What a week! No school Monday, Inauguration on Tuesday, home with a sick child on Wednesday, reality of work on Thursday, and ready for Friday!!
The kids had a great day on Monday hanging out with friends and being lazy around the house. Ok Kristen did e-mail me to see what needed to be done around the house, so that was nice! I can't believe we are to that point in our lives of having the girls stay home while we work and actually do odd jobs around the house! Life is good!
Tuesday was a day that made history! Kristen and MiKayla had the opportunity to watch a few of the days events during school. The girls asked alot of questions and worked on sorting things out in their heads of I'm excited to be able to see history in the making, yet how do we handle things spiritually, what does he believe, what if he asks us to do something we don't believe in? Learning how to respect and trust someone who doesn't have ALL the same beliefs as they do is a learning experience all on its own. The conversation ended with Jake saying I wish the guy with the gray hair had won! Oh, the innocence of a child. The biggest thing that can be learned is even though we may not see eye to eye, God has a plan for His people and we need to trust Him. He put Obama in the White House and we need to respect him and pray for him and his family.
On Wednesday, I spent the day at home with Kristen, she had strep throat and I have a sinus infection, so needless to say we spent the entire day lounging on the couches! Guess I should be thankful since it is my first one this winter!
Thursday was a great day for the kids and Nate, and an extremely difficult day for me at work! Had to make some tough decisions that no one would like to make, but I am grateful the Lord gives direction when I stop and take the time to call upon him!! The older I get the more I realize that I am doing that WAY more than I use to! Which is why I am so thankful Friday is only a few hours away! Better yet, Saturday is that much closer too! We are enjoying a few Saturdays hanging out at home, because our yearly tour de'Iowa is right around the corner. Kristen is playing in AAU (Amateur Athlete Union) Volleyball with some girls from SFC and we are gone every Saturday for about 6 Saturdays straight with all but one tournament in Iowa! EARLY mornings are a must also!
As some of you know we have been looking for a different church to worship at! These are the days we wish we would be back in Huron with about 3 choices of where to attend instead of 25 choices! Just kidding! The point being we know where we would be going and life would be that much easier, I know we would have challenges there like are everywhere else, it is just where family is and all the kids feel at home there!
We can definitely tell a difference from being with a church home and the feeling like we are floating around saying which one do we visit today? We were at Linwood Wesleyan a couple weeks ago, which happens to be the same church Jake's kindergarten teacher goes to and Bekah and Jake's music teacher goes there also, anyway as we were sitting in the service, Jake's teacher's husband who is a pastor there was preaching and mentioned that he was going to be leaving this church because they were being called to a different church! Needless to say my heart was in my shoes and I glanced at Nate like "Oh No what are we going to do for kindergarten", as if Jake's teacher was leaving before January! Our ears were a opened very wide to listen to see if he was going to say what they were going to do. As it turns out they are involved in a church plant on the west side of SF and it would be starting after the new year.
Last week we visited "The Ransom" for their preview service in the Carmik Theater, yes I did say the theater! The girls thought it was cool to be going to church in a theater, Bekah wanted to have some nachos to eat while we worshiped and Jake asked if they could plug in the video games so he could play.
What a morning!! It was such a blessing to be able to be part of that experience! The pastors are on cloud 9 and have been for 2 weeks since the preview service. They weren't exactly sure what to expect for a preview service, but the theater was packed with 140 people and very few of them were there because of hearing about the service from Linwood! One of the pastors was following up with those that visited and was able to lead a gal to Christ and share the vision of The Ransom Church with others! It will be a blessing to see what the Lord has planned for The Ransom Church and the west side of SF!
Until next time have a great night!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
I started reading a book this past week, a quote on the back of the book says, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans"! Oh how true! We could chalk today as a day of experiences good ones and ones that will change us forever! Throughout the day the Lord reminded me of a couple different things. One is that it isn't about what I want but what He wants! The other is that we need to be obedient even when we would rather take the easy route! By His grace I am at peace with what He has called the Williams' family to do!
Nate and Jake were in their prime today. They spent the entire morning at the fire station working on a new truck the department just got. We went back late this afternoon and Jake gave his sisters the run down of what the truck could and couldn't do. While we were there, Nate had a call lucky for the kids that meant more time messing around with the truck, in and out, up and down. At one point Jake was driving the truck while giving out orders to about 5 other kids that were there also. Then off he goes and comes back a few minutes later with a long rope that the kids were using as a fire hose. Until one of the guys asked him if he knew how to make a knot, little did that firefighter know he would be there a while, because with Jake you ask a simple question you get a LONG answer! Don't think there is going to be any question what this boy is going to do when he grows up! In some way shape or form he will be working with fire! Literally. Oh and by the way, he already has the selective hearing thing goin on! And no I didn't just realize that! After we put him to bed tonight, Nate sat down and started clicking (ok he started doing that before we put the kids to bed but we don't want to mess up his routine!
