Well, we're in the process of moving into the bigger house now.  I'm at the clinic working today, but I've made several trips with bins full of stuff in the past 2 days.  Dh is hoping to move the beds and the rest of the stuff that would be necessary to live with today, so we can be there tomorrow over the sabbath.  Unfortunately we woke up to 3-4 inches of snow again.  It will be a muddy process.  Also ds18months is having a hard time with the move and he is crying a lot and clingy.  Poor little guy.  It makes it hard to try to pack and move when he isn't cooperating much!  He's lived in our current residence for his entire short life, so I think it is hard for him to understand.

     Then on Sunday morning dh will be getting on a train from Grand Junction to ride to Lincoln, Nebraska to get a van that my brother is selling to us.  He will drive it home on Monday, and get home Monday night or Tuesday sometime (if he's too tired to drive all the way through).

     Next Friday I will be flying off to Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico for two days of medical work at an orphanage.  I'm looking forward to the change of scenery and the chance to get to minister in the foreign mission field.

   We didn't do any school on Friday, so it looks like our homeschooling will push into June this year.  Oh well, at least it will be in our new home!

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My 3 yo was sitting on her daddy's lap the other day looking at a picture book in Spanish and English.  After a while she stopped and said,  "Daddy, when I am all grown up I can learn all the Spanish words I need to know, but right now I have a wedgy."  (She then crawled off of her daddy's lap, dug the panties out of her bottom and ran out to play).

I love the realness of a three year old's world!

Carol

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1.  Bible Study/ Devotions ~ I am still making my way through the NIV Daily Bible from last year.  I am stuck in September.  I really must be more diligent about this!  2.  "Must Do"~ We're almost finished with the newsletter.  We just need to have it proofread then printed and sent.  My 2dd is almost 9 on Wednesday.  We will have some birthday fun on Tuesday and Wednesday. 3.  House Cleaning~ Nothing new under the sun here.  Maybe this week I will do the windows inside and out. 4.  Train Them Up~ We are in our last month of homeschooling this year.  I really need to work with the kids on not grumbling in any manor, and with 4ds on not yelling when he wants or needs something. 5.  Menu Planning~ Monday- Creamed eggs on toast.  (Didn't do it last week!)  Tuesday- Pizza bites, salad and birthday cake.  Wednesday- Probably sandwiches as we will go bowling with our church.  Thursday- I work in town, so Daddy is on his own.  Friday- Baked chicken, baked potatoes, jello.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

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Today my heart was so full!  My dear Mountain Princess has taken the step of being baptized as a sign of her heart commitment to make Jesus her Lord.  She even wanted me to do it.  I am so blessed!

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This morning I had to hurry down the mountain with the children so that I could have my teeth cleaned.  It has been almost 3 years since I last had it done!  Of course yesterday I broke out with a cold sore on my upper lip.  Pleasant .  On our way down the mountain it was bright and sunny outside.  I had a hard time seeing the road well, as it has a lot of pot holes in it this spring, and they weren't very visible.  I hit a couple and decided to slow down.  Shortly after slowing down, I hit another one that I did not see and heard a crash.  Would you believe that the back window on our suburban shattered and fell all over my two oldest daughters in the back seat?  Two other window in our suburban have several cracks in them.  This one was completely whole.  The key word being was.  The girls are fine.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

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Outside My Window...overcast, and lots of dirty-looking snow.  I picked up a 9-point antler the dog had picked up in the woods, carried around and chewed up, and I through it in the trash trailer today. 

I am thinking...of all the things I should get done this week, such as my Samaritan Aviation application, and my medicaid renewal.

I am thankful for...my children's help with the housework today!

From the kitchen...I am making spaghetti and salad, and dh is making French bread from scratch for dinner tonight.  It is staff night tonight - we invite the staff over for supper and fun every Tuesday now.

I am wearing...blue jeans, my faded light blue Pooh t-shirt and footy socks.

I am creating...a clean house and much needed order!

I am going...to Mexico in a little over two weeks!

I am reading...Naya Nuki, by Thomasma.  It is my dd10's reader right now.

I am hoping...That the weather man is wrong and we don't get any more snow this year!

