One of our favorite Goodbye gifts...A candle from Mikayla & Foster because Kentucky Stinks. |
Claire finding things to play with the first day we were here. She is such a happy girl!
Claire loves the lazy susans!
After we took the boys to the first day of school at Tilden Hogge we buzzed into town and had breakfast at Rootabakers Bakey. They gave the girls free cookies for their first visit! Cookies for breakfast! Yum! Yum!
Below is the big orange truck that loaded us up...they arrived about 9am and left that night about 8pm...loaded to the brim. In fact they had to load some things in the Allied van and reconfigure to get it all in the truck. The next day I spent cleaning and preparing the home for the new buyers. We don't know who they are yet but we are confident we will soon. It was a bit of a sad day for me. Andrew came home early from school with an ear infection that day as we prepared to leave Cushing.
The owner from Root-A-Bakers Bakery heard we were new in town and gave us free bread and cookies! What a blessing!
Abigail's favorite thing about Kentucky so far...is the honey! We have a bee farm nearby and the honey is wonderful! The beekeeper told us we could come by in the spring and he would give us all a bee and honey making class! Too fun! We found out his son is in Carson's class at school.
The boys....are loving it here. Lots of exploring to do in the Daniel Boone National Forrest! The morning after we moved in it snowed about 4 inches. It was so beautiful! The boys are loving the hills and trees and the room to explore.
Thursday, the boys started school at Tilden Hogge Elementary. It is about 9 miles from our home. They are now wild mustangs. It is a nice school that is about the same size as their school in Cushing (188 students). The people here are so nice and friendly. Andrew was a little unsure of his teacher at first because she was sooo excited to see him and wouldn't stop hugging him but he eventually decided she was okay and chose to stay the rest of the day. Carson's teacher, Ms.Mason, is very nice. I look forward to getting to know them both more and building relationships with them. Carson was a little leery of making new friends but we have been praying specifically for this and was so excited to hear that all 17 other kids in his class want to be his friend. I am so proud of our boys and the way they have embraced all that the Lord has asked us to do in moving to a new home, town, school. I know that is hard. Change is hard. Making new friends is hard. A new normal is working its way out in our lives right now and I am so thankful for children that are flexible and willing to embrace a new adventure. The boys liked school so much on Thursday that they were may be too excited to catch the bus early Friday morning. The bad news is we are now the first bus stop picked up and the last dropped off. The bus picks them up at 6:45 am and drops them off at 4:15...that is a long time on a bus. We are still praying about what is best there, maybe even if I take them in the morning and then they can ride home in the afternoons it would be better that over two hours on a bus a day....but they like the bus so we will see. In preparing them for bed thursday night we told them more than once that they would have to get up early to catch the bus so they better hurry to bed. We got them showered up, pajamas and in bed...30 minutes later...after we thought they were asleep we heard someone coming up the stairs...It was Andrew...fully clothed...socks, shoes, jacket...Dustin asked them what he was doing and why he was fully dressed and he told us that he and Carson had decided to just sleep in their clothes, jackets and shoes so they wouldn't have to do that in the morning. They would be ready for the bus....funny, funny boys! Dustin took Drew downstairs and talked them both into changing back into the pajamas. Carson really didn't want to asking, "why? why can't we just sleep in our clothes?" Dustin said he told them, "Because then your clothes will be wrinkled and you will look like a bum and I don't raise bums." to which Carson replied, "Shoes don't wrinkle...." A good laugh....but no, we don't sleep in our clothes. They were thinking on that one...really thinking it through. Below is a picture of Claire and her favorite spot at the new house...a swing outside. In two pictures below is also a picture of Abigail on move in day. She got so tired that she crawled under a desk in the boys room and took a nap. It was funny to find her just snoozing with her bottom in the air. Sorry for the disarray of pictures and some of them without captions. I am not sure how to do that with this program I used to upload the pictures. We are pretty much moved in and ready to find our pattern..our new normal. Next week will be a little different because Dustin will be going to Haiti tomorrow through Friday. He will be traveling with the Hands and Feet project to help establish medical care for the 2 orphanages they currently have that serves 150 children. They will also be traveling to northern Haiti to visit and pray about an opportunity to take over two additional orphanages there that serve about 200 children. Please pray for safety for the group going. Pray for unity amoung them. Pray they the Lord would boldly reveal to them His will for the expansion of the Hands and Feet Project and if He wills for them to take on the two additional orphanages in Northern Haiti. Pray for my husband emotionally. He went and served in a medical relief trip to Haiti a couple of weeks after the earthquake and on the way home he told the Lord he would be okay if he never went back to Haiti. The Lord had other plans. Pray the Lord will give Him a clear vision for what He wants to accomplish with his skills and knowledge of medicine and ministry and how He desires for Dustin to help the Hands and Feet Project. A part of me is really sad not be going alongside of my husband this week. A part of me is so sad not to get to hug and love on our four precious kids that we sponsor there but I do know that this trip is not when I am to join him. I know that the Lord wants me here at home with our children this week as we blaze a new trail in obedience to Him and establish a new normal in Morehead, Ky. Much love to you! I would like to leave you with a challenge today. I want to challenge you to be a friend today. Look for those the Lord wants you to connect with. I am so thankful for my friend Amy, I still remember enrollment day at school in Cushing for Andrew and she was so friendly and introduced herself. I didn't know her...I had never seen her...I was new to town but she was looking that day and the Lord connected me with her. I am so thankful. I am looking now to connect with Moms, fellow believers, here in my new town again and I am challenged this week to always be looking for someone who needs a friend. Maybe it is someone new to your town, church, library story time group, ect....be looking, be friendly. We can not share Christ with people if we won't share life with people. Chose to be a friend because the Lord is such a very good friend to us! As I am the new person again in a new town I am challenged by this and just wanted to encourage you to be looking. You are such a blessing to me. Thank you for reading, praying and partnering with us on this journey. He alone is worthy!
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