"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!

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Anybody Remember Grigg's Park?...

When I was in Jr. High, there was an old tradition that the last day of jr. high each year everybody would go to this park and spray everyone with shaving cream!! it was a blast. so weird, but a blast. Well, i have two kids with sensory disorders and we play in shaving cream in occupational therapy all the time. however we useually do so only withour hands. so, i took that idea and let the kids have fun one rainy day in the bath tub...it was sooo fun!!! i hope it inspires some of you to do the same...






Poor Bella just kept asking, "can i put it here?" "cani put it here?" she just could not grasp that i was letting them do this.

Isaiah on the other hand, had NO problem grasping the concept...it was all over him in a matter of seconds...



this was a fun adventure we will be doing again soon. not to mention a wondeful way to clean your bathroom (and i mean the whole bathroom) and make it smell great too!

Posted by Dirk and Sarah Homeier at 7:51 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)