I am hearing...my two middle dd's playing with Little People castle and toys.
Around the house...packaging projects are halfway done, and rubbermaid bins lie waiting to be moved to the new house when we get the go-ahead.

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week:  Dental cleaning tomorrow, welcoming home the Horns on Wednesday or Thursday from Asia, working in Delta on Thursday, and working at the Urgent Care Clinic on Saturday.

One of my favorite things...The smell of children after their bath!

Here is picture thought I am sharing...

Giddyap! 

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I like to come about once a week to keep track of what has been going on in my week.  I feel like doing a Monday Meanderings with Tiany to help keep it organized.  This will help me plan and look forward to the next week too.  Bible Study/ Devotions ~ {(For the week) If you don’t plan it, you wont do it! I will share what I will be studying along with my Memory Scripture of the week!}  I am still making my way through the One Year Bible from last year.  I am stuck in September.  I really must be more diligent about this!  "Must Do"~ {Not the 'To do" list but the "Must do" as in it must be done this week! Whether it be some sewing or repairing, your Home Blessing maybe?}  It looks like we will be moving soon.  I will post some pics of the new house we are going to be blessed with at the bottom of this post.  So my must dos include things like going through stuff and weeding out all that I can possibly get rid of and live without.  I've been doing this and it feels good to get lighter! I also hope to get out a newsletter soon, get my address list put onto my new computer, finish my paperwork for my trip to Mexico in a couple of weeks, and put in my paperwork for our insurance papers to be updated. House Cleaning~ I need to be more diligent about this.  I need to fit in spring cleaning soon too so my house won't be so hard to clean up after we move out. Train Them Up~ {This will focus on anything pertaining to the children. You could share the topic of study in your homeschool, the character training you wish to tackle, new habits you wish to form etc… You know the important stuff you have been putting off!}  We are starting our last five weeks of homeschooling this week.  We have been reading through Little Town on the Prairie by L.I. Wilder.  We enjoy it tremendously!  We also are reading through A Book of Fairy Poems for poetry appreciation.  It helps us to enjoy the spring!  We are one week away from finishing our Indian Prayer Guide that I got through Sonlight this year.  We've enjoyed it a lot.   For science we are enjoying The Burgess Bird Book for Children.  1dd10 has almost finished her Singapore Math 3B, and we'll go ahead and move on to 4A.  She's a little behind in math, and so we will be working on through the summer.  Same with 2dd8 - we'll be working on with her too.  1dd10 is reading Naya Nuki by Thomasma.  It is a great book by a great author.  I started it last night myself.  2dd8 is reading Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger Lea McBride.  We enjoy reading it together.  She and I alternate reading every other page. Menu Planning~ {I will share the week's Menu here and or a favorite family recipe! (This can coincide with Menu Plan Monday) }  Monday- Creamed eggs on toast.  Tuesday-Spaghetti, salad, bread and butter.  Wednesday- Tacos, guacamole dip, ice cream.  Thursday- I work in town, so Daddy is on his own.  Friday- Chicken on the grill, baked potatoes, jello.  I may switch Tuesday and Friday's menus as we have company on Tuesday, but it depends on if we get to town to buy the chicken before then.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

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Good morning!  We've had beautiful weather since Saturday.  Sunshine, no wind!

Saturday we did get to go on our field trip to learn about creation and dinosaurs.  The two older girls' Sunday School class (about 30 kids), drove to Grand Junction and listened to a speaker for about 1 1/2 hours give a talk on dinosaurs and the flood and Noah and fossils, and gave lots of scientific evidence for creation.  It was really good!  Then we went to the dinosaur museum in Fruita, Colorado.  It was set up as a sort of children's museum with a dinosaur twist.  We brought all four children and enjoyed it very much.  I'm just sorry that I forgot my camera!

Sunday we went to church followed by lunch at Denny's and a beautiful afternoon at the park.  All of us really enjoyed the sun, dry ground, a little creek that runs through, and the playground equipment.  I even got on the swing with my baby boy for a short time.    I came home with a little sunburn too.

On the way home we stopped at Sonic for some refreshing drinks.  The girls had a cherry limeade to share, and I shared my lemon berry slush with the two little ones.

