It should not be blogging. I need to be doing one of those bible studies, but I just have no desire to get off of my duff!! It is prolly those chocolates I just ate. So, I'll take a minute to let my body calm down from the... well, they were sugar free, but anyhow...
The kids are doing so well. Mark is doing good in school. His writing is coming along very well. He has a hard time with becoming easily frustrated (God, please make Him an overcomer like you did me!!) but is still very receptive to my instruction and really wants to do a good job most of the time. He is still very very compassionate and loves her sisters. He is such a sweet boy.
Lily is right there with brother and is like a sponge. She likes to have "school work" if he does and is becoming such a girlie girl and actually likes to be with me now. That is a change. She worried me there, I must admit, and kept to herself a lot and wouldn't give or receive affection, but OH! How different she is now! She'll let me hold her and give her a kiss and hold my hand and she'll come over and put her hand on my arm or my face and say "Come and look at this, MOM!" So fun. I often tell people that she would have just been lost as to how a little girl acts if it had not been for Elle, who practically come out with a nail file and lip gloss! Lily is really loving dressing up and playing barbie and I just think it's the cutest thing. She is so smart and imaginative, the words and things that she makes up keeps me in stitches!
Mind the hordes of trash back there...
Well, speaking of that baby, umm umm umm. I love her so good! She is such a momma's girl! She wants to be with me all the time but her and her bubba and slowly her sissy are starting to become playmates, which makes my heart happy. She talks VERY well and can pretty much articulate hurt, hungry, tired, cold, hot, too tight, sooo happy, and any preference of shoes, hairbows, and TV show she wants. She is just full of... herself, but words, too. She is still terribly defiant, but it keeps me humble and I won't lie, frazzled many times. I am glad to report (DeDe) that it appears that hitting and pushing as means of playing with other children is not as much of an issue and she actually likes to play chase tho most other kids her age just think she is playing "I took your stuff!" Well, I guess she kinds is... Anyway, she is so overflowing with joy, it's hard hard hard not to love her and snuggle her and give in to her every demand. Thank you Lord for the wisdom to send her third!
Daddy Mark continues to amaze me. He stays home on Tues morning to teach Mark his school work so that I can lead my bible study. He is a remarkable Sunday School teacher. The man was given a very GREAT brain, but I see his wisdom is from the Lord and it is so awesome to be under his authority. He is loving and kind and has a servant heart and for that, this family is truly blessed.
And me? Well I am still crazy and take ridiculous pictures of myself so that people can sit in their homes and laugh at my shenanigans. And that I might laugh at myself as well...
I also enjoy doing it with some of the most incredible women God has ever loved me through.
Phew. Now I see why I needed to write this blog. To be reminded of God's faithfulness in my life and that this cup is supernaturally overflowing!! Thank you, Lord. Thank you so much for saving me, sustaining me, providing for me, and blessing me. You are good. All the time. And all the time, YOU are good!!
