Valentines And Prayers

**Before I forget, today we have been on the waitlist for our next little boy for 3 months, so, tomorrow will be our 3 Months Waiting Art Giveaway.  Check back tomorrow for more information.**

That’s my Valentine right there.  Wouldn’t trade him for anything…finger mustache and all.  Love you Josh Kelley!

So did anyone elses kids eat WAY too much sugar yesterday?  Mine sure did.  I mean seriously, they started the day with candy from our post office (they know us quite well), more from the bank (their Grammy works there), they had a Valentine chocolate from their dad after lunch, more sweets from their Grandaddy and Judye in the afternoon, then more sweets from a few of their cousins.  I’m fairly confident my kids ate their weight in sugar yesterday.  But it happens…every now and then it just happens and I’m sure yesterday was just about spectacular for them.  And that makes it okay with me.

Harper and I also had to whip out some Valentine’s for her party at her MDO class yesterday.  With all the snow days last week I had procrastinated on us making her Valentines, so last night we finally set to work and finished them up.  I LOVE any fun shaped crayons, but especially heart shaped crayons on Valentines.  I like to make Valentines that Harper can participate in making, so she was great at pealing paper and breaking crayons.  She also rocked some handwriting as well.  She was just too proud of her Valentines.

*Crayon on making tip:  I prefer the small silicon shaped muffin trays.  Last year I picked up the heart shaped one for $4 at Joanns.  They have tons of other shaped ones as well and always have 40% and 50% off coupons, so put them to use.*

And mine is wet looking because I just pulled it out of the sink, to snap a picture 🙂

Orders are still rolling in and for those of you waiting on your order to be completed, I promise I am working just as quickly as I can 🙂  Here is what I have been working on lately.  These three camera straps are headed to Janine in Michigan, Rachel in Florida and Caroline in Nashville, Tn.  Thanks so much ladies.

This next little boy baby set was ordered by Bev in California.  Bev wanted me to use blue, light blue and red with a sweet little whale and the little boy’s first name initial.  I love how this set turned out.  Thanks so much Bev and hope the mom-to-be loves it as well.

And these two name canvases were ordered by Ginger in West Virginia.  Ginger wanted two 8×10 canvases to go on her kiddos doors.  She wanted me to use their likes…music and crayons for her little girl and tools for her little boy.  Thanks so much Ginger, completely appreciate it.

Also if you live in the area, I would love to invite you to join us at our church Community this Sunday, February 20th for our launch with Children’s HopeChest.  Our church has taken on the commitment of a carepoint, Ngungwane, in Swaziland, Africa.

We will be starting with the sponsorship of 82 kids who come to the carepoint everyday and after they are sponsored we will be taking on the fundraising for development projects like bathrooms, wells, a kitchen, a school house, chicken coops, fence, playground, etc.  One thing I love about this opportunity is that we will not be doing any of the building of the development projects, but CHC will hire Swazis to do the work…so money and jobs are being put into the beautiful country of Swaziland.

Josh and I are speaking at both the 9:15 and 10:45 services.  And I truly, truly covet prayers for this Sunday.  We are praying for God to move in a big way and to stir hearts for these children and that I don’t puke on stage.  I am BY NO MEANS a public speaker, at all, so prayers are greatly, greatly appreciated.  We want our words to be God’s.

These kids and this nation are not our charity or good deed, they are our brothers and sisters in Christ.  “We have to take the risk to get deeply involved with the people we serve. We should really hurt when they hurt. We don’t work for our brothers to feel good. We work for our brothers because we can’t truly be happy if they are not, we can’t be successful without their success, and they can’t hurt with out it hurting us.”

**Design my Dana Hale at Lifelines designs**