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Anyone home?  I opened up my blog and made my way through the cobwebs so I could post an update.  It’s been awhile!

Gosh where to start?  Still training for the half marathon.  Hard, but very rewarding.  I should cover that sometime in another post.  There’s so much more to training then running.  So many aspects to it that challenge one mentally, emotionally, as well as physically.  It’s been rough but so good.

A few weeks ago I gave my testimony at a Campus Crusade for Christ women’s retreat.  That was really cool.  I was where those girls were 14 or so years ago and I was honored and blessed to share with them. It was with the WOU Crusade girls and they opened up their retreat to our church inviting all the “older” women to come along.  I think all that went were truly blessed.

That same week Jake got the opportunity to share his testimony at a men’s gathering.  It was an impromptu thing which was probably a good thing since public speaking freaks him out.  He said that through the Holy Spirit he wasn’t nervous at all and did fine.

After 3 years of praying about schooling and never having a definite peace about what God wanted me to do I finally got one.  This is a long story but I’ll try my best to keep it short.  We go to a private school.  Which is expensive but for the last 3 years God had provided.  A different way each but nonetheless He’s provided.

So every year at registration time I freak out because “we can’t afford it” and I pray and pray and ask God what does He want?.  I’ll homeschool, I’ll public, I”ll private–whatever–if He’d just lead me in one way or the other.  God seemed quiet.  So we’d wait till last minute and then He’d provide for private and we’d go that way.  But even though He provided it didn’t give me the peace I was looking for.

So January rolled around and I began praying again.  We have to register in March.  I prayed and prayed an no answer.  God wasn’t leading anywhere so I began to look into homeschool again.  Even told some key people at the school we were likely not coming back and told them to replace me in one of the jobs work in.

Then one night after a meeting that had to do with the job I wasn’t coming back for I got my answer.  As I was praying again about God’s will it was crystal clear.  God has me on a path (this school) and He has not lead me to a different one.  Period.  The only reason I get side tracked is because of fear over finances.  God clearly said to stay on this path and if He leads me to homeschool or another route He’ll let me know.  But until then this is where He wants me.  He’ll provide as long as he wants us there.

How can I sum it up clearly?  I new all along that I didn’t feel called another direction.  But I never saw that as God’s answer.  I new all along He had provided for the last 3 years but never saw that as His answer either.  It was truly like a veil lifted.  I saw what was in front of my face the whole time.

I was so glad God let everything play out this way.  Had I quit the school the 3 previous years for financial reasons I wouldn’t have brought glory to God because it was ONLY about finances since I didn’t know where He was leading.  I kept taking this private school path sort of by default.

So that being said, we’ve signed up for another year and we’ll stay there as long as God wants.  I also took note that God led me to this conclusion after I quit that particular job and they found a replacement.  Made me feel at peace with that decision.

In other news we’re still on track with our financial makeover.  We’ve got 3 debts paid off.  We were able to save and pay cash for a electrical class for Jake which we normally would’ve put on the plastic.  Our goal is now to save over the entire summer, have a garage sale, and put any extra money away and pay cash for new roof. (It’s a big need…)  I’m still praying about it though but that’s a goal.  June also will be the first month we’ll be paying for our RV  We are praying about what to do with that thing too.  I may put it on craigslist again or we may trade it for a smaller rv so we can at least have something to use while we’re paying on it.

The kids are doing great.  Plugging away at school (only 9.5 days left waahoo).  Sis is still in gymnastics one day a week and Caed’s taking a break.  They both were in swimming but I took them out for May.  Wasn’t absolutely convinced that was the right choice but we did it.  Summer time will bring track which I personally am looking forward to.  Haven’t decided if Kenna will do Gymnastics.  I’ve realized I need to decide if I’m in it fully or or not because of the financial commitment.  It’s expensive to do it as a for fun thing.  We’ll see.

Other than that I’m looking forward to summer break.  We better get some sun soon!!!!!!!  We’re looking forward to a few small trips this summer and living out this adventure God’s given us called life.  :)

Until next time!

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