Summer Fun

I don't know if you know this, but I am busy (like crazy what did you sign up for busy) during the school year.  It is a product of this phase of our life.  Mike and I both work full time, high stress, busy jobs that we absolutely LOVE.  Our kids are at the age that we are running around playing taxi for them...ballet on Mondays, soccer Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Destination Imagination, AWANAS, etc.  We are both heavily involved at church (and would be even if Mike wasn't the pastor).  And we are in the process of getting certified by the state as a foster home so we can proceed with our plans to adopt.  We are busy!

I have been feeling a burden on my heart lately that I am confident is from God that I need to slow down this summer and just enjoy my kids.  I need to be intentional with each of them and both of them together.  This may be the last summer before we add more kids through adoption, and while we are excited about that, I am under no delusions that it will be easy.  It will be tough and will bring us together in ways otherwise not possible.  However I feel like I want to go into it refreshed and with a renewed foundation in my relationship with my girls.  More than anything, I just want them to look back on this summer and have memories that will last a lifetime...not of big trips or expensive indulgences, but of quality time spent with their family!

So why does this matter.....

I have felt for a long time that the only reason I was still on Facebook was because I wanted to keep grandparents and family updated on us.  And while that is true, it still often becomes a time warp of lost time and lost opportunities.  I don't want that temptation and I don't want to waste a moment of my summer that way.  So I am going off facebook for the summer...maybe longer...I may not miss it!  Who knows!  Anyways, if you want to find out what we are up to this summer, you can check in here on my blog and I will be more diligent to update it with our happenings!  Or you can call or come over...we will just be hanging out having the time of our life!
( and yes,I totally now have the song from Dirty Dancing in my head after typing that!)

Look at these faces....aren't they worth it!!!