Yesterday was another beautiful day.  I resumed my morning walks after a week of being on crew - which meant that dh or I had to get up and shovel snow every morning, so I couldn't do my walks.  It is so beautiful on the mountain with sun and snow, the woodpeckers tapping out nature music, and the silence only broken otherwise by an occasional bird song.

Today the Martins are moving back to Pennsylvania.  They are the only other family on the base that has young children like us.  We will have to trust the Lord in this matter of friends for our children to play with and grow up with.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

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Would you believe that in the past two days we got another 3 feet of snow?  I'm sure we've gotten a total of over 12 feet of snow up here this winter.  I guess it was fitting that we read "The Long Winter" by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  We could really relate to it!  The above picture is of the dormitory that is across the driveway from our house.

Tomorrow we are supposed to go on a field trip to a dinosaur museum near Grand Junction, Colorado.  We are hoping that we don't get too much wind tonight.  Otherwise we won't be able to make it due to drifts.  I had a hard time getting home from working at the clinic last night.  I couldn't believe how much snow we got.  Just when we were thinking it was melting, the snow returned in all its madness!  Below is our front door.  Most of the snow has been removed.  It was up to the running boards on the suburban this morning when I went to move the truck for the plow.

MountainPrincess showing off her most recent read:

SnowCrystal taking a break from school to draw on her "slate":

Littlebit showing off her Polly Pocket:

Buddy doing what little boys do best - eating!:

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

P.S. This is a show and tell - sponsored by Mary at www.homeschoolblogger.com/canadagirl

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Update:  Based on comments I've had from this post, I want to clarify something.  I am not in the depths of depression or any point of despair.  My point was that I've been dealing with a lot of ups and downs in emotions.  I am fine.  This is not so unusual for me except that I usually don't have so many lows at one time.  I come back to a normal level each time, and I'm doing fine now.  Don't worry!  Thanks for your prayers.

I haven't been blogging much cuz I don't have much to say.  I've been spending a lot of time pouring over our new Sonlight Curriculum catalogue.  I have a wish list of about 28 items to cover next year in everything except 1dd10's language arts and reading.  I would like to make that more CMish if I can do it...  Anyway, the total is almost $2000!  Ugh!  And that is with a discount!  Boy would it be nice though!

I haven't posted many pics lately.  Not much around here to take pics of.  The snow is in various degrees of melting and gaining new snow on any given day.  There's mud and snow everywhere. 

Emotionally I have been on a roller coaster as usual.  Between the accident and losing our van, possibly getting a bigger house but still not knowing yet, dealing with comments from people that cut deep, leading intercession last week, and so forth, I feel like I am constantly trying to catch my emotional balance!  I used to deal with depression when I was a teenager, but I was healed of that.  Since my healing, I haven't felt such a roller coaster of emotions for 20 years!  Pray that I would find God's peace in all of this.

Here are a couple of pics.  The first one is of 4ds16months enjoying a roll in the bean bag chairs.  The second is of 3dd3 posing for her big sis to take a picture.  I'll try to think of some nice things to photograph soon.

Yesterday I had to take 2dd8 to the dentist to have another filling replaced that fell out (second one in the last month).   While we were in town we enjoyed some time at the park.  Baby J loved the equipment and went up the stairs or rock wall and down the slides over and over.  I wish I had had my camera for that!  The sun was shining and the ground dry.  DD8, dd3 and ds and myself really enjoyed ourselves.  DD10 stayed at home.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

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Sometimes I just look back and feel like I've been through a whirlwind week and I don't even know where to start.  Nowadays I'm finding that every week is like that, so I might as well call it normal!

I had to lead our weekly staff meeting devotion this week on Monday morning.  I talked about the fire of the Lord.  I felt it went well.  Then I spent the entire afternoon trying to get my liability insurance application worked out.  I had to take my kids with me 1.25 hours to my work place to work on it.  It took a long time, so afterward I took the kids to McDonald's Playplace for an early supper and playtime.  They did really well.  While I was at my workplace, my office manager handed me a W-2 that had not been given to me yet.  I had already sent in my taxes, so it took the next two days to figure out what I had to do to fix the problem.  Ugh.  I will get more money back though!

