Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
Little Bits of Recentness
I've posted a lot about moi lately, so why don't we just take a break from that, eh?
We are finding all sorts of ways to keep ourselves occupied these days.
Playing the piano...
Playing in the street...
Playing with the weeds...
Playing without training wheels...
Yup. That about sums it up for now.
We are finding all sorts of ways to keep ourselves occupied these days.
Playing the piano...
Playing in the street...
Playing with the weeds...
Playing without training wheels...
Yup. That about sums it up for now.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Note To Self
I have always been the type of person who forgets things easily. In fact, probably the best thing that ever happened to my memory was this little beauty back around 2001-ish. In fact, I have only suffered through one year since then without my 'brain on paper'.
I have no earthly idea how I survived life prior to that little notebook.
Perhaps a clue is I just wrote notes to myself. Recently, in a completely off the wall place, a handful of old notes were found. You know, the ones kids pass back and forth in the hall ways in school. It was a trip reading those letters, let me tell you. Several from and old boyfriend, a handful from various friends, and two from me. To me. From me.
One was just a list of things that I needed to deal with (my To Do list now resides in my Household Notebook and gets lots of attention and neglect) but the other made me smile. It is dated May 16, 1995. I have no idea what I copied it from or who may have used it in some manner, but it struck me enough then to write it down, and I have reflected on it several times since finding it and reading it again, 15 years later.
Learn to listen like a Teddy Bear,
With ears open and mouth closed tight.
Learn to forgive like a Teddy Bear,
With heart open, not caring who is right.
Learn to love like a Teddy Bear,
With arms open and imperfect sight.
I might need to revisit the days when I cross stitched and whip up a cute little Teddy Bear poem and with a sweet Teddy Bear...
I have no earthly idea how I survived life prior to that little notebook.
Perhaps a clue is I just wrote notes to myself. Recently, in a completely off the wall place, a handful of old notes were found. You know, the ones kids pass back and forth in the hall ways in school. It was a trip reading those letters, let me tell you. Several from and old boyfriend, a handful from various friends, and two from me. To me. From me.
One was just a list of things that I needed to deal with (my To Do list now resides in my Household Notebook and gets lots of attention and neglect) but the other made me smile. It is dated May 16, 1995. I have no idea what I copied it from or who may have used it in some manner, but it struck me enough then to write it down, and I have reflected on it several times since finding it and reading it again, 15 years later.
Learn to listen like a Teddy Bear,
With ears open and mouth closed tight.
Learn to forgive like a Teddy Bear,
With heart open, not caring who is right.
Learn to love like a Teddy Bear,
With arms open and imperfect sight.
I might need to revisit the days when I cross stitched and whip up a cute little Teddy Bear poem and with a sweet Teddy Bear...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Finding Rhythm
Summer is here and has brought it's full artillery of heat, humidity, UV rays, and mosquitoes. The activities of the season have picked up and swimming is on our list at least once a week, the movie theater once every two weeks (free summer kids series), the library weekly, stepped up church activities, and fairly frequent birthday parties.
It makes my head spin just thinking about it all.
It's not really as busy as it sounds, only amounting to two mornings and one evening out in any given week. I am quite grateful for the routine of it all, and the way it breaks up our week so that we are home plenty, and out just the other side of enough.
Plus, we do school four days a week throughout the summer, mostly because it allows a more relaxed schedule during the 'school year', but also to help alleviate too much time on their little hands to find mischief.
And laundry and dustbunnies and meal making and maintaining relationships and time spent in the Word and sleep and staying two steps ahead of the Munchkin Brigade and errands and, and, and, and, and...
It was a bit of a shock to me to step back into the routine today and find that the rhythm, though a much different pace than what I adjusted to last week, was a balm to my tender heart and over extended brain right now.
But now, in the quiet evening hours, my mind slows back down again and I find myself praying for those faces that have made their mark upon my heart and wondering what their days were like. I miss the evenings with the young orphan children creeping in on our team's space until they at last settled themselves beside us to contentedly play simple card games or to laugh lightly at each other as we tried to cross the language barrier to make ourselves understood.
By God's grace, I will wake up to the wonderful dance again tomorrow, and enjoy another day full of the blessings of my family. And I will do it with a new-found understanding of just how very good we have it. But even as I go about the day, my mind will continue to reflect on what all God has taught me and what He is still teaching me through my stay in Haiti. And I will pray...
It makes my head spin just thinking about it all.
