backwards

I thought it would be easier to share everything that has gone on - backwards - from where we are today and then fill in all the crazy details:):)

Today my hubby is gonna get up at 6am -- crazy since he has awakened at 345 am for the past 14 years. He gets to be here as the kids get ready for school and then he has the privilege of driving them to school before he heads to work. He is now the director of creative arts and community for the Elkhart campus of Granger Community Church. Most days he gets to pick them up at school and bring them home. He has already created an awesome experience for them by storytelling on every trip. It is one long story that he keeps adding to - they beg him to continue when they get home but he saves it for the ride:)

Today my kids are gonna get up at 615 and have breakfast and devotions with me then they are gonna hit the road at 7am to drive to school and arrive about 735 am. They are new students at Horizon Elementary School in the PHM district. It is 12 minutes from Don's work:) Today they will be reminded that school is to learn new things - not to do things you already know how. They will have the opportunity to be challenged and pushed to a level they still are not sure they are capable of - they will be told by teachers and us, as parents, that they are smart! They will need to work hard to activate the intellectual potential God has gifted them with for His purpose.

Do they get all this - do they like it or think it is fun - not yet! However God has guided us in this decision and we trust that he will give us what is necessary to assist them with this transition.

really??

Did I really take all of 2010 off from blogging? I think about it all the time and just never do it. I am a little afraid I wont be able to put words to all that is going through my head.

So lets just say over the next few weeks I will try to get through some of the stuff that has been percolating in my head as well as in my family. So many changes have taken place in the past 3 - 6 months, mostly choices we have made but all requiring us to lean into God a little harder to know what direction to go. We have realized lately that people don't always get it when you obey God and make a choice they dont understand.

I am looking forward to reviewing some of the books I have read, sharing some of the major decisions we have made, and where we are right now in the middle of it all!!