Sorry for the delay

There are of course many reasons that I have not posted, however, they are more excuses than anything so I will not bore you.

So, since my last post, God has granted both of us a great deal of peace in our given situations. We are not exactly happy with certain things that aer happening, but again, God is faithful and gracious. We have many reminders in our daily lives that help keep things in the proper perspective.

On the kid front, things are chaning by leaps and bounds. At the beginning of November, we added two kids to our house, T and A. A moved in from another house and, though she struggles sometimes with rules, is doing well. T on the other hand a really difficult time adjusting to our situation, primarily school. Stressful story short, she moved out of hte house before Christmas. About a week ago, we added V to our midst. She is ten, though she looks twelve or thirteen and is used to being treated as such. However, she is not as responsible as a a preeteen or teenager should be, so she sort of struggles with the fact that I treat her as ten year old. I do think over all, she will do fine. And just a few days ago we added another A. She is fifteen. I have not actually met her but she came from a some one who usually recommends good kids to us, so I am not too worried about it. Just to recap for those who have a difficult time keeping up (you are in the same boat as my hsuband if that is the case, so don't feel bad at all) we have AB who is 17, KR who is 17, PS who is 16, LF who is 16, A? who is 15, MB who is 11, VF who is 10 and CW who is 9. That makes for a full house! It also makes for a very busy house. AB is finishing driver's education. KR, PS, and LF all have their driver's license. PS is the school mascot. LF is on the dance team, is preparing to take at trip to New York with her choir and holding down a part time job. KR and PS are looking for part time work that fits into their schedules. School is still going very well for all them. Mostly As and Bs, though we do have some Cs but no Fs!!! We are the only house on campus who has all kids passing every six weeks. My kids think that is really cool. I think that is amazing and I praise them for it every single chance I get.

Christmas was long but a big blessing all around. As always, our donors went above and beyond for our kids. A few got to go see family and others just hung around the house for the break. My parents came out the day after Christmas and stayed for a few days. It was really cool. My kids loved them and they returned to favor to my kids. It was a great blessing to all involved. I think the work we do was made a little more realy to both my parents after that trip.

Right now, I feel pretty cool. I am sitting in Starbucks updating my blog and people watching. I feel very "cool". How sad, huh? We changed our work schedule. We now work three weeks on and have one week off, weeks running from Wednesday to Wednesday. There are two times through out the year that we will combine our week off with our vacation week giving us 14 days in a row off. There are two other times throughout the year that we will have a week on, week off, week on, week off to use our other vacation weeks.

This month finds us in Arizona with Jason trying to enjoy a late season mule deer archery hunt. We have been here for four days and he has not really had any luck. He dropped me off in a this wonderful town called Prescot (locals pronounce it "Pres-kit"). They had a great down town area of antiques, jewelry, amazing art and book stores. The square was focused around the courthouse. The lawn of the courthouse today featured some sort of local entertainment troupe. They were juggling and playing quick little games with the kids. It was all very quaint and beautiful. I am so very glad I chose to come down today.

Next month we are staying home so that we can save for March. March will be one of those on/off/on/off months. I think the following dates are right, but I am not sure. However Jason is going on a wild hog hunt with a group of guys down in the hill country of Texas. He will drop me off at my mom's house in Austin on March 12 and we will return to Amarillo on March 19th. We will work for a week and then head to Tulsa for the International Soul Winning Workshop on the 26th returning to Amarillo on April 2.

I think that is all for now. Remeber, God is good, all the time!