It's not really as busy as it sounds, only amounting to two mornings and one evening out in any given week. I am quite grateful for the routine of it all, and the way it breaks up our week so that we are home plenty, and out just the other side of enough.
Plus, we do school four days a week throughout the summer, mostly because it allows a more relaxed schedule during the 'school year', but also to help alleviate too much time on their little hands to find mischief.
And laundry and dustbunnies and meal making and maintaining relationships and time spent in the Word and sleep and staying two steps ahead of the Munchkin Brigade and errands and, and, and, and, and...
It was a bit of a shock to me to step back into the routine today and find that the rhythm, though a much different pace than what I adjusted to last week, was a balm to my tender heart and over extended brain right now.
But now, in the quiet evening hours, my mind slows back down again and I find myself praying for those faces that have made their mark upon my heart and wondering what their days were like. I miss the evenings with the young orphan children creeping in on our team's space until they at last settled themselves beside us to contentedly play simple card games or to laugh lightly at each other as we tried to cross the language barrier to make ourselves understood.
By God's grace, I will wake up to the wonderful dance again tomorrow, and enjoy another day full of the blessings of my family. And I will do it with a new-found understanding of just how very good we have it. But even as I go about the day, my mind will continue to reflect on what all God has taught me and what He is still teaching me through my stay in Haiti. And I will pray...
Monday, June 21, 2010
Home Again
And so, I'm home. Or at least most of me. I never expected to fall in love with this country and it's people and leave a piece of my heart there, but that is exactly what has happened.
There are many thoughts and emotions vying for my attention right now, not to mention the business of living my life and enjoying my children and my husband. It's surreal to be sitting in my comfy chair in my air conditioned house, listening to my children scuffle over who gets what color coloring pencil first. My thoughts keep traveling back to Haiti, the experiences I had there, the images I saw, and the relationships that were formed.
I don't have many words for it yet, and am not sure that I will find them. I do know that my life will never be the same. I stepped outside my safe little haven and saw first hand the devastation of these people. So, until, or if, I get around to posting more on Haiti, here are some of the children that captured my heart.
I was extremely lazy with the camera, as it was just another something to have to tote around, so please forgive my iPhone camera pictures.
There are many thoughts and emotions vying for my attention right now, not to mention the business of living my life and enjoying my children and my husband. It's surreal to be sitting in my comfy chair in my air conditioned house, listening to my children scuffle over who gets what color coloring pencil first. My thoughts keep traveling back to Haiti, the experiences I had there, the images I saw, and the relationships that were formed.
I don't have many words for it yet, and am not sure that I will find them. I do know that my life will never be the same. I stepped outside my safe little haven and saw first hand the devastation of these people. So, until, or if, I get around to posting more on Haiti, here are some of the children that captured my heart.
I was extremely lazy with the camera, as it was just another something to have to tote around, so please forgive my iPhone camera pictures.
Friday, June 11, 2010
All You Ever Wanted To Know About Our Curriculum Choices
Part of the draw of homeschooling is the flexibility to punt one idea in favor of another. And oh, we have punted.
In January (February?) we ordered Tapestry of Grace and I did minimal poking around with it because, well, we've been sort of busy. And in my mind, I had several months to get to it.
Folks, as the school year wrapped up, I saw there were needs that needed to be met more than jumping into this, what looks to be, very powerful curriculum.
My Thomas is an August baby, and while he is academically 'ready' for some deeper stuff, he is not mature enough to really sink his little teeth into it just yet. The decision was made to put TOG on hold for a while. Since we more or less school year round, I have no heart-burn over starting the Tapestry after Christmas and just continuing from there.
With that decision made, we opted to concentrate pretty hard on reading, grammar, spelling, phonics, math, and literature. I have a Kindergartner and a 1st Grader this year, but because of they way we have approached things thus far, they more or less are doing the same things, just on different levels in several of the subjects. It's working quite well so far.
So, Math, yes? For Math, we will continue with Saxon, as I really do love it. Thomas and Sarah Grace will both be working from Saxon 1 this year and are very excited to begin. (Right after I return from Haiti!) I just really love how Saxon stair steps while at the same time going back to reiterate previously learned concepts. Thomas 'officially' did Saxon's K last year, and while Sarah Grace wasn't official, she pretty much did everything alongside him, so she is skipping on ahead to do the 1st grade year with Thomas. I like to reiterate things, but not that much!
