Well, here I am again... I realize I haven't written in a long time, but things have been busy...REALLY busy. Our family has been on a journey to change what we do and how we do it. We have been overhauling our ENTIRE lively hood. I'll admit, it's been nuts, crazy, chaos, insane and somewhat peaceful in the midst of all that! I know those two sound like contradictions, but they really aren't. Because Jesus has been in the midst of the leading what we do everyday. You see, we have these four little blessings in our house...Denae (8 yrs.), Austin (6 yrs.), Avery (3 yrs.), and Deja (will be 2 yrs in a couple wks). Our blessings have "issues". Some is just our inborn sin nature. Some is our degenerated genetics passed down. Some is how we were eating. Some is how we disciplined. And the rest is the lack of discipline with how we were living our lives. Well, we are on a journey to change...BIG CHANGES ARE HAPPENING HERE! We have one blessing with Dyslexia, one blessing has ADD, and one blessing has Autism. Our house feels very crazy a lot of the time. BUT GOD... Those two words say a lot to me... BUT GOD...

God started working in my heart to figure out exactly why my kids were acting like heathens and why I was loosing my sanity! As I prayed, He lead. We have changed our diet, changed our discipline system, changed our ways of curing our illnesses, changed our way of schooling, changed our thinking, changed our time spent with God and HE (yes, God) has changed our lives!!! He has given my husband and I strength, wisdom, patience and understanding. No, not every day is perfect or even good for that matter, but every day is from Him. We strive to do every day WITH Him and He provides what we need for each moment.

So as I was saying we have changed how we spend time with God...well, I'll tell you that that has been a huge part of making our family mesh. The goal is this:

At least once a day we set everything down. The kids and I crank up the worship music and jam. Yes, we rock it! (No mental pictures allowed here. lol.) We sing our hearts out and dance until we are out of breath...all while we are laughing and praising the Lord together. :) I LOVE this time everyday. After our worship time we sometimes just have book time (this is when I pull out my Beth Moore Bible study or just get in the Word for a minute), sometimes I read scripture or a devo book to the kids, and other times my three younger kids go play again while I get in the Word and our mommy/daughter devo book (Dannah Gresh's tween study...I highly recommend this! It creates an amazing connected relationship with your daughter. I thought I had one, but nope I really didn't. Maybe I'll write about this another day). Anyway, if the day is crazy book time doesn't work, so that nixes quiet time too, but our worship..."rock it out"...time is always able to happen. It's fun and active (and a good workout for this outta shape mommy).

Things have changed here and I am thankful. For a few weeks, I would have rathered give up or disappear. I am SOOOO glad that those weeks are behind us. Though we do still have many rough days, I am very thankful to have Jesus to call on. (For those of you that hear me complain on my bad days please remind me to call on Jesus! Thanks! :))

I may not be able to write for a long time again and I may write tomorrow...I don't know! That's the "schedule" we are on in the house...day by day, moment by moment. :) Thanks Jesus for helping me, our family, through this journey. I look forward to watching you continue to change us to be better used for YOU!!!