"Blessed is the man whose quiver is full" Ps. 127
How God Created a Miracle in Our Family...
Most people look at our family and either say "you're crazy" or "what a blessing". It is that statement alone that sets people apart in how they view what happens in life. We were childless for 6 years before God blessed us with our third foster child, Isaiah, whom we adopted. Our tiny, three pound, adorable baby boy quickly became the love of our lives.
8 months after Isaiah was born, my father-in-law gave a woman a ride. That 4 block ride changed our lives forever when she told him she was pregnant and giving up her baby for adoption. Oh yeah...and she was due in 8 days! Well, just 5 days later, we had Makenna Shea!
3 months later, after Dirk and I had just prayed to have another baby when Makenna was about 1, that same birth mother called asking us to take her next baby. Isabella was born 1 week shy of Makenna's first birthday!
The funny part of the story is when we found out that I, the one who could never get pregnant, was pregnant! Ian was born 7 weeks after Isabella! God had given us 4 children all under the age of 1 1/2!!! We were thrilled! Such a work of God's hands it was.
This year we added to our clan when we were surprisingly pregnant again (so much for not being able to get pregnant). We now have 5 under 4! And I now wonder how mom's manage with all those kids so spread apart in age. It may be hard sometimes, but we love our life!
Today we learned about Japan in school today. We were reading a book about a pair of red clogs (from Japanof course) and decided to make a whole day of it! After we looked on the computer for a map of Japan, we then looked at traditional Japanese kids, dances, clothing and even how they bathe!! that part is interesting in case you are unaware! Our Aunt Heidi-Ho and Uncle Wataru (What-to-do) are living in Japan so we were blessed to already have some real- live Japanese house coats (that we called Kimonos today or Kimomos if you are Bella). we wore those all day and ate lunch with chop sticks...or attempted to anyway.
Then lunch came and eventually every one of them got food into their mouths via chop sticks! i was so proud!!!
well, most of them got it into their mouths...some just played!
then that night we were able to Skype our Aunt and Uncle and tell them a few things we learned about Japan that day. we will have to do that more for sure! Isaiah even made Japanese clogs out of his flip flops and socks tonight..quite cute!
the children all learned to bow. Well, i should say Makenna learned to bow. Bella found it more interested to fall to the floor and Isaiah just looked like he had to pee the whole time he attempted...
Kenna, however, was quite proficient...and reminded us all day how good she was at it...
Then lunch came and eventually every one of them got food into their mouths via chop sticks! i was so proud!!!
well, most of them got it into their mouths...some just played!
1 comment:
what a wonderful time you must of had. just wish we could be there to teach them some japanese, from a real japanese!! hehe
thanks for remembering us! love you and the kids!
autie heidi
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