lazy afternoon

Hanging out with my older kids today while all three of my little ones are asleep (well, at least Isaac is in his room - I'm not sure he's been asleep.  This could be a very bad thing).  This summer is going to be LONG if I don't start feeling better, but I'm hoping I figured out part of the problem today.  Heart racing and extreme fatigue, esp. in the a.m.  Literally, I get out of breath if I stand up and I've been having lots of headaches.  Randy mentioned today that I needed to drink more because it might be low blood pressure.  Just read online that I totally have symptoms of mild dehydration, which makes sense because I drink very little.  PRAYING that this is the solution!!  NEED ENERGY!!

If God puts it on your heart to pray, please pray for the Africa trip and for Como.  Sensing that maybe the enemy is stirred up right now in our neighborhood and this Uganda trip will be a major life changer for the boys going.  Some of you probably saw on the news this weekend that a man drowned in Lake Como (right across the street from our house) on Saturday a.m.  Just jumped in and started swimming and was gone minutes later.  Ms. Murray and her great great grandson watched them pull his body from the lake when they went down there to feed the ducks.  Two deaths in two weeks.  I'm kind of hoping you don't see Como on the news anymore this summer!

I actually have a summer "plan" for the kids this year because otherwise we don't do so well.  After two days of attempting to be organized (this is SO hard for me), things are going okay.  My main goal is to make sure that our home is characterized by more praise, prayer, the Word, and listening to God this summer.  We've prayed and listened the last few days as a family and it's already making a huge difference.  When one of my kids hears that they are supposed to stop whining or love their sibling from the Holy Spirit instead of just me, it has a much bigger impact!  Speaking of that, character training wears me out.  I have enough junk in my own heart that God is refining and getting rid of.  Trying to focus on character training with SIX other people is EXHAUSTING!  I guess this is good for Randy - I don't have much time to focus on his character issues (as if he even HAS any)!  LOL!  The other thing I want us to start doing as a family is talking about Jesus/sharing the gospel more (ANY would be more for me!  ha!).  I actually told my kids this the other night so when we were grocery shopping in Walmart yesterday, McKenna whispers in my ear that I should tell the checkout lady about Jesus.  Thanks for keeping me accountable, God!!  I didn't go ALL out, but I did ask her if there was anything we could be praying about for her.  Why are we all so afraid to talk about our greatest treasure?  That's another blog.  I would sort of prefer for God to leave that part of life alone!!  But I love that He doesn't want us to quit growing!