For reading, we are still working our way through The Ordinary Parent's Guide To Teaching Reading. Both kids are doing really well, though I will admit to taking about a three month break from it and just allowing Thomas to fly solo. He is doing incredibly well, but we are back into Ordinary Parent's to get a better handle on some of those special sounds and rules. Sarah Grace is skipping along just fine and is determined to be reading by herself just as soon as possible.
We are also working through First Language Lessons. Just a few lessons a week, and the kids barely notice that I am slipping it in just after their reading lesson. I am curious to see how that pans out. For now, I think I like it.
To further reinforce their phonics skills, we have opted to work through a few books of Explode The Code. The work is really pretty fun, according to the kids. We are three or four lessons into it, and they are enjoying it. I love how it has a mix of comprehension, writing, and vocabulary building sprinkled about liberally in each phonics unit. We may just work through the books we have, or we may continue on with more of them. It all depends on, well, how things look around Christmas when we will finish up with these.
A Reason For Spelling was the choice we made for Spelling this year. The first section of the book is all phonics, and entirely too easy for him, so we are kind of flying through it quickly. As in doing ten to twelve lessons a week rather than four. He's almost finished, and we will begin the spelling material in another week or so. Thomas has always enjoyed spelling, and I suspect he will excel in this subject.
We are also continuing on with A Reason For Handwriting, supplemented with copy work on various subjects. Thomas has just finished the first book, and I have him on hold for a couple of weeks so that Sarah Grace can finish her first book and they can start the next book together. In the meantime, Thomas is copying scripture and poetry, writing letters to his grandparents, and he even wrote his first book last week! Superior work, of course. ;)
One of our other sources for handwriting is Happy Scribe. They have a pretty good assortment of topics that you can download for $1.50 each. A handful of those have gone a long way.
We are not doing a formal science, but I have a handful of the Christian Liberty Nature Readers. They are comfy and easy reads and we are all enjoying. If a particular animal peaks someone's interest, then we grab a few books from the library and just kind of hang out on that animal for a bit.
We are still enjoying the Five In A Row material, though we only do a book or two a month. The children love using the map and have really had a good time with some of the arts and crafts stuff we have done. It amazes me some of the giblets of information they will spout off at seemingly random times. Perhaps something from the story itself, or an object lesson, or a geography fact. These buffet-type lessons work out really well for a family with lots of little people. I love how all four kids come and pile up on me when we start to read!
We have the Wordly Wise curriculum, though we won't start it until this fall. I have been flipping through and am really looking forward to getting started with it, to see how the kids like it. Vocabulary is a big thing at our house. Learning new and bigger words intrigues all three of the older kids.
Because reading comprehension means peace and sanity to a homeschooling family, I picked up G.U.M. Drops. I love that it is a reproducible book so that I can use it as needed for all of my children. I also love that it is based on classic literature. We have several classics on our reading list for the year, so it will be fun to incorporate these worksheets as we go through the corresponding book, though you needn't read the books in order to utilize the G.U.M. Drops worksheets.
Then there is my little Elizabeth, who just has to have a bit of school work to do, too. I have several A Beka books that she is enjoying working through, as well as a KUMON book or two for her. Enchanted Learning is a really good site for finding things to interest her, too. Pretty much, as long as she gets to sit at the table and have a pencil in her hand, she is content. I wonder how much she takes in of what the other kids are doing...
And that about wraps things up...I think. I keep looking over at the school table and feeling as though I am forgetting something.
And while on the topic of the school table, I love that in our new house, we have a dedicated space for school. Right in the thick of things, but I think I prefer it that way for now.
Your turn! What are y'all doing for school this year??
*Linking up to FiddleDeeDee's Curriculum Round-Up
In January (February?) we ordered Tapestry of Grace and I did minimal poking around with it because, well, we've been sort of busy. And in my mind, I had several months to get to it.
Folks, as the school year wrapped up, I saw there were needs that needed to be met more than jumping into this, what looks to be, very powerful curriculum.
My Thomas is an August baby, and while he is academically 'ready' for some deeper stuff, he is not mature enough to really sink his little teeth into it just yet. The decision was made to put TOG on hold for a while. Since we more or less school year round, I have no heart-burn over starting the Tapestry after Christmas and just continuing from there.
With that decision made, we opted to concentrate pretty hard on reading, grammar, spelling, phonics, math, and literature. I have a Kindergartner and a 1st Grader this year, but because of they way we have approached things thus far, they more or less are doing the same things, just on different levels in several of the subjects. It's working quite well so far.