) Jake's favorite movie Ladder 49 was on, and from his room he yelled hey are you guys watching Ladder 49?
A great experience I had today was with Kristen! Let me give you a little back ground, before Christmas my parents were in town and we were out for dinner, talking about the kid's school pictures, and Kristen asked me for one of my school pictures for her locker at school. I almost fell off my chair! What 7th grader would want their mom's picture up in their school locker? My dad looked at me and said "You should feel honored that she wants your picture up in her locker, I have never heard a junior higher ask their parent for their picture. Let alone a picture for their locker!!!" Today she was planning to go to a movie with her girlfriends, the saga went back and forth all day, are we going or are we not going, if we are going what time are we going and how are we going to get there. I finally said if isn't going to work today, we can go tomorrow, but I am going to go with you because I want to see the movie to. At the time I was just kidding around with her, around 5:00 she got a phone call from her friends saying they were at the theater and were waiting for her. Great timing! This was while we were waiting for Nate to get back from the call. My life to a "t" needing to be somewhere in 10 minutes that normally takes anywhere from 15-20 depending on traffic. But while she was on the phone with one of her girl friends she told them, "Hey my mom wants to see the movie so she will is coming along!" Once again I almost lost it! I really can't believe how blessed I am to have my pre-teen want me around her and her friends! I'll take it while I can get it!
As you know our washer quit working last Friday, on Wednesday the laundry was over flowing and we needed clean clothes! I was going to go alone for some mom time, but the kids have never experience the laundromat, so I asked Kristen if she would go along and help. What a reality check! The size of the washers totally shocked her! She couldn't get over how many of them there were, and she thought it was great that we could do all the loads at one time! After the newness wore off, she was helping out put the clothes into washers, went to put into the soap and totally over did it! She had soap everywhere. It was so bad when the washer was going through the last spin cycle there was still soap in the washer. Good thing our washer gets fixed on Tuesday!
Until next time have a great Sunday!
Nate and Jake were in their prime today. They spent the entire morning at the fire station working on a new truck the department just got. We went back late this afternoon and Jake gave his sisters the run down of what the truck could and couldn't do. While we were there, Nate had a call lucky for the kids that meant more time messing around with the truck, in and out, up and down. At one point Jake was driving the truck while giving out orders to about 5 other kids that were there also. Then off he goes and comes back a few minutes later with a long rope that the kids were using as a fire hose. Until one of the guys asked him if he knew how to make a knot, little did that firefighter know he would be there a while, because with Jake you ask a simple question you get a LONG answer! Don't think there is going to be any question what this boy is going to do when he grows up! In some way shape or form he will be working with fire! Literally. Oh and by the way, he already has the selective hearing thing goin on! And no I didn't just realize that! After we put him to bed tonight, Nate sat down and started clicking (ok he started doing that before we put the kids to bed but we don't want to mess up his routine!
) Jake's favorite movie Ladder 49 was on, and from his room he yelled hey are you guys watching Ladder 49?A great experience I had today was with Kristen! Let me give you a little back ground, before Christmas my parents were in town and we were out for dinner, talking about the kid's school pictures, and Kristen asked me for one of my school pictures for her locker at school. I almost fell off my chair! What 7th grader would want their mom's picture up in their school locker? My dad looked at me and said "You should feel honored that she wants your picture up in her locker, I have never heard a junior higher ask their parent for their picture. Let alone a picture for their locker!!!" Today she was planning to go to a movie with her girlfriends, the saga went back and forth all day, are we going or are we not going, if we are going what time are we going and how are we going to get there. I finally said if isn't going to work today, we can go tomorrow, but I am going to go with you because I want to see the movie to. At the time I was just kidding around with her, around 5:00 she got a phone call from her friends saying they were at the theater and were waiting for her. Great timing! This was while we were waiting for Nate to get back from the call. My life to a "t" needing to be somewhere in 10 minutes that normally takes anywhere from 15-20 depending on traffic. But while she was on the phone with one of her girl friends she told them, "Hey my mom wants to see the movie so she will is coming along!" Once again I almost lost it! I really can't believe how blessed I am to have my pre-teen want me around her and her friends! I'll take it while I can get it!
As you know our washer quit working last Friday, on Wednesday the laundry was over flowing and we needed clean clothes! I was going to go alone for some mom time, but the kids have never experience the laundromat, so I asked Kristen if she would go along and help. What a reality check! The size of the washers totally shocked her! She couldn't get over how many of them there were, and she thought it was great that we could do all the loads at one time! After the newness wore off, she was helping out put the clothes into washers, went to put into the soap and totally over did it! She had soap everywhere. It was so bad when the washer was going through the last spin cycle there was still soap in the washer. Good thing our washer gets fixed on Tuesday!
Until next time have a great Sunday!
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