Life changes all the time and God in his Divine wisdom allows joy and sorrow to walk side by side all the time. He is so gracious to us and never leaves us alone. And this week our family had to allow God's divine truth to comfort us as we received very sad news. (that
is all I will say right now...)We started the week with school and leaf raking fun a
nd a destruction project... then something happened... COUGH! COUGH! Everything started slowing down... AAAAAAAA CHOO! Little curls stopped bouncing around the house...COUGH! Little voices started.... AAAA CHOO! saying "Maaa
aaaammaaaa, HOLD ME. Then things started HEATING UP... to 103.2... COUGH! COUGH! Sleep stopped around our house...SNIFF! SNI
FF! (at least at night!)Athan and Holland both got sick... as I write this I have a little heater in my lap resting on my shoulder.
Thursday a front end loader pulled into our drive way and the fun began. Jeff Jones, one of our dear friends
came by and tore down our shed! Then my cell phone rang... my sweet Emily was on the other end... She and her husband Jody will leave on Wednesday to go and pick up their little girl Ella from Korea... it is amazing how much I love this sweet little girl already! And what a beautiful picture of God's love for us as His adopted children!We had Thanksgiving with the Jancarts! What a wonderful time and the food... OH MY!! It was nice to see Mike's mom again.
Friday, met me with a counseling session... We are always in need of God's wisdom and as always God faithfully brought us to His word for truth... then on saturday my counselee called and reported about the wonders God had done in just 24 hours! He is so wonderful. He had drawn this precious heart to him and the precious heart was ready to receive His wisdom... and as I hope we all know... His truth changed lives!!
Ryan made yummy BBQ on Saturday... our hope was too have Tina, Ed, Abbie and Nate over for lunch... instead we offered a BBQ drive thru! (we love to share, but not feve
rs and sneezes!) It was really good BBQ... I wanted to eat some for breakfast this morning!!
Saturday night Ryan stayed at home with Athan while I took Caedmon and Holland to New London Steakhouse in Evington to celebrate Aunt Berni's birthday! We had a very nice time... her college friends came and we all enjoyed a wonderful meal! Good times and GREAT laughs...
Saturday/Sunday night was just a little scary... Athan woke up with a very high fever... we gave her medicine and put her in the tub... AGAIN!! Then she got her wish... to sleep in mommie and daddie's bed... just about every night she puts in the request to sleep with us... so last night her wish came true... only daddie slept on the sofa. Mommie didn't sleep... my hand stayed on her forehead and
my alarm went off every 30 minutes to check her temperature... FINALLY around 5:30 
her fever broke... and I was able to go back to sleep. She is much better today.Now Holland is feeling the effects of sharing! Those big blue eyes have a glaze over them :(
In the week to come
Athan will hopefully have surgery and then the McGann's will arrive to lead our Fall Retreat!Well, the disinfection process has started... AAAA CHOO's, COUGH! COUGH's! BEWARE, I am coming after you!!
