Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Life

For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light. Psalm 36:9

"Life" can so quickly pass us by if we let it. It often takes a change in our routine for me to slow us down. We had that chance a little over a week ago. Don has to take his boards for his PA license this year so he went to a review course in Chicago for a week. Because he was going to be gone, I schedule some different activities to help us pass the time.

We went to the zoo one afternoon. We saw most of the kids' favorite exhibits but a highlight was feeding the parakeets with a "feeding stick". They were able to get the birds to sit on their sticks and eat.


We also had to stop at the petting zoo. At this point, Samuel looks at the ground and says, "Mom, look at all the goat crap!" Can you tell he lives with his 13-year-old brother? Such a proud parenting moment for me!


Another day we went on a field trip and had a picnic with friends. Everyone went to bed very easily that night!

Bethany had her weekly horse lesson on Prince.

We had a really good week and the time flew, but it was so nice to have Don home again.

A morning last weekend, the Lord blessed us with beautiful pictures of life. We had found a caterpillar in a cocoon when I was cleaning some lettuce. We decided to put it in a jar and see if we could watch it transform into a moth. While Caleb, Don and I were sitting in the back porch talking, the moth emerged from the cocoon. Don called everyone else into the room so we could watch the moth stretch his wings and get used to his new shape. It was amazing!

The kids had been watching three eggs in a robin's nest for several days. The same morning we watched a new moth fly, the kids found that two of the eggs had hatched into baby robins. Bethany took a picture of the new babies.

Our Creator is so amazing. He is truly the Fountain of Life. My prayer is that we continue to stop and notice the blessings of life all around us.