my heart is gone..
http://ordinaryheroblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/trip-to-korah.html
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Read 'em and Weap..
http://talkissheep.blogspot.com/2010/07/korah-day-i-have-given-up-on-numbering.html
This link is an inside look at the trip Kelly from Ordinary Hero arranged and I almost went on. Being only one year from getting our girls I didn't feel as though I could leave them for this long yet.
WOW. Prepare to be affected by this blog entry.
This link is an inside look at the trip Kelly from Ordinary Hero arranged and I almost went on. Being only one year from getting our girls I didn't feel as though I could leave them for this long yet.
WOW. Prepare to be affected by this blog entry.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
More Summer Love..
Swimming in Jersey's birthday present of a pool. This thing has been worth the money.
Playing with clay. This stuff isn't as easy to mold as play-doh..they are finding that out.
Oldests birthday, of which, he is getting too big I might add. All he wanted this year was jeans and money. He's eleven people..that's just not right! He tried to trick the cake lady and ask for a triangle cake and triangle cookies (since he had never seen one). She delivered. We celebrated on Father's Day and had the whole family here at our house for that Sunday. It was a great time!
Being in the 4th of July Parade for my husband motorsports business. Yes, it was hot. Yes, the kids needed water to drink. Yes, Jerusa is crying in one of these.
UFC fight night in which we had about five other families here and we grilled out and pigged out!
4th of July family photo. Us mom's are always behind the camera:)
Popping a tent in the front yard and making smore's late at night 'cause we have the whole day tomorrow to sleep and ride four wheeler's all day. Also playing in it with their Grandma Annie and Aunt Cakie!
Enjoying and loving this summertime. Praying it could slow down just a bit.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
One Year Together...Let's Make Art!
I have a friend Nicki who blogs about being a stay at home mom. Her recent post about purging and finishing house projects that were long over do pushed me over the edge to join that train. I/We have more than our share of things to be done around here and this blog just might give me the motivation I need to get 'er done:)..
Not too mention, it has been over a year for our family to be a whole, why not make some art to celebrate.
As you may or may not know we just built a new home a year ago in March. In this glorious dream house of ours, I had an art nook built in the wall by our entry. It is lined with wood planks of siding that we had left from the outside of our house. There is a small pot light above to highlight this ultimate masterpiece. I bought a large, rectangle canvas to fit this spot and have had it leaned up inside of it waiting for the right time to strike me to do this. After a few months of being untouched I got out my acrylics and brushes and sat them by the canvas thinking that would get it done..it didn't
With it now being July and my kids are missing art from school they urged me to do it. Yesterday morning I said, "Let's do it!" I didn't do any prepping to the canvas but I did do some tea stained drips to the background.
Then I laid it on the floor(yes, outside would have been best but when the creative mood strikes, my mind makes no room for order or prep really) and sat the kids around it. I sketched out what I had thought of doing, each kid painting their flower and I would paint the vase..
I had them close their eyes and envision the shape of their bloom. I said, "ok now pick some colors and color it in" "Seal it in your mind..got it? ok let's paint it" They picked their main color and went to work in their area. After a while I could tell that what I had thought wasn't going to work. Jersey's flower was very low and the vase would have covered it up. So we made the brown be the dirt and the flowers coming up from that. It turned out better than I could have dreamed.
I did have each one tell me how to outline their bloom and how to give it detail. I did that with black ink in a dropper. It's wonderful! Beautiful! Priceless! I have been going to gaze at it multiple times a day! It's so wonderful. Thank you God for my many blessings. You are better to me than I am to myself.
Not too mention, it has been over a year for our family to be a whole, why not make some art to celebrate.
As you may or may not know we just built a new home a year ago in March. In this glorious dream house of ours, I had an art nook built in the wall by our entry. It is lined with wood planks of siding that we had left from the outside of our house. There is a small pot light above to highlight this ultimate masterpiece. I bought a large, rectangle canvas to fit this spot and have had it leaned up inside of it waiting for the right time to strike me to do this. After a few months of being untouched I got out my acrylics and brushes and sat them by the canvas thinking that would get it done..it didn't
With it now being July and my kids are missing art from school they urged me to do it. Yesterday morning I said, "Let's do it!" I didn't do any prepping to the canvas but I did do some tea stained drips to the background.
