Trip Pictures, Peace, & a 12 Year Old...oh my!

I am still working on our new blog but in meantime you can enjoy some of the pictures that will be accessible through the site. You can view those here.

Hopefully I will be able to launch the new site in the next couple of days.

Life is still fragile around here. Noah has gone 3 days with a good attitude and being very obedient. He hasn't run away again and there have been no more "counseling" sessions. There have been a couple of moments when he has been corrected and you could see the wheels turning - rage or submit. So far, he has chosen submission, but it still creates eggshell moments.

Josiah and Caleb are starting to struggle a little. Nothing earth shattering - grief, loss, depression, a little brotherly arm punching type of stuff. We are working on it and getting through it. We have learned that Josiah is actually 12, well at least 12 and probably much older. I took all three boys to the Doctor the other day for their first check up and in general there health is pretty good. We have a whole list of labs and stool samples that we have to have done, but overall a decent bill of health. The Doctor confirmed my suspicions that he was much older than 9 years old, but the other two seem to be right on track. This has caused a little bit of concern for us simply because it forces us to rethink school and an appropriate grade. We are praying and talking through it.

So the parents of our new 8, 10, 12+ year old sons are still kneeling before the Lord and He continues to lead us one step at a time. It has been unbelievably hard and there have been many tears shed and walls punched, but God continues to remain good and we continue to remain vastly dependent.