Posted in adopting Paul, mommyness on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
i love hearing Skyla and Vika laughing and playing together. Sometimes they just get to giggling, and it’s just so sweet and funny to listen to!
This is the two of them dancing together like the Prince and Cinderella in the little Cinderella cartoon they love watching! THEY ARE SO CUTE, IT KILLS ME!!!!
I was [...]
Posted in Family, adopting Paul, mommyness, special things on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
maybe . . .
it’s a stressful time of life, trying to work hard and fast at adopting Paul. It requires one or more tasks a day right now.
Also, Vitaliy is hosting a 5-day evangelism training in our 2-room apartment, so the girls and I have to find somewhere to be gone to. . . . [...]
Posted in mommyness on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Family, mommyness on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
of Sarah Palin (this is for my mother).
My kids like to fall asleep next to my chair at night sometimes while i’m working on stuff.
one on either side . . .
Posted in Family, Life in Ukraine, mommyness on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friend Danya is three, just between Skyla and Vika. He is their only like-age playmate at church, and his parents are Vitaliy and Natasha Fomin, who are the other young pastor-and-wife couple at our church. They *HeartHeartHeart* playing together!!!
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the book i’m presenting in our weekly mommy group: How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell.
The thesis of this book is that parents do truly love their kids, but parents need to learn how to express this love in a way that KIDS can feel and understand it.
Of course, my child [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I feel a little guilty, like I’ve been running around all week and not focusing as much as I could on the girls. I’ve spent some time with them, but not really being with them fully–always thinking about doing the next thing, etc.
So, Friday will be focus-on-girls day and slowly clean the house so it’s [...]
Posted in Family, Parenting, mommyness on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TG, my wunnerful, attachment-parenting friend, sent me a box of books at my plea for parenting help, and in that box is a simple series of thin books, each one about a year of child development. When Skyla turned four, I started searching for this, and I found it last night in my bookshelf:
These books allay [...]
Posted in Life in Ukraine, Ministry, mommyness on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At our home church in TN, my mom (lo, these many years ago) was instrumental in starting a ladies’ Bible study fondly called “MOMS.”
I love it, every time I’m home. Two hours of kid-free coffee, snacks, special speakers, Bible study, etc. It’s the marker of my week.
So, here I am, two small kids, and I [...]
Posted in Family, Life in Ukraine, Ministry, mommyness on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
been driving a lot these days, we have a medical team here from the States and Fred Bennett, TITUS’ Ukraine director, is teaching a discipleship class for some of our youth each night this week.
Skyla or Vika come with me to pick him up and take him back. We made popcorn today and Skyla took [...]
