• Feb. 19, 2009
I'm Back!!
Just a note- I actually wrote this entry on Feb 4th in hopes that I could get it posted before now. Obviously, I didn't. 
Hey folks! Have you missed me in the blogoshere? Life has been happening at an incredible speed. Here is the rundown. Our first full time fostering experience was for 2 little girls (ages 5 and 6). They stayed with us for 2 months and left around Thanksgiving. I still think of them most every day. Every once in a while we will run into something that the girls left behind and I will start missing them all over again. Also, Taylor picked up one of their words-toodle. Toodle is a nicer sounding word for that great gust of air expulsion that comes out the backside. J
Since the girls left we haven’t had any more foster kids. Although we have plans to do respite for 3 siblings soon. We will be a family of 7 for seven days! I wonder what that will be like.
On to the next subject- John was out of work for a while, and jobs were just not to be found. God really provided for our needs though. One time in particular was really memorable. Our electricity was scheduled to be turned off and we had absolutely no way of keeping it on. God worked in the life of a friend and brought their family some completely unexpected money. That was awesome in itself, but then they paid off our electric bill. Not just enough to keep the lights on, but absolutely every penny that we owed! How amazing is that?
We no longer have our home phone or internet (which is another reason I haven’t been posting), but I’ve learned amazingly that I can live without them. Who’d have thunk? So for now I will try to write my blog posts in Word and then copy them to the blog whenever I’m somewhere with a signal.
School is still school. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad. Math is still our struggle. We were moving into division, but Taylor still struggles with addition and subtraction. Not that she can’t do it; it just takes her forever. So we backtracked and we’re spending more time memorizing math facts. I’m doing it every way I can think of. Flash cards, calculadder, wrap-ups, addition rap, and board games are a big part of school every day. I think she’s improving. We are continuing to drill multiplication also. Our pastor’s wife gave us a big bag of chicklets (those little square pieces of gum). So for every 3 flashcards she can get right in less than 10 seconds, she gets 1 piece of gum. The first day I did this I told her that she could have 1 piece for every card she got. She ended up with 19 pieces of gum so I had to put the kibosh on that. J She also gets a little reward for each level of calculadder she passes. She’s on level five right now which is plus 3’s and review. She almost beats it every day lately so hopefully she’ll pass it soon.
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• Feb. 20, 2009
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Posted by nikkisimcox
We have really enjoyed seeing God move for us too since Toodles was laid off. I read about the "toodle" in your post and thought "how funny!". That is my DH's nickname although not with the same meaning :) Everyone calls me Noo or Noodles in my family so he got a nickname that matched mine. Blessings ! ~ Nikki
• Mar. 3, 2009
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Posted by kristenph
Glad you're back. I did miss you. Isn't God a wonderful provider. What a testimony to share about your electric bill. Your children will remember it forever too. I remember several occasions in my childhood when financial times had gotten very bad, when we found money left in our front door and our mail box.
