God Is Good...All the time

Isn't it wonderful how God renews our faith and our strength? I praise Him for how he sends the Holy Spirit among us to renew us and to speak to our hearts. I am so encouraged by my beautiful and Christ seeking wife! She is truly a Lady in all ways. Her heart for our children is always true and focused on their growth, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She is an incredible wife, constantly seeking to serve me and to please me. I am blessed by God to have this beautiful help-meet. I pray that each one of my children can be given a spouse as wise and beautiful as the spouse God gave me.

Misunderstanding.

Gosh I sent out the letter that Scott wrote me concerning our adoption hoping it would encourage others, and we got slammed..The lady wrote and said we had an air of superiority to our tone..
Sometimes what you mean for Good the devil uses for bad..We would never say or do anything to lead people to think we are better than anyone else....Oh well we move on........

Attention baby has been found...whew!!!Thank you Lord.

Lost baby alert......

For those of you that know Cullen our 2 year old you know that he has a very special blankie
that we call baby..Well baby has come up missing and I have looked every where. I would usually know that it was somewhere in the house but I took a van load of stuff to good will today.
Please pray with me that baby is not somewhere in a strange place lost forever...I have never let a baby get lost forever maybe for a day but not FOREVER.....He is so sad..He will be watching a movie and then start crying and say my baby......Oh my heart......
I have carried that baby around for 2years......please pray we find it...

Robin

• I have always felt like Tuck has had a special calling on his life.He is a wonderful son and a great big brother..I often think things come hard for him and who knows maybe they do but I'm proud to be his mama and I can't wait to see what the Lord will do with him...He has over come challenges with a incrediable attitude and has never asked why..He just keeps moving forward...I love you son my first born son and I pray that your heart will continue to move toward the Lord.....
  
  

Report on Tuck.

Well we made our dentist apt and he had molds made and x-rays and spacers put in.
He was feeling alittle sorry for himself on the way home and I had to remind him to be
thankful. He said yeah but I can't eat and it hurts. I said I know Tuck but God didn't say
only be thankful when you get everything you want or when it doesn't' hurt he said "Be thankful
always"not because of our circumstances but because God is God...We can't fill our children's life
with an easy road and never let them experience any kind of discomfort. God never promised any
of us that..He did promise us that he would never leave or forsake us...I know people who don't tell their kids about a party or someone who might come to visit because it may not happen and their child would be disappointed.. We have to teach our children to deal with disappointment properly and the only way we can do that is to put little disappointment in their life while they are young and then help them deal with it....Don't send them into the world always getting their way and then the first time someone or something disappoints them they crash and say well poor me....Tuck was still responsible for the way he acted toward his brothers and sisters and just because he was hurting he didn't get to treat everyone around him horrible...He could say Guys I'm sorry but my mouth is hurting and I don't feel like talking right now....So yes Tuck there will be pain and you may not be able to eat everything you want to but be thankful you will have great teeth and your not the only kid who ever had braces.....:)Sometimes you could be wet or have mud on you and still be happy. I guess it's all in the way you look at it..I pray for wisdom in teaching my children how to respond to those times in which they are disappointed or in pain or when someone lets them down....Because that is life and I'm supposed to teach them about Life.

No new news on the adoption..Just waiting on paper work still...I still have to be happy also even though I don't like the speed in which things are moving.God never promised me a rose garden...

Good day to ya all ..(all three of ya)
Robin

It sure is hard on a Monday!

Well I just sent my man off..I tell ya Mondays are hard.He gets back in the Work Mode and
I have to get back in the swing of school and house...I love the weekends when he is all mine.
We don't have to share him with anyone.He is total devoted to us and us to him...I am thankful
for his job but I sure wished he could do it from home.(I think)
We went to a bible study last night with some of the most down to earth families you have ever
met. It is such a pleasure getting together with all of them. They are so encouraging and real.
It's hard to find a group like that...Last night we studied James and how we have to cling to God and resit the devil..We have to take every thought captive. Did this thought come from God or the devil?Also at church yesterday morning our elder said "you may be the only bible some people read." How are we living our life.Can people see Christ in us or do they see more of the world?Hmm that's one to think about..How is my speech, my dress, my attitude, about being a stay at home mom. My attitude toward being a wife.Can you see Christ in me or do you see the world..? I'm afraid some days you would see more of the world.I'm sorry for that.

Well we're off to UAB to start Tuckers' braces.Please pray he will have a peace about it because he is alittle anxious.

Love ya all,
Rob

Day with my daughter.

Scott insisted that Taylor and I needed some time to go do Girl things...So off we went.
We went Yard saleing and out to lunch at a neat little Italian Bistro in Spring ville. We had
a great time just talking and planning her wedding:)I was crying alittle just thinking about it.
So I had to call Scott and tell him and he said "don't call me and get me down..."We are pitiful.
I really pray for the young man who will ask for my daughters hand...I hope we can see his potential....I know he his going to be a great guy but he will have to be Really great to get her daddies blessing..(and mine)..Don't get me wrong she is not perfect in anyway,but she has a heart to serve and please and she will follow her husband...She is truly one of my best friends..She knows when I'm down and she knows what I need when I'm feeling over whelmed. She can make me laugh and she loves to eat chocolate with me..Besides her father she is my best friend and I love her and I'm so thankful we have such an incredible relationship.It has grown over the years just like anything else it has been a process..When she was 12-13 it was definite growing pains but they do even out and you start to see the fruit of your labor.

Robin

I love you mom!!!! I love you Cullen....All the way to the moon and back again..

Can you ever get tired of a sticky hand?

This is Chandler's sticky hand...I love watching her lick on a lollipop..I love this stage of my life...