this girl...

So this girl woke up today with a "stomach ache" and loose bowels...per her.

 I said okay, well your getting old enough to decide if this is sick enough to stay home. 
She himmed and haughed a few seconds...
and then said yeah, i probably should stay home so i don't get my friends sick.

So we do our normal whirl wind drop kids off at school...tell teacher em won't be in class...get any school work that she had to get done today.
take Kevin to parent visit...
come home...

I get Em started on school.
2 minutes into it...
Em:
"mom can I go jump on the trampoline?  I think i need a break."
Me: "um no."

5 minutes later....
Em:
"mom can i go play with my bunny?"
Me: starting to think i've been taken a little advantage of.."um no."

5 minutes later....
Em:
"mom...can i watch tv?
Me: "em no...if your sick you can't do those things...you gotta just sit and rest...and if you aren't sick then maybe you should have went to school.
 Em: okay.

I proceed to mopping the floors...and i'm talking to jesus...and then quietly He says to me..."maybe she just is feeling like she needs more time with you..especially with all the craziness of kevin and how much he requires of you."

Me:"Em....come over here and sit with me"
Em:
okay...runs right over, puts her arms around me and holds on tight...
Me: i'm thanking God for his beautiful wisdom of what she needed...cause my flesh had no idea...we sat and read the bible together while we snuggled...
Man i'm thankful i'm not doing this parenting thing alone...Obviously i have a great husband along my side...but god's infinite widsom is so beautiful..and perfect.


And then i read this...i just had to put it on my chalk board...a great reminder.
James 3:17-18
 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Hows your day?

XOXO!
Gina

money sent....

Man...satin is such a punk.  thankful that we did not fall into any of his traps this week.
who would have thought that we would have been so attacked spiritually by just depositing the $1101.00 in the EGCH fund.

our dishwasher broke.
our printer died...this one we can't live without...the hubistrators business depends on it.

we've only received 1/3 of our income this month....

plus we have vacation planned for this month.

but this money is jesus'...that he wants to bless his kids with in ethiopia.  not one red cent belongs to us...
so after the checks cleared..the money was deposited on tuesday night.

i'm thankful for the perspective...rather than the alternative perspective which is always such a bummer...

This week...def par for the course.

by his grace.
Gina