Sierra is welcoming fall by waving our fall flag before Peter hung it up.
9.22.2010
9.19.2010
new idea.... Fit K9
I have a new business idea- dog walker. I drive the kids to school every morning. It takes 30 minutes, so instead of coming back home, I exercise up there and do some work at a coffee shop. Then I pick up the kids and head home.
Each morning when I walk I pass hundreds of dogs... fat, hyper, need a walk kind of dogs. I thought, "I should be a dog walker." I'm already walking and a little extra Christmas money would be fun to earn. The schedule is right because I can do it while the kids are at school M, W, and F.
So I did some research and found there are no other dog walkers in the city. I called the city got the thumbs up to start the business, I just need a permit after I get a few clients.
I thought and prayed about it and decided to do it. As most of you know I am not a huge dog lover, but I think I like dogs well enough to walk them and return them home to their owners and then return thankfully to my dogless home! :)
It's not really that I don't like dogs, I just don't need anything else to care for currently. I already clean up enough poo, pee and bodily fluids from the children. Owning a dog is just not a passion I currently have. :) Walking someone elses dog is not a passion either, but I really like being outside and like the protection that a dog offers while on a walk as well. :) So there you go, a company is born! LOL!
I would like to find 3 clients by the end of October (that would pay the kids tuition), and find a total of 10 clients.
Yesterday night I bought some business cards, a car side advertisement magnet and my "company" T- shirt. It cost a grand total of 6.74! (I love vistaprint.com!)
Tomorrow I will try to launch FitK9 by passing out flyers in two neighborhoods. Pray that I find some clients? Thanks.
9.18.2010
Princess and Knight room continued...
Princess Sierra's chamber...
Knight Weston's Lair...
Kissing Sleeping Beauty!
He LOVES it!
So does she...
Fun times! Peter is so artistic and he made the "cornet" to hold Sierra's canopy bed with a shelf and ply board. He designed it and really did a great job!
This room makeover is nearly done. We'll add pictures and I have to sew the gray curtains for the window. Maybe a trip to Medieval Times is in order! :)
Espresso... yum
We found a treasure while we were walking yesterday. A nearly new espresso machine at a garage sale for $5!
It makes great foam (name that movie)~ Peter likes cinnamon on his- no thank you! Cocoa for me please! ;)
Groggy morning faces enjoying their special drinks! :)
It makes great foam (name that movie)~ Peter likes cinnamon on his- no thank you! Cocoa for me please! ;)
Groggy morning faces enjoying their special drinks! :)
9.17.2010
Black Widow Hunting
Peter and Weston love black widow hunting. Weston waited all day to hunt with daddy! He came running up to us after dark dressed in black, new batteries in his flashlight, and ready to hunt.
They found 9 and killed them. :)
9.15.2010
Thoughts
I'm studying Revelations at a Bible study. We are studying Beth Moore Here and Now.
Something that struck me this week from the study:
In chapter one Christ goes through the churches and tell them what they do that pleases Him and what they do that displeases Him.
To Ephesus He tells them he is proud of them because they have persevered and worked hard. But is disappointed in them because they have lost their first love- Himself, Jesus.
Beth pointed out that Jesus will tell us exactly what we need to change in the form of distinct conviction from the Spirit. It will be specific!
In contrast, the enemy will just give you the thought that you are not good enough, that you are scum, that you are a lowly slimebag that should just stay where you are and wallow. This land of blahs is not conviction from the Lord.
I'm letting go of the lie that God really doesn't like me because I am a loser or scum or lazy. God isn't just loving, He is love. WOW. God hates my sin, but He loves me. He loves the whole world. Imagine that grace! It made my day!
Something that struck me this week from the study:
In chapter one Christ goes through the churches and tell them what they do that pleases Him and what they do that displeases Him.
To Ephesus He tells them he is proud of them because they have persevered and worked hard. But is disappointed in them because they have lost their first love- Himself, Jesus.
Beth pointed out that Jesus will tell us exactly what we need to change in the form of distinct conviction from the Spirit. It will be specific!
In contrast, the enemy will just give you the thought that you are not good enough, that you are scum, that you are a lowly slimebag that should just stay where you are and wallow. This land of blahs is not conviction from the Lord.
I'm letting go of the lie that God really doesn't like me because I am a loser or scum or lazy. God isn't just loving, He is love. WOW. God hates my sin, but He loves me. He loves the whole world. Imagine that grace! It made my day!
9.14.2010
Wardrobe Dilemma
Most of you already know this but it is so cool that I wanted to write about it so that I could remember.
I have been struggling to assemble a wardrobe here in the USA. I only brought a few things from Mongolia. So I was shopping at the Salvation Army and another customer came up to me and asked me my size. I felt a little strange, but I told her. She said, "I brought a whole truckload of clothes to donate here today and they don't have enough staff to accept them. Do you want them?"
I said yes and went outside. I got the kids in their seats and then she backed up her truck to my minivan. We FILLED my van to the brim with about 20 black garbage bags of clothing. This was a strange, wonderful, mildly humbling way to get a wardrobe.
I was feeling a little funny and like a begger. Then I thought, "No this is from the Lord." And just to assure me- God sent me a little message: The women said, "Do you play darts?" She held up an electronic dart board. That is when I almost started crying. It was the exact same one that Weston had put on his Christmas list.
