Welcome to my month-to-month submit the place I share a peek into the final month at our home! Right here’s slightly peek into February…
I flew to Kansas close to the start of February to assist my dad and mom with the Valentine’s Banquet they assist host for his or her church and neighborhood yearly. It was such a big day of preparations after which such a enjoyable and memorable night serving to with the banquet!
To learn all in regards to the banquet and all the main points, take a look at this in-depth submit I did on it.
An attractive Kansas sundown!
I bought actually sick in the midst of the evening the day I used to be speculated to fly dwelling. We have been in a position to get my flight modified to an earlier flight and I took additional power Tylenol and wore a masks and tried to avoid folks on the flights dwelling. It was so good to make it dwelling — and positive sufficient, I examined optimistic for Flu A.
I ended up being in mattress sick for many of the remainder of the week. Gratefully, it was per week the place I might cancel all the pieces and simply relaxation!
Jesse and I recorded a podcast about my journey and illness and his journey with Silas to a CrossFit coaching camp + particulars on habits which have made such a distinction in our dwelling. Hearken to it right here.
I did a variety of cooking and baking in February — together with making these Straightforward Protein Breakfast Muffins!
It snowed once more and the children bought two snow days!! (Sure, please chuckle should you dwell up north that that is the quantity of snow that cancels college in our space!)
I shared a narrative on Instagram about why I don’t have a nicer marriage ceremony ring and the way a lot I like my easy ring. Learn the main points behind my marriage ceremony ring right here.
I wrote this on Instagram in February:
The previous few days, two of our youthful children have struggled with attitudes. They’ve appeared unsettled and off. There was much more crying and arguing than standard.
I had them go to mattress actually early final evening as a result of I assumed possibly they have been simply drained. However they bought an excellent evening’s sleep and nonetheless awakened seeming pissed off and irritable.
Truthfully, I used to be feeling weary and bored with the dangerous attitudes and all the additional correction and time it has been requiring. (I do know this can be a enormous a part of mothering however simply conserving it actual that generally the discipling again and again can really feel exhausting!)
As I used to be washing my face this morning and on the brink of begin the day, Kierstyn got here and requested if she might repair my hair. Reality be advised, I needed to make up a lame excuse as to why I didn’t have a couple of minutes to cease and sit down and let her put bows in my hair, however then it hit me:
I used to be sick all final week after which this week I had a variety of additional work and time-sensitive initiatives to atone for. In consequence, the little children haven’t gotten as a lot one-on-one time and a focus from me. And I wager that a lot of their conduct has truly been a cry for consideration.
Proper then, I ended what I used to be doing, sat down and bought all excited together with her about her fixing my hair. After which she requested if I might put bows in her hair and her jewellery on. After which Kierstyn, Micah, and I had a dance occasion.
You guys! It was loopy how simply stopping and entering into their world appeared to fully calm their hearts and switch round their attitudes.
I preach the significance of entering into our youngsters’ world and caring about what they care about, however I had forgotten my very own recommendation within the midst of a extremely full week.
And the little children have been simply crying out for time with me in the best way they knew how.
It jogs my memory of the quote: “You don’t yell at a flower that’s wilting, you water it.”
Who wants slightly additional consideration and kindness and “watering” from you in the present day?
This image proper right here represents so many, many prayers answered.
You see, virtually day-after-day since our oldest, Kathrynne, was a child, we’ve prayed for her to know and love Jesus with all her coronary heart. We’ve prayed for her to dwell a life that glorifies the Lord. And we’ve prayed for her to have pals who love Jesus and level her to the Lord.
When she was trying into attainable schools two years in the past, we prayed for clear path and for her to discover a neighborhood of believers to be invested in wherever she went to highschool.
When she selected MTSU, she didn’t know a single freshman woman going there and solely barely knew a number of others who went there. She and I went to orientation earlier than college began and we regarded for any campus ministry that she would possibly be capable of get plugged into. There was a desk for Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM) they usually warmly welcomed us and we ended up speaking with them for nearly 30 minutes!
They invited her to their welcome week occasions and she or he bravely confirmed up the primary evening realizing nobody. She got here dwelling from the occasion so excited in regards to the folks she met… and she or he saved going again!
BCM has grow to be such an enormous a part of her school expertise and in February we bought to attend a banquet placed on by the BCM college students.
Y’all… it was probably the most lovely factor!
To observe school college students discuss their ardour for the Gospel and seeing their secular campus as their mission area, to see them enthusiastically main worship and singing collectively about God’s goodness, to witness them serving voluntarily with such pleasure, to get to see Kathrynne on stage emceeing the occasion (that’s her within the cream pants and sweater), and to fulfill the ladies who’ve poured a lot into her and mentored her the previous many months…
I got here away from the occasion so deeply grateful for the numerous, many answered prayers for her and in addition so fired up about this subsequent technology of younger folks and their coronary heart for the Lord!
Mamas, hold praying on your children. Maintain entrusting them to the Lord. Maintain pointing them to Jesus and inspiring them to not settle. God’s solutions would possibly look very totally different on your baby than they’ve for mine, however He can be devoted to reply!
An enormous spotlight of February was attending to go on a consumer getaway with my enterprise coach, Alli Worthington, and a few of her shoppers. Alli has been so instrumental in my life and in our enterprise since I began teaching together with her and I used to be so excited to see what God had for me on this getaway.
Let’s simply say, I used to be not one bit dissatisfied! Not solely did we chuckle so exhausting and have a lot enjoyable (which was so good for my soul!), however I additionally bought to study a lot from different sensible girls.
Alli constructions the occasion so that there’s a lot of enjoyable but in addition a variety of time for teaching and mentoring. I got here dwelling so refreshed and in addition fired up with a lot inspiration for tactics to guide my firm higher.
I’m so grateful for the reply to prayer that Alli has been in my life! And for her persistence in encouraging me to come back to the consumer getaway. I share extra on this podcast in regards to the stunning classes I discovered in Disney (who knew a visit to Disney can be such a deeply shifting expertise??)
These two are about the very same dimension proper now and they’re turning into quick pals. Micah is such a protector of David and David is continually watching and studying from Micah.
Should you didn’t see it, make sure you read my story a couple of actually cool factor that occurred on the park in February with David and one other little boy who has Down syndrome.
And should you want a smile in the present day, make sure you watch this quick video of what David did when Jesse got here dwelling after being gone a number of days in February.
Additionally, make sure you take heed to this episode I recorded with Trillia Newbell on Celebrating Black Historical past All Yr Lengthy.
Additionally, to beat back illness, we began taking these elderberry gummies in February (they’re on sale for simply $12.96 shipped per bottle!. I’m happy to report that we’ve got managed to go a number of weeks with out one single particular person being sick. I really feel like possibly I shouldn’t say that out loud, however with a big household who is continually on the go, that’s an enormous deal!
