I love Seattle! I love living here! While the rest of the country is suffering a heat wave we are enjoying the cool mist and drizzle of 65 degree (sometime up to 70) of the NW Coast, not to brag but I really am grateful for the weather we enjoy out here. Today it's to be sunny and 75 can't beat that :)
So India, here we come! Literally it's right around the corner (Aug 15th we fly out), we just got our approved visa's back in the mail last week so we can officially enter India. The family we are meeting out there came through town on there way to CA so stopped and had dinner with us, it was great to see them and even talk in person (rather then email) what we should expect when we arrive. I still a little apprehensive about food and altitude and being able to drink enough water to stay hydrated and would appreciate any prayers while we are there that I don't get sick from the food or water or altitude. The kids are looking forward to traveling with Oma and Opa and Enoch keeps talking about in 3...6(his new favorite number is 6) days he's going to go in Oma's plane (we told the kids we were going to fly in the plane back home to seattle after mommy and daddy get back from India and some how that translated into Enoch's mind that it was Oma's plane we are going in)?
So other thing that some people may not know yet (but I think most everyone who reads this does already know) that I am right now 17 weeks pregnant! Very excited for that and enjoying being pregnant again, I have an ultrasound on Aug 5 and hopefully we will find out the sex of this baby, I am leaning towards it being a boy but would be pleasantly surprised if it's a girl :) Not really showing a lot yet but i am starting to stick out a bit more and am sure that with in the next few weeks will be showing even more.
Well, that's all for now we just got finished with Judah have a week long conference with the Discovery Institute and then some best-est friends came and spent the day with us!! So back to normalcy this week I think praying to get back on the exercise and trying my hardest to get myself as much conditioned and in shape as I can before we start our trip.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
hmmm!
Well, i know i am overdue for an update and yet still not quite feeling the motivation to relate all that has occurred in the past month or since i last wrote :D but here are a few things:
Work at Carenet has been great! I am almost finished with my "official" in-center training, learning lots and lots, how to answer the phone, how to walk through an intake with a client taking into mind their mindset (abortion minded, abortion vulnerable, or not abortion vulnerable). I got to sit on two intakes so far and both were completely different although they both were for a pregnancy test. One was not very open to any ministering and mainly just wanted a "official verification of pregnancy" where as the other gal was very abortion minded and we spent 1 1/2 talking with her. (Oh, Lord Jesus, please keep your arms around this girl and help her to choose the thing to do that is right and to bring back into a right relationship with you). One of the ladies I have been working with is leaving, she got a job as the new director for a new clinic that is opening up it's doors very soon. So although i am not nearly prepared for it i will be filling her spot on our shift! So very excited for what doors the Lord will open and ways I will be growing through volunteering here. I love it! So again a plug for prayers, I am there on Tuesday mornings from 9am to 1pm (western time) so if you think of me then please pray for me there!
More plans being prepared for our trip to India in August last official thing to do is send off for the visas which I will be doing this week but all our tickets here and there and back are bought, Yeah! Thank the Lord for his provision and blessings.
Lets see what else. . . Judah and I got to spend the night in downtown seattle while some friends of our took the kids overnight. That was great and so very relaxing, we had a room at a great inn right at the harbor steps and then we just walked around downtown that night ate and then also walked around downtown the next morning after we checked out. We went to the Seattle Public Library which is this huge building i've never been in before but it was really neat and I am kinda excited to start taking the kids down there on a regular bases it's got a great children's section and lots and lots of great nooks and crannies to hind out in and read and even with the kids!
