A Verse for the Day

Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing."

There was a CD out about a year ago called Glory Revealed that a few contemporary christian artist had gotten together and taken scripture and put it to music. Mac Powell from Third Day was one of the artist, so I had to buy the cd. It was an awesome cd and one of my favorite songs was from the verse above. I have been a christian for almost 30 years ,went to christian school and Bible college and I never remember hearing this verse until that song.

I am reading Max Lucado's book Just like Jesus right now in my quiet time and I read about this verse again this week. Now this book was written about 5 years ago and I am just now reading it. Why have I never heard this verse before? In my opinion, it should be one of the first verses a new believer memorizes!

The God of all creation rejoices over me! He sings over me He quiets me with His love. The image of a mother rocking her newborn to sleep, singing a lullaby, cooing love for the child is what I see when I hear this verse. We don't have to have had a good day and been a good boy or girl to get this love...we only have to be His child.

If there is anyone out there who reads my blog that feels alone or in need of a hug, just climb right up in God's big ol rocking chair and let him sing you to sleep and love on you. It's not a chore...He delights in it....He delights in you!

Homeschool year in Review

Well, it is May and so I thought I would redo my blog a little and make it more springy! Greg said he did not like the "weird, bambo" look I had going on in April. :)
Ah, if only redecorating my house was as easy as redecorating my blog! Happy May Days Ya'll!

The little boy that we thought would be up for adoption isn't. As of right now the hearing has been continued another 6 weeks in order for the birthmom to get her act together. She has not visited the child one time in his whole life, but she still claims to want him. Just thought I would let you all know and thank you for praying.

A few of my Favorite Things

Every once in a while, it is a good thing to list some of my favorite things. It helps me to be thankful for all of the blessings in life the Lord has given to me:

Tax Refunds
Starbucks coffee on sale
Vera Bradley purses
Saturday Mornings at home
Summer movies
A new book to read
Only 24 more days of school
Date nights with my hubby
Bare minerals makeup
Watching all 3 kids playing together and laughing
My back porch
Scrapbooking

Okay, your turn! Try to think of some favorite things you are thankful for. Please feel free to list them in my comment section, I would love to hear yours too!!

Disney!!

We had so much fun at Disney this week. It was crowded, but we still got to ride a lot of rides. I am so glad Amy was able to come down and spend some time with us. We miss her!

A little boy

I have a homeschool friend who called me several months ago about a little boy that is in foster care and may be up for adoption this spring. I made a few phone calls about it and it seemed like a dead end, so I have not given it a whole lot of thought. Yesterday my friend called again and said that this little boy had a court date for May 1 for the parental rights to be terminated and he would be available for adoption.

So I called his social worker and she was very nice and said she needed to talk to her supervisor since we lived in another county that this little boy and if he didn't have a problem with that, she didn't see why we couldn't proceed!

I talked to FBCH and told them and they said that they didn't think it would be a problem and they would help us in any way they could.

Basically this is all we know. He is a boy, he is white, he is around 16 months old ,he has been in the same foster home since birth and the foster parents are in their 50's and don't feel like they should adopt him. He has reddish brown curly hair, no health problems and it doesn't look like any parents or relatives are able or desire to keep him.

I am trying to not get to excited and just pray about this, but I wanted to let you all know and to pray with us. If there is any more news, I will let you know.

Happy Birthday Nathan!!

Nathan got his wii on Saturday for his big 8th birthday. We also went to Mongolian Grill for lunch. Happy Birthday to my sweet sweet boy!

Relay for life

We went to the Rely for Life in Bartow tonight. It was soo much fun. I had never been to one before, but we saw a lot of people we knew and ate so much food. We did not stay for the walk, but there was a ton of people there and Bartow Ford had a red Mustang to lead the first lap for the survivors. It was really cool.

Relay for Life

Sun-N-Fun Fly In

The Sun n Fun??? Fly in

Yesterday we went to the Sun N Fun flying festival that comes to Lakeland every year. It coast about $30 to get into the thing, but with our home school group the kids were free and I was 5 bucks. The form also said it was from 10-12. I thought we could handle two hours of airplanes, but boy was I wrong!!!!
It was soo hot and I didn't bring sunscreen or water bottles with us. We were about 20 min late getting started and when the tour actually began, my kids were already beginning to wilt. We walked and walked and heard all about every kind of flying machine imaginable and then we walked some more! Finally about an hour and a half into the tour we went inside a fighter plane and that was pretty cool, but when we walked back out into the sun, Esther had a meltdown!!
She started crying and yelling that she was hot and hungry and tired of walking and everything smelled like Llama poop and she was gonna throw up!! So, I told the leader of the group we were gonna leave a little early, especially when the tour guide said we had another hour of touring to go!!
I took everyone to McDonald's for Happy Meals and after a cheeseburger and lemonade in the air conditioned van, all was right again with the world!! It was funny cause it kinda reminded me of a trip to Washington DC and my dad making us tour the Air and Space museum for what seemed like hours and here I go, putting my kid through the same thing!!!

I have some pictures I will post that I took during the 1st half hour that show us enjoying the field trip.