Category Archives: Day in the Life So…today was another crazy day–so I tried another day of my new version of cocooning;) (aka survival). I loaded all the kids up in the car and took them to this really fun kid’s place called PLAY here in town. I had never been—and oh my…I can’t believe it’s so close to me and I’ve […] You MUST scoot over to my friend Kristi’s blog and see the cuteness for yourself! How CUTE are these two cruisin’ Publix?! Go HERE to see for yourself! I could just GOBBLE them both right up! Happy Tuesday!!! I was just “blog cruisin” and saw those precious pictures and thought those exact words! Cuter than words!! Ah, I know, so adorable! Ethiopian babies are the cutest for sure!!! :o) One of the new challenges with another little one–is finding time to spend time with the Lord…reading His Word, reflecting on it and praying. I never want to get too busy. If I become too busy for Him–then…I am way too busy. I am thankful that I have a little man who wakes up a […] I’m not a mommy yet, but the day is coming! 🙂 Oh, and I LOOOOOVVVEEE the book, Radical. It stirred up my heart in a serious way. Unfortunately, people kind of look at me cross-eyed when I talk about it, or all the “radical” ideas within it….basically the calling of all believers! lol 🙂 Yup, I love it! Our lives are already changing drastically for Him. I can’t wait to see what happens next! Amen! I know I will always find peace, in a crazy day , in the Word of God alone! My husband and I go read the same chapter sometime throughout the day and then we talk about it after the boys are in bed. LOVING my Wiphan cookbook btw, I might haft to order some more for Christmas gifts 🙂 Love seeing pictures of your sweet family! AMEN!!!! I had lost my time with Him a few days last week- and let me tell you….the enemy was right up in my face. Thank God for His grace, and my sweet sweet time with HIM! Makes my life worth living. Thank you for this today…so encouraging. I always love how real you are! 🙂 Thanks Andrea. I have found that there are different seasons in my life where I have to adjust when I do my devotional time with the Lord. When I worked in the corporate world, before my babies, it was easy to keep a really predictable morning routine. Ideally I like doing it before everyone gets up in the morning, but sometimes that just doesn’t happen…like when we add a new baby to our family and I am up in the middle of the night instead.:) During those months I have to switch it to their naptime or set up different “soaking” times throughout the day and get creative with devotions in the bathroom!:) I know other mamas go through the same thing and it is encouraging to read about each one keeping God first! I never want to get too busy for Him! Thanks for that reminder!:) Oh, and Isaac is purely edible. Love him!:) still working on figuring this out…OY! Right before we got our referral, I had just finished reading through the Bible for the very first time! Now I feel stuck…do you just pick books to read again?? I have been reading the Psalms again, but now that my daily goal is gone…it is harder for some reason. I found your blog through Kristi Johnson. (My sister is a friend of hers.) I want to let you know of a group I belong to — Scripture Sisters. It was started by two ladies who wanted to hold each other accountable and read through the Bible in a year. Now there are over 800 women who read the same passages every day. You get the weekly readings through email, along with a cute calendar and Scripture cards and a devotion every month. It’s great for moms who don’t have time to go to a Bible study. If you are interested, please send me your email address and city and I will get you on the list.  Rico Suave (aka: Richard, the hubby) packed up the THREE older kiddos this morning to head to the lake with the Young side of the family (I’ll have to beg the cousins for pics to share with you all!). LOTS of family would be there and normally our family packs in a room–and we knew […] so glad you all had a wonderful time! very cute video! :0) hilarious..that voice…well..i can’t post what I think I sounds like 🙂 sooo funny!! But I think i emailed ya MY take on my voice!!! LOL ok, so super great weekend..love the video..will post tomorrow….LOVED havin yall 🙂 kj Andrea, I enjoyed meeting you and talking for a while. It was such a blessing to see families who have went before us and have already brought home their beautiful babies. Isaac is a adorable and can’t imagine what the day will feel like when we are finally bringing our baby home! Andrea, I seriously loved getting to meet you and Isaac this weekend! It