Abby is our “Strawberry Girl”. For breakfast, she had pink pancakes with strawberries on top. Later, Kelsey baked a strawberry cake and poked holes in it to pour in the 7-Up and strawberry Jello mixture. Then Katie finished it off with Cool Whip and perfectly placed strawberries. See the heart in the middle?
We had two guests outside of our family. Abby invited our little neighbor girl to her party. So Fama and her mom came. Abby would have invited everybody in Walmart if I had let her. She did tell everyone she met that it was her birthday. She got lots of birthday wishes from many strangers – without even being on Facebook!
She got the Webkinz fish that she wanted and named it Blaze, and I helped her start an account and adopt him and get started playing on Webkinz. She had a nice birthday, and we are so thankful that God continues to provide, even as we survive the financial drought that has come upon us so unexpectedly. We are expecting the floodgates of heaven to open soon. I will report THAT as soon as it happens.
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
Long time since I visited your blog! Sorry to hear about the financial drought ……will be praying for you all…..