Author Archives: admin One of my FAVORITE preschool children’s books for Easter time is “My Easter Basket: And the real story of Easter“. It links the colors of eggs in your basket to the Easter story as each color represents a part of the story. As one of the “party moms” in Isaac’s 2 year old preschool class […] I think this is the longest I’ve ever gone without updating my blog since I first starting blogging. Last week was the week of the C4C retreat–so this mom was slammed with homeschooling and planning a retreat for 450 moms. The weekend was AMAZING. It was so funny even how it had a completely different […] So glad that it went so great!!! I really do wish I come have come back for the March one! Haha! Can’t wait to hear what ya’ll are planning for C4C next year!!! Andrea, it was a truly wonderful weekend. Your ability to express genuine love to so many mamas is beautiful to see. A real gift from God. What a joy to think of all the ways God will use this retreat in each of the families represented by each woman there. So cool! Rest well this week my friend. It was my first C4C conference and I was so blessed! Thank you to you and everyone else for making us ladies feel so special. I had such a sweet time on my date with God and heard His voice! Have a restful week Andrea! Andrea…I really can’t thank you enough for all that you give of yourself to do C4C! It is such a tremendous blessing for all of us mommies! Can’t wait to see the plans for next year! what a blessing the entire weekend was! i am so thankful for the tons of work that went into making the retreat a true refreshing, educational, enjoyable break. thank you so very much! Andrea- This weekend was absolutely AMAZING! Thank you times ten for all of your hardwork and dedication to loving and serving the orphans of this world and those who love them. And please forgive me for bombarding you with ideas…sometimes I get ahead of myself. Be my friend in spite of this? 🙂 -McCall Andrea, Thank you so very much for everything you did for us at the retreat! My friends and I had a WONDERFUL time. We learned a lot, were able to relax, and met some amazing friends along the way. The C4C Retreat was definitely worth the trip from Wisconsin! From the first few hours we were in Atlanta (in the spa ;)), to the Sunday morning worship, we enjoyed everything. Thank you for all of your hard work. Please give thanks to the other volunteers on my behalf. I know you work so hard to provide adoptive moms this amazing opportunity…please know that you were appreciated! One of my favorite parts…meeting my “virtual/blog friends” and leaving the retreat with them being my “real” friends! Thanks so much Andrea! Looks like you’ve done it again. Amazing. Just amazing. Andrea, words cannot describe the thanks and gratitude that ALL of us mamas have for you and your wonderful C4C team. Seriously, your ministry to adoptive mamas is one that is truly needed and you were made to do it girl! What a blessing you are, God has big things planned for you friend! I have blogged shots that I took of all the tables, worship, and prayer cross (along with pictures of mamas) if you are interested in having a look when things settle down. I always think it’s nice to see things through other people’s eyes, especially when you are the one running the show! God’s Blessings to you and your family! -nicole Thanks for sharing the video. I am in the time of waiting and it was such an encouragement to see God’s faithfulness to the families that have gone before us. I love the songs that were chosen as well, the words were so powerful! Thanks so much for everything you and your team did to make such an awesome retreat possible! It was such a great time!! Ya’ll are a blessing to all the adoptive mommies! Andrea, I didn’t turn in my C4C survey sheet. Is there a place on the C4C website where I can still give feedback, is it too late, or would you want me to email it? Andrea- I loved the video you created for your conference! It was inspiring, reassuring….just beautiful! I am working with a coalition of churches in Indiana to put together our first adoption and orphan care conference, Answer the Call. We are trying to reach out to those in the community and to provide a central resource for those who feel called to help children through foster care, adoption, and orphan care ministry in their church. After I watched your video, I was so moved! Right now we have put together a promo video for our conference that involves interviewing a teenage boy that has been stuck in the foster care system his entire life. He is just desperate to find a place called home. I love the video but I also love what you have done. I sent my team to look at your video to see if we could do something like it for our conference also. 🙂 One member asked if we could use your video, as it is so well done. I guess that is my question. I know it is on U- Tube but this is something precious that you and your team has crafted. I hesitate to ask you. But I guess I am. Would you mind ? If so, that’s fine. We will create our own. Just asking. 