Work Day

Lately, most of my days start with that stomach deep feeling that I am totally in over my head.  8 kids, homeschooling and moving to Uganda?! --Oh, and let's just throw in a few weeks in Colorado doing missionary training just for fun...  Am I crazy to think that this can actually be accomplished?  Then after a time of prayer, God reminds me...

In my own strength...absolutely...

By God's power... "I can do all things"...even make it to Uganda without loosing my sanity...

Today, was a great day of seeing God work.  Our house needs quite a bit of work to make it ready to put on the market.  Today, God brought together a combined effort of 70 working hours through our very special friends being willing to spend a day with us.  In addition, other friends took our kids for the day.  (And survived...despite a trip to the store to stock up on diapers and formula because I forgot to leave the diaper bag with them...oops!)  Way more got done than I ever thought possible in one day.  I am so thankful to be the humble recipient of all this grace.

 And the great-extra-bonus-thing about a day like this?  We had so.much.fun together!  What a great memory this will be...

Even the little one had fun hanging out on her mamma's back...chewing on the straps...

And our piano went to its new home where it will be enjoyed by some friends of ours until we need it again.  We replaced it with a Uganda-friendly electric piano, which the kids absolutely love because it makes so many fun noises... 

...and I absolutely love because it has earphones...just sayin'...

And the piano guys only got, a-hem, a *little* bit of paint on them...oops, again...sorry guys!