I've been missing...

Missing reading everyone posts and wishing I had time to go catch up with everyone. But, ARGH, I do not have time.

Sometimes it is interesting to me how God will 'force' us to rest as he wants us to. For me that came when Chloe (my 6yo) woke on a Saturday morning with a temp of 104.8 and finally Monday morning at 4am when her temp reached 105 and she could not get out of bed by herself I took her to ER with what we all thought was appendicitis. Turned out she had a baseball size lump of pneumonia! So we spent a little over 24 hours in the hospital and another 2 days with her IV site still in for more IV meds. Now THAT will make you slow down....at least a little :)

Just so happened that was the week before the 8th grade play I was directing at school, so it got a little tricky. Oh it was also that week that Johnson (2 and 3mo) got up one morning and said, "I want undies, I go pee in the potty" I thought, "Do we have to do it this week?" But he had a plan of this own and voila, potty trained.

The following week, 31 8th graders and 30 2nd graders did a FABULOUS job as they presented, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". I was so very very proud. I think the biggest thing I saw or learned through it this year, was how I lead a bit differently as a result of taking VP3. What a blessing (and challenge) this class has been.

Now it is Spring Break. I am often aghast at the people who will say to me, "bet you hate that cause you have all the kids home." That could not be further from the truth. I love and am truly blessed by all 8 of my children and I LOVE when we are all home together. As the oldest ones get older, the times grows shorter that we will have this altogether times and that makes me sad. So I try to treasure the times we do have (even if that does mean we are Spring cleaning - hehehe).

CONSTANTLY, CONSTANTLY I am amazed at how our Lord, Jesus Christ, knows and sees and stretches and grows ME, little old me.....wow, oh wow.

Hope you all are blessed today and able to enjoy this fabulous Spring weather.

In HIS great Love,
~lisa k morgan