Tomorrow

April 8th will finally be here in just a few short hours. In less than 24 hours, my friend Tina, her husband, Gino, and their children, Corbin and Caroline, will be in town from Utah! YAY! Kate and Corbin are 8 weeks apart. They played together a lot before Tina uprooted to St. George. Caroline and Cali are about 3 months apart. They barely got to know each other before they left. Hopefully, they will play well together tomorrow!
I am happy they are coming here, but I sure would like another vacation to St. George! It is BEAUTIFUL there!

And for those of you who have prayed for my prayer requests a week or so ago:
Alice had her surgery and it went well. We are now praying for complete remission!
Stellan is on a teeter totter and can still use your prayers.

How will I find time to finish studying when my girls need my attention?

After MDO today, I REALLY needed to get some studying done. I put some blankets down on the ground, took some play dishes outside, carried my reading material outside, and studied. Kate did a great job digging for worms. Cali did a great job making me coffee (pretend coffee. . . I don’t really drink coffee, and if I did I would not let my two year old make it). I did a great job studying with just me and the girls. Then, I was able to study for a little while longer before the girls needed to come in for a snack because my mother-in-law came for an afternoon visit. Here are some pictures from our outside adventure. Yes, I did have to pause from my studies to take pictures of my sweet girls.

Colossians 3:12

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

Compassion is when my whole body aches for a baby suffering and struggling just to stay alive on a breathing machine. Compassion is when my head aches from fighting back the tears as a mom holds her baby for the first AND last time.

Kindness is when Kate shares her last M & M with Cali even though they each had the same amount to begin with. Kindness is when my friend comes to my house and does my laundry when I am so busy with school work, NOT when I leave a kitchen sink full of dishes just so I can complain about it later.

Humility is when Will does not boast on himself for his artwork, but only God. Humility is when I know who my maker is and I acknowledge it. Humility is when I give credit where credit is due—to God, NOT when I brag on my accomplishments.

Gentleness is when I explain to the girls why they are in trouble and what they did wrong, NOT
yelling at them.

Patience is when I pray and ask for God’s guidance in my future and wait and wait and wait for a response. Patience is NOT when I am driving to work in traffic. Patience is NOT when I am waiting on the girls to do something that I have asked them to do.

How can I be more compassionate, more kind, more humble, more gentle, and more patient?

Prayer

There are many people in need of my prayers right now. I hope I have prayed for them all. If you come to my blog, please remember two special prayer requests today.

1. Alice Mitchell is having her robotic Da vinci thymectomy today (This will mean COMPLETE remission, Lord willing).
2. Stellan

Thanks!
Brandy

About the Ten Commandments...

Lord, help me to do this.

7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. ~Deuteronomy 6:7-9

No, we don't get to do this often, but here we are. . . caught on camera

Yes, it DID snow last week... and today it is 75 degrees

Everyone was posting about snow last week. I was busy catching up on studying. It sure was nice to have that "extra" day last week. So here I am a day (or week) late and a dollar (or lots of dollars) short. . .

BUT for those of us who didn't have bread or milk or any good groceries in the house--- Do not fear, Alabama is pretty consistent in how fast snow melts. Just hours after the beautiful snow....