Blogging??

I have been neglectful of the blog.  Things are busy and life can be draining.  Mitch has been working 50 hr weeks for the past 3-4 weeks, I'm losing track.  We are almost weaned and hormones are spazing.  Thankfully the Lord provides strength for all He sets before us.  It's amazing how in wearisome times, whether they be sprititually, mentally, physcially, or all of the above as they have been lately that fellowship with Christ has been most sweet and His word very precious, as well as the kindred spirits that encourage us in truth.  This also makes me randomly thankful for a church and preaching that is continually encouraging, biblical and outside of the box of the churchy presuppositions so many of us grew up in, and it's almost like the sermon is in keeping with what is going on in our lives and what we are working through learning from the Lord.  Anyhow, encouraging.
Also, my little man turned 5 April 8th and I WILL post pics soon!  He was so excited and his favorite gift I belive was his bumble bee pillow pet ( yes yes I know). Daddy, searched high and low for the bumble bee.  Christian continues to be a sweet little boy that just loves to chat and have attention and he has gotten more rough and wrestling with Isabelle, which I find annoying. :)  He loves to learn how and why things work, like things in the body.  He adores his daddy.  He has been spelling words on the fridge.  He'll show me me words like, rug and box, those little 3 letter words. 
I have finished Holiness By Grace this week.  One of my favorite books, EVER.  I may have to give that book it's own post.  Just check out quotes from it from my past posts, they should be labeled.

If our teaching of grace causes us to make light of sin, or to slight the requirements of the Savior, then we have really not understood either the monstrosity of our sin or the greatness of the heart that forgives it.
Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God. His purposes become our own.....True grace produces joy and promotes godliness.  ~Holiness By Grace Bryan Chapel

"On all hands we hear cries for unity in this and unity in that; but in our mind the main need of this age is not compromise but conscientiousness, 'First pure, then peaceable.' It is easy to cry 'A confederacy,' but that union that is not based on the truth of God is rather a conspiracy than a communion. Charity by all means: but honesty also. Love of course, but love to God as well as love to men, and love of truth as well as love of union. It is exceedingly difficult in these times to preserve one's fidelity before God and one's fraternity among men. Should not the former be preferred to the latter if both cannot be maintained? We think so" ~Spurgeon

"Unity without verity [truth] is no better than conspiracy" Puritan John Trapp