No fair!

                            

      

So, some friends of ours came over to celebrate the new year! It's hard to get four couples together with activities and school and work. It snowed on Saturday and the temperature has been hovering in the teens since then. It's cold, and frozen, actually, like literally, and now the news is grim...

Out of four couples and nine kids, plus a designated driver, eight of us are now sick, and one kid had to get stitches (not because of being with us,though. A shower door unfortunately shattered on his wrist) over the weekend...

Between updates on messenger and texts going back and forth between four families, I feel like the apocalypse is coming. For me, especially. I'm waiting to see who falls ill, next, and wondering what symptoms are coming for us! We are experiencing an epidemic. The media is reporting widespread flu and a nasty stomach bug afflicting the good citizens of Virginia.

I'm, like, "Save yourselves!!!" 

My house smells like a Lysol bomb has been detonated, and like we have an indoor pool. I'm a bit OCD when comes to stomach/flu symptoms.

Hopefully I've contained the worse of it. Tommy, Katie, and I are down for the count, Mark is at work, and Danielle has quarantined herself to her room. She ordered Dominos for dinner, not wanting to eat anything in the house, for fear of contamination. I can't blame her.

Pray for us, friends❤️

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

It's that in between week, where we are mostly just staying in pajamas and hanging out watching movies and playing on the wii... Which, somehow, is better than the computer. I successfully made bean and ham soup from leftover ham, and I'm as shocked as anybody that it actually turned out great! 

And, of course, we've all caught the dreaded winter cold. So, I don't feel so bad about staying in and vegging out😊🎄🎮

Peace to you all!

It's Officially the Holiday Season!!

Just a catch up post from my regular FredParent blog--- in case you missed it:):)

http://bit.ly/2fuOddD

Happy Holidays, and remember to breathe and love one another!

Blessings:)

                         

    

Sometimes, it is just SO obvious that God is in every. tiny. detail. It's like, wonderful and gives me chills all at the same time when I recognize it! Because, of course, I know He is bigger than anything, and, I now the details are where He works, but when I get the privilege of seeing it... of recognizing... Just, wow.

The verse we are praying over Danielle this week showed up in a completely different prayer circle. The challenge of once again changing some diet habits is on my mind, and within 24 hours, the message that God has it, He helps me, He, indeed, fights my battles, has been shown to me multiple times. A verse, a parable, a nurse practitioner, and a book have all delivered to me the same message:

"Child... Why do you try to do this without Me? Invite Me to help. I will carry you..."

                                                   

       

Just, Praise. God is so good. And He is so in the details, in the waiting, in the challenge.

Pray

                     

    

Pray before you vote today. Beg the Holy Spirit to guide you. Be obedient to His urging and utterances. Pray after you vote. And have Peace. God is in control. He is already there. 

November:):)

It is a mild one this year, they say. "They" being the professional weather people, and "it"being November in Virginia. I, having lived here now more than half my life, disagree. I've got to just say it is the bipolar time of year. After all, we're only three days in:)

I'm loving the Un-news these days. With all of the negative rhetoric on the news, I'm happy to look on the positive side of things. The sun is shining, the colors are beautiful. People, contrary to popular belief, are doing good things. 

Danielle is a published writer!! She wrote for Fredericksburg Parent, and here is her post:  

http://www.fredericksburgparent.net/blogs/fresh-voices/3941-special-needs-siblings-a-kind-of-our-own

Here is my post from this week:

http://www.fredericksburgparent.net/blogs/we-re-all-a-little-mad-here/3923-five-ways-to-make-fall-fabulous

Who doesn't like Virginia in the Fall? Plus, election season ends in just a few more days, so there. That is all I've got to say about that.

Join me in continuing to pray for our country, integrity, people, compassion. Jesus really does make it better to bear. Live and love well. You'll be better for it❤️🙏🏻

It's almost over😅

Another week gone:) 

Another week closer to the end of this election season. I can't even. Seriously. I can offer a little wisdom, though, and it is this:  stop scaring the children. 

Also... It is not about who gets elected... Fix your eyes on things above, specifically, on God. He raises up rulers, and He takes them down. When you start feeling despair, just look UP. And pray- because we should all be doing a little more of that:)

http://www.fredericksburgparent.net/blogs/we-re-all-a-little-mad-here/3914-what-to-do