Family Daybook

Our Family Daybook

Around the Homestead...

We've had frost...two nights of it.  Ugh.  Even with covering over my garden with plastic we lost a lot of tomato plants...learning some really hard lessons this first year of our homestead.  Starting a garden, tilling, planning, starting seedlings, transplanting those seedlings, staking, weeding, watering, dealing with frost....its all hard work but we're hoping it pays off and we have a fruitful garden this summer.

 Need to pick up our half of an order of chicken feed that we bought to prepare for our chicks coming.



 

Our adoption process...

Had a phone interview with the international agency we're going to use...went well.  Now we're just looking for the child that God is calling us to add to our family.  Praying that that child will be listed with our agency and we'll just "know."  Now hopefully we can start our home visits.  And our hours of online training.

Learning at home...

Off from school this week!  Mommy was just as excited as the kids...we needed to have nothing school related to do so we could deal all the rest of our life right now.  We've had our rental house to deal with, used car shopping, Easter week...

What we've been reading...

"The Small Scale Poultry Flock"...bought it from amazon.  Excellent.  Chicks arrive in 1 week!

What we've been thinking about...

Thomas Jefferson's birthday today...I didn't realize what was inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.  It says,

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

Quite a quote to consider today on his birthday. 

You can go to http://mommylife.net/ to read more on this day of Jefferson's birthday.

I'm thankful for...

Taking one more small but helpful step towards adoption yesterday.  For Dan finding what looks to be a good, used car that we can afford for him to purchase.  For great kids and beautiful Carolinas weather!

I'm praying for...

The kids of Pleven Orphanage, Elizabether Dehority, the Archers and for Michelle to be blessed with the funds to bring her girls home.