A 2nd go???

Its been 3 years since I wrote my last blog post.

What happened???

So much!

Let me begin with yes, I am still homeschooling. Yes, I will be starting my 4th year of it. My oldest son will be 9 this year and starting 3rd grade. My MIDDLE son is 6 and starting 1st grade.

That's right folks! You heard me correctly! I said my middle son. 3 years ago I had only 2 boys. Now I have 3! This past February I gave birth to our 3rd son. He is beautiful!

This post will be a catch up. It will be a fill in the blanks/last 3 years post. If you follow me on Instagram then you know what I have been up to.

But I am going to try my hand to keep up my Facebook account, email account, blog and Instagram.

Since the last blog...

I am no longer a stay at home mom. A year after being a SAHM and after my first full year of homeschooling, the Lord laid it on my heart to go back to work. A job I love. A job that I have a
passion for. I have been a youth pastor/volunteer for the last 18 years. I was volunteering in our youth ministry at church when I was approached to head up the Jr. High group. I spent 6 months praying about it and felt complete peace over it. So I started in June of 2015 and I have been doing it ever since. I can work from home or I can take my kids to the church and I can work there. I am only part time so that is also a huge benefit. I am so thankful that my church has been completely flexible with me so I can still serve on staff there.

My husband has been a great source of encouragement and support for me. I am a working homeschool mom of 3 but before all of that I am a wife to an amazing man that wants to see me succeed at it all.

So now onto our baby. He is a what we are calling our "surprise blessing". Not necessarily unplanned or unexpected. But we had been wanting to get pregnant for 3 years with no success. Then, right as we started to pray more seriously about adoption, those two pink lines showed up!!! And 39.5 weeks later, this guy showed up. He is our little happy, easy going baby bundle of joy!

So now in our tiny home that we still live in. We are going to attempt to homeschool 2 boys, watch our baby boy start to become more mobile and expressive, serve on staff at our church, play soccer with my husband every week (that's a riot to watch), and continue to see where God takes us!

Stay tuned...

Donna