Testimony Tuesday - Wonderfully Relaxing Weekend!

This place isn't just a catalog!!  It Really exists!  We went to both locations!

The Moose we saw in Vermont!

What a great time we had with Christa this weekend!  Praise the Lord for providing free lodging and so the only real expense was the gas to get to Vermont!!  The Lord cleared a path through the traffic on Friday so that we whizzed through Hartford!  Whoo Hoo!!!  On Sunday night after church, we pretty much had a wide open road again. 

 

First One

Do over cause Randy said my leg had to be up

It's not often we get family time together these days.  Christa loves her teaching job, but it is an hour away so she is only home on the weekends.  Well, in a pastor's home those are the two busiest days of the week!!!!  We didn't do anything super special except travel, sleep, take pictures, shop, and of course we had a nice giggle fest on Friday evening!!!  I don't know who taught Christa to be

so silly, but she is silly!!!!!                        

 

Thank you to Pastor McDaniels and the people of Bow Baptist Church for always being so kind and welcoming to us!  You make us feel so special!

 

 

SON-ny Sunday - Happy Birthday, Christa!

It is hard to believe that it has been 28 years since I started praying for a baby daughter!  I remember when my mother passed away in March 1985, I asked the Lord to allow me to have a baby the next April around my mother's birthday which was April 24.  When July came and went and I was not pregnant, I thought that was ok as I could get pregnant in August or September and have a premie baby in April.  August, September, October and no evidence of a baby on the way.  Needless to say, I was so disappointed.  I cried and kept going.  April 1986 came and went and I grieved privately for the baby that would never be.  One day in October after I dropped Eddie off at school, I stopped at my friend Nan's house.  During my visit the phone rang and a young woman that we had met a few weeks earlier was on the other end of the line.  She told Nan about a baby that her sister was fostering and wondered if Randy and I would be interested in adopting her.  INTERESTED??  How about obsessed!!!  It took us a while to get a hold of the lawyer, but as soon as I heard that she was born on April 21, I knew that she was God's special and specific answer to my prayer. 

 

I can't imagine our family without Christa.  As you can see by the pictures above, she brings her genuine smile and joy everywhere she goes.  I love you, Christa!!  We are honored and blessed to have you in our lives! Happy Birthday!!!

Parabens, A Minha Madrasta!!

I can think of no better way to celebrate

THANKWORTHY THURSDAY

than to thank the Lord for bringing Annetta into my life!

Happy Birthday, Annetta!!

 

Praying your day was joyful and full of celebrating!!  I'm blessed by your life!

 

 



No Parades

Mom and Me

 

March 9 became a memory stone in my life 28 years ago.  It is a day that I won't forget and don't want to forget.  This day my lovely mother left this earth to begin her life in Heaven.  Many times when a famous person passes, we celebrate their lives very publicly.  There are parades, speeches, special days at school, etc.  Today, however, there will be no parade to remember all the wonderful things she represented in many people's lives.  Today there will be memories!  Memories of her smiling face and the caress of her hand on my cheek.  I can still remember her sitting at the piano playing while we sang together.  She would talk to total strangers in line at McDonald's, and sit for hours drinking coffee at a restaurant.  She wasn't a fabulous cook (OK, Gwen, no laughing), but we had food on the table. 

 

Proverbs 10:12b  ... but love covereth all sins.

 

I am sure there are some not so nice memories, but I choose to forget those.  My mother wasn't perfect and soon after I became a mom, I realized I was probably never going to win the "Mother-of-the-year" award!  I am very appreciative of the fact that Christa doesn't spread my "bad" things around, but loves me enough to forgive and move on.  I choose the same for my parents.  Forgetting those things behind!!!

 

I miss you Mom!  If I lived closer to your grave and had the money, I would blanket the area with ballons and flowers.  Not for you to see, as you are not there, but for the World to know how much you are loved and missed!! Thank you for all you taught me and thank you for loving me when I was unlovely!  You are my hero!!!

 

Mom and Randy

 

SON-ny Sunday - "...Of a truth thou art the Son of God."

Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.  Matthew 14:33

Good SON-ny Sunday morning!  Even if it's not sunny where you are, you can still have a Son filled day!  The disciples in this passage had just had a very stormy time!  Their boat had been tossed to and fro ,the waves had tried to swallow their ship, and Peter had even tried walking on the water!  It could have been a terrible day, but the Saviour shown through and their lives were saved. No one had to tell them who the man was!  They knew for certain it was the Son of God!