🙂 Oh my goodness – can I just add a “amen” to the whole “3 is the new two.” My twins just turned 3 the beginning of this month and I think we have more than few similar pictures. . . every day : ) Oh it’s revealing as it can test this momma’s patience. Yet it’s always such a blessing knowing we’re not doing this parenting thing alone, isn’t it?! Yes. After your post a couple of days ago, I have begun rereading the book. I so need to do 40 days!! Oh yes, 3 is definitely the new 2! I had one 3 years ago! 😉 I remember the glory days well and of course,I still miss them! haha I love that pic of Laney looking exactly like a hot princess should look and Isaac is too funny staring at his unhappy brother. 🙂 Love seeing the “real” pictures. I will have to check the Maker’s diet. Thanks for sharing!! My husband has Crohn’s disease and got so so sick 2 years ago. He lost 30 pounds and no steroids or treatments from the doctor worked. He almost died and no one could keep him from losing weight. We got radical and did The Maker’s Diet. Everyone thought I was crazy (especially when I went to see the “Goat Lady” weekly for goat’s milk and eggs). It was so amazing, the healing that took place. The first few weeks were rough as his body purged everything. Doctors treated me like I was contributing to his death if we tried it. But it worked…God is so amazing. He hasn’t been sick at all for a year! One thing that really helped was some of the garden of life products (specifically the one Jordin recommends with the HSOs). It’s called Primal Defense. Good luck in your journey. I know how much planning and hard work it takes to do the Maker’s Diet. The Chicken Soup is still one of our gut-healing favorites 🙂 Bless you! Your kids are adorable! I can’t wait to see what my son is like with our new baby when he arrives:) Love your blog! I love the real everyday pics..would love to one day go to a conference. Y’all head on over to the Cupcake Kids blog to sign up for a cupcake sale!!! I had the honor of posting today on their blog…so y’all go on over and be entertained from last year’s pictures and how much the littles have changed in a year!!! So…who’s with me??? Let’s join 60Feet in making […]  Finally downloaded the pics from last weekend! It’s so unlike me to let my camera stay packed up for a whole week isn’t it;)?! We had SO MUCH fun at the 5k/1k Wiphan Waddle last weekend. Here’s mommy with her littlest runners…(can you tell it was EARLY in the morning–I hadn’t had my coffee yet!) […] 🙂 🙂 Our night at the airport may have been a disaster but looking back, I have to say it was worth it! I’ll never forget how touched/blessed I was to see that family come together and welcome their little boy. I’ll also never bother with TripleA… haha. |
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I am loving the Easter egg idea, awesome! I will keep your health in my prayers!
Haven’t stopped praying. Believing every need will be supplied with more to spare…kinda like the little boy and the lunch which fed the 5,000…you never feel like it’s enough but everyday God will multiply and those around you will be fed.
He already is doing that with everything your hand touches.
Know that when you’re too tired to fight, when you’re drained and can’t seem to find even the right words to pray, He is waking intercessors in the night–all over the world–to lift you up because you’re THAT important to him. Not only people that know you by name and face, but God can burden the heart of a man in India in the night to pray for you even though you’ve never met. He can show your face in a vision to a woman washing her clothes in Africa and impress on them to pray. I know it, I’ve seen it, and I believe it. He cares that much.
I am reading through Hudson Taylor’s biography right now, missionary to China. Loving this quote: ‘”I cannot read,’ he said when things were at their worst; ‘I cannot pray, I can scarcely even think–but I can trust.'”
Yes Lord, we can trust.
And we are REJOICING with you for healing as well as praising Him for His sustaining power, His strength being made perfect in your weakness.
I know it feels like a baptism of fire sometimes, but just like the men in the fiery furnace…there’s a fourth man in the flames. You’re not just being delivered “out of”, your deliverance is happening right now, right in the midst of your trial.
And STREAMS of refreshing are coming.
Love,
Rory
Night intercessor reporting for duty…praying the pain & the fear away…My heart is heavy knowing just how draining the AB therapy is for a supermom. We give refrigerated probiotics & yogurt to pts with H.Pylori to increase chance of eradicating the bacteria. It may help to blanch those veggies in boiling water & to avoid eating skins of fruit while your immune system is suppressed. Praying that you will give yourself permission to rest, it’s so hard but it will be worth it. Praying for miraculous & undeniable healing!