Contentment has been the lesson that God has wanted me to learn the last 3-4 weeks. I don't want anything to sound like I'm complaining...I have been over joyed ( not every minute) at what God is teaching me about being content really means...when I got the call from David that the car was broken my first reaction wasn't thankfulness...I quickly jumped to oh no!! Now I'm limited to what I can do. (spring break was the next week) .God was so faithful to remind me of where my true joy and happiness comes from and he reminded me a couple people who live with one car on a daily basice...I was quickly drawn to prayer when I was humbled by those thoughts. And the blessing of it all is that we do have another car coming to us from some family who have a used car they offered us a couple months ago. God knows all thing and already had everything planned out. The waiting has been hard at time but God has kept me busy with sick kids for the last three weeks so we had to be home any how. It's been a real bless like God is always faithful to do. Now that everyone is well we are enjoying the things we have and being creative with being at home. Liam is getting a great handle on potty training and has almost accomplished it. David is off another week because his new job started a week later than we thought. We have had some great family time together. My birthday fell in their somewhere among all these things. Learning to be happy and content with what God has given us has been a big lesson. I was praying this morning that God would show me what is a want and what is a need. I am so quick to think a want is a need and I get so confused. It's looking at the motives of my heart and preaching the truth to myself.
Ayla has had a love for all the snails and slugs in the backyard the last couple weeks. She keeps telling me how she made a home for them with mud, rocks, dog food, and water. Then she was upset because one of them got out and she didn't know where it went....the story goes on..within the last two days she told me how she stabbed one of them with a stick and was the ...I think you can picture what I'm saying...after I called her in to write her paragraph she just keep gong on and on about the slugs I told her that she could write about them. We spent some time learn more about them and then she wanted to know how they made babies...I was like oh oh okay...I found and educated video and shared it with her and then we ended everything with a talk about how God makes a family. It was a really blessing the way it all came about because I have been praying about these things and God made a way. Right after we where done talking she ran outside to be with her slugs and yelled for me to come outside. When I came out she showed some slug eggs that she found...It was such a blessing that God provided the eggs for her to see. Now she says that she is going to watch them hatch over the next couple weeks...
This is what snail eggs look like and Ayla did watch them and saw little snails over the next couple of weeks.
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