The official name of my blog is "Glimpses of God from the Humiston Home." (I know its a mouthful) However, lately it has been more of a "Baby book/Scrapbook of the Humiston Family Year O' Fun," than a chance for me to share what is in my heart.
Why, you ask?
Well, things have been a bit crazy for say oh, about the last year or so at my house. Since I have transitioned to 3 kids I rarely sit down at nap time anymore unless it is to fold laundry. And I also gave birth to a chid who has no interest in playing with toys. He'd much rather fish in the toilet, unload my kitchen cabinets, empty the dishwasher, & get into his sister's art supplies. Thus, its hard to get much done that requires thinking while he is awake. (Don't worry too much I can declutter, do dishes, and oversee laundry without thinking these days.)
Actually that precious little boy I speak of is sleeping in my lap as I peck out this post because due to two consecutive awful viruses his mama (opps, I mean sleep schedule) is currently on life support.
When we first transitioned to three children our family had zeroed out our calendar. Due to the vocational changes in our life we had VERY FEW church or social commitments. And I naively remember thinking, "This isn't too bad. I think the transition to 2 was much harder." And then we found this amazing church and made some awesome friends and I've felt overwhelmed ever since. I'm sure it also has something to do with the fact that I joined the children's ministry team, we joined a small group, Grace started Kids Choir, we started attending Family Quest, I started selling jewelry for Inspiranza, we began mentoring a few students, and we've been trying to figure out how to get started with an adoption. Oh, and I declared it the "year of fun" before we send Grace to kindergarten. There's actually more but it makes me tired to list it all.
Well, I digress... all this to say my blog has become less about me trying to put together an intelligent thought and more about just keeping up with everything we've been up to. And for the most part I'm okay with that because I fully intend to enjoy the 5 months of fun we have left! However I do want to record what God is teaching me because it has been some good and sometimes challenging stuff. Mama stuff, forgiveness stuff, adoption stuff, submission stuff, with a whole lot of searching mixed in. So, I am setting a goal to sit down every other Wednesday or so (my goals are a bit more flexible these days) to try and just write something that doesn't have anything to do with something we've done. It will still probably be something to do with my kids, just more thought life and a little less play by play of our real life.
The funny thing is when I sat down to write this post I simply wanted to tell you about how God taught me something through our morning Bible time and a little pink princess devotional book. But...my family just woke up so I guess that will have to be a later post. :)
