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For those of you unfamiliar with my current circumstances, let me catch you up. Since graduating from college in 1996, I have moved from Provo to Olympia, WA and back home to Chesapeake, VA. I have lived here for the past eight years. Greg, my husband, and I are the joyful parents of five unique and wonderful children. After 11 1/2 years of being a stay-at-home Mom, I ventured out in to the work place pursuing a love of all things computer. I had been working for over a year when my life changed suddenly and drastically.
Greg and I are very spiritual people. We believe in a loving Heavenly Father who guides us in this life to those choices that are best. We also believe He inspires us as to His will for our lives. Such inspiration came the beginning of April of 2008. After much fasting and earnest prayer, we petitioned to intervene in the custody of my brother's four young children. I won't include here the details of why this was necessary. It is sufficient to say it was the Lord's will. The petition was granted on April 30, 2008 and we were given sole custody of these children. I am now the exhausted stay-at-home mother of nine until the court says otherwise. The journey can be read in the slices below.

5.14.2008

Doing what’s right. . .

One of the hardest parts of doing what's right is sometimes hurting those you love. Another is cleaning up the mess and then being told by those you are cleaning up for you are not doing it correctly. You are trying so hard to follow the Lord's wishes and in your heart you know what you are doing is true, but knowing your going to have to hurt someone because you are doing what's right. Lastly, just when the exhaustion from doing what is right is not enough, the stress from the lectures on how to do it just knock you flat and you wonder - WHY?!?

But watching the changes, however small, as the Spirit slowly changes the lives of those you are helping makes the stress, strain, and exhaustion of it all well worth it.
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