It's All A Matter Of Perspective

This morning has already been so much fun! Here are the boys at the breakfast table having some laughs together.

I gave Joshua some paper and a pen so that he could do school too! He's really smart! :)

Here's the young scholar writing his "paper" in his highchair.

The Lord spoke to me this morning and told me that my focus could be on the fact that I still have a nasty cold, the baby's kept me up at night a lot lately because he has a cold too, the sink is full of dirty dishes, the laundry still isn't fisnished, I miss my husband, etc, and so on......... OR I could focus on the fact that there are four beautiful children in my home this morning and their laughter fills the house, I watched Bailey Jo take Joshua out to feed the deer, Joshua was so silly in the highchair that I laughed til I cried, I prayed with all of them for a friend to be healed, my husband called and said he loves all of us, we found out we have a new baby boy cousin coming in July, etc... so on............. So it's really all about perspective today. The Lord has richly blessed me, and that's how I'm choosing to see things. Hope you feel the same way.

So, I know that I haven't blogged in forever (guilt, guilt,guilt) and it's not that I don't want to. To be honest I do not know how people with 8 or more children do all the beautiful REGULAR blogging that they do... but I know they do because I love to read them. I just can't seem to get it all done sometimes. Ugh. Well, I would love to spend hours here on the computer and tell you all the things that have gone on in the last several months... and believe me, there's a bunch. But, obviously I can't. Here's just a few of the major events: A good friend went to be with Jesus after her fight with cancer, a grandmother joined her in Heaven with almost 99 years on this earth, Taylor made 2nd team All State in football, my baby brother got married, Joshua turned 1, Taylor got his driver's license (yikes!) and tons of other stuff.

Birthday Boy!

Well, I can't believe a whole year has gone by, but Joshua turned one on January 4th this year! :)

Here's he and Aunt Allison hamming it up! She is pregnant with Joshua's new baby cousin! Hurray!!!!!!!!!!

Both of the grandmothers at Joshua's party... How blessed are we that we have the treasure of these two beautiful godly women in our lives?

The day after Joshua's party, my precious friend Caroline and her husband Jon visited us from New Zealand. What a treat to get to have them in our home. Can you tell that Joshua doesn't like the flash?