Thursday morning I led intercession for our YWAM Prayer Day.  I cried a lot and ruined two sets of contacts!  Thursday and Saturday (today) I worked at the clinics.  Everything went well.

Thursday my dh went to our mission board meeting and shared with them about my desire to do work with Samaritan Aviation Fellowship (I shared about this last month).  They voted to cover my entire trip in May financially.  That is really exciting.  We will be going to Baja and working at an orphanage removing skin lesions (moles and warts and things).

Things are looking good for getting a new vehicle.  We got our money back from the insurance, and hopefully will get our income tax return soon.  There is a Chevy dealer in town who seems willing to help us find a really good deal (he has gotten a few vehicles for the base too). 

It sounds like the leaders are going to offer our family the biggest house on the base soon.  It will be such a blessing!

I hope you all are having a good week.

Feeding on His faithfulness,

Carol

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Some of his bloodwork came back showing that he has Lyme's disease.  He is walking now without too much pain.  Please continue to keep them in prayer as they battle this.

Carol

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Update is at bottom of page in bold.

Please pray for the 5 yo dear son of some wonderful friends of ours.  He is a homeschooler too.  Anyway, Friday night he was complaining of leg pain.  It got worse over the night and his parents brought him to the hospital on Saturday morning because he wouldn't move it or walk on it.  When he got there, he was quickly diagnosed with septic arthritis in his hip.  He was transferred to another hospital very soon after and had surgery Saturday night to remove the infection and hopefully save the joint.  The doctor was optimistic after the surgery saying he thought Shannon would walk on Sunday and go home Monday.  However, today he did not walk.  In fact he has been in severe pain, that even morphine is barely touching.  To make matters worse, two more joints have begun to swell today.  The doctors are puzzled and running all kinds of tests, including one for rheumatoid arthritis.  Please pray for Shannon, his doctors, and his extremely tired and distraught parents!

Thanks,

Carol

Update:  Shannon is slowly improving, but his spirits are very low.  He feels any adult who comes in the room is there to make him move and be in pain, which does not help with any therapists who tries to help him.  He has gotten up and walked and used his wheelchair a little.  He fell when he tried to walk, which didn't help his low spirit and anger.  Please also pray for God to work out the finances - it isn't going to be pretty and Shannon's parents are starting to feel the stress of that too.  His tests should come back on Friday or next Monday.  Pray that it shows something temporary - not anything life-threatening or disabling!  Thanks for your prayers.

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Our school time is going well.  I’ve been praying about what curriculum to use next year, and I feel the Lord gave me His answer taking me back to Sonlight.  I hope to be able to purchase our core program (3+4) soon since I would like to start the core history and geography to be able to spread it out over more than the usual 36 weeks to make it more gentle.  We will be continuing with our American History studies, using a Charlotte Mason approach – narration, dictation, short lessons, nature walks (when the weather permits), and so forth.  As I learn more about HOWTA, I hope to be able to mix in those things as the Lord leads.  I feel Sonlight offers a good mix of literature with a good Christian foundation from which I can disciple my children.  I love that the schedules are already made up, and that the kids love to learn from the books.  We will go back primarily with Singapore for math, with flash cards and games to help us get the math facts down better.  I miss the Sonlight Bible lessons and memory verse program.  We will try the Sonlight science again.  We will continue on in language arts from where they are now with Sonlight.  I am pleased to see that there will only be a couple of books that are overlapping with the core 3 readers we used this year.  Yea!  I hope to be able to continue the Time Traveler’s units that go along with this material and do notebooking too.  It will be a lot more to do than this year, for sure.  Electives I’d like to start are Rosetta Spanish, piano, and maybe art.  I guess I will have to figure out how to teach them piano myself until the Lord sends an experienced teacher to provide lessons.

This week I have been reading out of Egermeier’s Children’s Story Bible and am pleased with how much the girls remember from earlier passes through this material.  I ask the children to tell me what they remember from the lesson prior to the reading (step 1).  Next I read the passage while the girls draw about what they are hearing.  After the reading, I’ve been asking each girl to ask a question about the reading for her sister to answer, or I ask her to act out part of the story, or tell back what she heard.  They get their interest peaked with step one, gather information with step two and tell back what they’ve learned with step three.  They are learning, and I’m pleased with how it is going.

