At Home in the Mountains

 Every year, on this day, I take a little time to reflect back on the journey that God has brought us on from the day we found out that Maddy's sonogram showed "abnormalities". In Sunday school a couple of weeks ago, we talked about how when God led the Israelites out of Egypt, he led them into a place where it looked like hope was over. They were either going to have drown themselves in the sea or be slaughtered by the Egyptians. Four years ago, I think that we had much that same type of hopeless, no where to go feeling. We didn't know what to do, where to go, how we were going to cope with life, or what was the best thing to do for our baby girl. But, just as God started the Israelites journey with a "hopeless" scenario and then led them out from slavery in a totally unexpected and amazing way, he has done the same with the challenges in our lives. Sure, the journey has been challenging and hard at times, but we are in a much better place today than we w...

Here are some things that have been going on the past few weeks. I love fall! Lots of outside time! The weather has been perfect except for the last couple of days have been too hot. Halloween! Maddy had a Noah's Ark party at school on Tues. On Wednesday we did trunk or treat at a church by our house and went trick or treating in the neighborhood a little bit. Maddy walked for everything and carried her pumpkin basket the whole time, even when it started getting weighed down with candy. When she got to tired to walk we called it quits on the trick or treating. With the beloved pumpkin. She would not let this pumpkin out of her sight or possession all day. "Chocolate!" Yeah, she knows the good candy when she sees it. Today, we made bird feeders. Our pepper plants have been producing like crazy. Thus, to quarts of pickled refrigerator peppers. Our front porch decorated for Halloween. The pumpkins have "mad faces" per Madd...