April Blessings

It's hard to believe April is gone. God has really blessed us this month, even when things were crazy or tough. We serve a truly awesome God!

1. Gabriel singing "Sing and Shout"
2. Getting a lot of school done
3. Going to Shelby Park
4. Finishing the school week early
5. Making Amish Friendship Bread with Jame and Lillian
6. Reuben and Gabriel singing and dancing to "Sing and Shout" together
7. Great dentist appointments for all the kids
8. Celebrating Passover and Good Friday in the same day
9. Jim not working on a Saturday
10. Having a relaxing family day
11. Emmie's Family getting to our house safely
12. Jesus is Risen! 
13. Celebrating Easter
14. The kids learning to play dominoes
15. Reuben picking up on games
16. Jim getting to come home early
17. Jim being saved for 12 years
18. Breakfast at Wild Eggs
19. Getting back into school after a holiday break
20. Having a good dentist appointment after 5 years
21. Finding a wonderful dentist office
    
22. Going to water aerobics and meeting 2 more pregnant women to encourage
23. Talking to Britney
24. Kids playing together nicely
25. Sam standing up and clapping
26. Getting some writing done
27. God's amazing grace
28. Going to a legacy marriage class with more seasoned couples at Sojourn
29. Prayer time for the Wilburn family
30. Time to talk with Jim
31. God teaching me more everyday about who He is and who I am
32. Getting out of the house all by myself with all 5 kids in the rain! (This is quite an accomplishment for me.)
    
33. Celebrating Sam's 1st birthday!
34. Having lunch with the Sholtes
35. Date night with Jim
36. Having time with God
37. Getting things rolling for Childbirth Conversation Class
38. Sleeping until 8 am
39. Sam having a good doctor's appointment
40. A Friday night with Jim
41. Playing "Go Fish" as a family and Reuben beginning to catch on
42. Making it through Jim's first day shift Saturday
43. Becca making smoothies for lunch
    
44. Subway
45. Jamey's singing for his siblings
46. Getting through church Jim's first Sunday at work
47. Becca helping me get the kids dropped off
48. Watching Reuben build by himself and figure things out
49. Celebrating Becca's birthday
50. Free Chick-fil-A salads
51. Jim teaching the kids to bowl
52. Good CG discussion
53. Learning to open up to Jim
54. Kids playing together
55. Getting some extra sleep
56. Date night with good conversation
    
57. Seeing Jill at the mall
58. God immediately answering my prayer about Jim's schedule though I asked for it a week later
59. Reuben peeing in the toilet!
60. Getting Childbirth Conversation blog going again
61. Immediate positive response to Childbirth Conversation Class
62. Getting caught up on all of the kids' journals!
63. Getting lists going for things that need to be done
64. Great time at writing group
65. Getting to know Kimberly better
66. Already having 10 women planning to come to the Childbirth Conversation Class with several inviting other women to come
67. Hearing more of Nathan's story
    
68. Date afternoon with Jim
69. Finding needed things at Little Treasures Sale
70. Jim getting called off for the morning
71. Cleaning much of the living area
72. Productive morning
73. Putting Sam in a hanging chair to eat
74. Great conversations at playgroup
75. Seeing Esther
76. Connecting with Leah
77. Going to water aerobics
78. Seeing Alexxus
    
79. CG at our house
80. Hearing Robin's story
81. Getting schedules done for the next 2 weeks
82. God growing me in patience
83. Beautiful weather
84. A single lady interested in Childbirth Conversations
85. Great morning in God's Word