Hey Hey!!!

Well Hi!!!  I know every last one of you can relate, but our life is currently wild as wild can get and all of our sweet kiddos are each dealing with tough things…minus ole Harper who’s helping us keep a float.  So hence my absence around these parts last week, but I’m back and determined to write each day this week.  It’s good for my brain.  We’ll see how it goes.

So how have you been?  What’s new?  Have anything crazy exciting or hard or sad or inspiring or a good joke or a good recipe to share?  I’d love to hear it.

Around our place everyone’s just hanging on 🙂  We are officially ready for Valentines though.  Each kid picked out store bought Valentines…Doc McStuffins, lots of Star Wars and Pokemon.  My go-to teacher gifts are chocolate and a gift card.  I tend to not branch out much, but I just keep thinking that’s exactly what I would want too.  And I’ve got the kids’ books and beans ready to go.  We give them a book and a pack of jelly beans every Valentines…it’s tradition.

Hudson has been sick and down lately.  He’s missed so much school since the beginning of January and he LOVES school so he’s been really sad about that.  The kid has had blood work and an EKG and an ultrasound and prescription meds and we still can’t figure out what’s making him feel so bad.   Would you pray for him?  I just keep praying for his little body and for joy…lots and lots of joy even when he feels so bad.  We’re all trying to figure things out asap before we head to China.  We want him to enjoy the trip and not be miserable the whole time.  Your prayers would be greatly appreciated.

PS:  Amon cracks me up in all doctor’s offices/hosptial.  He really doesn’t get “personal space” and is crazy nosey.  Always makes me laugh watching him.

I’m still sugar fasting and it has been so good for my heart, mind and body.  Food has always been such a comfort to me…it would make a bad day better, it makes me happy, it solves problems, it makes my world go round for crying out loud 🙂 so it has been really sweet to sub in Jesus which I’ve never done before.  And you know what, He totally sustains and He’s way better.  Not that food and sweets are bad…I’ll never think that…but I have a dependance on certain foods for comfort and I’m trying to learn to look to Jesus for my comfort instead.

Josh Kelley nested this weekend.  It kept cracking me up that while the Kelley family chaos level is crazy high Josh took on replacing our broken vanity and Harper’s broken toilet.  You guys, 7 people in our little house…a toilet and sink cannot be out of commission.  I was feeling the anxious stress about it, but he knocked them both out in a days time and all was right in our wild little world again.

Laura Kelley Fun Fact #2:  I have very limited clothes and shoes.  Too much of both stresses me out big time, but my weakness is a good bag.  I still try to be very choosy so as to not have 1000 bags plus I don’t have room for 1000 bags.  On one particularly stressful adoption/Hudson’s-still-sick/our-littlest-is-losing-her-mind day as I sat in our doctor’s office I discovered a hole in my most favorite favorite bag.  My friend Ashley then called and she got to hear all the distress over the hole.  Sometimes the drama is real you guys.  I sent her this after we got off the phone.

Sidenote:  Ashley is pretty much the only person who still calls me on the real live phone.  We talk weekly and I always look forward to our chats.

And last thing…I haven’t tried too many new recipes lately, but THIS ONE was delish.  Solomon even had leftovers for his snack one day 🙂  I did puree the peppers and onions at the end like it mentions and it was sooooo good and made it a thicker soup.  Also I’m making THIS for dinner this week.  I’ll report back, but it had me at honey sesame…yum.

Here’s to a crazy good week you guys.  Praying we all see His goodness everywhere and are so encouraged.

Happy Monday!

6 Comments

  1. Always love your updates! Prayers for H! And the rest of you! Here’s my favorite knock knock.
    Knock knock.
    Who’s there?
    Mikey.
    Mikey who?
    My key won’t fit in the hole. Can you help?

    #lifewithtoddlerswholoveknockknockjokes

  2. Every time I read all that you’ve got going on, I’m just amazed that you manage to still fit it sharing with us old blog readers. Thank you – I just love your funny, loving spirit and hearing all of the craziness in the Kelley house 🙂 Sending all the good thoughts that you get to the bottom of whatever is making Hudson feel crummy!

    • Crazy kind!!!! Thank you so much for even reading…I love to peck out my wild thoughts so when someone says they actually read them it amazes me and thrills my heart.

  3. Look again at the last photo of you in the mirror of your bathroom. The faucet looks like a little guy raising praise hands! Hallelujah!!

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