What's next??

What's next? Now what happens? Then what?

All common phrases in a normal, ordinary person's life :) Ordinary? Common? Normal? Ok, so maybe that's pushing it just a tad when our family is being talked about but hey, for us...we're normal! lol!!

But those are questions that we are asking and seeking God's face about. After months of seeking God's face and trying to figure out His will for our lives, due to circumstances beyond our control, we felt very clear in not allowing our names up for revote at the church we currently are pastoral family of. April 10th Troll told the congregation of this decision and even though this has been a very difficult time in our lives and we do not understand...we knew this is what the outcome was to be.

So now what? Lol!! We don't know. :) Would make things allot easier if we did know but as we all know....easy is not the route thats normally given. So we've been packing here and there what we can for the past few months, going thru clothes to put in totes for the next sizes of different kids, giving things to Goodwill, etc. I love to purge things and Troll despises moving and all that is involved with moving so I've been purging allot while everyone is at school! :) Saves the whole, "but I wanted to keep that" thing. Its kinda nerve wracking when you don't know what the next step is, what the next "job" is going to be or where the next place you can call home is located. But one thing we are absolutely positive of is that God has never, ever let us down and I'm not expecting Him to do so now. We've been stretched beyond what we felt was possible and survived (of course with God's help) numerous times and this time is no different.

We do covet your prayers (those of you that actually read this poor blog) that we will make the right decisions for our family. God is able to do exceeding more than we could ever possibly think and He knows what will be our future. Glad to know that no matter what... I can trust Jesus!

O...and as a side note...Happy Anniversary to my wonderful parents :) Love you guys!!!

Its a Teen!!!

Well I'm middle aged :) I've got a teen on my hands!! So very thankful for this kid. He is such a blessing. Loves God. Loves his family. Loves to have fun! He's one of my bestest buds. In church he sits right beside me and keeps his arm around me. He knows immediately when I'm having a rough day...sometimes even before Troll figures it out. He's smart, loves a challenge and does so very well in school. I'm SO very proud of him and also so very thankful that God saw fit to entrust him to us! He asked for a Reds/baseball cake. This was the best I could come up with having no plan before hand.

Went to the flower shop a couple doors down and asked for funky balloons :) Added a bit of pizazz to the whole ordeal!

The cake!! The baseballs were ball cakes covered in white chocolate and "glued" to the side of a square cake. Unfortunately I didn't count the candles before coming home from the store in a mad rush to get the cake decorated and only had 12. But he gave me a couple bear hugs and kisses and said, "Mom...its ok! Thank-you for a great cake and meal!" Our kids are allowed to pick what they want for a meal and he picked the following... Liver/onions, Scalloped potatoes, Green beans with bacon/onions and coleslaw. Lol!!! I'm one proud mom of one awesome young man!! Happy Bday, Beeg!!

A.M. Antics

I know that April Fool's is such a highlight of different people...especially kids. And I'll have to admit that watching the kids prank each other is cute and makes me laugh. But I've never been one to do anything on that day cause it always seems so obvious. So I saved mine :) Until this a.m. :) Troll is such a sweetheart and treats me so lovingly on a Sunday a.m. (not that he doesn't other days!). Saturday night he'll ask me what time I want up (whether I have cooking to do or ironing determines the time from Sun to Sun) and then Sun a.m. he'll make coffee and bring me a cup at the time I asked to be awakened cause he knows I hate alarm clocks with a passion. So this a.m. was no different. To a degree. :) I had asked him to wake me up at 7 cause I didn't really have that much to do. At 6:40 I woke up. For some odd reason I started laughing. I don't even know what brought the idea into my head but I quickly acted. Since we use feather pillows, and there are at least 4 and sometimes more on our bed, they are easily fluffed and formed to make a very convincing "figure" in the bed. I fluffed and scurried, pulled the blankets up around the "head" (as I'm prone to do cause I'm always freezing) and ran to the other side of the room. I scooted the glider rocker back a bit, sat down, grabbed two pairs of his pants that he had laying on the ironing board and a towel off the floor and covered myself up on the chair and waited....completely covered cept for my eyes. 7:03. I hear the stairs creaking. He walked in to our dark room, sat the coffee cup on my dresser and went to his side of the bed and laid down and threw his arm around the "person" to wake them up! LOL! There was absolute silence and no movement from him or the "person". About 45 seconds later he stood up, looked at the bed and went to turn on the light. I so wish I could describe the look on his face as he turned, with hand on the wall, and once again just stared at the bed with absolute befuddlement. I was laughing so hard, tears streaming down my face, and all the while willing the chair to not creak from my constrained laughter. Out of the room he walked as he went to each of the kids' rooms...lookin for me!! Less then a minute later he came back in, stood at the door with a hand on the wall and stared again at the bed. :) I don't know what he thought might happen in that time frame or if he thought maybe the pillows would magically transform into me but let me tell you it was classic. He looked back out into the hallway and then back to the bed and I couldn't keep quiet any longer! LOL!!! As I pulled the pants down off my face and covered my face with my hands to let out the gut wrenching laughter I'd been holding in he looked at me with a mixture of surprise, bewilderment and frustration and exclaimed, "What exactly are you doing?" Lol!!! It was so funny. So, so funny. That was my April Fool's.....a few days late :)