Blogging. It was a nice dream to believe that I could sit at my computer a couple nights a week and write down intimate thoughts and/or daily happenings in the life of my sweet little family. It's just a few minutes out of my day, after all. Of COURSE I can to that!
Well, here we are, four years after the last time I sat down to write things out. So much has happened in the life of my sweet little family and a few minutes tonight wouldn't BEGIN to put a dent in it all.
I wish I had been more deliberate with writing. I find that I do enjoy penning my thoughts and sharing with whomever takes time to read this the various goings-on in my family. After all, my children are very entertaining! ;-)
As I sit here at 1:00am on a now-Thursday morning, when I should be fast asleep in my bed, I am awed by all that God has done in the past four years of my life! My parents are happily living nearby, my husband's parents live nearby on a part-time basis, we started attending a new church, my husband and I are now teaching a Sunday School class, my first-born is nearly 6ft. 7in. and has become quite a fantastic basketball player, and I am now homeschooling my three youngest!
When Keith and I first got married, we talked about homeschooling our children. I quipped, "If I EVER had to homeschool my kids, I think I would eat them!" There was NO WAY I would ever homeschool! But, here I am; homeschooling my three little cherubs. I can tell you, and I believe they would equally agree, it's the BEST thing we could have done! They are thriving, happy, well-adjusted, and we get to do school in our PJ's most days! It's AWESOME!!
My oldest absolutely astounds me each and every day! He takes a full complement of honors classes at school, plays varsity football and varsity basketball (both of which require him to practice every night after school, weight lifting before school, games 1 to 2 nights a week, and sometimes practice on the weekends!), and yet still maintains a 3.75 GPA! We're hoping for a scholarship!
My parents seem to have fully settled into life here in Tennessee and they are loving it! We are all attending the same church and they're very involved and have so many friends. Plus, all their friends from back in Iowa keep coming down for visits.
We have a full life.
There have been real struggles, sadness, joy, laughter, tears, frustrations, but through it all we've always kept God as our center.
This year, we added one more adventure to our lives and we opened our home to a beautiful young girl from South Korea! She's living with us until the end of the 2015-2016 school year. She bakes! She bakes A LOT!! I've been trying to diet. I'm failing. I'll get it together one of these days, I'm sure! Sue is a sweetheart and a blessing to this family!
My kids make me laugh each and every day. I'll share some of that laughter here in another blog.
Right now, I feel like a woman about to give birth. God is doing something in my life! I thought I would get back to blogging so that maybe I can share whatever that new "something" is, as it unfolds! I just feel like everything around me is electrified!
The past couple of years have been a time of deep sadness, confusion, and often -- disappointment. But I've waited. I've cried, I've yelled, I've argued and pointed fingers, with no resolution. So, I waited. I accused, I pleaded, I settled and said "this is all there is", but I still had no peace. So, I waited.
Now, I feel as though I'm starting to wake up. My shoulders feel as if a burden is being lifted and my back is becoming straighter. Joy that I once thought was lost to me is starting to move back into the far corners of my heart. In spite of all the baked goods I've been enjoying these past few months, I feel lighter on my feet!
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
I'm still waiting, but I think I'm next in line! I hope you'll stay with me and watch what God has in store for me, unfold! I know it's gonna be GREAT!
