We are gearing up for school but it is not quite here. Looking forward to it but enjoying the last days of summer. The lake swimming is over, it closed last week. We were there alot and Pati can dog paddle and jump off diving boards now and I almost don't worry about her.
David has been working more than even he is used to. I have begun to count down the months...no more July's in residency. We are almost to the end of the last August in residency. We all feel really proud of him and are looking forward to the possibility sometime next spring/summer of getting to see him more than an hour or two a week.
Alec turned 7 in July and Anne turned 5 in August.
Pati is already deciding what she wants for breakfast on her birthday:
"When IS my birthday Mom?"
Everyday there are things to learn and to work on. Some everyday lessons for the kids and I are summed up:
"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and truth."
"Be ye kind one to another, tenderearted, forgiving each other."
"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."
Every day I am humbled by the fact that I am right there with them, dealing with daily frustrations and irritating people and situations and disappointing circumstances and my natural responses are BAD! So we are working on acting like we follow Jesus and asking forgiveness and having to forgive and treating other people like they are more important than we are. And we aren't very good at it.
The last few weeks in church we have been hearing preaching from Romans 8. We like it that "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus!" That good news is almost too good to be true.
