Never a Dull Moment

Me loves a lazy crazy saturday! Complete with our own personal entertainer! Never a dull moment with Miss Payton around!

 Even Reagan wanted to try out the princess shoes.

You never know what you'll get when you let Payton handle the camera.

And what day is complete without a little dish duty? Can you tell that Reagan is in her clingy phase? Oy!

Where was Caedmon all this time? Probably in his room building paper airplanes or playing with a Whoopie Cushion. Which is what he did most of the weekend! Classic Caedmon. Sorry no pictures buddy.

From a Worm to an Angel

 From todays "Morning and Evening" by Charles Spurgeon

Colossians 1:28
Perfect in Christ Jesus.

Do you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps "imperfection"; every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters "imperfection." You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream for a moment of any perfection in yourself. But amidst this sad consciousness of imperfection, here is comfort for you-you are "perfect in Christ Jesus."In God's sight, you are "complete in Him;" even now you are "accepted in the Beloved." But there is a second perfection, yet to be realized, which is sure to all the seed. Is it not delightful to look forward to the time when every stain of sin shall be removed from the believer, and he shall be presented faultless before the throne, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing? The Church of Christ then will be so pure, that not even the eye of Omniscience will see a spot or blemish in her; so holy and so glorious, that Hart did not go beyond the truth when he said-

"With my Saviour's garments on,
Holy as the Holy One."

Then shall we know, and taste, and feel the happiness of this vast but short sentence, "Complete in Christ." Not till then shall we fully comprehend the heights and depths of the salvation of Jesus. Doth not thy heart leap for joy at the thought of it? Black as thou art, thou shalt be white one day; filthy as thou art, thou shalt be clean. Oh, it is a marvellous salvation this! Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel; Christ takes a black and deformed thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, peerless in His beauty, and fit to be the companion of seraphs. O my soul, stand and admire this blessed truth of perfection in Christ.

The 3G Network

Supper time in the Crawford household has completely transformed in the last few weeks thanks to  

The 3G Network. 

 

Good- Something good . . . or GREAT about your day. 

Grief- Something that gave you grief . . . or just plain stunk. 

God- Something about God from your day, preferably how God used you for His glory.

Rules: 

Everyone shares . . . sometimes even the baby and dog and cat. (voices done by Caedmon)

Be kind and respectful to the other sharers while they are sharing.

Don't talk with food in your mouth. It's Gross!

You are allowed to share as many Goods as you want.

Complaining is not allowed while sharing your Grief.

God may be last on this list, but you are not allowed to skip it. Period. 

Maybe supper time could be transformed in your house too!

           

embrace the camera-jan. 27

Yay! Here is my first Embrace the Camera post!

This weeks picture is me nibbling on Reagan's ear. She has had what I think is an ear infection and I preformed a little home remedy on her. Her ears have smelt like onion juice for a few days now and it's making me hungry for a juicy mushroom swiss burger from Hickory Park! I couldn't resist a little nibble. She rather enjoyed it too!

Beautiful Babes

 

 

 

 

First big chunk of paperwork and money on it's way in the mail tomorrow! Hope it's all right!

Praise God for His provision so far! Thank you to everyone for your prayers and support!
On to the next step . . . God willing!

Nothing else matters.

Goodness gracious I am so easily distracted! It's a very frustrating thing to me.
Today I went into church totally distracted and thinking about all the things I need to get done or the things that are frustrating me about life. Church was awesome and put me in my place. Helping me see that all these THINGS and TASK that consume my thoughts really shouldn't matter. All that's important is my devotion to the Lord . . . within EVERYTHING. I am often so concerned with the house, the to do list, my parenting, my wants, my failures, what people think, THINGS that others have, THINGS that I don't have . . . see a theme here? Basically, complete and total inward thinking.

Argh! And guess what happens when I get out in the parking lot of church? I start looking at someone elses nice fancy van and I want it. I get home and I step into a messy house and I stress about it. I daily argue with God about all these things including how uncomfortable and humbling it is to be pursuing adoption.

When it's so obvious how much I NEED Him, why do I so often live as though I don't? I'm so thankful that these are usually only moments in the day. I'm thankful for His Word that leads me back to where I should be. It comes down to the fact that someday I will be standing in front of HIM. When I get to heaven do I want Him to comment on how great my house was or how fancy my van was or how much money was in my bank account or how great I was at daily conquering my to do list . . . ? I hope not! I hope He points out times when He provided for me, when He helped me obey, when His opinion meant more then mans to me, when He gave courage and strength to pursue something greater then ourselves . . . ! 

We probably all have things in our lives that we find it just plain hard to obey in. He so desires us to run to Him. Not get ourselves organized and then come to Him. No, run to Him. Jason and I are learning this a lot lately. We'll be in an argument or in the midst of craziness and confusion, and we are slowly be surely learning to just stop, hold hands and PRAY! It is amazing the power prayer has even when you don't have the words or just don't feel like it. God knows our hearts. He sees us. He wants us to REST in Him!

I'm so grateful for the fact that He's never changing! One moment my sinful nature can come out or I'm totally distracted by THINGS around me, but God's forgiveness allows me to come back to Him again and SEE how much I REALLY NEED HIM! I must preach the gospel to myself many times a day in order to allow myself to be affective for Him! Nothing else matters in the end except what will continue on into heaven. My house, my stuff, my crossed of list . . . those THINGS will pass away. 

Christmas morning

 The kids were still sleepy. We had to wake they up to open up their stockings and check out the surprise in the living room so we could get ready to go to Grandpa and Grandma's house for brunch.

 

 

 

 This is what our living room looked like Christmas morning! Full of teepee tents! They had so much fun in them that the older two wanted to sleep in them that night. They did and I couldn't believe that they slept the whole night out with no problems. They must have been so tired!

We had a wonderful Christmas! It was nice and relaxing! We watched movies, ate lots of good food, and played games most of the day at Grandpa and Grandma's. Maybe Christmas 2011 or 2012 there will be a few more kiddos around to rejoice with! I sure hope so! How fun will five kids on Christmas morning be?! And how wonderful to get to share Jesus with two more children!