was great! And how funny that we have mutual friends!! Love it! You are precious, and Isaac is just so CUTE I can’t stand it!! LOVED meeting ya’ll! Hope that we somehow get to see ya’ll again soon! Maybe our next road trip can be to GA!! And if you ever come to MS, you gotta stay with us!! YAY for a great road trip! I love both of your accents ~ it makes everything seem more exciting. West Coast does not have that cool factor when we talk. =) Adorable video and pictures. Sounds like and looks like soooo much FUN!!! We get to see the Kristi J crew in a couple of weekends….and are soooooo excited!!!!! so wanted to be there with y’all! looks like a very special time! Okay, this is just precious! I absolutely loved getting to meet you and Isaac. I have been such a fan of your postings and have loved watching your journey. I hope I didn’t scare you at the picnic when I just came up to you and was like, HEY, I know you! Anywho, so glad to meet you in person! And, I am so glad that you got a picture on your camera because I did not get one. I am going to save it from your blog so I can post. If you are ever in MS, please give us a shout!  “Oh my! I am having so much fun here with my family that I almost forgot that today is MY ONE MONTH-IVERSARY being home! Happy 1 month Gotcha Day to me! Gotta call some of my crew to see how they are doing!” “Um…yes, is My Miss Miss Mag Mag Pie there?! Um…I’m sorry Mrs. […] Like like like!!! Oh right, this isn’t FB! 😉 adorable as always! happy one month isaac! has it been a month?! WOW! happy one month, ITY! YAY! One month home! You couldn’t look more adorable, little man! Sweetness. We’ve adopted two trios of Russian siblings nearly a decade and half a decade ago, and anniversaries are STILL so important to us! Anniversaries are a great time to rejoice in God’s goodness and faithfulness. We rejoice with you at your one month-iversary! BTW, we’re friends of the Nordstrom family. I know they’ve found your posts and your emails a great encouragement as they wait. May God richly bless your family! Happy one month!!! Denise Happy 1 month home, Isaac! I love you, and I just can’t wait until I can hold you!!!!!!! I love your outfit! yayy, happy one month!! 🙂 kj Happy 1 month, Isaac Temesgen! You are such a cutie!! Happy Anniversary little man! |
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Okay…just laughed my way through this one! Kids are just a RIOT aren’t they?!? =D I’m sorry for your crazy night but I’m so glad you had such a fun and eventful day. Sometimes being busy makes me forget how tired I am…that is until around 9pm hits! 😉
Who am I kidding!?! DINNER TIME sounds more like it 😉
praying for you! hoping things will get better soon for your precious family. hang in there mama! we can do it all once we get our sleep!!!!!
I hope that you slept last night! We have been praying for you guys – I only wish that you lived closer so that we could help out. I, too, have an incredibly hard time asking/accepting help – definitely something that I will have to work on before number 4 comes home:). Praying for a relaxing day for you – yeah for grandparents!!
I am a momma of three children and our family is currently waiting for a little girl from Ethiopia. So I LOVE reading your blog because soon, I will be in your shoes. I can so relate to everything you say, no sleep, husband traveling, not being able to accept help easily. It just looks like you are doing such an incredible job. You are in our prayers all the way in Massachusetts!
The laundry train is the most thoughtful idea! Tricia is a love 🙂
I love how God provides people that are close to us to help us through transitioning times like this! God just answered a prayer for me, I was praying the other day that He would help me find the time and energy to be able to clean because I’ve been either spending all my time taking care of my Isaac or too tired to do anything so thankfully my 11 year old niece is AMAZING with Isaac and so she wanted to come over and hold him while I clean so I was finally able to clean this morning! YAY!
I can only imagine their sweet little faces when you started dumping in all those water toys!! Best mama ever! Accept the help….remember it is a blessing for others and they WANT to help. Have a super fun party weekend! Happy Birthday Isaac!
ooooooooh how fun!!!! And how blessed by God to have such great help – so happy for you that you are receiving that for all the sacrifice you are making right now!
so funny…loved it..i can so relate..as i’m typing iwth george asleep across my body..i need a web cam so people could see me typing plus holding a 3 yr. old 🙂 kj