B.U.S.Y

Well it’s Tuesday!  Can we just go back to the weekend?!?!?!  Weekends are my jam lately because I pretty much hate the kids’ homework…I might revolt 🙂  and our weekly schedules are a bit whacky right now.  Also I’m playing major foster care paperwork and training catch up.  We went so hard, so fast and we’re so time consumed with our adoption paperwork/homestudies/dossier I completely set aside our foster care paperwork and training.  Ahhhhhh!  Not our best, most responsible move.  Yikes.  So now we’re feeling it, but everyone will survive and in the end no one will perish and the world will still spin.  I keep needing that perspective reminder.

Some of my favorite things as of late:

Tennessee skies have been killing it always.  Our Kroger parking lot is the perfect place to snag a sky pic.

Josh Kelley coaches a Full Count high school fall league team each year and it’s one of our favorites.  The kids and I head out after Harper’s soccer game each Saturday to cheer the guys on.  When high school boys talk to my boys and give them fist bumps and high fives and kid around with them it MAKES THEIR DAY…and mine too!!!  And gas station icees and bags of chips are usually in the mix.

I went into our bedroom and almost tripped over this:

It’s so rare to find him sleeping in random places anymore I just wanted to bottle him up.  Made my Sunday!

Books, books and more books.  We try to go to the library once a week plus our library has an amazing app so we have been quite the readers lately.  It will get really quiet in our house all of a sudden and I immediately think someone has killed someone or someone or some group of children are doing things they should not be, BUT sometimes I look around and notice they are just reading.  And I smile giant!

I love our community.  I love our school and library.  Harper and I are already planning on walking to middle school each day next year since it’s just a few blocks away.

Sidenote:  SHE WILL BE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL NEXT YEAR!!!!  Excuse me while I die.  End sidenote.

Every September we have such a fun arts festival for the community.  It’s free, a blast and it’s on our street so we just walk down, enjoy and walk back home.  Win,win.  It was a perfect part of our Saturday.

Our littlest became quite smitten with a shipping box last week.  It was hilarious.  While one of our social workers was visiting she got in it and had Amon try and close the box up.  I had to disclose that this was new and that we do not put her in boxes 🙂  We laughed.  Plus, she’s going to be an ewok for Halloween so she’s been wearing her costume like crazy.  What’s better than a small cutie in a box…an ewok in a box.

 Amon and Solomon are playing fall ball this year.  Amon had a game last night and I teared up sooooo many times it was ridiculous.  He was just so happy and so thrilled to be playing and I kept thinking about his little warrior heart and our next little heart warrior.  And it was just too much for this momma in the best way.  I was feeling all the gratitude last night for our little wild tribe.

God keeps meeting me right where I need to be met in His word.  I’ve had some trouble sleeping thanks to bad teeth and a heart overcome with our next son.  God keeps reminding me He is with both of us despite the two of us not being together.  One day my eyes will meet our son’s face in person and I will be physically close to him.  Right now I’m having to trust that the Lord is with him even when I cannot be.

And Noonday Collection always!!!  Still have my gift card.  Still salivating over the Marais Bag for fall.  Don’t forget we’ve got an adoption Noonday party coming up Sunday, September 25th from 2-4 at our house.  There will be snacks and food and laughter.  All our welcome.  Bring a friend or 2 or 3 or a whole car full.  The more the merrier is my motto.

Rebecca will be here with all her samples and sharing all all about Noonday.  PLUS on top of making your purchases count toward bigger and global things…like partnering with women and families around the world…20% of sales will go directly towards our adoption fees.  Woo-freakin-hoo!!!

If you can’t make the party, no worries.  You can still partner with us and make your purchases count by heading over HERE and placing your order in our online show.  You can order now and items will be shipped to you.  Just be sure in the right sidebar at check out that Rebecca Daniels is listed as your ambassador and Laura Kelley as your hostess.  And please feel free to spread the word and share our show link.

Hope your week is off to a fantastic start.  See you tomorrow!

Happy Tuesday.

2 Comments

  1. I’ll have to check out your noonday party online… I don’t think Indiana is close enough to attend! Haha! I was wondering when you were planning to post your notecards for sale?

    • Hahahaha…yeah Indiana isn’t just down the street 🙂 Hoping to get my notecards listed soon. We’ve been slammed with life lately, but they are coming 🙂 Thanks for inquiring.

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