It is October. My last visit with you was back in March. A lot to be written in the chapters of this blog. At the end of April we welcome two wonderful, yet extremely challenging, boys to live with us for two weeks. Two weeks that turned in to five months! It was the biggest challenge of my life, but we did it. The two boys are now living in Seattle with their forever family.
Tom started his dream job in June at Calvary Baptist Church leading youth. He literally started working the moment he graduated ( = In this economy that is a huge blessing. The job included a mandatory internship, a half an hour south of where we live, and the hours we around the clock everyday. Needless to say, I barely saw him. It was a rough summer. But, I was very productive! I made a new/old friend, assisted in the building of a cool tow structure for the clan, took up running, and painted a chick coop which now is inhabited by 8 laying chickens!
I am very thankful the summer is over and fall is here a long with Tom being home. The kids are growing faster than I can keep up! Nick started Pre-School and can sound out words. He is so smart and full of random facts. He knows a majority of the roads people that are special to him live on. He also knows what road he lives on.
Nathan, is fiesty as ever. total boy! rough, tough and always into something. His thing now is to ask a ton of questions. After dinner Tom will read a Bible story to the kids. Nick has learned the "Christian kid" answer for all the question "God or Jesus...can I watch my movie now?" Nathan on the other hand will act like he is not listening but can give the "real" answer to about everything we ask.
Marchel is very tall, about the size of Nathan, and very assertive. She is a total woman! She loves to carry around a purse, talk on a pertend phone,pain her nails, carry around a baby, change her own cloths, clean her room, put her own shoes on and take care of her little sis Hailey. It is crazy how grown up she is.
Hailey is so quiet and sweet... to people she doesn't know. but at home she is a chatter box and can say just about anything you say... she prides herself on better speech than most. She is very tiny and so cute. Right now she is going through a biting stage that has lasted a few months. I have tried just about everything I have been told to try and she still continues. I am not so worried when it is her siblings as I am about getting reports back from the daycare about who Hailey bite today. ( = she is a really good girl, she will grow out of it.
The other night I was home alone with the kids and everyone was sleeping but Haily. I scooped her up and brought her on the couch with me. after she fell to sleep I started to look at her little chubby toddler hands. they were so small and delicate. I started thinking about my role as a mom and everything I do or lack. one thing I realized is I lack praying for all the kids futures. I sat there on the couch with my little baby and her beautiful hands in mine and started to pray for everything I could think of. I prayed for each of their future soul mate. That they would be so deeply in love with each other and the Lord. I prayed for health and blessings, that God would smile when He looks at them and their families. I prayed that God would bless our family for generations and generations. I claimed promises made to Abraham, Noah, and David. But most of all I begged for their salvation. That my children would come to a point in their lives where the see their great need for their savior. I begged and continue to bag for their lives to be claimed by our creator. Claimed by Him to be used for Him and to spend eternity with Him. That is the only thing I truly, truly desire. That will be the mark of being a successful parent.
