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| Emma at Five months |
Hmmm….well,
I’m already behind on one of my goals for the new year! L I wanted to write on the blog at
least twice a month, and I only posted on blog entry for January. I have about
500 or more excuses why I didn’t get a second one written, but no one wants to
hear about excuses! J
At the end
of January, Chandler turned six; however, since he hasn’t had a birthday party
yet, I’m having a hard time convincing him that he is already SIX! J We usually give our children a small
party on the year that they turn five, but since we were traveling back from
Alaska last year, Chandler didn’t have a birthday party. So, I told him we
would have a birthday party, but between all the company we’ve had at our
house, the cold weather, the activities of everything else…it just hasn’t
happened yet! At this rate, it’ll be spring! J
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| Birthday boy! |
Earlier this
month, we had two more boys at our house for a week, while their parents went
on vacation. It really wasn’t too bad, but I think Roger and Sarah Robertson
are good with five kids! J If we learned nothing else in the past month, we learned
this: Every parent has a different style of parenting, it doesn’t make one
better than the other…it’s just different! So, now we’re back into the swing of
our own routines and schedules…or rather, we’re working on it! J
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| My new haircut and Emma! |
For
Valentines Day, my husband completely surprised me! AGAIN! J I thought that we were going to the
church valentines banquet, but Roger had arranged for my parents to keep the
boys over night. He also asked his brother and sister-in-law to keep Emma for a
couple of hours while we went out to dinner. I’ll admit…at first, I was very
disappointed to not be going to the banquet; but Roger went through all the
effort to line up babysitters and coordinate our time away so I got over it.
However, Roger had more than just dinner up his sleeve! After dinner, we took a
drive for a few minutes, and then Roger stopped at a very nice hotel. When I
asked what we were doing, he just said, “Let’s see if they have a room
available for tonight.” But, Roger already had a room key, a reserved room, a
bouquet of roses and a beautiful note all set up to surprise me! He told me
that he too, had wanted to go to the banquet, but since we could really only
afford the overnight stay or the banquet, he chose the overnight stay. He
really did an outstanding job working at surprising me, lining up babysitters,
getting flowers, etc…I am loved! (We did go get Emma, as she refuses to stay
overnight anywhere without her mama!) J We enjoyed talking uninterrupted,
breakfast to ourselves, a quiet ride home, and came home refreshed and ready to
parent five children again! J (Until they’re all five in the same room…then I can’t
think!) J
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| Six months!!! |
Travis has
been working on his ABC’s , and he’ll be starting 4K in the fall. This past
week, he pointed to the letter “U” and asked Roger, “What’s that?” Roger
replied, “That’s ‘U’”. Travis promptly replied, “Me?” I just shook my head and
laughed! While at times the days seem LONG, the years are flying by! We were
looking at picture albums together a few days ago, and the boys have grown so
much! I wish I would’ve enjoyed them more when they were 4,3,2, and 1, but at
the time all I could think about was getting through the day! And in some ways,
those days were easier…we were learning about simple obedience, not lying, etc.
Now the questions are getting harder! One of our children asked at Bible time,
what he should do when Satan talks to him and tells him to do something wrong…a
deep thought for a little person! Now we’re wading through why we should obey,
learning about God’s grace, living for Jesus, treating others kindly, and other
thoughts the boys have on a daily basis. It does keep me begging God for grace
and wisdom, and challenges me to seek His Word.
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| Our children...love them so much! |
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| Emma's first time with cereal! |
Roger is
leaving this Wednesday for a trip to South Carolina. He’ll be flying the Pacer
down there by himself in preparation for getting more flight training in the
future. Please be in prayer for good weather, safe travel, direction for our
future, and myself and the kids as Roger will be gone through Sunday. We are gingerly
stepping out in faith to see what God has for us. While Roger enjoys his job,
God has greatly been moving in Roger’s heart directing him to pursue more
aviation training. Whether that means God will move us back to Alaska, we don’t
know; but we wanted to be preparing for whatever God has. Please pray with us
for God’s direction and wisdom. Thank-you!
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| Apparently, the cereal was good enough to lick the table! |