So, Math, yes? For Math, we will continue with Saxon, as I really do love it. Thomas and Sarah Grace will both be working from Saxon 1 this year and are very excited to begin. (Right after I return from Haiti!) I just really love how Saxon stair steps while at the same time going back to reiterate previously learned concepts. Thomas 'officially' did Saxon's K last year, and while Sarah Grace wasn't official, she pretty much did everything alongside him, so she is skipping on ahead to do the 1st grade year with Thomas. I like to reiterate things, but not that much!
For reading, we are still working our way through The Ordinary Parent's Guide To Teaching Reading. Both kids are doing really well, though I will admit to taking about a three month break from it and just allowing Thomas to fly solo. He is doing incredibly well, but we are back into Ordinary Parent's to get a better handle on some of those special sounds and rules. Sarah Grace is skipping along just fine and is determined to be reading by herself just as soon as possible.
We are also working through First Language Lessons. Just a few lessons a week, and the kids barely notice that I am slipping it in just after their reading lesson. I am curious to see how that pans out. For now, I think I like it.
To further reinforce their phonics skills, we have opted to work through a few books of Explode The Code. The work is really pretty fun, according to the kids. We are three or four lessons into it, and they are enjoying it. I love how it has a mix of comprehension, writing, and vocabulary building sprinkled about liberally in each phonics unit. We may just work through the books we have, or we may continue on with more of them. It all depends on, well, how things look around Christmas when we will finish up with these.
A Reason For Spelling was the choice we made for Spelling this year. The first section of the book is all phonics, and entirely too easy for him, so we are kind of flying through it quickly. As in doing ten to twelve lessons a week rather than four. He's almost finished, and we will begin the spelling material in another week or so. Thomas has always enjoyed spelling, and I suspect he will excel in this subject.
We are also continuing on with A Reason For Handwriting, supplemented with copy work on various subjects. Thomas has just finished the first book, and I have him on hold for a couple of weeks so that Sarah Grace can finish her first book and they can start the next book together. In the meantime, Thomas is copying scripture and poetry, writing letters to his grandparents, and he even wrote his first book last week! Superior work, of course. ;)
One of our other sources for handwriting is Happy Scribe. They have a pretty good assortment of topics that you can download for $1.50 each. A handful of those have gone a long way.
We are not doing a formal science, but I have a handful of the Christian Liberty Nature Readers. They are comfy and easy reads and we are all enjoying. If a particular animal peaks someone's interest, then we grab a few books from the library and just kind of hang out on that animal for a bit.
We are still enjoying the Five In A Row material, though we only do a book or two a month. The children love using the map and have really had a good time with some of the arts and crafts stuff we have done. It amazes me some of the giblets of information they will spout off at seemingly random times. Perhaps something from the story itself, or an object lesson, or a geography fact. These buffet-type lessons work out really well for a family with lots of little people. I love how all four kids come and pile up on me when we start to read!
We have the Wordly Wise curriculum, though we won't start it until this fall. I have been flipping through and am really looking forward to getting started with it, to see how the kids like it. Vocabulary is a big thing at our house. Learning new and bigger words intrigues all three of the older kids.
Because reading comprehension means peace and sanity to a homeschooling family, I picked up G.U.M. Drops. I love that it is a reproducible book so that I can use it as needed for all of my children. I also love that it is based on classic literature. We have several classics on our reading list for the year, so it will be fun to incorporate these worksheets as we go through the corresponding book, though you needn't read the books in order to utilize the G.U.M. Drops worksheets.
Then there is my little Elizabeth, who just has to have a bit of school work to do, too. I have several A Beka books that she is enjoying working through, as well as a KUMON book or two for her. Enchanted Learning is a really good site for finding things to interest her, too. Pretty much, as long as she gets to sit at the table and have a pencil in her hand, she is content. I wonder how much she takes in of what the other kids are doing...
And that about wraps things up...I think. I keep looking over at the school table and feeling as though I am forgetting something.
And while on the topic of the school table, I love that in our new house, we have a dedicated space for school. Right in the thick of things, but I think I prefer it that way for now.
Your turn! What are y'all doing for school this year??
*Linking up to FiddleDeeDee's Curriculum Round-Up
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Smoothie Day
At least once a week, at least, we have smoothies for lunch. The kids love them, and they are soooo easy and quite nutritious. Win-win situation, yes?
