Cedars of Lebanon

Greetings from beautiful North Carolina! My charming husband and I have five precious blessings from God, two through birth, and three who have Down syndrome and joined our family through adoption. We have homeschooled from the beginning, through hospital stays, surgeries, a flooded house, and even through the good times. We find ourselves constantly stunned by God's grace and mercy as we seek to follow Him with our whole hearts. What a joy to share God’s love and encouragement with others!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to college we go!

Our oldest son, Josiah, has been safely deposited at Patrick Henry College, with many smiles, hugs, prayers, and a few tears (ours, not his, just for clarification). It was very hard to let him go, but you gotta love a school where the college president and his wife pray for the parents, then ask the parents to pray for their son or daughter before saying the last good-bye. What an awesome, godly school! As our nine-year-old son, Gabriel (who has Down syndrome), watched Josiah walk away and realized he was staying and we weren't, through tears said over and over, "No, Josiah going! Josiah going!" Yes, Josiah is going exactly where God wants him, and we are so proud of the fine man he has become - but we will all miss him terribly!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

It's What He Does Best in TOS Magazine

It's What He Does Best

Here's an article I wrote for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine about how God uses the unique challenges of raising children with special needs to draw us closer to Himself. Hope you enjoy it!