Hello Again!

I am excited to post again! It has been over 2 months. Life is slowing down a bit now that school is over. I have been trying to get my house in order after our school year. Many of you can understand what this means? It's papers and papers and books and dust bunnies and old apple cores shoved in places that are not the garbage, etc........
Summer is such a wonderful season. Jonas and I just went for a walk in the fields and found a wild cherry tree. We came back with a handful of cheeries that we have been eating. There were wild flowers that were white and purple everywhere we looked. The trees were in full bloom and whispering in the breeze. It's a windy day. I loved being by my little boy's side watching him get excited about cherrries. The whole thing just reminded me of how good God is to us by giving us such a beautiful world to look at. There are so many bad things that go on but when we take the time to be quiet and just look around at nature we see how good our God is in the simple things! I hope you take time to enjoy the summer, your family and especially the blessings of it all!
Now that life is slowing down a bit, I am going to attempt to post more. Thanks for being patient with me, I appreciate that so many of you have commented to me that you miss my posting.

Blessed

It's been awhile since I posted. My last post was about our vehicle situation. For people who don't believe God can provide, I hope they happen to fall upon this blog and see that he provides beyond our wildest imagination.
Our engine was the problem in our mini-van. We decided it was not worth the cost to fix it. The week we started contemplating what to do, I had my dad offer us to sell his minivan. That was unexpected. I also had my grandfather call and let me know that he would help us to buy a vehicle. In addition to that, before all of this happend, Damon's grandfather gave him his pickup truck. We just had to have wheels to pick it up in New Hampshire where his grandpa lived. So in a months time, we went from 1 vehicle to having to decide what to get rid of because we didn't need 4. The outcome is that we ended up being very blessed. Instead of one reliable vehicle, we have 2 reliable minivans and a pickup truck for my husbands hunting days and a car to sell. My dad also ended up deciding that when he purchased his new vehicle, it worked out that he only needed $800 to make what he wanted out of his van. My husband has always gotten the vehicle that we are not sure how long it will last. He now has a van that has new brakes, rotors, tires, suspension and has been taken care of the best one can care for a vehicle.
In addition to all of this, I was able to get $300 for parts at the salvage yard for our van. We were also blessed with a dryer, our dryer quit somewhere in the midst of the craziness. A friend at church heard I was going to the laundromat and asked me why? I explained that our dryer quit. She called me an hour later with a dryer that was in great condition. I have been using it for a month and it works better than our old dryer.
Sorry to go on and on but it's hard not to when God is so good. He blesses far beyond any plan that our human mind could come up with. I had to share his goodness to our family and his many blessings!

Another prayer request.

Yesterday was my first day out of the house. I am feeling much better! Thank you for your prayers. I desperately had to go to the laundromat. Our dryer broke in the middle of our sicknesses. Off I went to get the clothes dried. I noticed that my van felt like it was going to stall. I got to the laundromat, threw our clothes in the dryer and drove across the street to a little restaurant and met my dad for lunch. After we got done eating, I went out and started up the van. It stalled repeatedly and then started to sound like a hammer was hitting it. It completely died. My dad took us home (after picking up our laundry) and I called the tow company and had it towed to the garage. I got a call from the mechanic last night who has to look at it closely but his first prognosis is that it is the motor. I have heard fixing the motor is a $2000-$3000 job. I don't think the van is worth that much!
We are praying that it is not the motor. Please join me in that request. We are also praying that it is not a large bill. The Lord always provides, we know this but at the moment, we have only about $100 in our savings account. If it is the motor, I know the Lord will supply all of our needs and it is always better than what we could have planned. I am thankful that the van died when I was with my dad. I did not have our cell phone and he was able to quickly get us back home. I see God's provision and hand on the situation right from the beginning. We could have been stranded at the restaurant with laundry at the laundromat, not sure who to call because everyone of my family members was working. Please pray for our van situation and praise God for his watchful care of us everyday. Ask that the Lord would give us wisdom should it be the motor, on what to do?

Keep praying.

My diagnosis from the doctor is walking pneumonia, bronchitis, ear infection, swollen glands and a high fever. I am feeling very bad. It is early Monday morning and my head is pounding. Pray for strength and healing for the week. I really need it! Thanks.

Prayer please!

This will be a short post. I am asking that you keep our family in prayer. Everyone of us has been quite ill for the past 3 weeks. It hasn't been all at the same time but I had remained fairly healthy until Wednesday. I am sicker than I have been in a very long time. It is 4 :45am and I have gotten very little sleep . I feel awful. The rest of my family seems to be getting better. They have been a tremendous help but when mom is sick, nothing runs as smoothly. Today will be my 4th day of not feeling well. I am supposed to go on a date with Emma this morning to swimming lessons and to make a bird house at Loews Home store. She is so looking forward to it. At this point, I am going to try to go but I feel so awful that something drastic needs to change in the next 4 hours when swimming lessons start. Please pray for me and that the rest of the family continues to get better. I greatly appreciate it.