March Madness.... This year that doesn’t mean basketball! Yes my first picture is Emmie for middle school basketball... had to include that! We finished up basketball & had some cold lacrosse games for Noah... but just a few before.... Everything Changed!
2020...The Year of the Pandemic!
Covid 19... Corona... Homeschool....Quarantined....Face Masks...Lysol & Sanitizer...Canceled Events...No church....No travel for work or anything else....
LOTS of TOGETHERNESS!
The first month of this all seemed so surreal... we will get through it, right? As I look back at the pictures, even though we were all in a shock & seemed stuck at home & glued to our TVs... I look back & see HOPE.. In the middle of winter, out in the country woods as I ran beside flowers blooming up from the ground covered in crunchy, cold leaves... I was marveled at how something so beautiful could come up & get through something so dead & old & dirty. It really helped me get through the hard days... & cling to the fact that “Perhaps I was made for a time such as this”.... But the real question is How Long will THIS go on!??!!!!!!
“Perhaps You Were Made For Such A Time As This”.... !?WOW?!...I had no idea when I bought this T-shirt over a month ago, what it would feel like to wear it today...this week...in this world. As many of us are clinging to the only SURE thing right now & that is our LORD JESUS! 🙏🏻 I want to trust & I do, but it all seemed to hit just so fast! School cancelled, the grocery store trip with my oldest, nothing but empty shelves for all things on my list. I admit, my gut hurt. When we got home I overheard him laughing naively telling Nate, “everyone was running around frantic in the grocery store & Mom is over there looking at play dough.” I kind of laughed inside thinking oh gosh I was?! But it gave me a little peace knowing that is how he saw his mother. Even though my thoughts were racing a million times a minute. But God has us. We began as many of you have 🥰🤩🤪HOMESCHOOL
Day 1 📚 I had the “Studious student”- Emmie, the “Bring your pet to school student”- Gunner, the “Raise her hand for help every chance she got student” (just to get more Mommy kisses🥰)-Jensie, & Last but certainly not least, the “Funny, but sometimes disruptive, entertainer student”- Noah
He left the room to get headphones & came back with a sack of old bottle rockets! 😳😂 So we stopped and did “Science”. 😂 We have played games & had some quiet & laughed a lot. I haven’t minded it one bit. My heart has been saddened for the same reasons as many of yours. We recently wrote some scripture in the walls of the home we are building. As I looked back in my camera roll to see them, Many of them are resonating with the times we are in now. We chose these scriptures long before this, for God’s blessings of our future home & to remain in our hearts & lives as we live life now in Tennessee. They are reminding me that as much as we want to live for today, the here & now, the dreams of the future...that we MUST let our HOPE remain in HIM & live for eternity with HIM & not the World News. I keep reminding myself these things as I wake in the night. I do love how the world seems to be coming together to get through this. I will be happy when Lots of long hugs from people will be ok again. I love hugs. ❤️
Joshua 1:9 Be strong & courageous, do not be afraid or discouraged, For the Lord your God WILL BE WITH YOU wherever you go.
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