A Hodge Podge....

A few different things running through my mind tonight....

Do I have the faith that I have b/c nothing really awful has happenend in my life?

The Lord has showered me with blessings...it's an honor to be married to Aaron, I have 3 of thee most beautiful and caring and adorable children, loving parents, fabulous sisters, a great brother, hilarious nephews, wonderful niece, I get to call some of the best people in the world my friends, my family and I attend a terrific church where I get to praise my Lord and my children are learning about their creator, I have a home, 2 cars, the ability to visit my family when I want, food for my children, the means to send my son to a Christian preschool and my daughter to gymnastics class...I could go on and on.

If I was crushed by devestating news am I strong enough in my faith to say, "I believe my Jesus is the same Jesus before this news"? I hope so.

I read some of these of these blogs and sometimes the tears just flow and then I get on my knees and grab my children and don't let go. The faith of these women is truly something special.
I believe that God works all things for good. I believe he has a plan that we are neither supposed to question or know.

A little something on the kids.

They are learning bible verses in Sunday school and Awana. Molly's last week was from Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and loving.
Anyone who knows our little Molly knows that when she is kind & loving no one can top her. However, when she is not, I pray this verse over her sweet little head.
This weeks verse is from Psalm 139:1
God knows everything about me.
Thank goodness he does, because I can't be everywhere and it brings comfort to my heart knowing that God can see her and know everything about her.

I was going over Max's bible verses with him. We were talking about all of the people that love him.
I asked him, "Max, who loves you?"
His reply, "John and Clay do."
Those are his 2 new buddies from church.
The answer I was looking for was, "Jesus loves me".
My little boy is going to be 4 in 20 days....I can't believe it.

My other Max story (this is why the title of today's post is hodge podge)
The kids have this frisbeet that is hollow in the middle. They enjoy putting it on their heads and wearing it as a hat.
Max put it on his head yesterday as we headed out to the falls.
He put it on his head, grabbed it between his fore finger and thumb and said, "What can I do for you ma'am?" ADORABLE.
Oh and Aaron brought the kids home these huge stuffed snakes. The kids were really excited at first. We are pretty sure that they caused some pretty major nightmares Saturday night. I was sitting downstairs tonight watching the Scrubs marathon when Max came down for the gazillionth time carrying his snake. He asked if I could hold onto the snake because he was scary. He told me that he wanted his dad to get smaller snakes with smaller and nicer eyes.
I told him I would speak to his dad about that. Up the stairs he went and a few seconds later was down with Molly's snake too.

My little Maggie. She missed her daddy. She was smiling at him all weekend.
I am in awe of those women who ship their husbands off overseas and are alone in raising the children months, sometimes years, at a time. May God bless them.

Well my eyes are slowly shutting and we have another busy week.