Then I laid it on the floor(yes, outside would have been best but when the creative mood strikes, my mind makes no room for order or prep really) and sat the kids around it. I sketched out what I had thought of doing, each kid painting their flower and I would paint the vase..
I had them close their eyes and envision the shape of their bloom. I said, "ok now pick some colors and color it in" "Seal it in your mind..got it? ok let's paint it" They picked their main color and went to work in their area. After a while I could tell that what I had thought wasn't going to work. Jersey's flower was very low and the vase would have covered it up. So we made the brown be the dirt and the flowers coming up from that. It turned out better than I could have dreamed.
I did have each one tell me how to outline their bloom and how to give it detail. I did that with black ink in a dropper. It's wonderful! Beautiful! Priceless! I have been going to gaze at it multiple times a day! It's so wonderful. Thank you God for my many blessings. You are better to me than I am to myself.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Finally..
I have prolonged this trip recollection from over one year ago for way to long. The last of it that I'd like to share is that the last day was sad. Sad to go to HH and say goodbye to the kids and caretakers. It was hard on everyone involved. After we left HH and went back to our hotel, we packed up. We waited and ate in the lobby, we tried to play outside and soak in as much as we could. It was the struggle of not wanting to jerk the girls from the home land and dying to see our 3 boys back here in the states. This was the longest they had been without us and we only called home twice while in ET...we were ready. The girls had wrote enough love letters to our boys to wallpaper our bathroom..they were ready too.
I love that I bought a journal to fill with my thoughts and the girls thoughts, doodles and pictures. If I hadn't taken that we wouldn't have had Bethlehem's name written in Amhariac to keep. It didn't take her long at all to forget that.
Once 4 o'clock pm rolled around we were all filing on the bus to take that trip to the airport. It was sad to say goodbye to our new friends and to that familiar land the girls have only known.
I remember shedding some tears as we got off the bus and hugged the other families, not knowing if we would see them once we got in the airport. Good thing we did because some did go their own way.
We were a little, a lot nervous about Jerusa M. being in a crowded environment where see could run like the wind at the drop of a hat. She could and would do that!! She is free spirit unlike any I have ever known.
After we weaved through the rope maze, made our ticket and bag check and made it to our gate I got the girls in p.j.'s and potty breaks. Then we were in line to board and Jerusa had a major meltdown. It was so sad and I thought my husband was going to loose his mind. There was no calming her down until she finally fell asleep.
We were on the plane that the girls thought was so cool and buckling in. I turned my face away so the girls couldn't see me(they didn't like it when I cried) and SOBBED. Here we were taking them from their family, their home, the food and smells and language and culture that they have always known. I really had an unexpected struggle with it. I didn't forsee it but here it was. So..the plane was taking off and we were flying them home.
God, thank you for walking with us while we sought to do what you gently spoke to our spirits. You made every provision as we obeyed. You are God and nothing is impossible with You.
I love that I bought a journal to fill with my thoughts and the girls thoughts, doodles and pictures. If I hadn't taken that we wouldn't have had Bethlehem's name written in Amhariac to keep. It didn't take her long at all to forget that.
Once 4 o'clock pm rolled around we were all filing on the bus to take that trip to the airport. It was sad to say goodbye to our new friends and to that familiar land the girls have only known.
I remember shedding some tears as we got off the bus and hugged the other families, not knowing if we would see them once we got in the airport. Good thing we did because some did go their own way.
We were a little, a lot nervous about Jerusa M. being in a crowded environment where see could run like the wind at the drop of a hat. She could and would do that!! She is free spirit unlike any I have ever known.
After we weaved through the rope maze, made our ticket and bag check and made it to our gate I got the girls in p.j.'s and potty breaks. Then we were in line to board and Jerusa had a major meltdown. It was so sad and I thought my husband was going to loose his mind. There was no calming her down until she finally fell asleep.
We were on the plane that the girls thought was so cool and buckling in. I turned my face away so the girls couldn't see me(they didn't like it when I cried) and SOBBED. Here we were taking them from their family, their home, the food and smells and language and culture that they have always known. I really had an unexpected struggle with it. I didn't forsee it but here it was. So..the plane was taking off and we were flying them home.
God, thank you for walking with us while we sought to do what you gently spoke to our spirits. You made every provision as we obeyed. You are God and nothing is impossible with You.
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