The Days of March

I realized tonight that it has been a month since I last blogged. Pitiful....p-i-t-i-f-u-l. I've been too busy living life this past month to actually write about it. It's been a super busy, exciting, and sometimes draining month. So, in an effort to put something fresh on the blog because I'm tired of looking at what I wrote a month ago, and to maybe jump-start my brain to say something new, here's a quick update of what March has involved.

LIFE Ministries began. Randy and I are enjoying working together so much and seeing all of the pieces of this dream God has given to us come together. We have worked so very hard, and have many busy months ahead, but we are energized as God gives us a vision to pursue. There is the exciting part of the early days of this new ministry, and we are blessed to have wonderful people sharing our dream and supporting us along the way. There's also the heartbreaking part as we talk with people almost daily in desperately hurting marriages. The enemy is relentless in his desire to destroy marriages that have reflected the heart of God in the past. We desire to offer hope and encouragement and support...but we hurt for those we love who are in so much pain. So, joy and sadness have filled our month.

We have been eagerly working on finishing our marriage book this month. There's a little more work to be done, but we hope to have it completed and in print by our LIFE Ministries Launch Banquet on April 30th. Keeping our fingers crossed!!!

We got to spend several days with my sister, her husband, and baby girl! It's so much fun to have 2 babies in the house! We love when they get to come to visit!

We spend last week in Florida visiting Randy's parents for our Spring Break. It was great to get away and enjoy some time with them. The weather stunk for the most part (in reality it didn't really stink - but it wasn't typical Florida weather which meant not much swimming), which was a bummer, and we had various illnesses between our boys, but we still had a good week away from the grind of work and school, and that was refreshing.

Sickness. There's been a lot of that over the last few weeks. Between 3 children we've had strep throat, ear infection, croup, vomit, fever, more vomit, terrible coughing, and more vomit. We're hoping that April brings good health for us all. We paid our dues this month!

And now we're down to just a few more days of this month. April will bring lots of activity and some fun times that we're looking forward to...Caleb's 8th Birthday, celebrating the resurrection of Christ, completing our book, preparing for and experiencing our LIFE Launch Banquet, a trip for me to GA to see Beth Moore with some girlfriends, and many more things I can't think of right now. Can't wait!

One of these days I'm going to do better about posting pics of the family...but that's not today!