Yesterday, I felt as if i was going to pull my hair out!I am currently taking care of 3 children. Alexis, who is 2 years old, Gavin, who is 7 months old and Audrey who is 4 months old. I also just got a lab puppy 4 weeks ago. Alexis and Missy, my puppy are being "potty" trained. Between cleaning the puppy's "presents" every few seconds and putting lexi on the potty every 15 minutes, feeding the lil one every two hours and changing all of their diapers...i thought i was going to go nuts! Dont get me wrong! I have been taking care of these children for 4 months and I LOVE IT!!!! I love children. I have been baby sitting my whole life and can't wait to have one of my own someday...when the Lord sees fit. It just so happened that yesterday was just "one of those days" I am sure the mothers out there can agree with me, especially ones with more than one child. I just see this as the Lord saying to me....you're gonna have a big family...start learning NOW! Like I said, i LOVE this job and wouldnt trade it for the world. Audrey, the four month old has Pyloric Stenosis....or at least they think she does. But she seems to be getting better. Children usually grow out of it, unless it's real bad then they have to do surgery. Thankfully, she seems to be doing well!
Well! Thats all for now! I;ve got to start dinner while the kids are napping!
Well! Hello everyone! I figured I would update my post! Andrew and i are still living in Saint Marys Georgia at the Naval submarine base down here. Life is going great! We just recently had a new addition to our family...a puppy! She is a black Lab Retriever. Her name is Missy and she's brought a lot of fun into our house! I am still taking care of two children. Alexis, who is two years old and Gavin, who is seven months old. They are truly a blessing from heaven. Starting in August, I will be taking care of two more children. A newborn, who will be about 2 weeks old when I start taking care of him, and a three month old baby girl! The spare room in my house is turning into a nursery and my home has turned into a day care center!!! I am very happy for this job and I can truly see the Lord's hand in it all. When I moved down here to Georgia I asked the Lord to please show me what he wanted me to do. Within days I had a job! The most rewarding job ever - taking care of precious children! Well, that's all for now. I will post pics of the babies when I start in August!
Just about every year, I prescribe for myself a serious course of reading . By the time beach weather sets in, my high standards are gradually laid aside and I take up light, entertaining reading. Oh well. For now, however, I will take advantage of my strong resolutions and soak up all the valuable knowledge and worthy sentiments my mind and imagination can absorb. I try to stick to a biography or history book, a classic, and a theology book all at once. Right now, I am reading Jane Erye (For the third time - the best books are like best friends, you enjoy revisiting them), His Excellency (a biography of George Washington in honor of President's Day), and Institutes of Christian Religion - The First and Second Books by John Calvin. Reading Calvin is intense - it is incredibally engaging and requires every ounce of energy to comprehend fully his meaning. I am going slowly; in fact, I read the the first chapter three times, just because it was so good and I was afraid I had missed out on something. Here's one of my favorite thoughts from that first chapter:
"We cannot aspire to Him in earnest, until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves...For since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself."
O God, Help me to raise my eyes to You, ever upward and never inward, and may your radiance and brillance so enlighten my heart, that beholding You I am dazzled by True Righteousness and Wisdom, and Purity!
"The moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the LORD of Hosts shall reign."
We finished reading this book about the life of Adoniram Judson. He was a missionary to Burma. He had hard times. He was thrown into prison once and all three of his wives died and many of his children. But he trusted in the Lord and knew that everything would be all right in the end. He just wanted to tell them in Burma about God.
I had the awesome opportunity to watch my middle sister get married this Christmas. The wedding was wonderful and she looked beautiful. I have to admit many childhood memories of us as little girls came back to me as I was watching her walk down the aisle. Praise the Lord for family and sisters.
Dad very methodically drinks his morning cup of coffee
We are not sure but we think Katie just might have an imaginary friend
Well, here they are, finally! Here are the three pictures we got from the ultrasound. The baby is at 19 weeks in these scans. They were done on January 2, 2007.
Hi everyone. Tim and I are going to have a family blog (Tim is keeping his personal blog) over at timandem.vox.com.
Look for baby pictures, family stuff, etc. over at our new site!
We have been reading to Andrew from a biography about Adonirom Judson and we took a little field trip up to Plymouth this week to see his grave marker and show him the other historical sights there. I am glad that he is interested in history (because both of his parents are) and I am glad that we live in a part of the country where we have historical sites to visit. We plan on bringing him to where Edwards preached, where the first Baptist church in America is in Providence, and some of the other church history sites around here in New England, in the future. Our prayer is that he will have a deeper sense of his heritage as a result. Growing up, my father took us to all of these same places and I know it helped me to develop a love for church history and an appreciation of how God sovereignly used these men and woman to build up His Church.
Burial Hill, where Adonirom Judson's grave marker lies, is probably the oldest or one of the oldest cemeteries in America. Many of the Pilgrims are buried there. They originally used the hill as a site for their fort, where they had a commanding view of the harbor. It is still a spectacular view. Even more awe-inspiring is just walking around and gazing at the cracked, moss covered gravestones, looking at the art work on these ancient tombs, and attempting to read the faded,elegiac poems upon them, carved in archaic script. An aura of peace pervades and there is a great, enveloping sense of life among the dead. I know it sounds odd and perhaps I am too sentimental, but this paradox did not originate with me, it comes from the Word of God where we told to lose our lives in order to save them. Many who are memorialized on Burial Hill chose suffering, sacrifice, and self-denial for the cause of liberty in Christ, as in the case of the Separatists, and for the sake of the Gospel, as in the case of Adonirom and Ann Judson. This strikes me as such a stark contrast to modern day Americans and modern day Christians, who live from one materialistic and self-centered experience to the next. God, spare me from such a hollow,empty life as that! It is no life at all.
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth..." Hebrews 11:13
A Vessel of wrath once was I,
Destined for destruction and
Doomed to die. But Christ,
Rich in love and grace,
Bore the curse of
Sin in my place;
Rescued
my soul
From a hell
Bent path. My vessel
Holds mercy now, not wrath.
I thought I would try my hand at "typographical poetry." Some of the Puritan and metaphysical poets like Herbert used to write occasional verses where the shape of the verse represents a key theme of the verse. It was harder than I thought. Whenever I attempt(very feebly) to write poetry, I am all the more appreciative of the great body of poetry we have and the depths of creativity it took to compose these works.