With summer in full swing, the kids are requesting them more frequently and, because I am such a loving Mother (certainly it has nothing to do with laziness and how incredibly easy they are to make. No sir-ee), I oblige.
And since we all know what a Sharer I am, I have decided to post the fool-proof Smoothie Recipe for you today. Complete with shiny, happy faces. Sorry, it never occurs to me to take pictures of things I am cooking. But this Lady does!
Freeman Family Favorite Smoothie Recipe
(guaranteed to make your mouth purple!)
One container of fresh strawberries, or a bag of slightly thawed frozen ones
About 3/4 cup of yogurt (plain, vanilla, or berry flavored for extra berry taste)
1 to 1 1/2 cps of milk
1/8-ish cup of Honey
1-2 Bananas
1-ish Cup of Blueberries (fresh or frozen)
Handful of Baby Spinach (because as my wise Sarah Grace likes to tell people, 'You can hide anything in a smoothie!!!')
Toss it all into a blender and spin it up. Serve with cheese or spoons full of peanut butter, and lunch is served. Voila!
We have been known to add pretty much any fruit laying around in the kitchen to this mix. Favorites are kiwi, mango, pineapple, blackberries, raspberries, peaches, or oranges.
I would advise a straw...
So, what are your favorite go to lunches??
With summer in full swing, the kids are requesting them more frequently and, because I am such a loving Mother (certainly it has nothing to do with laziness and how incredibly easy they are to make. No sir-ee), I oblige.
And since we all know what a Sharer I am, I have decided to post the fool-proof Smoothie Recipe for you today. Complete with shiny, happy faces. Sorry, it never occurs to me to take pictures of things I am cooking. But this Lady does!
Freeman Family Favorite Smoothie Recipe
(guaranteed to make your mouth purple!)
One container of fresh strawberries, or a bag of slightly thawed frozen ones
About 3/4 cup of yogurt (plain, vanilla, or berry flavored for extra berry taste)
1 to 1 1/2 cps of milk
1/8-ish cup of Honey
1-2 Bananas
1-ish Cup of Blueberries (fresh or frozen)
Handful of Baby Spinach (because as my wise Sarah Grace likes to tell people, 'You can hide anything in a smoothie!!!')
Toss it all into a blender and spin it up. Serve with cheese or spoons full of peanut butter, and lunch is served. Voila!
We have been known to add pretty much any fruit laying around in the kitchen to this mix. Favorites are kiwi, mango, pineapple, blackberries, raspberries, peaches, or oranges.
I would advise a straw...
So, what are your favorite go to lunches??
Monday, June 07, 2010
The Red Headed Step Child...
...must be exactly what this lil' ol' blog is feeling like these days.
It's just a busy season for us right now, what with the move, the decorating, the start of a new school year (why yes, we did already start, and yet, we will still finish in May with the rest of the world), the mission trip and all that entails, and let's not forget the day to day living and breathing that must be done. The laundry that never ends, the kitchen that creates it's own mess (no confessions as to who does some of the weird stuff I keep finding, like the cereal bowl that was mostly full and in the lower cupboard for ihavenoearthlyideahowlong), and the extra laundry that I am creating all by my lonesome.
I have poison ivy. And not just some small smattering, but full-blown-make-me-miserable-steriod-shot-and-steroid-pack-didn't-put-a-dent-in-it-where-is-my-miracle-cure poison ivy! On my earlobe, too. Like, I-can't-wear-earrings on my earlobe. Pretty hateful, eh?
And I leave for Haiti in four days with this mess. Can we say specific prayer request??
There is a camera somewhere in this house that houses some cutie patootie pictures of my cutie patootie kids. Once I unearth the thing again, I will put you up a post full of silly Munchkin Brigade photos.
Until then, I leave you with this thought that has been spinning through my mind for the past few days.
Someone was chatting with me recently about my children and complimenting their behavior.
'They are such a reflection of their parents,' she stated, beaming at me.
While I was pleased that she thought so highly of my children, my heart skipped a beat or three at her sweet statement. It was one of those moments when my brain was working on an altogether alternate plane, and all I could think was, what am I reflecting? Am I leaving a legacy of love? Is what they are seeing in me pointing them towards Christ? Do my daily actions exemplify the qualities of the Titus 2 woman or the Proverbs 31 woman? Do they know that they are so much more important to me than the stuff that is surrounding me and demanding my attention right now?
