"Be Still, My Soul"

"Be Still, My Soul": "1. Be still, my soul; the Lord is on thy side;
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change He faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul; thy best, thy heavenly, Friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

3. Be still, my soul, though dearest friends depart
And all is darkened in the vale of tears;
Then shalt thou better know His love, His heart,
Who comes to soothe thy sorrows and thy fears.
Be still, my soul; thy Jesus can repay
From His own fulness all He takes away."

My favorite parts are in italics. These are PRECIOUS words. How easily life distracts us with things that will matter to nothing when this life is over and eternity begins... or continues..? :)

Still reading Holiness By Grace, one of my MOST FAVORITE books on biblical sanctification( and in general)!! Hopefully I'll get some time to share some highlights from what I've been reading in it.
Check it out on Amazon... really, read the reviews, this book is comforting, liberating and empowering.

Under Construction

So obviously my blog is a work in a progess at this point as far as the look goes. I want something simpler but have yet to mess with the colors of it. A lot of my little widgets are gone and now my old header isn't big enough for this template so it's not centered...I have been reading a lot of good stuff lately that I don't get around to sharing, I guess if maybe I picked just a quote here or there that would be better than nothing right?

Family and Father's Day Weekend

We had a GREAT time with my family visiting!! My mom has been able to stay for this week as well which is awesome. We had a lot of fun together. We played lots of the game Settlers Of Catan... I think I spelled that right, it was Mitch's and my first time playing and we really enjoyed it. It was just nice to have all the time to ourselves to just enjoy each other's company and conversation. Mom and I bawled when they all left. Last night Mom and I had a girl's night and went out to eat just us. THose chances for us are far and few between. So click the picture for more from the weekend!!

New Ball Glove

Since it seems like a long while since I blogged, now I realize it's been just a little over a week, it feels like a lot longer... so here is Christian sleeping with his new ball glove for a lefty. Mitch wanted to get the kids ball gloves for fun, just something cheap, I couldn't find anything cheap... and 15$ was the cheapest I could find for a right glove, this small... he does have plenty of room to grow. Christian seems to be ambidextrous -and yes, I did have to spell check that. My brother Dan is too, he throws with his right, bats both, and eats and writes left. Christian seemed to eat left... now eats right, "writes" right. But throws left, Mitch tried to have him throw right but he kept trying to use both hands then. So who knows... so for now a glove for a lefty... and as you can see, he wanted to sleep with it the first day.
Any other random updates.. the kids are finally not snotting around from their colds that started memorial day, that's right... it's been around that long and it's June... JUNE!!! Growing up it was just a given you didn't get sick in the summer now it's year round... gross.
House updates?? None right now. Things don't seem to be panning out right now so we'll see, the closer we get to school starting the closer we are to throwing in the towel for now.
Loser alert... I just read the book New Moon in 3 days... *sigh* it was a welcome escape from some of the hard realities of life. :) I also started the book Trusting God, but I really need to keep up Holiness by Grace... I can't seem to plow through those books as fast since the things in those books you kinda have to mull over and really think about.
Ok that's all... but one more thing I'm so excited about! My parents, brothers and their wives are ALL coming to stay with us next weekend!!!!! I never thought this would happen but it just kinda all worked out.

Murderer Murdered

I found an article about the late term abortionist George Tiller and his murder. It's from Al Mohler. I had to say something on my blog about it as I have been passionate about the right to life since a child. I have to admit there was a part of me that was... not too sad about it but I know what the Bible teaches, " vengence is mine, I will repay" says the Lord. The Bible also says, "God is not mocked, that which you sow you will also reap." So before any readers draw the conclusion that I would condone a murder please read this article, I agree with his take on this matter.
A Wicked Deed in Wichita -- A Test for the Pro-Life Movement

one more thing that irks me... President Obama said he was shocked and outraged at the murder. Ok, I get that. I just wish he was shocked and outraged at helpless babies getting their bodies ripped into pieces and pulled out of the mother, a leg here, an arm there. Maybe if they were getting waterboarded it would be a different story.

Regression

Ever have one of those weeks as a mother in parenting when you are so READY for a break?? The kids have been extra challenging this week. Consistency is exhausting. EXHAUSTING sometimes. So lots of "disciplining", yelling, frustration... asking of forgiveness for yelling...God keeps reminding me I do NOT have a handle on things the way I think I do. :) Anything good comes from Him and is undeserved and unearned I am learning. So I'm tired and I don't want to talk anymore about my not so great week as a mother. :)

Funny things Isabelle asked me today:

" If God sees everything, does He have 100 eyes?"

"Will we poop in heaven?"

" Will we have buns?"

So so many questions from her inquiring mind. Someday I'll miss this.

Memorial Day Weekend

Having way too much fun!!

Christian and Landon... " playing with rocks" says Christian of this picture.

They're about 7 months apart... Landon is older.

Logan and Isabelle, Logan's 8 months older. This weekend we went to visit my fav friend Katie who lives an hour and half away. The kids had a most awesome time as you can probably imagine. Her boys are very sweet and the kids play well together. Monday was a lazy day for us and we made hotwings for the first time and they were SO good!! We fried them then put them in the sauce. Cookie's makes really good wing sauce and we wondered why we ever paid so much for Buffalo Wild Wings...

Random funny things Christian has said lately, I was getting some food for him, can't remember but he shouts " YEAH BABY!!" I don't know where he got that. And today Isabelle has had to apologize to him for wronging him a couple times and he says so nicely " that's ok....(then not so nicely) DON'T DO IT AGAIN!!!"

Today Isabelle told me there a was cardinal in the tree on the right.... and I looked and there was, I was surpised she knew the bird and it was in the tree on the right... so the bird story is boring but I typed it for my own benefit. She also asked if it was male or female.