Music Monday: A Worthy Cause

Many years ago this artist popped into my world. My sister brought her in from college and she has become the “above the rest” artist since. It’s been a joy to watch the Lord grow her in her faith and breath His heart for the lost and dying world into her music.

We got a chance to meet her in person at the beginning of our orphan care journey when we first stepped up to the plate of “whatever you’d have for our family in orphan care, you can count on us.” We had been to many concerts, small and big. But what I love the most is so far beyond her…. it’s Jesus coming through her. She just opens herself up.

 

It’s a cleaning day today so naturally I have a soundtrack to keep me moving. There’s a lot to be done and I work better, faster and harder when my heart is focused on Whom I am truly serving by serving my family.

 

“And I love because You loved me when I had nothing…”

 

 

 

I can’t shake that truth from my mind this morning …. and I hope I never do.

 

 

Encouraging the Label

This may officially label me a dork, but I just wanted to share…

I love homeschooling. I love seeing how far she’s come. I delight in her hack-job cutting showing signs of control. I thrill at her choppy pencil lines taking on greater form. It excites me to hole-punch her work and flip back through two years of building skill.

It’s breathing hope into our upcoming Kindergarten work,

It’s such a delight to sit down with my little blondie and count animals. Or be blown away when she correctly identifies colors and numbers. Things I’ve never formally taught her. Things she has absorbed with a light in her eyes.

I just love homeschooling. I love sitting beside them when the lightbulb turns on. I love overhearing my preschooler educating my toddler because she just can’t help but share her worksheets while I’m transferring laundry.

I love watching the mastery and encouraging the efforts pre-mastery.

I just love the slow mornings… just the three of us. While the babies nap and Big Guy is gone fulfilling the state’s requirement of public schooling.

I just love it.

I really just love it.

The paste and the rice play and the sharpened pencils and the crayons and the worksheets.

Yes, I’m one of those dorks.

And I won’t have it any other way.

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What a blessing, indeed!

Music Monday: Give me Jesus

While waiting on a maintenance check, this choir took the opportunity to plant seeds.

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=) Beautiful.

My favorite part was how the stewardess was wiping away tears.

Hope it opened many doors for conversation on the flight.

To Top it Off!

Hannah started crawling forward today. (She’s been perfecting the backward side-shuffle for three weeks). Yeah, the day we returned from our 8 day vacation. Yep, the day we are all exhausted and stranded somewhere between West coast and Midwest time. Yep, the day Mommy had the camera out because I was reviewing vacation pictures. Yep, the day Mommy and Daddy exhaustedly planned a short movie to limp three tired kids along until bedtime.

Hannah started crawling forward today.

Her motivation: a pile of remote controls. =)

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Once she realized the belly-flop wasn’t going to work,

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that left leg started to get antsy. Then the hands started kneading in place. Then came the organization. And the first bold left knee/right arm coordination.

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And after three slow-motion forward crawls, this happened:

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VICTORY!!!

Bravo, baby girl!

For the Experienced

I wanted to take a moment to brag on my Aunt. My Aunt Greer runs a little Etsy Shop and enjoys making things with her hands and selling them at craft shops. One of her little lovelies is making these wonderful dish scrubbies and crocheting these lovely “wash cloths”. While these wash cloths are actually dish cloths, they work wonders on a smiling pudding or pizza face post “experiencing” dinner.

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Love the pot scrubbers that she uses a rough fiber knit into the center. And I love that you can just throw them through the wash and reuse them when they get really oogie.

So thank you for being wonderful you, Aunt Greer, and blessing our little household so with your wonderful talents.

– Love you.

Wordless Wednesday: Resume Skills

Please review the following teether:

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Wonder if the designer of above teether envisioned her skill level upon it’s creation:

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Resume skills for sure!

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