Cereal!

In photos, cause I’m in a rush to get back to packing!

Anyone looking for new music

May I suggest Lift Up the Name from Harvest Bible Chapel. Their pastor, James MacDonald is one of the leaders of The Gospel Coalition, if I’m not mistaken. We sing some of their songs at our new church and they are gospel-centered and beautiful! You can go to Harvest Songs here. Click on Lift Up the Name. From there you can sample each song. My favorites: The New Song We Sing, O The Love Of My Redeemer, He is My Fortress, and Revelation Song. They are all great, however. You can also check out Meredith Andrews, who sings some of the songs on the CD.

Jonah

I’ve been praying for Jonah for 3 months now. Here is an entry from his Mommy’s blog. So precious.

Some randoms

I know I owe a much bigger update than this, but life in the King home has been crazy, to say the least.

1. We are busy moving. We will be official residents of Versailles as of Saturday. Finally. Hooray!
2. We LOVE our church. It is SO different than any other church we have ever attended. And yes, that’s a good thing. We are so excited to see how God will use us as we serve alongside fellow friends and believers at The Point.
3. David has a wonderful job. God has SO answered our prayers in providing a fabulous job with fabulous hours. Where? In the sewers. I’m serious. And he loves it. Makes him feel like a man, he says =)
4. I bought a Sham-Wow. So random, I know. But I’m super excited. I can’t wait to use it. My midwife made a prediction that within a few years, cloth diapers will be made exclusively out of Sham-Wow materials.
5. I saw my doctor today. I have been feeling very out of sorts since I had Kaedmon. He did a load of blood work, but suspects hypothyroidism. I’ll write more when I get the results.
6. This move is very tough on the boys. The other day Simon said “I want…home.” Poor guy. We all want to be home.
7. Speaking of home, God continues to amaze me with what He is teaching me about my real home in heaven. So many times in the recent months I have found myself thinking: “When we get into our house, I’ll do this…” or “When we finally have our own place, I’ll be happy.” God has really been teaching me that no house in this life will ever give me the kind of peace or satisfaction that I find myself desiring. Truth is, I have no home here of any type of value. That home is to come. This whole process has made me ache for my eternal home.
8. Kaedmon is growing so fast. He is almost 5 months old. He started cereal tonight. It went…okay. Pics to come.
9. Also regarding Kaedmon, I am finally at peace with the fact that he may one day sleep through the night, even if it’s not any time soon.
10. I was very disappointed by the season finale of 24.
11. Speaking of season finales, The Biggest Loser freaked me out. Helen looked WEIRD. And not very healthy. And does it not frustrate anyone else that they go leaps and bounds to get these contestants to a healthy weight and eating right but seem to have no problem with the hours in a tanning salon that they must have spent to get that tan for the finale. I’m just sayin. Maybe it takes someone who has a Mom with melanoma to notice that?
12. I am officially the coupon-ing queen. Last Saturday, I shopped at Target, Meijer, and Walgreens. My total before coupons came to $180. What did I spend out of pocket? $70! At one point, I had a group of ladies at Meijer surrounding me to learn my tricks. HA!
13. We have spent the last few weeks at the home of Jason and Marri Hampton. Can I just say that in my entire life I have never, and I mean NEVER, seen such an example of selfless, Christlike love between a husband and a wife than I did between Jason and Marri. They are a beautiful family and I learned so much from their example while we were in their home. They have a 3 month old son, Calvin, and it is so obvious how much they love that baby. They fight over who gets to hold him. I am so blessed to have been able to stay with them the last few weekends.
14. Our new home has new appliances. Can I get a WOOT WOOT?!
15. It also has wood paneling on the walls. Can I get an “oh NO!” He he. It’s just in one room. I can live with that.

So this was an absolute mind dump. I hope you made it through. I will try to do a better job at updating as we get moved.

my sons: both pharisees in their own little ways

A few days ago, we had a very rare day: Noah and Samuel were angels! Both of them. On the same day. I in no way mean to seem as though I have no faith in my boys to obey but, let’s be honest, this rarely happens. It was like a day of bliss where I finally saw a glimmer of hope that all these years of correction have somehow “stuck”.

Yes- they were rewarded. I had a B1G1 free coupon for blizzards so I took them for a treat. They shared a blizzard (M &M, if you’re curious) and they even got their own cups (that’s a big deal around here!).

They were very curious to know: “Why the treat?” I replied, as I normally do, that “Obedience brings blessings and disobedience brings consequences.”

Here’s where it gets funny.

You could almost see Noah’s joy fill up inside of him to the point that it overflowed into a prayer of praise. I’m not kidding- at all. He exclaimed: “Oh thank you, Lord, that I obeyed! Thank you for this wonderful ice cream. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!”

Sammy followed suit, in his Sammy way. A little background: one of their favorite shows right now is The Storykeepers, which tells about many of the stories found in the gospels. One of them tells the story of the pharisees and how they prayed so that others would see them. Not even missing a beat, Sammy exclaims:

“Thank you, Lord, that I am not like other men. I fast and give a tenth of all I earn. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!” And then he said: “That’s my prayer, Noah. You like it?”

I nearly died laughing and then proceeded to explain to Sammy what a pharisee was and why we should strive to not pray in that same manner. It- was- exhausting.