Late Birthday Wishes

Wednesday was Josh’s birthday.  I wanted to wish him a late happy birthday.  He really is just the best husband and dad around.  I could not be anymore blessed.  He’s the greatest and his heart, well, I always tell him his heart is the hottest thing about him.  His heart is huge and empathetic and kind and compassionate and he really wants to change the world.  I wanted to make him something special for his birthday.  Last year Josh read the book Scared: A novel on the edge of the world by Tom Davis.

I am not a big book reader, other than children’s literature, ask me about that and I could talk all day long, but adult reading, not so much.  But Scared is in a category all of its own.  Want to get a true picture of life in Africa, particularly Swaziland, then read this book.  It’s a fictional book based off of facts and true events.  It is simply amazing!  I highly recommend this book to anyone and it’s an easy read, if you can make it through the stark reality of what takes place in Africa sometimes.  Simply a great book, compelling and just down right heart wrenching.  So Josh was so impacted by this book and a fire was lit in his heart for the people of Swaziland.  He went to Swaziland last October with Children’s HopeChest.

He went specifically to see carepoints (communities) that needed sponsorship, in hopes he would be able to get our church on board of taking on a carepoint.  What this means is our church will come along side a community is Swaziland and take on sponsorship for all the kids at the carepoint, providing food, medical treatment, education and discipleship.  Our church will also build fences, a kitchen, water wells, bathrooms, school building, bunk houses,  playground, chicken coops, etc. at our carepoint.  It is such an amazing opportunity to work right along side our fellow brothers and sisters and be Gods hands and feet to these children…a priviledge really.  So our church recently signed on to sponsor Thulwane carepoint in Swaziland.  To say that Josh and I are excited would be an understatement.  We are thrilled and hearts are about to explode.  For Josh’s present I used pictures he took from his trip last year to Swaziland on a 8×24 canvas and then used the name of our carepoint, Thulwane, over the top.

I hope this is something he will love and enjoy for many, many years.  It really stands for so much, but especially his heart.  Makes me proud to be Josh Kelley’s wife.  Happy birthday Josh.  Here’s to many, many more.  Cannot wait to see what God has in store!

More orders are heading out this weekend.  This  completed order is headed to Angela in Georgia.  She needed some special long-sleeved tees for some kiddos who are about to welcome their new sister home from China.  She wanted a shirt for the new Bigger Sister and Lil Brother and one for their new sister Sammie to sport at the airport.  It is such an honor to make these tees…especially homecoming shirts.  I never forgot the fact that these will be worn on such a special day.  Thanks so much Angela for the business and for the opportunity to make such special tees.

At the Kelley house we are gearing up for Hud’s 2nd birthday next weekend…

and our yard sale and bake sale October 15th and 16th.  This yard sale is going to be huge.  We are officially on for two locations because my mom’s house, garage and shed are officially bursting.  So my dad has offered to start taking on the rest of what is coming in and it’s a lot.  If you have items you would like to donate or you would like to make baked goods, just shoot me an email and I can get you more details.  Such an exciting time and we are so grateful and blessed.  Happy Friday!