Catching Up
Apr 3, 2010 by
My last post was about my two big kids going off to WKU. I can’t believe it was so long ago that I posted anything! I guess I’ll start with them since they were the topic starter last time. They have had a great year! I, on the other hand, had a rough adjustment. My first two weeks were filled with wadded up tissues and tears at random and unwelcome times. Just THINKING about them sent me into a dripping mess! If it wasn’t for the fact that my good friend, Natalie, was going through the same thing I don’t know what I would have done! Some of my friends were less than patient with my dripping approach to adjustment. I finally got so I would just tell myself not to talk to them about it as they were so unempathetic I was not helping myself out by “venting” to them.
Little did I realize this was just a “break-in” period for what the Lord was planning next for these two! He graciously broke me in to having them gone by giving us only two hours drive from each other. I say graciously because in a few weeks Zachery will be leaving for Kenya for the whole summer and I KNOW that is not a two hour drive! Zach is going to be the missionary intern to Kenya with 7 other students from our church. I am TOTALLY unprepared for three months in Kenya! And to make it even worse, Abbey is going to Costa Rica to study Spanish at a missionary language school for two months this summer and then will return to Costa Rica to study abroad with WKU in the fall! As you can see, God was only prepping me with the two hour separation from these two!
But I realize that it is not all about me…I can really see God preparing my two big kids to be in His service and I am so grateful that this is something they want to do!
Joshua is getting ready to go to Atlanta with his robotics team for the World Championship competition with his robotics class! He is now 5 inches taller than I am and seems to grow in leaps and bounds every day!
Isaac is going to spend his spring break ministering to youth in the downtown missions around our town. He and the team of 7th graders he is going with will be sleeping in one of the shelters all week. Sigh…letting him go is a real act of faith!
Gabriel has actually become a cook! This week he created personal pizzas using the frozen roll dough…his creations were awesome! He now has a new hamster, a turtle and of course, Sally and Callie to look after. Just so long as we don’t need a horse, I think we are doing well in the pet department!
Olivia is a piano prodigy!! She plays entirely by ear – which is not good so we are using tough love and are making her learn to READ music as well as hear it to play it. She is now reading – which makes her my youngest reader. My other ones didn’t read until they were 6 or even 7! She is reading everything she can get her hands on! Thank goodness I can boast that I have had at least ONE natural reader!
I am getting ready for our neighborhood garage sale! I’ve decided that my stuff has managed me for long enough! This old dog is going to learn the new trick of ORGANIZATION by getting rid of a bunch of stuff! I just wish that didn’t include to kids going to international locations!
Vicki Feinn was raised in a Christian home and accepted Jesus as her savior at the age of five. At the age of eleven she gave herself to the Lord to be used in any way He wanted to use her. 
