Well, here I am again. We had Nina's birthday, Christmas, New Year and on saturday we have Jamie's birthday, monday dh's birthday. Then we are finally done with all the celebrating -lol- Jamie is going to see Narnia with some friends. Of course I am going with her. I am still not sure about that movie, but I guess it is too late now. She is really excited about it, we usually never go to the movies. With five people that would cost us a small fortune. It is much cheaper and easier to just rent a dvd.

Right after Christmas we went out to our camper. It is about 45 min. from where we live. If we don't have the time to travel with it, we just stay at the campground. And that is where we spend about a week. My parents have their own camper there as well. So we had a little family time with everybody. We had a lot of snow for about three or four days. It was beautiful, the place is out in the country and it is so very quite there, sigh. Anyway, we took the kids sledding one day, the next day my mom came with us. Well, that day was a little tough on everybody. Dh took our son, Jeremy, down the hill. Quite steep, by the time you made it a little over halfway down one was doing about 15-20 mph !  Anyway husband and son had a blast. I stayed at the top of the hill, because I don't like the speed much and I like it even less to walk that hill up again and again. Well, one time after Jeremy went down the hill with his dad I heard him cry. My two guys went into the greenery and rolled the sled. Dad ended up on top of the four year old . Jeremy's face was scratched up a bit and his nose was a little wider, shall we say? But he wanted to go down the hill again with dad. There were also some people with their dogs and the dogs ran up and down the hill. One of the dogs nipped into Jamie's thigh, enough that it broke the skin and it bled. My mom and I thought we give it a go - and down the hill we went,  well half way anyhow, then we hit a tree head on and my mom who was sitting in front of me hit her head on the tree. It looked really bad and scary . I was afraid that she had hurt herself badly, but she pulled her head out of the snow and laughed ! Now she has a most beautiful shiner to call her own . Dh has to go to the doctor tomorrow to get his shoulder checked out, which has been hurting really bad since he rolled in the snow with his son. We will see what is going on there. But so far God has been protecting us from ourselves . And yesterday I thought that now somebody got really hurt when Jeremy went outside sledding with his big sister Nina. He fell and hurt his shoulder. He didn't use his arm and everytime he moved it, to get dressed or undressed or leaned too heavily on it, it hurt. So this morning I went to the emergency room with him. While him and I were waiting for our turn in the x-ray room, we prayed that God would take all his pain away and make it that the shoulder isn't broken. But if He decided otherwise we would like some patience and courage. Well, God answered our prayer ! Jeremy's shoulder is not broken, just bruised. And it didn't hurt him to get the x-ray done. Which I think is unusual in itself. Our wonderful God carried us right through this.

So, since we are obviously under God's protection we enjoyed ourselves and had a good time. Now it is back to reality. The kids are back in school, for three weeks at least. Then we are free again for about two weeks. We then go to visit my special friends, who will go to a missionary school in the US for six month. And for absolutly egotistical reasons I hope the Lord will place them right back in Germany again ,  just good the Lord has his own plan But they will be missed - by a lot of people!

I have to end for today to put my little tyke down for a nap.

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Posted by nina

Hi mamerk nice to see you here wehn you see whet i rote you will probebly be suprised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love you Nina <><

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Posted by DandelionSeeds

I've added you to my friends list as well... thanks for stopping by... I'll be back!

In Him,
Amy

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