God is good. I am thankful.
I have been struggling to assemble a wardrobe here in the USA. I only brought a few things from Mongolia. So I was shopping at the Salvation Army and another customer came up to me and asked me my size. I felt a little strange, but I told her. She said, "I brought a whole truckload of clothes to donate here today and they don't have enough staff to accept them. Do you want them?"
I said yes and went outside. I got the kids in their seats and then she backed up her truck to my minivan. We FILLED my van to the brim with about 20 black garbage bags of clothing. This was a strange, wonderful, mildly humbling way to get a wardrobe.
I was feeling a little funny and like a begger. Then I thought, "No this is from the Lord." And just to assure me- God sent me a little message: The women said, "Do you play darts?" She held up an electronic dart board. That is when I almost started crying. It was the exact same one that Weston had put on his Christmas list.
God is good. I am thankful.
9.08.2010
kids room continued...
This is Weston's castle bed. It will go on the wall behind the bed. Peter drew it and cut it out of a piece of plywood. Last night they painted it. Sierra was COVERED with paint!
Their room has turned into a giant art project- so fun~
9.06.2010
Calling?! ??
I have some random thoughts about the concept of a call.
Missionaries use that word, but I think everyone has a calling to one thing or another: you were created for good works that God planned for you before the beginning of time. An example of this is our kids' teachers- both having taught school for several decades. Sure, sometimes they may not have wanted to do that, but it was in them to do it, and they were faithful to keep doing it.
I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that we were called to go to Mongolia. I know that we were supposed to give it all away, say tearful, heart wrenching goodbyes and hop on a plane with our baby and go. I know it from the depths of my soul.
I know that God wanted the people of Sukhbaatar to hear about Jesus' saving grace and His death and resurrection that saves all people from the world of sin and themselves. Even if we played support roles in that initially, God wanted us there. That is all there is to it. God didn't need us to go to Mongolia, He could have made the rocks cry out in perfect Mongolian the message of grace and love.
The reason why I feel that I must shout it from the rooftops is because we are here now. After five short years obviously He has brought us home for now. Several conversations that I have had people make reference to the fact, that obviously we were mistaken and that we were not called to go because if we were, we wouldn't be here now. And now in my blog world I must tell you, my friends, that that is just untrue and wrong.
Just because things are difficult doesn't mean that God is not in it. I am venting a bit of pent up emotion- it is just untrue that if there is trouble or heartache that God isn't in it.
Look at Noah, Moses, and Jesus himself. Jesus' cry to the Lord when He knows he is going to die a horrible death, "if it is possible to take this cup from me," is such a comfort. He knew discomfort was coming. He was human, He didn't want to die. Even Jesus in such a time asked to not have to die. "but your will be done." He was willing to be lead and obey even in death.
All this to say is that I know that God has us on a road, I don't know where it is leading but He has us moving through, as aliens and strangers on this earth. I hope and pray we are obedient to follow when it is clear God wants us to go.
Missionaries use that word, but I think everyone has a calling to one thing or another: you were created for good works that God planned for you before the beginning of time. An example of this is our kids' teachers- both having taught school for several decades. Sure, sometimes they may not have wanted to do that, but it was in them to do it, and they were faithful to keep doing it.
I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that we were called to go to Mongolia. I know that we were supposed to give it all away, say tearful, heart wrenching goodbyes and hop on a plane with our baby and go. I know it from the depths of my soul.
I know that God wanted the people of Sukhbaatar to hear about Jesus' saving grace and His death and resurrection that saves all people from the world of sin and themselves. Even if we played support roles in that initially, God wanted us there. That is all there is to it. God didn't need us to go to Mongolia, He could have made the rocks cry out in perfect Mongolian the message of grace and love.
The reason why I feel that I must shout it from the rooftops is because we are here now. After five short years obviously He has brought us home for now. Several conversations that I have had people make reference to the fact, that obviously we were mistaken and that we were not called to go because if we were, we wouldn't be here now. And now in my blog world I must tell you, my friends, that that is just untrue and wrong.
Just because things are difficult doesn't mean that God is not in it. I am venting a bit of pent up emotion- it is just untrue that if there is trouble or heartache that God isn't in it.
Look at Noah, Moses, and Jesus himself. Jesus' cry to the Lord when He knows he is going to die a horrible death, "if it is possible to take this cup from me," is such a comfort. He knew discomfort was coming. He was human, He didn't want to die. Even Jesus in such a time asked to not have to die. "but your will be done." He was willing to be lead and obey even in death.
All this to say is that I know that God has us on a road, I don't know where it is leading but He has us moving through, as aliens and strangers on this earth. I hope and pray we are obedient to follow when it is clear God wants us to go.
9.01.2010
first days and week of school
The kids are doing great. I actually cried last night at Back to School night. Peter leaned over and said, "This is so weird, we're parents on back to school night!" We listened to the myriad of funraisers and guidelines. Then we went to the presentations in the classrooms. Weston's teacher has taught K at this school for 30 years and Sierra's teacher has taught three year olds for 25 years... what a calling. They are both passionate teachers! Both of them talked of their love for the Lord and prayed for the children to be developed into the people God wants them to become. We are blessed.
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