Well, for now that's all i am going to write because the kids movie is over and i need to start in on some school work with them now... here's some great encouragement from Amy Carmichael to end my note with:
Don't Give Up
The younger of the baby kingfishers has caught his first fish. He flew off with it to show it to his mother. We heard all she said about it, and all he said. Mother and son have talked of nothing else for the last ten minutes. But just before this joy the young kingfisher had a great disappointment. He had been practising all kinds of dives, and at last he came up jubilant. He had a beakful of something! He could hardly stand for excitement-but it wasn't a fish. It was a leaf. Have you ever felt as I think that poor little bird felt then? (It took him quite a long time to recover from his disappointment.) You thought you had found power and patience to deal with some difficulty, and then somehow you hadn't. Leaf for fish-it was rather like that. Then do what the kingfisher did. Don't give up. Seek again. "In due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart" (Gal. 6:9) "He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart" (Luke 18:1)
Work at Carenet has been great! I am almost finished with my "official" in-center training, learning lots and lots, how to answer the phone, how to walk through an intake with a client taking into mind their mindset (abortion minded, abortion vulnerable, or not abortion vulnerable). I got to sit on two intakes so far and both were completely different although they both were for a pregnancy test. One was not very open to any ministering and mainly just wanted a "official verification of pregnancy" where as the other gal was very abortion minded and we spent 1 1/2 talking with her. (Oh, Lord Jesus, please keep your arms around this girl and help her to choose the thing to do that is right and to bring back into a right relationship with you). One of the ladies I have been working with is leaving, she got a job as the new director for a new clinic that is opening up it's doors very soon. So although i am not nearly prepared for it i will be filling her spot on our shift! So very excited for what doors the Lord will open and ways I will be growing through volunteering here. I love it! So again a plug for prayers, I am there on Tuesday mornings from 9am to 1pm (western time) so if you think of me then please pray for me there!
More plans being prepared for our trip to India in August last official thing to do is send off for the visas which I will be doing this week but all our tickets here and there and back are bought, Yeah! Thank the Lord for his provision and blessings.
Lets see what else. . . Judah and I got to spend the night in downtown seattle while some friends of our took the kids overnight. That was great and so very relaxing, we had a room at a great inn right at the harbor steps and then we just walked around downtown that night ate and then also walked around downtown the next morning after we checked out. We went to the Seattle Public Library which is this huge building i've never been in before but it was really neat and I am kinda excited to start taking the kids down there on a regular bases it's got a great children's section and lots and lots of great nooks and crannies to hind out in and read and even with the kids!
Well, for now that's all i am going to write because the kids movie is over and i need to start in on some school work with them now... here's some great encouragement from Amy Carmichael to end my note with:
Don't Give Up
The younger of the baby kingfishers has caught his first fish. He flew off with it to show it to his mother. We heard all she said about it, and all he said. Mother and son have talked of nothing else for the last ten minutes. But just before this joy the young kingfisher had a great disappointment. He had been practising all kinds of dives, and at last he came up jubilant. He had a beakful of something! He could hardly stand for excitement-but it wasn't a fish. It was a leaf. Have you ever felt as I think that poor little bird felt then? (It took him quite a long time to recover from his disappointment.) You thought you had found power and patience to deal with some difficulty, and then somehow you hadn't. Leaf for fish-it was rather like that. Then do what the kingfisher did. Don't give up. Seek again. "In due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart" (Gal. 6:9) "He also taught them by a parable that they must always pray and never lose heart" (Luke 18:1)
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
just a quickish blog before off to bed with me... :-)
So today was my "official" first day at volunteering at Care Net of Puget Sound.
I am planning on serving there every tuesday from 9am to 1pm so if you happen to think of me then i would covet prayer for my time there. Right now I will still have 7 more weeks of in clinic training before becoming an "official" volunteer there.
A couple of things I would love to have people praying for is that on Tuesdays planned parenthood has abortion day and the clinic i serve at is just two doors down from planned parenthood.
So prayer that the couples/women going there would come into Care Net instead...or would go through with those abortions.
Also that there would be more women coming into the clinic and finding Jesus!
Today was a blast from the past for me, I watched a DVD series called "sharing Jesus without fear" put on my Bill Fay. I heard him teach back in highschool at First B the church we were attending at the time. It is very good stuff, very simple and a great refresher for me. There have been things he taught that have stuck with me since i first heard them about sharing your faith and I am excited to grow in this area of my life...witnessing, sharing Jesus with people I meet...
We had some friends over for dinner tonight and it was great fun...(we had been trying to get together with them for the past two months so it was great to finally be able to make it work for both of us!)
And tomorrow we are going to trek around town...let Josiah go biking, probably to up to Mountlake Terrace for church, enjoy Judah's day of spring break...his only one that we don't really have any obligations lined up for this week.
That's all for now :-)
So today was my "official" first day at volunteering at Care Net of Puget Sound.
