Saturday, February 25, 2012
We are finally in our new home!
Whew! It's been awhile since I was on here promising myself that I would blog more! It has been a whirlwind couple of months. We moved out of our home in Newport, Rhode Island in January and moved into a vacation rental on the island for a month. Talk about crazy! We've been really unschooling this year, but we've been doing LOTS of life learning, family building and field trips(such as the Pequot Museum in Connecticut and a trip to Boston. We then drove down to my in-laws in VA. We visited Mt. Vernon, the home of George and Martha Washington, while we were there. We then drove on to Lexington, KY for a night and then stayed with dear friends and had a short reunion with old army friends in Illinois near Scott Air Force Base. It was fun to see our kids reconnect after not seeing each other for 5 years! Then it was on to Kansas and then the long, boring drive from there to Colorado Springs. We are now in our new home! Yeah! We feel so blessed to be assigned to this beautiful community. I'm sure the next 2 years will fly! I can't believe that I get to wake up every morning to look at Pike's Peak. God is awesome!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
New Year--big change!
Happy New Year! We had a very busy 2 weeks over Christmas. We traveled to Fort Worth, Texas to visit my parents and then headed to Colorado Springs to look for a place to live. Colorado will be our new home in just over a month! We were in awe of the beauty of Colorado Springs. We were able to find a house to rent for the 2 or so years that we will be stationed there. We are very thankful that it all works out! We have been blessed to be near the beauty of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Newport, Rhode Island for the past year. Being a military family has its perks. We can show our kids many parts of our beautiful nation. Hopefully, we will be able to show them more of the world before my husband retires from the Army in the next 7 years! The freedom to explore while homeschooling is also such a bonus to our lives. Growing up with working parents in Iowa, I never got to see much other than when we visited relatives in Texas. Who knew I'd grow up to see so much and I'm glad to share it with our children and husband. Here's to our new adventure in 2012!
Friday, December 16, 2011
Compassion child
We have sponsored a little girl, Miriam, in Guatemala for 3 years. For some unknown reason, we received a letter a few weeks ago saying that Miriam's family decided to disenroll her from the program. That made me so sad! She will now be missing out on the great opportunities to hear about the Lord and to receive much needed financial and educational assistance. We will continue to pray for Miriam and her family. Yesterday, we received our new sponsorship packet. We now have a little girl named Maria. She is also from Guatemala--our son was adopted from there so we like having that connection. What I want to do this time is to do a lot better with our correspondence. We honestly were not as good as we could have been with writing to Miriam. Our goal will be to write at least once a month and for the kids to make her pictures. Compassion has made this even easier by adding online letter writing and picture uploading. I want Maria to be more than a photo on a card. I want her to feel like a member of our family. We will do better than we did before.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wonderful Weekend in NYC!
Our little family took a weekend trip to soak in NYC at Christmas time! It was beautiful--crowded and smoky, but beautiful! Lots of twinkling lights. We went to Mary Poppins on Broadway, saw the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, ice skated in Central Park, perused FAO Schwartz and of course, checked out the windows at Macy's. I also got to meet Delilah from the nightly syndicated radio show. She was a bright light and is also a believer. The whole trip was amazing!
Rockefeller Center tree
Central Park skating
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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