A Time For Every Season....

Gabe at 7 months - love those roles! I guess I've become a bi-monthly blogger, things are busy around here! I'm trying to keep up with it all, but alas I couldn't and got very sick. Somehow I ended up with a strep virus, tonsillitis and a horrid sinus infection. I'm finally on the mends, but its been about a week since I had energy and felt ok. On a bright note, we've been having tons of people look at our house and God was gracious to give me a reprieve while sick so I didn't have to share all those icky germs with interested buyers! The kids are still alive, making messes, building forts, plant cells, timeline projects and reading tons of books. I'm trying to find my joy and smile though life. Tonight I was chatting with the boys and we all agreed that we needed to speak nicer to one another and be encouraging. My tongue became very apparent to me when I was sick and had laryngitis, I could only whisper and the kids couldn't hear me most of the t...

I can't believe it has been a month already. So much has been going on! Last year I lamented to the Lord that life was simple, the same everyday, very little changes in our crazy life. The Lord kept telling me to rest, this is the year of rest! I knew that meant that changes were coming, I just wasn't quite in the know as to what?' So here we are a year later and life is changing. My scope of work has changed, Drew's schooling has changed and even our location may change.  God has been leading John to look for some property in the country so our kids can run and jump and climb trees. That type of life comes with a lot of major life  changes - like being 20 minutes from a store or an hour from church or 45 minutes to playdates. We put our house on the market in the hopes of going after a house we liked, but it sold prior to our home even going on the market. So, there is a lot of unknowns and I'm finally at peace with whatever direction God leads. We have a lot of ...