have been so busy lately. I have been given the opportunity to be a leader at the Community Bible Study we've been attending. I am learning LOTS from not only the study but God is speaking to me again in some strange dreams. Usually they make NO sense but I just write them down anyways, kinda like some of the Old Testament prophets we're studying now. The babies enjoy going to see their friends 2 times a week which always makes it easier on mama!

Here are two verses that have been swirling around in my brain lately.....

Psalm 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God..."

Psalm 42:1 "As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you God."


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

December Ten on Ten

It has been awhile since I've posted a Ten on Ten. Today we were away so you of course get the traveling version...and maybe a little Traveling Jesus! An early morning selfie Only the best potato chips ever! I can only get them in NW Ohio, so when in Paulding County! Traveling Jesus mad it once again through the plains of NW Ohio It's Christmas time in Antwerp! Grandma Norma, the girls, the baby and Mimi Becky...what a full house! I couldn't decide between cherry or blueberry pie, so I chose both! The sister and sister in law helping with the kids craft Add caption Leaving my parent's home Grabbed dinner out

A JOURNEY OF THE HEART

"No NO No NO NO No!" That was a recent entry into my journal. I was asked to do something that I without a shadow of a doubt knew it was God asking me to do it. AND I DIDN'T WANT TO! I literally followed it with 2 pages of ME telling God why I didn't want to do it and why I couldn't do it. Yes 2 pages.  Wow! I strapped on my toddler attitude and went to town. *Flashback to 1 month ago* Child #1's Kindergarten teacher, Kara,  also  attends the church we attend and we occasionally see each other at the same service. Well, one particular evening we got to talking and she asked me to join our church's version of VBS. We go to the west side {off campus} of town to the Somalian population and do a day time VBS and lunch for these kids for an entire week. Cool part, my own kids can come and be apart of the "missions trip."  What an invaluable a lesson to my kids to show love to others! Kara is heading crafts and wanted me to craft it up with her. ...

serving with a grateful heart

1 Peter 4:10 "Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms." This year my little gang of cheerios and I have been working on being intentional about serving. To be honest for a long time the excuses of having to many littles was beginning to wear thin. Now I have been looking for opportunities that my littles could easily accomplish. Yesterday, we attended a Lenten service at our church. It was a beautiful Prayer walk. We walked through stations, preparing our hearts for this season of Lent. It was a perfect activity for our family to do together. In the Lenten study package was The Names of God Bible reading challenge . I am really thrilled to focus in on the Names of God for this season. Preparing my heart for the Easter season. So today, the sanctuary needed cleaned. All the stations needed put back in the closets and offices that they were borrowed from. Little ...