Multitude Monday 14

This year I knew what I was getting for Mother's Day, in fact, I got it early!

131. We moved to our new home as a family, I did not stay behind to sell the house, my husband did not go ahead to start work. My husband did come up for 2 nights to find our new home, but that was all the separation. We moved as a family, we stayed together.

132. We stayed together - our family does much better when we are together. When Daddy returns home at the end of the day you would think he was gone for weeks the way he is greeted. We are funny that way. We love being together.

133. Plus my family made all the meals, and a cake for me.

134. They did not do the dishes at the end of the day, just like I asked. I asked for them to be left, dishes can be washed any time, but let's play now. So opposite of what I usually do, the usual let's get the work done so we can play. A special treat.

But there was one gift I did not expect or know about, one gift that not even my husband knew about:

135. While the details are just for us, our almost 5 year old made it clear that Jesus is her's, and she is His. No prompting, nothing fancy, just the innocent questions and words of a child with Love in her heart.

136. A small glimpse from the Father that the seeds we carefully and deliberately sow into our daughters are already yielding great fruit. Such encouragement. Such confirmation of the words that apply for parenting: Do not let your hands grow weary, do not tire of doing good.

137. I have a family who loves God and each other.


We moved, and

138. We love our new home.

139. We can see the snow covered mountains out the windows! Something I always wanted, but had only told God.

140. We live so close to my husband's work that he can come home for lunch any time he wants.

141. Miss Pear is delighted that she can see "Christmas Trees" growing outside her window. For a girl who has only lived in Southern CA, this is huge.

142. We have a lovely yard for the girls to play in. Yesterday I put bubbles in the water table while we were playing outside and they had great fun flinging them around the yard.

143. We may have found our new Church home already. We love it, and plan on continuing to attend. If the Lord confirms this is the one, we will take the membership class in October. (Yes, we will take that long, we will not rush.)

144. The Lord moved us to a new home, a new city, a new state, and is already helping us to love it.