“It’s a good day Mom”
One of Mitchel’s most frequent phrases is, “It was a hard day Mom.”  Mitchel is not overjoyed about going to school, but he goes and when he comes home he tells me it was a hard day.  For the past several days, Mitchel has been asking to go to Applebee’s; I do not know what the fascination was with this restaurant, but he was insistent that we go there.   So yesterday, I took the boys after school.  We get there and walk in and they have their Halloween decorations out so the boys start pointing out all the different Halloween characters.  Then we walk to our booth and Mitchel slides in and puts his hands behind his head and leans back in his seat

Staying one step ahead of the kids
One of my  strengths is my ability to predict possible problems and prepare myself for such events.  Although having children has developed this skill to a new level, I have always been a person who plans.  When I went to Washington D.C. during my junior year of high school, I packed my little cassette player with headphones and wisely realized that it would be smart to pack extra batteries because it was a long trip and the batteries wouldn’t last too long.  A very good decision! Well, this ability is an invaluable tool in raising two boys.  Yesterday after I got the boys off the bus, they ran across the courtyard, in through the back patio door which I had

Producing endurance
I usually like my blogs to be upbeat, but today I am more reflective in my thoughts.  This morning I meditated on James 1:2-4 “Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.  And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (New American Standard Bible).  I asked myself, “What trials am I facing right now?”  One of the thoughts that immediately came to my mind was the immense struggle and barriers that I facing in my special needs ministry.  I am trying to look at the seemingly failures as a learning opportunities of