I am planning on serving there every tuesday from 9am to 1pm so if you happen to think of me then i would covet prayer for my time there. Right now I will still have 7 more weeks of in clinic training before becoming an "official" volunteer there.
A couple of things I would love to have people praying for is that on Tuesdays planned parenthood has abortion day and the clinic i serve at is just two doors down from planned parenthood.
So prayer that the couples/women going there would come into Care Net instead...or would go through with those abortions.
Also that there would be more women coming into the clinic and finding Jesus!
Today was a blast from the past for me, I watched a DVD series called "sharing Jesus without fear" put on my Bill Fay. I heard him teach back in highschool at First B the church we were attending at the time. It is very good stuff, very simple and a great refresher for me. There have been things he taught that have stuck with me since i first heard them about sharing your faith and I am excited to grow in this area of my life...witnessing, sharing Jesus with people I meet...
We had some friends over for dinner tonight and it was great fun...(we had been trying to get together with them for the past two months so it was great to finally be able to make it work for both of us!)
And tomorrow we are going to trek around town...let Josiah go biking, probably to up to Mountlake Terrace for church, enjoy Judah's day of spring break...his only one that we don't really have any obligations lined up for this week.
That's all for now :-)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Commitment
One day there was a hard thing to be done, and one of us didn't want to do it.
"I can't, " she said; but she added honestly, "at least, I don't like to!"
Now she was very fond of a certain hymn. " onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war," and her friend (Amma, of course!), who did not at all intend to give up doing this little difficult thing, began to sing it softly - only putting it rather differently:
"I can't, " she said; but she added honestly, "at least, I don't like to!"
Now she was very fond of a certain hymn. " onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war," and her friend (Amma, of course!), who did not at all intend to give up doing this little difficult thing, began to sing it softly - only putting it rather differently:
Onward, Christian soldiers,
Sitting on the mats!
Nice and warm and cozy
Like little pussycats.
Onward, Christian soldiers,
Oh how brave are we!
Don't we do our fighting
Very comfortably?
She laughed at first; but soon she almost cried, for she saw not only the absurdity of it but the wrong of singing one thing and doing another.
So she and her friend knelt down together and asked God to make them true to their hymns and true to their prayers.
And then they sang this chorus:
From all fear of what men think or say,
Victory for me! Victory for me!
From ever fearing to speak, sing or pray,
Victory for me! Victory for me!
Lord, in Thy love and Thy power make me strong,
That all may know that to Thee I belong,
And when I'm tempted let this be my song,
Victory for me! Victory for me!
Sitting on the mats!
Nice and warm and cozy
Like little pussycats.
Onward, Christian soldiers,
Oh how brave are we!
Don't we do our fighting
Very comfortably?
She laughed at first; but soon she almost cried, for she saw not only the absurdity of it but the wrong of singing one thing and doing another.
So she and her friend knelt down together and asked God to make them true to their hymns and true to their prayers.
And then they sang this chorus:
From all fear of what men think or say,
Victory for me! Victory for me!
From ever fearing to speak, sing or pray,
Victory for me! Victory for me!
Lord, in Thy love and Thy power make me strong,
That all may know that to Thee I belong,
And when I'm tempted let this be my song,
Victory for me! Victory for me!
Amy Carmichael, "Fragments that Remain" ( Ch. 8 The Cross and The Commitment)
Oh Lord, Let me be true to my prayers and my words!
Oh Lord, Let me be true to my prayers and my words!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Writer
Today during our Women's bible study, one of the ladies spoke for St. Patrick's Day Bunch and her topic was writing your testimony. Now she is a writer/editor and although her content was good you could tell that speaking was not something she was totally comfortable with and who is right?? It was good stuff though and got me thinking about this blog and what the Lord is doing in my life lately... there has been no huge life changing thing but lots of little things that i am sure if I were a little more consistent with recording those things as they happen might prove to be something that ends up being a bigger thing he is doing with me!
