Thoughts on a Sunday afternoon

Just thought I'd blog a bit about some things bouncing around in my head.  

1. I first of all want to thank God for sticking with me and teaching me to be obedient.  I have so many testimonies of God reaching out to me that I will not bore you with it here, but I praise God in EVERY storm and EVERY high and EVERY low because He never let's go of me.  Just like the song, I know :)  More importantly I want to thank Him for bringing me to The Creek, pushing me to get involved, and throwing Ignite in my lap.  I'm excited about the semester coming up that Paulette has had laid upon her heart-- "Sand Surfers."  Check out the site to order the book and see the promo video!  Very excited!  Which leads me to another praise to God-- I am able to stay home with our son.  I don't know if it was God working through Dustin or what but only God could have changed this woman's heart!  I was still in the stirrups worrying about my classroom and God had other plans.  He knows my job is bigger than my classroom and He is giving me the opportunity to build my future.

2. That future includes grad school.  I'm at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods working toward my M.Ed.  I am writing my master's thesis on classroom management (probably methodologies) and enjoying every bit of it.  I'm passionate about classroom management and how it plays such an integral part in the teacher/student success.  So again, God showed me that now was the time to work on this and it's going great!  I got a 100% in Teacher Leadership and a 98% in Technology in Education.

3. I'm thankful for the love of a husband.  Dustin is my best friend.  It's bringing me tears to even describe how much he means to me, but again God knew what he was doing when He made it so clear I was to marry this man.  I'm in love with him more each day.  Watching him with our son just melts my heart.  We both want to be the best parents possible, but to do that we have to be the best marriage partners we can.  Dietrich thinks it's hilarious when he watches us kiss.  Then he wants kissed.  I want our marriage and relationship to shower down upon our children in an open, honest, and respectful God-fearing way.  Dustin is able to provide for our family and we can live a comfortable life together.  Our lives are kind of up in the air at the moment because we're at a crossroads in life-- Dustin can retire from the Air Force in four years and we don't know where we want to live, what we want to do in regards to him staying in or actually retiring.  We are just waiting on God to move and let it fall in place.

4.  The stink-pot can walk!  Here's a quick video of it.  He's been taking a few steps here and there, but he's finally choosing walking over crawling more and more now.  The video reminds me of Frankenstein, how Dietrich walks with his arms straight out at times :)

Dietrich is God's baby, God def knew him before he was in my womb and knew the perfect match for our little family... God's allowing us to raise Dietrich and we are so thankful for this opportunity!  

5.  Last thing-- Today's new song at church was so very moving.  Check it out: