This evening at supper we were visiting (I love the opportunities that we have to sit down and visit and eat together almost every morning and night!) and were trying to remember the details of a story when Megan was quite young - I hadn't written about it in her baby book but then I remembered that I could check my blog, I shared many stories on here. I just found a brief mention of that story but I did have fun going down memory lane and reading a bunch of old posts.
I found this one from 11 years ago called "Life as Mom", I thought it would be fun to do a new up to date version. I still feel just as blessed as ever to get to be a Mom. Here is some tidbits of that last week or so......
-Working together with all of my kids still living at home to accomplish the tasks on the challenge course along with many of their friends. Pushing ourselves to our physical limit and getting the tasks done together.
-Singing together with my kids. I love it! We miss Mara from our daily singing but have had the fun addition of my Mother-in-law Sharyl quite a bit lately.
- Aaron reaching out to a new boy that came to church and inviting him to Wednesday Bible study (and he came too!).
-Jonathan really working to get to know a new boy in our homeschool co-op and trying to make him feel involved and welcome.
- Watching Mara and Thomas work on reaching out and encouraging others.
-Watching Jonathan do a presentation at Rotary with confidence. It was especially meaningful to me as he was doing it alone after planning to do it with some other teens who had backed out. Also he didn't really want to do it but he did do it and did it well. They had sponsored him and others and sent them to RYLA a Rotary camp for a week this summer. He really enjoyed it the camp. Today's talk was to tell them about it.
-Working together with Aaron and Megan at Theater as we participate in doing the show "Annie" (a Broadway musical). This leads to a lot of singing together which is pretty fun.
-Watching Aaron get better and better at Mountain Biking and jump building.
-Watching Jonathan get better and better at video shooting and editing. (Stay tuned for a new music video that he has us scheduled to shoot tomorrow morning.)
-Watching Megan make a pretty cool new dress for herself - without a pattern just copying from one of the dresses that one of her porcelain doll's was wearing. She has been amazing me with her sewing skills lately. I really need to get some pictures!
-Hearing reports of Mara and Thomas living on their own and running their own home just fine. I wish I could be around to check it out in person but it sounds like they are doing great and that makes my heart happy.
- Aaron getting 100% on his spelling test today. That is a milestone for him and it is so lovely to see his progress.
-My kids working so efficiently and effectively to get their school work done each day. This stage of having kids in 8th, 10th and 12th grade is certainly much easier than it was 11 years ago.
Life certainly changes as the years pass but it is still sometimes challenging and always very blessed. I am so thankful for the grace that God lavishes on us and the strength He provides!
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