So, I am committing (to myself mainly) to really make an effort at this writing because although I am not a "writer" I do enjoy writing when i do it and I want to be able to "recall, the works of his hands"
So, I am committing (to myself mainly) to really make an effort at this writing because although I am not a "writer" I do enjoy writing when i do it and I want to be able to "recall, the works of his hands"
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Enoch Daniel
It's 2:30am and i should go to bed (and I will be shortly) but officially Enoch is 4 today hard to believe it's here already! Enoch we've lived in four different places for each of his birthdays, first in Saint Paul were he was born at Saint Joseph's, then when He was one we were in Saint Cloud, living at Dom and Danielle's. Next, for his second birthday we had moved to WA and were living in Kent (and my mom was there for his birthday) and then for his birthday last year and now this year we have lived here in Seattle! This year he wanted a "blue, woody birthday!" (woody, from toy story) normally i don't decorate the house aside from balloons but this week spur of the moment i got some decorations and also very spur of the moment invited a friend and her two year old and baby over to enjoy birthday cake with us!! (I think it was my mood from changed plans but I felt the need to make it super special for him)
Another phenomenon which has probably occurred because we/I knew his birthday was coming is that in the past two months he seems to have almost completely turned into a little boy not just "my baby" any more. He's speaking more clearly, he's playing with more intricate toys...and i think in general we are expecting more of him and he is rising to the occasion! Anyhow we are going to enjoy the day tomorrow! Happy Birthday my sweet Enoch!
Another phenomenon which has probably occurred because we/I knew his birthday was coming is that in the past two months he seems to have almost completely turned into a little boy not just "my baby" any more. He's speaking more clearly, he's playing with more intricate toys...and i think in general we are expecting more of him and he is rising to the occasion! Anyhow we are going to enjoy the day tomorrow! Happy Birthday my sweet Enoch!
Monday, March 7, 2011
India
India!!
I love India :-) Back in 1999 I was blessed to go on a mission trip with Teen Mission's International, when signing up to go my first choice had been to go to Haiti but didn't get on that team, instead I was put on my second choice which was India. I have no doubt that was the Lord's design and ever since that trip I have greatly desired to go back. I fell in love with the Indian people and the country, the land itself, if you can look past the slums is a beautiful country.
And now the Lord is opening the doors and working out the details to allow us (Judah and I) to go (me to go back) to India it is going to be just a short trip but we're going!!
We will be joining our friends as they move back to the country after a furlough here in North America.
As of now (subject to minor adjustments) the plan is that my parents will make a trip out here by 8/15 to"pick up" the kids and take them back to MN, while Judah and I will fly out of Seattle and then spend a few days shy of two weeks in India, returning to the states via MN on the 8/29 to "pick up" the kids from my parents, then rent a car and get back to Seattle by 9/2 for Judah to return to work and school starting back up shortly after that as well.
Also in the "tentative and Lord willing" plans are to try and get pregnant again soon timing it out again as much as possible and as the Lord wills so that by the time august rolls around I will be past the 1st trimester and but not into the 3rd yet!
So time will tell how that all will work out but either way tickets are bought so no going back now!! (or at least not without a substantial loss of funds by aborting plan)
I love India :-) Back in 1999 I was blessed to go on a mission trip with Teen Mission's International, when signing up to go my first choice had been to go to Haiti but didn't get on that team, instead I was put on my second choice which was India. I have no doubt that was the Lord's design and ever since that trip I have greatly desired to go back. I fell in love with the Indian people and the country, the land itself, if you can look past the slums is a beautiful country.
And now the Lord is opening the doors and working out the details to allow us (Judah and I) to go (me to go back) to India it is going to be just a short trip but we're going!!
We will be joining our friends as they move back to the country after a furlough here in North America.
As of now (subject to minor adjustments) the plan is that my parents will make a trip out here by 8/15 to"pick up" the kids and take them back to MN, while Judah and I will fly out of Seattle and then spend a few days shy of two weeks in India, returning to the states via MN on the 8/29 to "pick up" the kids from my parents, then rent a car and get back to Seattle by 9/2 for Judah to return to work and school starting back up shortly after that as well.
Also in the "tentative and Lord willing" plans are to try and get pregnant again soon timing it out again as much as possible and as the Lord wills so that by the time august rolls around I will be past the 1st trimester and but not into the 3rd yet!
So time will tell how that all will work out but either way tickets are bought so no going back now!! (or at least not without a substantial loss of funds by aborting plan)
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