Beginnings...
Blogging is all new to me but I really want to give it a try...
some days I feel I have little to say but lately I have felt a passionate stirring deep inside that I cannot really explain. I have felt the winds of change blowing in my life for several months now and I do not know where they are taking me but I am trying to be still and listen. I know God has been doing a work of sorts in our family. My husband, my three girls, and myself. None exempt.
Stirring, shaking, bending , molding....
We have endured some hard things this year as well as experiencing some neat blessings.
I began a new business venture in January. It has been a roller coaster ride and I am still not certain where it will end up. I feel like I am in a holding pattern with it from a business perspective but I am still loving the product and the positive changes it has made in me and my family's health and beauty. A new beginning...
I have toyed with a photography business for several years now but never pushed it. Katie decided she wanted to do it with me and she began to take charge. It has been fun working together as a family. Katie is quite talented with the camera and Natalie is gifted in the editing. Another new beginning of sorts...
Natalie and Katie both have finished their Associates Degrees and Natalie has a working degree in Computer Graphic Design. I have known that both girls have special callings on their lives but we have not had crystal clear directions presented before us. It has been bittersweet to see them grow up into beautiful women of God, women of purpose. Ending our little era of homeschooling. I still have Sarah home for a few more years and I am enjoying it as much as possible while praying for Godly direction in her life. Katie has been on two mission trips this year. I was able to go with her the first time to the gulf coast of Mississippi to work with hurricane victims. It was amazing. Humbling, blessing, and so rewarding. She just came back from her second trip yesterday. She went back and worked in God's Katrina Kitchen, an incredible ministry set up by a guy from Evansville, IN. His name is Greg Porter and oh how God has blessed his efforts. I see her continuing in some sort of ongoing disaster relief effort.
One of the hard things we experienced this past week was the loss of our sweet little dog, Gracie Lou. It is still hard for me to think on very long at a time because I miss her so much. We still have two other dogs and I love them but Gracie was "mine". We lost her in a tragic accident and that makes it even harder. I vowed to never be attached to a pet again but somehow Gracie stole her way into my heart more than I realized that she had. I am glad we at least took the two little ones with us on our trip to Colorado. you can see a lovely photo of her on http://www.myspace.com/live_simply3
endings.....
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