B-days, 1st-days, and Prayer Updates

Happy Birthday to Aunt B-B
and to cousin Becca!

Two very special people to us happen to share the same special day. We love you and wish we could celebrate you in person but in the meantime know you are loved a lot (across a lot of miles)!!!

Today was also the first day of school for Cole (first grade) and Josiah (kindergarten). They both seemed to really enjoy their days. It was a really bittersweet day for me because I missed them so much. But I am thankful for the peace God gives as we walk each day trying to live in His presence. He is enough. That is the phrase that keeps coming to my mind. He is with us wherever we go and we can't possibly leave His presence if we tried (Psalm 139). Our boys attend our local neighborhood public school and that provides a lot of advantages but also some disadvantages and we pray God uses every situation He brings to us to mold our boys and our family into who He wants us to be.

Maddie was a hoot today (and everyday)! Immediately upon leaving the school this morning she asked if we could go shopping. Tom said I had trained her well--ditch the boys and head for the stores! She told grandma on the phone that the boys had moved away. When questioned about this, she calmly replied, "Yeah... they did move to school!" You have to remember it's been quite a traumatic summer of moves for her as her long lost love, Benny, moved away. So I guess she is still processing the word "move." She has finally learned to say the "L" sound--so there is no more "I yuv you, I yike you," no more "Yucky Charms," and she no longer resembles a reptile (with tongue darting out of mouth) when she says "blue." She did coin a new term at our house this summer, "bugito," referring to mosquito.


Thank you to those of you who are praying for my friend. Please continue to do so. She has finished her first 3 week treatment of chemo, had 1 week off and is starting her second go round this week. Actually tomorrow (Wed.) is her treatment day so if you are reading this please do pray for Jenny, her husband Sam and their 1 year old daughter Renee. Jenny is battling breast cancer which has moved into her bones. We as believers are uplifting her to the Healer of all diseases and praying our faith would be enlarged even as we pray.

Mark 9:24 "I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief!"