Oh, it's been a while. So I'm trying to remember all the things I need to update on. First, Hurricane competed in the local homeschooling spelling bee a couple weeks ago! She got 2nd in her division and 6th overall. She would've gone further easily but her nerves got the best of her and she made a silly mistake. It seems like that happened to several kids there. I was a nervous wreck watching them! So I can imagine how nervous they were. I was so busy running everything I didn't get a picture of her with her medal the day of. But I got one later, at home. A day a few weeks ago it had been raining and cold for a few days and then it warmed up really fast. So we went outside and played in puddles and a little creek that was over flowing near our house. I got several pictures of that and we had fun. The seminary class schedule starts this week. So Robert has classes Tuesday through Thursday and studying and school work all the rest of the time. I am starting a new SWI (seminary wives institute) class on Thursday night, Lessons in Prayer. I'm also attending a church bible study on prayer on Tuesday nights, but that will be over in three weeks. And every other Tuesday I meet with another mom to encourage her and talk about motherhood and the bible. She is in the picture with me and our babies below. Robert and I have been practicing much more discipline in our diet in the last four weeks. We don't have any carbs or sugar except on Friday night when we have a bit of a treat, but not always, only if we feel like it. The first week was awful but now we are both lacking much of a craving for junk food, thankfully. Still, I'm only losing a pound every two weeks! Very frustrating, but I suppose in 30 weeks I will be thankful for the sacrifice. We are also working out a few times a week. It's just really slow going and especially when I am feeling down, I want to eat whatever I want! Robert hasn't lost anything, but he is weight lifting so it might be slower for him. He is considering doing something stricter like the Atkins. Tender meets with an older woman at our church every Thursday night to study Hebrews. I am good friends with her. Tender has really enjoyed that and looks forward to it. The Boy has been taking apart things a lot and creating new things. Like, his broken helicopter motor was removed and put into a homemade aluminum boat and used in the bathtub as a RC boat. It was pretty cool. Whenever we have something that breaks, he gets it to take apart before we trash it. He has quite a collection of all sorts of parts now. For what, I know not. Hulk is talking more. The other day he said, "I come with you?" when I was leaving. He is really hard to understand. He sounds a lot like The Boy did at that age. So I imagine we might be doing speech therapy with him someday. Bug is growing! He has gained about 3 pounds in the last month or so. He is fifteen months old now. He still isn't walking yet, although he occasionally will take a small step here or there. He has been fighting a cold a lot this winter. He doesn't say much besides "dance dance dance" while he dances his little heart out! He loves music! I think he also says "dada" because he really loves his daddy! He typically will gladly go to Robert even from my arms! Which is new and makes for a proud daddy.
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The semester is fixing to start back up with Robert while the kids only got about 5 days off. So unfair! But we are thankful that we had Daddy home so much this season. He took a J Term and had school work with that but because of his back he couldn't sit at the library to work on it, he had to lay flat on the bed while doing the reading assignments. He is much better now and headed back to the seminary to work on his assignments, which will likely help his focus. : ) I am coordinating the local spelling bee for homeschoolers in the Louisville area. And that is happening next Saturday. So I have been pretty busy getting ready for that. But next week will be quite busy. Hurricane is competing in it as well. So you could pray that everything goes smoothly, that she does well, and that it is a blessing to all the students that are involved. Other than those things, we have been pretty chill around here. Having some big struggles with behavior from little boys and that is a challenge to my endurance but having Robert close has helped me to not give up. I fight daily to remember God's promises in the face of unbelief. To remember that no matter how hard things are with parenting that nothing can separate me from my Savior and if that is true then why despair at all? "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else (insert: children's behavior, losing my temper, children's poor opinion of my decisions, my poor opinion of me, etc) in ALL creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39 If what is most important to me is being with my Savior, then I'm set! So why do I keep putting my hope in other things? My weaknesses are very frustrating but they only glorify the Lord more because He loves me right where I'm at but loves me too much to allow me to stay in that wretched state. He has promised to make me better and I strive forward with that promise in mind. Well, we are going to do our formal learning early today so that we can relax the rest of the day and make a special dinner (sliders!). I pray all of you are resting in the FINISHED work of Jesus and seeking Him more earnestly today than yesterday. As a family, we dug a grave for Jack on December 22nd. The next day he couldn't stand on his own. We took him into the vet on the 23rd to have him put down. Robert was sure he could lift him but I feared his sore back would be injured more severly and since I was the one that brought him home the first time I ended up being the one who brought him home the last time. Tender went with me and was so brave and loving. The whole family (minus the babies napping) buried him and had a little funeral for him where we prayed and thanked God for the gift he had been to our family. For the story of when we got Jack see here: meet-jack.html. Obviously our family is sad. Hurricane was the closest to him and has really missed him but everyone has cried and missed him terribly so far. Coming home from anywhere is dreadful, because he isn't there waiting on us to run outside. I wake at 6 to read my Bible and pray and now he isn't waiting to keep me company. After we finished burying him I looked up and expected to see him sprinting in the yard as he usually does when we do yard work. Esau, our cat is getting extra attention which, I'm sure, he could not care any less about.
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