Update - Family

Well, Allen Jr. now has his permanante bridge in for his front teeth.  We went yesterday and had that done.  It looks very nice.  He is officially now seeing an adult dentist as well.  I will try and post pictures later of his "new" smile.

Thoughts and Quotes

I heard someone say this over the weekend and just wanted to post it.  "God know the real intent of your heart"  I'm glad he does and that with his help I want to have a clean heart.  There has been a lot of talk about "change" in our church of late and that is what I want for me and my family is change:  change for the better and hearts toward God. 

Character Qualities and Training

We have learned about different character qualities on and off, well this summer we started taking one a month and learning it.  We just finished up with Obedience and now are on Flexibility.    This is just a few things we have learned about them.  Obedience is quickly and cheerfully carrying out the direction and wishes of those who are responsible for me.  The rewards of obedience are: protection, provision and direction.  Along with learning a definition, we learn five major point, a few of them are not complaining and going the "extra mile".  In addition to these qualities, we learn scriptures that go with each one.  We worked on this for about a month and the Lord has really used it in our home.  I have found that even I sometimes do not do things for the Lord with a cheerful attitude and if our children learn by example then I need to display the right attitude.
We just started with flexibility last week and by Friday, I had to be flexible with plans. Flexibility is the willingness to change plans or ideas according to the direction of my authorities.  The rewards are insight and success.  The five major points are: not getting upset when plans change, respect the decisions of my authorities, not be stubborn, look for the good in changes and not compromise what is right.  Well, my Husband, called me in the middle of the day on Friday and changed our plans for the family.  Needless to say, I was not exhibiting flexibility.  I did not get upset, I just grumbled and complained mostly in my spirit.  I'm so glad we started working on this character quality, because it showed me by that incident that I still needed to work on being flexible.  (We use the Character Training Institute and IBLP for our character qualities.) www.iblp.org
"If you want to grow, you must be willing to stretch" Anonymous

Another Day

Well, today is the first day of Homeschooling that I have not felt alot of stress. This year is definitly different for us. I cannot seem to get the right curriculum that I want. I am trying out some new things for us and some are working and others are not. I know that we (my Husband and I) are looking at the different curriculums and praying about what needs to be done. There are some things that just are not important and we need to weed out the un-important things in our lives.

Tomorrow, we have Makaela's Super Friday classes.

A Dental Proceedure for Allen Jr.

Well, today we had to do a dental procedure for Allen Jr. He had to be fasting, they gave him an oral sedation one hour before the surgery and then an IV sedation when we got there. Allen tries to get up and move around, he does not realize with these medications he needs to be careful.

Everything went really well. They were able to get started by 8:30 a.m. and we were leaving by 10:30/11:00 a.m. With Allen's disability, they cannot just go in and work on him, he does not allow that, so that is why he has to be sedated usually for even cavities to be filled. They were fixing him a permanent bridge for his two front teeth, cleaning his teeth and filling a cavity, but found two more small ones while in there. They fixed those too.

Allen did really good when we got home, he did want to get up and go, so Allen Sr. or I had to sit with him on the couch for several hours until the medications were out of his system.

We will be going back at the end of the month for his permanent bridge to be placed and they will be giving him the oral sedation again. Hopefully this will help.

Glad the Lord was with us yesterday and kept his hand on Allen.