WE'RE STILL ALIVE

Yes, yes I haven't been very good about updating. We have been busy and tired... busy woking...and playing! I don't have much new to say, this is going to be short and sweet. The kids are doing awesome... grading period was last week and all the kids had straight A's. They get free McDonalds happy meals every report card that has A's. And Obi has now stepped above grade level on his math. Emiliah is reading pretty fluently, 100% on spelling (words like 'orange', 'first', 'purple'),and counting by 2's,5's,10's to 100 is easy stuff!By the way... she's just in kindergarten (I cant believe how much they have them doing at this age). Just recently I tried to get Jesh into a program for middle school for accelerated kids to keep him on the right track (and its a smaller,safer environment). His teacher had told me about it and recommended Jesh would fit perfectly there. The school was already at its max, so Jesh went on a waiting list...bummer. So I am praying about homeschooling him again, middle school is an especially hard age at public schools. But that would mean Ben and I would have to work opposite schedules and then do I homeschool all three? So its in the prayer workshop!! We recently have gotten reaquainted with families that we used to goto church with and with some that we almost started a fellowship with and with some that we mentored their kids. We just wanted to see them again and love on them again. It was a great feeling,after a long time without, to be around other christians. To have conversations that on both sides was centered around Christ.To hear and SEE praise reports and then to even pray together. I don't know if any of you have ever done that... gone without fellowship for a long period of time... but I can't explain the feeling! And then it was funny, everyone had this different idea of why God had brought us back. One family thinks Ben is going to be the assistant pastor of their newly started church, another family thinks we are going to be the youth pastors for their budding church that already has a group of teens and another thinks we should take over a church that is suffering. And being here for 8 months and not doing anything yet, my heart goes "Yeah, yeah, yeah which one are we going to get involved with. Finally!" as these people that I love are saying these things that they 'know is God'. But, then again, theres no peace in my heart and so far I've only heard people say it not yet God and then as Ben and I later had a chance to talk about it, he didn't have any peace (matter of fact, easy 'no' for him)so there is no confirmation. And so, we are still in 'the waiting room'. And I am reminded of a passage in the Bible...in IKings 13 where a man of God has been given a command from the Lord to head somewhere(Orlando) but to not return to a certain place to eat and drink(old fellowship). A prophet comes to him (another man of God) and tells him its okay, God has told him its okay to stop and eat and take part of there. So the man of God ends up going against God's commandments that were spoken to him and listens to 'man'- a man of God,yes,but still a man. People may even have good intentions and there hearts may be good,but we must always make sure it really is from God.
Anyways, here are some recent picture albums to take a look at