Our Family Circus

A few years ago, our friends from college shared with the world that they were taking their 5 children and moving to Africa.   As she shared steps of the process, I began to look at the "stuff" in our home differently.   In fact, I would say aloud, "Yes."   "No."   "Why do I even have that?"   I was asking myself, if it were worth taking to another country.   My girlfriend teased me that I should be careful cause I might be next.   Sure enough, God was grooming the "stuff" through her move.   At this point there is still so much in the way that I think, "IT CAN ALL GO!"   In fact, one night at AWANA I realized I had left a window open at our home.   My 6th grade friend, Trinity suggested that someone might break in and steal something.   Her leader looked at me and smiled and said, "that might be a good thing."   I totally agreed.   But truly when it all comes down, I am holding on to those finger paintings.  I l

So, this arrived in the mail today......another step of the adventure begins...language learning!

We are 3 months ahead of launch...the only thing I honestly feel as if we are "ahead" on is in our school work.   PRAISE the LORD!   I have written lesson plans out for the remainder of the school year.  It thrills me to see subjects come to completion.   I see the light at the end of the tunnel.    I brought the planning book to My Dear and said, "This NEVER happens!"  God is so good!  With schooling finished early, I can move old materials on, store others away for the younger students, and pack up school materials.   It is a incredible chunk of time that I will gain as well.   This morning, we received a call from parks and rec in our community.   They asked if our guy would be signing up for baseball this year.   My Dear was awaken by the phone and answered, "No, we are moving to Haiti."   Poor lady, I heard her say, "Wow!....   Ok.....Good Luck with that."   I giggled and said, well that is one way to tell folks!   Just seemed so blunt..