If our children are a reflection of us, what do you most want them to see in you?
It's just a busy season for us right now, what with the move, the decorating, the start of a new school year (why yes, we did already start, and yet, we will still finish in May with the rest of the world), the mission trip and all that entails, and let's not forget the day to day living and breathing that must be done. The laundry that never ends, the kitchen that creates it's own mess (no confessions as to who does some of the weird stuff I keep finding, like the cereal bowl that was mostly full and in the lower cupboard for ihavenoearthlyideahowlong), and the extra laundry that I am creating all by my lonesome.
I have poison ivy. And not just some small smattering, but full-blown-make-me-miserable-steriod-shot-and-steroid-pack-didn't-put-a-dent-in-it-where-is-my-miracle-cure poison ivy! On my earlobe, too. Like, I-can't-wear-earrings on my earlobe. Pretty hateful, eh?
And I leave for Haiti in four days with this mess. Can we say specific prayer request??
There is a camera somewhere in this house that houses some cutie patootie pictures of my cutie patootie kids. Once I unearth the thing again, I will put you up a post full of silly Munchkin Brigade photos.
Until then, I leave you with this thought that has been spinning through my mind for the past few days.
Someone was chatting with me recently about my children and complimenting their behavior.
'They are such a reflection of their parents,' she stated, beaming at me.
While I was pleased that she thought so highly of my children, my heart skipped a beat or three at her sweet statement. It was one of those moments when my brain was working on an altogether alternate plane, and all I could think was, what am I reflecting? Am I leaving a legacy of love? Is what they are seeing in me pointing them towards Christ? Do my daily actions exemplify the qualities of the Titus 2 woman or the Proverbs 31 woman? Do they know that they are so much more important to me than the stuff that is surrounding me and demanding my attention right now?
If our children are a reflection of us, what do you most want them to see in you?
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Pray With Us?
The house is totally livable. Martha might faint clean away if she were to walk in, never mind if she found out I have hosted several times, but it's cozy in it's little mismatched way.
I have spent much time painting walls and frames and furniture and perusing magazines and websites looking for ideas to spark my own sense of comfort. I have scoured yard sales and cr@igslist looking for pieces that call out to me. I've been all over north and central Alabama picking up items that were deemed needed.
In and amongst all the busy-ness of making a house a home, I have been preparing for a new kind of adventure in my life. One that requires a passport, a back pack, and a plane ticket. One that I am certainly excited and apprehensive about.
In less than two weeks, I will board a plane with ten other members of my church and head to Haiti for a week. My luggage pretty much all has to fit into a back pack that I will be expected to keep up with at all times, and I have only vague ideas of what will be filing my time once we set foot on solid ground.
I am not a traveling kind of person and I have never been drawn to step into the mission field before. I am leaving my family behind and I can't say how much time I spend wondering if this is really the right decision. But then I think of how heavily God has weighed this particular need on my heart, and I know I go with His blessing.
I am asking for your prayers now, friends. Your prayers for my family and your prayers for my team. My imagination is so limited right now that I very literally cannot see beyond what tomorrow might bring, never mind what this experience will be like for me, for my children, or for my husband.
Will you join my prayer support team? I can't even tell you how much it would mean to me!
I have spent much time painting walls and frames and furniture and perusing magazines and websites looking for ideas to spark my own sense of comfort. I have scoured yard sales and cr@igslist looking for pieces that call out to me. I've been all over north and central Alabama picking up items that were deemed needed.
In and amongst all the busy-ness of making a house a home, I have been preparing for a new kind of adventure in my life. One that requires a passport, a back pack, and a plane ticket. One that I am certainly excited and apprehensive about.
In less than two weeks, I will board a plane with ten other members of my church and head to Haiti for a week. My luggage pretty much all has to fit into a back pack that I will be expected to keep up with at all times, and I have only vague ideas of what will be filing my time once we set foot on solid ground.
I am not a traveling kind of person and I have never been drawn to step into the mission field before. I am leaving my family behind and I can't say how much time I spend wondering if this is really the right decision. But then I think of how heavily God has weighed this particular need on my heart, and I know I go with His blessing.
I am asking for your prayers now, friends. Your prayers for my family and your prayers for my team. My imagination is so limited right now that I very literally cannot see beyond what tomorrow might bring, never mind what this experience will be like for me, for my children, or for my husband.
Will you join my prayer support team? I can't even tell you how much it would mean to me!
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