I only had to cook one meal this week.  We did honey mustard chicken in the crockpot, served with instand brown rice.  It turned out yummy!

My diet is going well.  I've lost 9 lbs so far in about 6 weeks.  I think it helps a large bit that I am doing the serious walking in the mornings, but I am disappointed that I feel like my tummy isn't shrinking much.  .  I'm hoping that eventually the weight loss will turn to that part of me.  My gluten intolerance is flaring up again, and so I need to get back to a gluten free diet.  That usually helps a lot in weight loss too.

As for the discipleship training school, the students are putting their things together to leave for Nepal on outreach soon.  God is doing a good thing, and I am very excited for them.  Pray for them as they travel next Tuesday!

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This week has been great!  I’ve gone for a walk almost every morning walking uphill for the first 30-40 minutes.  I am very pleased with myself that I haven’t had to stop during that whole journey.  I find that I am getting much more cardiovascularly fit!  Each day I try to go a little further than I did the day before.  On Monday I walked up to “the first lake” taking the “pipeline” which essentially is a path that goes almost directly up the mountain. 

This is the pipeline path looking up:

This is the pipeline looking down:

This is the first lake (it is the lowest of a series of lakes that are managed to help control the water coming down coal creek that feeds our electric generator):

I didn’t stop at all.  On Tuesday I went to a lookout above the second lake from the bottom in 41 minutes.  I only stopped to take pictures.  This first one is the second lake from the bottom.

Then these are some of the views I saw from the top:

Then on Wednesday I decided to take the road and see how high I could get.  It is a gentler way, but much longer.  I got to another great lookout, but I didn’t have the camera.  Yesterday was intercession day at the base, so I didn’t have time to take my early morning walk.  Today I walked to another place above the first lake, but I took the road to get there.  It took about 45 minutes or so, and had some great views too.  I am loving to go walking in the early mornings.  Although it is cold outside, the mud is all frozen, and the snow stiff enough to hold my weight, as long as I go on the snowmobile tracks since they pack the snow underneath.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

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...can be used to get rid of warts (just stick it to the wart and leave it on about 48 hours, replacing it several times after 48 hours).  The idea is that your skin will have a local reaction to the tape and also start seeing that this wart is a bad thing too.  I've seen one patient that it did well with.  Another patient couldn't get it to stick to her skin.  Can you imagine?

...can hold together a shoe that the sole is flopping off of.

...makes a great red cross symbol on tubs and such for outreach travel.  This way I can find which containers hold my medical equipment and meds.

...has been used to reattach many a Bible cover that has fallen off from heavy use - especially on outreach!

...can make a wallet, flip-flops, and any number of things at camp for crafts.

...can fix a thermarest if it has a hole in it and you are out of the country and can't send it in for repair.

...can tape a sprained ankle - just put plenty of cotton batting on first!

One last note along this line.  If you plan an outreach to a foreign country, you can put some duct tape wrapped in layers around your nalgene bottle to keep you from having to pack a whole roll, and it will always be handy to find when you need it!  This is especially useful for trekking trips and other journeys where you must pack light.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,

Carol

This theme was started by Lynn at Eclectic Education, for other great ideas read her post and the comments that follow - it is great!  If you have used it for anything, I'd like you to post your use here too!

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Dh and I decided to take a long weekend and go up north to visit dh's brother and his family in Fort Collins.  On the way back we swung up to Grand Lake near Rocky Mountain National Park to visit with my former sister in law from Scotland as she was there visiting with her friend for a couple of weeks.

Saturday we drove to Fort Collins.  We spent the afternoon relaxing and visiting with Steve and Jill and their two daughters Hannah and Haley.  The girls love to be with their cousins, and they play together really well.  They make up plays together and other fun activities.  Here is a picture of all the kids except our son - who was probably taking a nap at the time.  My daughters are the three in the middle.

