As was pointed out ... I've been absent from the blogger lately. I just haven't been as struck with things to comment on. Not that the kids haven't been cute. :) I do just want to record how blessed we've been feeling lately.

This whole year has been such an amazing lesson in so many ways. And we're still learning. It's been another tight year financially for us. Oh how I long for the days when we don't worry about money they way we do now. I know there are always money issues and I know that we could be worse off, we have a wonderful house, Lily goes to a great preschool and so we sacrifice. We've never missed a meal. God has protected us from sickness over and over again.

Lily and Beau have been healthy practically their whole lives, we have only gone to the doctor, illness related one time for each of them! And even illnesses that wouldn't have required the doc. have been few and far between. Now trust me, I'm not bragging, (if you've ever seen me pick up my kids food off the floor and offer it back to them, you'll know :) I give God all the credit for this. Praise Him for keeping us healthy!

We have been gifted with food and money always at the time's we've needed it most. Our families have been wonderful, I hope that'll we'll always be able to be in Lily and Beau's lives the way, our parents have been in ours. I hope that God allows them to feel like the blessed givers that they are.

And then there's the issue of transportation. We have had many people offer us rides on hard days and for different amounts of time. Kyle has given of his time for the kids and I. Lily's teachers have gone above and beyond giving her rides home from school. I just could never have imagined people being so generous to us. And now we have a neighbor who is at home most mornings, who has been letting us borrow her car EVERYDAY! She's actually rearranged her schedule so that we could use her car! And this coming at a time where I really didn't think I could go on with our bus routine, God steps in again and provides. I just am shocked and amazed and grateful. It is just wonderful to be the recipient of people who take care of their community. May that lesson never leave our hearts!!

So I don't know where I'm going with this, but just to say, God is working on my cold, dark heart and is proving His love to me. It took a little waking up on my part, but He's getting through to me. Thank you!