TIME....where does it go?

I am pathetic at the blog thing.  What the world?  Time goes by so fast, before you know it, winter is over, spring is on its way.  Weeds are already popping up in the flower beds... Whats up with that?  Seems like we just had Christmas!  And when I look at my blog it was just Christmas!    Time flies, kids grow, wrinkles appear overnight.  Lucky for me my oldest daughter is a hair stylist and keeps me from looking old AND gray.

7 years. 7 years, WOW.  That is how long ago it was that God impressed on my husband's heart that our family wasn't complete.  I, on the other hand, had known that for some time  (lest I say years...)  but he wasn't on board until I released my grip on what I wanted and turned it over to God to show me what He wanted.  And viola... we were on our way to foster care training, CPR training, homestudy, interviews, child proofing our home, etc. We prepared ourselves for a 3-4 yr old little girl, being that we had all girls home at the time and knew we couldn't have older boys for lack of space...Little did we know that God had already chosen our children and had everything under control.  6 months passed until we got our approval letter, stating we were an approved foster care home, noon on a thrusday afternoon.

2pm the phone rang and on the other end our placement coordinator called asking me if we would accept  5 and 1/2 month old twin!  I laugh out loud in disbelief at how small my faith really was.   By 6pm our family had grown from 7 to 9.   Did you catch that?  We began our foster care journey 6 months before we got the call to add the twins to our family, 5 1/2 month old twins.  Timing is everything.  God's timing is EVERYTHING.   He knew the children that would join our family, he was putting in place what needed to be done, at just the right time, for just the right purpose.  9 months later on 7/7/07, our youngest was born, soon to join  her older siblings and too become a part of our forever family.  1 year and 11 months. all 3 were adopted.  We are now a family of 10 plus a son in law and 2 beautiful grandchildren.

Time...goes so quickly.  But if we commit our time to the Lord, trust His will in our life, we hopefully surrender to His timing