On Sunday we went to a park in the afternoon.  A cold front was coming in, and it got really cold right after we arrived.  I went to the van to get some socks to cover the baby's hands, and found that I had locked the keys in the van.  Ugh.  Dh spent the next 45 minutes and $58 to get that worked out.  Here are a few pics from the day:

The next morning, Monday, we left Fort Collins and drove to Grand Lake.  There my former SIL, Lorraine, was visiting her friend Brenda, who worked at the motel where we stayed.  We enjoyed the afternoon there visiting, eating pizza, and the girls enjoyed watching some television in the motel room (they don't do that at home as we don't have television at home besides videos).  The first picture here is Lorraine and Brenda.  The second one is our family with Lorraine.

On Tuesday morning we woke to this beautiful scene from our motel door.  That is low-lying clouds over the frozen lake.

We left around 8:30 am and headed toward home.  At about 10 am we were on I-70 when the traffic slowed down very quickly.  We jumped into the left lane and immediately, before we had time to slow down, the traffic stopped.  Dh couldn't do anything but run into the back end of the van in front of us.  I was working on getting a dvd started in my laptop computer on my lap when the airbags deployed, sending my computer into my chest and crushing it.  I had a Ratatouille DVD in my hand that was shattered into a million tiny shards that put a bunch of cuts in the upholstery on the ceiling, and was delivered all over the van, somehow missing us all.  I had some bruises from the computer crashing into my chest, and my 8 yo had some seatbelt marks on her neck and chest, and dh's arm got scraped somehow, but miraculously no serious injuries.  The van is totalled, however.  It took us until 12:00 or so to get towed to the nearest town, and we sat in a coffee/pizza place that charged almost $5 for a hotdog, and waited until dh could arrange a rental van to get us home.  We finished lunch in Denver (no, we didn't eat at that coffee place, but we did have hot drinks and tried to calm down) about 3:00 and got on the road again finally.  We were so glad to get home 5 hours later!  When I got home, I got a letter from my dear sister-in-Christ, Katia, in the email.  She said that God had put me on her heart for prayer, and she had been praying heavily for me.  It was so good to know that God was using her to help us and that we weren't alone in that crazy day!

Wednesday we had to go to town to take back the rental and so we couldn't start school again.  Thursday we started back with a little school, and I went to work at the clinic in Delta.  Today (Friday), we had a good day of school, and I'm so glad this day is over!

God bless you all.

Feeding on His faithfulness,

Carol

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God is good all the time.  Sometimes I wonder whether He has left me hanging and thinks of me, then He shows me that He has been with me all along. 

This week has been one of seeking His face about where He has us, and where He wants us to be.  God called us here over two years ago, and it has been a journey full of blessings and challenges.  For those of you who don't know, we work with Youth With a Mission here in Colorado.  I stay at home with the children and help with medical needs of those here on the base, since I am a physician's assistant by training.  My husband is the main cook in the kitchen, and he does an awesome job.  Sometimes I start to wonder why God called us here instead of to some overseas location - I get a little impatient to find out the answer too!  God keeps bringing me to a verse from Psalms 37 that He gave me right after we first finished my husband's training and asked where we should be.  The verse tells us to "dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness."  It is so easy to get caught up in other people's lives and wonder why we aren't there - overseas or in Alaska or even working on a reservation with a native people group...  It is better to obey than to sacrifice, the Bible says, so I am trusting God in His leading, and "dwelling in the land and feeding on His faithfulness."  I'm glad it is a beautiful place - that helps!  This week God confirmed to my heart once again that we are where He wants us to be.

Starting Tuesday night, one of my children came down with influenza.  Each day the other children came down with it too.  Finally yesterday all of them succombed to the illness, and both of the youngest have ear infections.  My oldest two are much better today, and my youngest two have never had it as bad as they did, so we see a light at the end of this week's illness tunnel - praise God!

I started a diet to shed some extra pounds about 9 days ago, and I've been doing well.  I lost about 2-3 lbs the first week, and one this week so far.  My goal is 20-25 lbs.  I am walking in the mornings for 30 minutes before the family gets up.  A couple of days ago I also started some medication (phentermine) to help in the process (which I am not ashamed about, as I plan only to use it for a short while).  It helps me not to be so hungry as I decrease my eating habits.

This next week I hope to get back into the full swing of schooling, add Spanish to my personal learning time, and study more from my medical journals to prepare to take boards again in the next year.

Feeding on His Faithfulness,
Carol

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