Blessed Beyond Measure

So I am finally getting around to this blog thing... I really like the idea that I can do all pictures and posts in one place instead of individual emails & attatchments that are so time consuming.

My time is going to be stretched very thin very soon and I like anything that will simplify my life even if just a little. As some of you may know Jason leaves in 3 1/2 days for Afghanistan. So I will be holding down the fort solo... (OK so NOT completely solo... I have the help of Jesus... and Jason will do his part via webcam and phone... while in Kuwait this proved to be very effective, somedays it worked better than me being here in person!) However I will have all the day to day happenings whatever they may be to tackle all by myself. (example: it's 10:44 p.m. and one of my high school daughters just walked downstairs and needs me to look at her homework... doesn't she know my brain shut down hours ago??? 6:00a.m. is early people...  my brain has already put itself to bed even if the rest of me is still messing around at the computer)( I did look it over... no promises on the grade though:oP).
 Things are going to be very different here in a few days... there will be adjustments for all of us... I am praying for strength... when he got on the plane headed for Kuwait it was the most painful thing I had ever experienced... and I know it will hurt just the same Sunday as we have to leave the airport without our daddy... tears... I am grateful that God has afforded Jason and our family this opportunity (more in detail later) but it has its cost. Jason will miss out on a year of our childrens lives... in order to provide for them... he is sooooooo unselfish, I don't know that I could do that. The kids will miss him being here on a daily basis & for their birthdays, games, concerts, holidays, etc. and I will miss... everything about him

I am in awe that God gave me this man to be my husband... that he trusted me with 7 of his most precious creatures & that he loves me when I am not lovable (like now, when I'm having a temper tantrum over the way he chose to provide for our family)... so even though this year will be so very difficult... I have been blessed beyond measure

Our God is willing to go ahead of us if we let him. To be led by God, first of all we must be willing to follow...