The Essence of a Mother

Once a month for the past three years our family has been going out with our outreach group from our church and passing out bread and goodies in a lower income neighborhood. How it usually works is we go out for a couple of hours on a Saturday and some of us bag the groceries while the rest of us ask the people what their needs are and if we could pray for them. The Lord has opened up many opportunities to minister one on one to many of these people simply needing some prayer and the Love of God. Since doing this every month for the past three years we started becoming weary. It seemed that all we were doing was passing out food and we felt we were just another "social service" group doing a good deed. We weren't seeing much fruit from it. Donnie and I were so close to calling it quits when the Lord gave us another idea.......to open air preach the Gospel! Ladies from our group passing out food and in the back you can see one of our sisters ministering And there is l...

Finally my Thanksgiving Post!! Every other year we spend Thanksgiving with Donnie's side of the family. I love it!! My in-laws home gets filled up with LOTS of kids (mostly ours) and LOTS of big kids. Here are some pictures we snapped of our special day. I will put descriptions at the bottom of most pictures. Sit back and enjoy. The post that will come soon is my birthday post! When I get to it, I will tell you how I spent celebrating my 39th birthday! I still feel like I am in my 20's. Guess the children keep me young! I love my life!! Ok here it goes: My In laws: Donnie and Chris Yep, you read this right! They are also named Donnie and Chris (they are the originals...ha ha ha). It gets a bit confusing when we all gather together, but usually they are called Pops and Mema by most of us. It get confusing when others are calling out our names and then we both answer "Yes?" Me and my Babe-Donnie!! I love this man! What a gift in my life! Donnie and his ...

A few weeks ago, without me knowing, Tsavah and Shiloh got a hold of my camera and shot this video of Tsavah singing. She wanted to make a video for her blog. I thought I would share this with you. I really feel she has a good voice. Tsavah is my child who sings ALL THE TIME. She's been singing since she was two. She loves to worship the Lord. The song she was going to sing was a worship song, but for some reason she sang the chorus of a Disney song. So sit back and enjoy.. Oh, and isn't Shiloh such a "cool dude"? LOL Chris

Letting you all know, I am still promising the Thanksgiving post. My daughters went to their Aunt's house for a sleep over and are still not home. They've been busy making ornaments and taking tons of pictures. Yep, my camera is with them, which has all my Thanksgiving pictures. So the Thanksgiving post will have to wait. I can give a bit of a teaser though.... Nothing spectacular happened other than there being about 34 (I think) people in my In laws home. Yep, there was a tight squeeze! I loved it when we all held hands to say the Blessing. Donnie's 80 something year old grandma (mother of 8) was there and it was so awesome to see how many of us came from her seed! It really was wonderful! Not all of her children were there. Four of her biological children were there and the rest of us were the fruit of the fruit of her womb or the spouses of the fruit. I love FAMILY!! Oh, and my In laws were absolutely wonderful because they bought extra turkeys to give away ...

Come visit my other blog and read "What are the Desires of Your Heart"..... I still need to post on this blog....Probably the day after Thanksgiving sharing our Thanksgiving with our family!! Loves Ya, Chris

I know this post is a little late but never to late to honor my beautiful daughter Moriah for her belated birthday. Moriah turned 12 on November 7th. She is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady in every way. It is so awesome to have an "older" daughter. Even though she isn't technically a teenager she is a very mature and responsible young lady. I so much enjoy my time with her. I love to talk to her because her heart is so tender for the Lord. I think this is such an amazing thing to have at 12 years old. She is hungering so much during this time of her life to know God more in an ever so personal way. It is so nice to watch the growth and maturity in all areas of her life. I know we are going to be so close when she becomes a grown woman. I have visions of us shopping, going out for coffee, praying, having girls night out and playing with my grandbabies that will be birthed from her womb. It is such a joy to have been blessed with my sweet Moriah. ...

Life's been busy, but so wonderful!! Homeschooling, keeping up with the house, the children, and loving my husband can be time consuming. I don't have much to say, but wanted to post some pictures of us at the soccer park the other day. I had gone to Justin's soccer game and Shiloh helped snap some of these pics of me and the kids. Enjoy!! The amazing circus girl!! Daddy, Mommy, Galen and Ana Mommy and baby Mommy and Galen Mommy and Kole Mommy and Shiloh Mommy and Ephraim Ephraim getting into the charcoal. Don't worry it wasn't hot Buddys: Kole and Galen