Author Archives: admin Had to document a quick post seperate from our Journey to the Magi post of our FIRST Christmas with ITY…and yesterday marked officially SIX MONTHS in our arms!!! This weekend ALSO marked the longest our little guy has been in one place. I find myself looking at him over and over and wanting his heart […]  So thankful how they are enjoying this journey so far!!! Last night, we wrote on little pieces of paper how each of them saw Jesus in their day as we are seeking to see Him. Parker told me, “I saw Jesus in the dark clouds while it was snowing…there was a beautiful bright light behind […] Love all the different thoughts on the wisemen’s journey!!! Thank you for sharing! Love the visuals for the magi!!! And, yes, I have never thought of the war part before.  This is for those of you who want to journey with the Magi with us for the next 2 days…I’ll do my best to post what we share with our little ones each night—they are LOVING getting to take the Magi to a new place in the house after our devotional by the way!!! So […] Did the Zambia crew get off okay with all of the snow? I’ve heard there are a lot of flights canceled from the ATL airport. Look forward to hearing about their trip. 🙂  Last year, I spent some time studying the journey of the Magi, and just like my recent post on Joseph (a must read on his perspective if you missed it…if you only read one blog entry from me this year read that one)–and just like Joseph, their story is miraculous but often overlooked. Also last […] Those pictures are priceless! Glad you had a good Christmas! We are back from Bali and I am way behind in the land of blog. What a great place to start … with this post. Love the Magi Journey ideas and oh … that ITY! i first have to say…blessing after blessing…i have so enjoyed following your blog and journeying with you and your sweet family! And once again i am going to take our family on the “journey of the wisemen with you!” …what a fabulous idea! And i too…LOVE Carol Brazo’s book…”No ordinary home”. I discovered her about a year and 1/2 ago and wow! blessing. So..my question for you is…where did you do your research of the journey of the magi? Blessings to you! look at him!!! seriously…a miracle boy. love the idea of the journey of the wiseman. is there a day by day devotion to go with it? We also have traveling wisemen around our home. The kids love it! Love the idea of how we see Jesus every day. What a great idea. 🙂 I too am in awe of our family how it has grown where we came from this past year. AND YES!!!! Isaac is the cutest little man 🙂 !!!!! Go Isaac!!! Kristin and Jen…I just do the research myself and pull from every source I can find. I will be posting each night our devotional for the next 2 weeks–so feel free to just follow us a day behind if you begin your journey tonight (doing something similar to what we did last night…just introducing the journey). I just can’t type much until all my littles are down for the night:). oh andrea – he is just precious!!! Merry Christmas! Cannot wait to SEE you in a month!!! He is just so stinking cute .. and I love him in a hat shows his cute cheeks! What a neat idea. I struggle so much with doing structured things like that with my kids. My almost four year old has the attention span of a fly and seems to get all squirmy everytime we try to do a devotional. We flunked out of the Ann Voskamp Jesse tree devotional this year because it became frustrating to try and get him to stay focused 🙁 Next year I’ll try something simpler.  One of Rich’s famous sayings in our home is, “Just glue it back together…” Yep, with four little ones six years old and younger–and three of those being boys…things just seem to get broken a lot. Last night, one of our other family members “Stuffed Tiger” (yes, my kids give their stuffed animals very creative […] Thank you for this perfect reminder of what God does with our brokenness. No words… just tears and a thankful heart…. Oh my word, you know I’m shedding some tears reading this post. With my own dear “Joseph” in Uganda this week completing our adoption and becoming a father to the fatherless, this one really hit home. So beautiful. I can’t wait to send to Dan over in UG. Beautifully written, Andrea. I love your heart, Andrea – thanks for sharing it. What a beautiful, beautiful post! So sweet, Andrea! Merry Christmas to ya’ll!!! We reviewed these same words from Matthew tonight in our church service and it never really hit me until I was in service tonight what Joseph gave up and did. Usually we focus on what Mary did. But can you imagine how broken (like you say) he was? What other people thought and how bad that hurt him? It’s ironic to see this post you wrote, but I know it’s the Lord’s hand just reinforcing this thought, this lesson that we need to remeber, always! WOW!!!! THANK YOU!!! What a wonderful post!!! Perfect read for this CHristmas Eve. Thanks for sharing your heart/ God’s heart. Have a blessed day tomorrow! i loved this. so glad God showed you this through what happened and so glad you shared it with us! Merry Christmas WOW – this was incredible and such powerful words. You should get this published in the MOPS magazine or somewhere similar next year. More people need to hear this message – it is incredible! Merry Christmas to you and your amazing family! So funny that you posted this….the Lord and I had a similar “conversation” just the other day. 🙂 Thank you for posting. Thank you, Andrea! I needed to hear this message today. Beautiful words. Simply beautiful. […] year, I spent some time studying the journey of the Magi, and just like my recent post on Joseph (a must read on his perspective if you missed it…if you only read one blog entry from me this […] |
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Love the snow pictures, they are perfect! Excited to see all that the Lord does in 2011! 😉
Oh what a beautiful post!!! Ugghhh… cried through reading what your Great Grandmother said!! I’ve lost all of my grandparents and oh how I wish my sweet Grandma Glover were here to see us bring Joleigh home. I’m the only Christian in my immediate family but my Grandma Glover was the most Godly woman… Love and miss her dearly!!
Love the pics of Isaac in the snow:) and desperately wanna see that tent tutorial:)
Love the videos. Frankie baby has great leadership potential!
🙂 I put ankle weights in the one ride on toy I bought for my youngest (there is a little area I could put them inside) to hopefully keep it from tipping over easily. I guess we shall see if it works. Great videos. Love Frank’s pjs.
Love the pictures!! Looks like ya’ll had a wonderful Christmas! And LOVE that Isaac is standing up!! Can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store for ya’ll in 2011!
What a beautiful Christmas!!! So adorable 🙂 Love what your grandma said- its very very true!
Truly precious!!! =) Love the snow pictures and those kissable cheeks! ♥ God is good ALL the time! So happy for your family. Thanks for sharing. (and the tents rock!)
Magical. Just magical!
Hey friend
I so need the tutorial on the tent. Want to make some for a photo session!!
Thanks
Mitzi
Please post a tutotial for the tent. That would be awesome to make for grandchildren!! Thanks so much.
DITTO! To the tent tutorial!!