I know I'm supposed to discourage it but boy is it cute.........

Leah sucking her thumb

Bible Study

I started a new Bible Study last night called Believing God by Beth Moore. I have done two other Beth Moore studies and have found them challenging. The first one I did was Breaking Free but being the first of her studies that I had done, I found it difficult and was hard to follow. Now that I know her style I can study better with her. The second one that I did was called Jesus the One and Only. This is where I came to understand her studies a little bit better and was able to get more out of it. This time I understand her way of thinking and her teaching style so I am ready and on fire to learn. I just finished another study by Kay Arthur, The God Who Cares & Knows You and found it difficult because of the season that I was in at the time. Having a new baby (brand new at the time) it was difficult to give Bible study a whole lot of effort and time. Now that we are starting to get back to normal life I feel like this is the time to really get focused on my relationship with the Lord and come back to my first love, Jesus.

Here is the "Five Statement Pledge of Faith" that comes with this new Bible study and I thought I would share it here.

1. God is who He says He is!
2. God can do what He says He can do!
3. I am who God says I am!
4. I can do all things through Christ!
5. God's Word is alive and active in me!

I am excited to dig deep into God's Word again and dig out of the trenches that life can bring.

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. Ephesians 1:17

My Mom

Last night I ended up following an ambulance with mom in it to the Emergency Room. After checking all of her vitals, taking xrays and waiting, they decided that she has pneumonia. Now if she was a healthy 57 yr old woman they probably would have sent her home but since she has heart issues and is diabetic they decided to keep her for observation.

Now this flu bug is the same one that my kids had and I'm not completely convinced that it's not swine flu (not calling it T5U3 or whatever funky name they have given it). They had all the symptoms of swine flu (what's the difference again???) and I read an article last week saying that the swine flu is actually contagious for longer than the normal. We purposely kept my mom away from the kids until they were completely better so she wouldn't get sick. Granted, I guess she could have gotten it from any number of other places (licking the grocery cart, picking her nose after touching someone else who had it, LOL!!) but all of her symptoms are EXACTLY to the tee, the same as my little kidlets. I guess it doesn't really matter if she has swine or not because either way, she is in the hospital now and they are taking care of her.

I woke up with this verse on my heart today:

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him.

Yes I am trusting You Lord!

My mom holding Leah

On another note: Emma is doing much better. I was getting a little scared that she might have some permanent damage but all is well now. We serve a merciful God, Thank you Lord!!!

Sunglasses in the house??

We are at John's mom's house for the weekend (which probably explains my availability of time to blog :) ) bringing her a new computer and just doing some projects around the house to get the house ready for the winter.

In the middle of the night, Emma came into our room crying saying that her eye hurt. I looked at it, prayed for her and told her that it looked fine and there wasn't much I could do so just go back to sleep and we'll see how it feels in the morning. About 6:30 in the morning she came out again crying and we still couldn't figure out why it was hurting so told her again, go get some more rest and we'll see how you're feeling in the morning "but don't run into anything on the way".

That's when she remembered,

"Oh mom, I just remembered what happened, when I was going to the bathroom and I came back to the bedroom, I ran into the cabinet".

So after talking to her, we decided that she must have had her eye open when she hit it which would probably explain so much pain, ya think?? Thankfully, in this tiny little town, there still is a nice nurse that we could go see to get an opinion and she agreed that we should probably take her in. Guess where you have to go in a tiny little town on a Sunday. Yep, 45 minutes away to the Emergency Room. Oh well, anything for my babies, right??? They have the coolest gel that you can put on your eye, and under UV light, you can see the abrasion. She ended up with a corneal abrasion about the size of a pinky nail. Not a small scratch on the eye. He gave her some "numbsit" type stuff for the eye and we just have to wait for it to heal. Now we'll just pray that she doesn't have any permanent damage which we won't find out for a few more days depending on how well it heals. So this is how she is spending the rest of the day.



She keeps saying "I wish I would've had my hand out to see where I was going", I guess she'll only do it once :))

I'm Back

I originally quit blogging because I felt the tug of the Lord to stop because between facebook and blogging I was being selfish with my time. I feel like I have learned alot through the last 9 months of where my time needs to be spent. What is important to the Lord and myself is my family. I can't say that I haven't shed any tears over not blogging. The few times that I have come back to look something up I have gotten somewhat emotional about it. So here I am, I think I'm going to try my hand at blogging again. If it comes to take up too much of my time then I will have to quit again. Hopefully I can continue this time.

Over the last 10 months we have had a baby, been on a few vacations, done lots more photography, sent 2 kids to the hospital, and lost John's dad. We just recently started school and I'm sure over the next few weeks, I'll update you on what we are doing this school year. I am very excited for what this school year will bring us.