...to make me what I ought to be...

Waiting for the stage...

He's Still Working On Me

ENJOY!!

This is from this past Sunday. I am a little behind the ball on this one; :D but, well, I've been QUITE busy. :D Praying your weekend is wonderful.

THE DAY

Well, tomorrow is THE DAY ... the first of many more THE DAYs to come... I am going to the school to officially register Kyria for school - sign all the papers, give them her blue card, get a school supply list, etc. My baby is going to school!!!! We are all excited; but I am unsure how I will actually do that first day, week ??? Your prayers are coveted as we embark on this new and exciting journey. 

If I remember, I will take the camera and pictorially document this auspicious day.

Resolution - 11

I strive daily to speak kindly. I resolve to be gentle and loving when multiple things are spilled and children are yelling at each other... BUT I don't always succeed... and I read this on a blog   (thank you April)  this morning that convicted me yet again... that it isn't ME but allowing God to work THROUGH me.... to teach my children about kindness and soft words - they are truly our most powerful tool...

Praying your day is filled with kind words and sweet smiles....

fun times...

So... just before nap-time  yesterday I hear, "Mom, Anya got this..." and then Kyria hands me the tube of diaper rash cream.....

Anya loves to put on lotion by herself

She has extremely dry skin 

and we try to put lotion on regularly

but she usually ASKS first :D

and this lotion doesn't "rub in"

and it doesn't rinse off either....

 it was BATH TIME!

but then....

after Anya was all clean and in bed....

Kyria washed dishes

WHAT A SWEETIE!!!

and in nursery last night 

Mikalah was all smiles

(for a while)

SUCH A DOLL!!!

We have some fun days around here... And sometimes I get them documented :D 

Praying your days are just as fun!! 

pretty babies

Howdy everyone! 

this is a classic Mikalah greeting...

OH MY

this is just classic Anya !!

We are having VBS this week at our church

Rome: Road to Redemption...

so Kyria is a little Roman girl

with some interesting faces....

and poses...

We got a little kiddie pool with a slide...

here are the girls out in it the first evening 

after John set it up

here are just a few cuties from around the house...

umm?

yes, I know I'm silly...

but I love my sister!

Isn't she cute?

All is well and God is good. Kyria is having a blast at VBS, and I am watching the workers babies in the nursery each evening - that's where some of the pictures came from. 

Pray you all have a great day...

on being an AMERICAN in 1907...

Words spoken by Theodore Roosevelt, 

the 26th President of these United States 

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'