Remembering Grandma Dorothy

Happy Birthday

I turned 38 last Friday. What a special day! Nate surprised me with Orange Leaf, my favorite frozen yogurt place, & a trip to Pittsburgh for Moe’s Mexican food, a Pirates game, & fireworks. I am so thankful for these blessings pictured, but also my amazing friends & family. I am 23 weeks pregnant today & so very thankful that the Lord has settled this “barren woman as a happy mother of children.” Everyday I am overwhelmed at God’s goodness, how He provides and takes care of me & even chooses to give extra special gifts above and beyond like birthday adventures. Thank you, Jesus, for these 38 years. With you in the lead I can truly say that I love getting older! Holy Spirit, with you continually working in me, through me, reminding me, refining me, softening me, & working out your salvation through me, I can say I’m better at 38 than I was at 28. I want to look more like Jesus at 48!

Lent 2020

As the Lenten season approached, I knew I had to face off with what we were going to give up this year as a family. Let me preface this post with this: I have thoroughly been enjoying movies each night as I nursed Levi. It was something I looked forward to & I was getting to the place where I couldn’t imagine life in the nursing a newborn season without those movies. One night, as I sat on the bed nursing the baby, I told the Lord that I really didn’t want to give up T.V., video games, or movies this year. I enjoyed playing Candy crush & watching movies to take my mind off of how tired I was. I asked God to give me the desire to give it all up. I needed a miracle! Sometime in the next 24 hours I was watching my kids on their devices & watching T.V. and I realized that it was time to regain our focus. To give it up again for the sake of putting it in its rightful place. The Lord actually gave me a longing to give it up, maybe even an excitement for what He would be able to

Grace Dispels Fear

When I am driven by fear, everyone had better watch out! Something happens in my body when fear comes upon me. I have mistaken it for anger, but now identified it as fear. I get hot...reason goes out the window...calm & restfulness are long gone. Today, the fear that started out my morning was...You're failing your children in their schooling. We have missed quite a few days of school due to the Christmas season. A week ago, it was totally fine and I knew we'd catch up. But, today, when I let fear drive me, I was a mad woman. NOT the Mama full of Grace that I long to be. The only sound thing I could do was silently say to God, "I can't do this, You have to do this. You gave me the desire to home school, I KNOW that, now YOU have to take over." I said it again and again while trying to pay attention to Isaiah reading to me. I kept feeling hot, asking for God to help me think clearly. I ran into Nate who was working on bills in the off

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