Tuesday

Randomness is my game today.

Hope you saw we kicked off a big book fundraiser yesterday.  If not, check it out HERE or just scroll down to the post below.  Super easy fundraiser…people order books and our family receives 25% of their purchase to go towards our adoption fund.  That’s it.  Check it out HERE and please help us spread the word.

Kelley kids all in a row fixing each other’s hair like Kevin from Home Alone…I die!!!

The cold is pretty much destroying us.  I wear layers upon layers all the time and Solomon lays in the fetal position over our heating vents…in his mesh shorts…because he just can’t give them up yet. Is it summer yet?!?!

Nesting.  We have been cleaning out almost every inch of our house.  Purging like there’s no tomorrow.  Our dude’s bed is ready and we made the sweetest book over on mpix to send him.  He feels like a dream…the best dream and we get the honor of being his parents and his family.  Goodness, how on earth did God think Josh Kelley and I were good enough for this wildly wonderful bunch of kiddos?!?!

I call this the ministry of the Kroger parking lot sky.  It gets me every time.

Josh Kelley likes to take the kids for walks on the weekend.  This one ended with them watching barges.  Texts with these little faces are the best.  Amon’s pose game = stellar!

New Year’s Eve we game partied.  It got wild with Sequence and Bananagram and pizza and yummy treats.  Adults gamed and kids gamed and it was the funnest of the fun.  Then Josh, Harper and I rang in the New Year’s together along with Mariah Carey, popcorn tossing, selfies, cocktails and dancing.  2017 is going to be a good one.

Amon had a recent wrestling/tripping toe injury.  It was pretty much like the end of the world aaaaand he’s apparently going to lose a toenail over the whole unfortunate/dramatic incident.  Oi vey.

This is her new pastime and it keeps her busy busy busy and I love love love it.  Rainbow messy watercolor paintings forever and ever.  Refrigerator art always.

We got to celebrate our sweet friend Jessica and her sweet baby girl this past weekend.  It was the best time and such a kind reminder of God’s love and mercy and redemption.  His goodness to us is too much.  The way He brings beauty from ashes…the way He makes everything beautiful in it’s time…He is simply wondrously good.

  And Exodus is still killing it.  I’m still moving at a snails pace, but this is life and chaotic is my middle name and I’m just doing my thing.  I threw out all the rules and judgement on myself long ago because it’s too much to carry.  Every time I sit down with this book God sits down right in front of me.  He is absolutely with us.  And that is overwhelmingly beautiful and humbling.  He’s literally with us.  I hope I never get over His with-ness.  I hope it always moves me into tears and tender moments.

I’m really trying to get back on my regular scheduled blogging because this space makes me smile and I like writing no matter how much non-sense and craziness there is in my words.  I like being here.  And I like you.  Your emails and comments and kindness make my day and I think you are truly truly kind.  Thank you for reading.

Happy Tuesday!