From the eyes of someone else
I don’t have time to blog… but this is too good. For those who are wondering - yes, the garden is progressing nicely. Maybe will post some updated pictures soon. We’ve planted something in just about every square foot possible in our front and back yard without using the car port roof and digging up the yard. More on the garden in a later post.
Reading someone’s blog is like reading an autobiography … it’s their own perspective on their own life or world around them. It’s such a fun way to keep up with people. Today JJ, a dear friend and four-year Huddle Leader veteran at FCA Camp, wrote a post about her visit last weekend to our house. What a treat to read someone else’s perspective on our life! Certainly times have changed! Last weekend we had friends over to swim - not an unusual happening at our home. But when Matt and Amber, our current house guests, walked in the door, their jaws dropped and they both said, “Your life is so different.” I looked out in the back yard and saw about 13 kids under the age of twelve swimming in the pool - not the typical college students which have made up the pool participants in the past. Times have changed! Thanks to all, like JJ, who have bravely entered in with me and experienced the changes and adapted to them!
May 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Hers is a very poignantly put perspective on your life! Isn’t life grand?! It’s been fun, encouraging, and eye-opening to watch you and your family in this transition! Thanks for sharing some of it with people like me.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Sounds like i escaped right on time by leaving sat. morning!
As much as I don’t like change and want things to stay the same forever (i blame this characteristic of mine on being an only child, because i feel that as an only child you can kind of manipulate the changes around you because all the focus is usually on you anyways…i need to develop this thought further, but it’s a hunch.) So as much as I don’t like change, how else would we grow and develop. This being another realization I have come to in the past 6 months. And while my life is going through many changes in it’s stage right now, it is helpful and encouraging to have friends like you JP who are also experiencing change to be a model and inspiration to me to keep plugging along and trusting God amidst all the chaos difficult challenges. You are like the elder sister I always wanted…well I really always wanted an older brother…but I think I like it this way better. You are SO loved JP! Enjoy your quiet weekend at home! You deserve it.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
i remember several months ago when you told me the changes were 80% good and 20% hard. i guess change is like that. i do miss HL JP, but man, i am so proud of you and inspired by the way you have become Mom JP. you are beautiful.