Our family is participating in and raising pledges for the 2008 Walk For Life benefiting the Whatcom County Pregnancy Clinic in Bellingham. W.C.P.C. is a local nonprofit that gives caring support through hundreds of client contacts every year! 100% of donations go to provide free services including pregnancy tests, ultrasound exams, counseling and best of all the unconditional love and support of Jesus.
If you are interested in giving a tax-deductible donation to this organization by sponsoring us you can click the link below, sponsor us and leave a message if you’d like. It is not a per-mile pledge but instead your pledge is a flat amount.
Please click the link above to visit our e-walk page. You can give by credit card or choose to have a reminder of your pledge sent by mail. Or, if you would rather not go to their Web site, and if you have any questions, you can contact me at betsy@h2os.org.
This weekend I spent time putting together a plan for the boys for the rest of the school year. We have only about 13 weeks of school left (10 weeks til we leave for Disneyland — Yipee!). The boys are learning so much and I am astounded at what we have accomplished this year! I feel more sure all the time that teaching them at home was the best choice for our family. I love that we have flexibility and that the boys can learn at their pace (which is quite a bit faster than they could go in public school). I have learned so much throughout this year and I feel confident in our curriculum choices. I am so thankful for the privilege of being able to be home with the boys. They are so great! I totally enjoy them and love the time we spend together.
The next couple months are going to fly by. Spring soccer season starts with a practice this week and the first game will be next Saturday. Sean tries out for baseball this Saturday morning and will begin practices and games shortly after that. We’ll once again be spending a lot of time out at Northwest Fields.
Cam is super busy (but it’s all really great stuff). He’s coaching Caleb’s soccer team (taking a class this weekend to become a licensed coach), covering the car wash by himself for the next month while Mike and Cory head out to Guatemala for a mission trip, he’s reading about 4 different challenging books, working, leading small group, participating in a couple things at church, putting together a new running schedule for another half marathon and just putting in the time and effort to be a great dad/husband. I am really proud of him.
Tuesday I began training at the Whatcom County Pregnancy Center to become a peer counselor/mentor. I am really excited about this opportunity. God has been nudging me for the past 10 years to take this step and I am looking forward to see how He will work through me. It’s a full circle thing for me/us. Cam and I went to WCPC when we found out we were pregnant with Sean (almost 10 years ago now). We found so much support, encouragement, love and acceptance in our counselor there (she even came to our wedding). God is very alive and active in the ministry that happens at WCPC and I am honored to join their team. Each of the women I met on Tuesday love Jesus with all of their hearts. I was pleased to see hearts that desire to love and treat the women who come through the doors with dignity and respect. My next bible study will start in April and I am really looking forward to that as well. In the meantime I have picked up (again) My Utmost for His Highest, which I am loving and I started 90 days With Jesus The One and Only. If I don’t have some structure to my quiet times they fall apart!
As we look at our schedule and see how full it is and how much we have taken on it seems kinda crazy, yet it’s not, it’s just our life. We have enough time if we use it wisely. Cam and both feel like we are right where God wants us to be and for that we are grateful. Now we need to make sure that we operate in God’s strength and not our own, consistently asking Jesus for what we need for that day/hour/moment.The Transporter movie fullSix Ways to Sunday movie download
The boys are playing Star Wars Lego this afternoon and I overhear: The Emperor (Sean) says to Yoda (Caleb), “You sound like Fozzie The Bear”. This is really funny to me because it actually shows how closely Caleb was getting Yoda’s voice (Frank Oz was the voice for both characters).
The boys crack me up! I love to listen to them play and hear how creative they are.
Now they are moving on to Star Wars Trivial Pursuit and I bet I am going to get recruited to play too. I often surprise them (and myself) with my knowledge of Star Wars trivia, although I will never even come close to Cam’s level of knowledge on all things Star Wars. I just answered a “yellow pie question” for Caleb without even thinking about it! Oops!! Sean isn’t too happy with me.
Where does it go?
I love that we have flexibility and that the boys can learn at their pace (which is quite a bit faster than they could go in public school). I have learned so much throughout this year and I feel confident in our curriculum choices. I am so thankful for the privilege of being able to be home with the boys. They are so great! I totally enjoy them and love the time we spend together.
The boys are playing Star Wars Lego this afternoon and I overhear: The Emperor (Sean) says to Yoda (Caleb), “You sound like Fozzie The Bear”. This is really funny to me because it actually shows how closely Caleb was getting Yoda’s voice (Frank Oz was the voice for both characters).