My best thinking time is done....

On my mower 

I love to mow...crazy I know but I do my best thinking on the mower.  During yesterday's mowing sessions there was just so much to think about  My thoughts flowed from one thing to another.  This blog post is a peak inside my brain while mowing....maybe one day I will do a peak inside my brain while I'm suffering from insomnia post....that would be good  ;)


Amazement.....
Next week school would be starting and I just have no idea where the summer went.  This lead me to think about.....


Change......
 I'm not good with change and change was coming.  My kiddo's are going back to school.  I always miss them so much when they are gone and it takes me a good 3 weeks to get used to it.  

My daycare will go down to only 2 during the day - this I am excited about!!!   I am looking forward to no preschool runs and a light load but at the same time that leaves me with a lot of time on my hands.  It is amazing what the body can adjust to.....can you believe I will be caring for a 2 year old and 6 month old and I feel like there is a lot of time on my hands (when my son was born I didn't even think about a sibling until he was over 3 LOL)  This led me to think about.....


What am I looking forward to with the season change......

JonJon comes back from Korea  (and hopefully Ooney too).  I can hardly believe how much I missed this kid when he went back to Korea.  The it is so weird how our nuclear family once J, me, Banana and Carrot felt incomplete in their absence.  He comes in Tuesday of next week and we are excited to welcome him home.

Our adoption......

and how I like to have a plan for everything.  In my mind I am assuming/planning on getting a boy even though we elected either gender.  In one way having that small percentage of what if it was a girl is exciting.....but I almost wonder if I would be disappointed if we got a girl referral.  I think we really want a boy....it is what we feel will fit best into our family and what we are planning for, so I am thinking of making that change in our paperwork.

and our adoptions got me thinking about what I should be thinking about most......

What I need to focus on most.....

My relationship with God.  I have been following a blog I discover a while back when we were considering adoptions as was this couple they moved forward while we were still in the waiting for the right timing phase.  She recently posted on something I am so guilty of....making our family and loved one's our god.  Here is a link to her post which really go me to thinking on this and my need to spend more time in prayer and devotion.  http://www.ourhappilyeverafters.com/2012/08/your-family-is-your-god.html?spref=bl.

There are so many things I need to pray for daily - my husband who works a stressful job and has to balance his obligation to his work and his family, my children who are at such formative ages and in school with all the pressures of the world around them, my baby who is not growing within me but in another woman halfway across the world who is probably hurting, is she caring for herself and her baby within?   How am I worthy to go to God in prayer with my request and petitions if I am not consistently spending time in his word and growing?

I checked this out of our church library.  I have read Stormie O'Martin's The Power of a Praying Wife and after this one I would like to read The Power of a Praying Parent.

Aren't you glad I only have a little less than 1 acre to mow not 2 acres.