This post will be rather short. I was signing into Typepad to start my post and I got distracted by Typepad's featured blog today -- KIM CHI MAMAS . It is a group of Korean women posting about life as a Korean, things about their own childhood, about the childhood they want their kids to have, etc. It is totally fascinating. We have been working with Korean kids for the past seven years...some years more than others. At the end of our last year in India the Principal's wife gave me a great book about Korean culture and I remember thinking I wish I had read it BEFORE I had three Korean girls in my dorm. Since that time I have really enjoyed learning more about Korean culture -- it totally fascinates me and helps me so much in knowing the kids I am working with. As true with anyone, if you want to be effective in working with them, in meeting their needs, then you need to have an understanding of where they come from and how they think. Anyway, it was fascinating reading and I plan to read more.
But it just means that I don't have as much time to post here. That's okay...didn't really have a lot to say anyway. The last couple of days have been really good for me -- lots of thinking, praying, seeking. My little manta as of late has been "Be ready for the wrench." Meaning...things are going really well right now. Family, life, work, etc. Things are going really well, and that is great, but there is an unsettledness in my heart (restless is the term I have been using) and I just feel like I need to ready myself. God has a way of throwing wrench in our plans, our desires, our lives. Sometimes these things can be good and sometimes hard, but I feel like I need to be ready. What that means exactly, I don't know. But I am trying to have my life -- and heart -- in order so that when God is ready to throw the wrench, I am ready to accept it. To embrace it. To run with it. I just know God wants to do something in me...
So with that "getting ready" mentality I haven't spent much time on the computer. I have done a few templates here and there and have some bigger projects in the works, but the motivation really hasn't been there. Even last night -- I had the house to myself after the kids when to bed and Jason had to go run errands. So I had a nice quiet house to scrap in but I just didn't feel like it. Not used to that!
I did, however, do one page early this morning when Alaina got up. Jason went to work early this morning so he could be home in the afternoon with us so that meant no sleeping in for me!
Sleep Little Princess -- The other night I came into Alaina's room because I couldn't figure out why her light was still on. This is what I found. So precious! I used SMJ's Mia's Room kit (and my fav Lisa Whitney stitches and paints strokes by Michelle Coleman.)
That's it for me today...hope your day is bright and sunny (on the inside AND out!) It is supposed to be 57 here today! Yippee!
Hi, Janet. Great post today. Because I'm fairly new to your blog, I don't know about your days outside the US. Did I read that you were in India? Was this mission work?
Your "be ready for the wrench" mantra is really cute. How right you are! The Lord's timing isn't always what we prefer or expect, is it? Have a great day!
Posted by: Julie | February 21, 2007 at 10:56 PM
That's ADOOOORABLE Shabby Mommy Twin! LOOOVE IT girl!
Posted by: Shabby Miss Jenn | February 21, 2007 at 11:20 PM