Our Summer So Far....

She asked me how many kids I wanted to have.  "I would have liked to have had at least four, but that's probably not gonna happen," I answered honestly, biting back the sigh of infertility.

Incredulously, she looked at me and exclaimed, "Four kids!  Then you'd never have room for all of us!"

And there it is.  The truth.  God's plan.  Because just maybe I'm supposed to have room for the kids who have nowhere else to go. Maybe that's what He wants for our lives instead. So instead of a houseful of young children, we have:

College students and extended family filling our home...

Trips to the DMV and driving practice in the parking lot...

Impromptu graduation party with volleyball, football, soccer in the yard...

Trips to the mall because the AC broke...

Wedding bubbles celebrating the holy matrimony of special friends...

Long, lazy, sunshine-drenched days....

Strolls through flea markets and farmers' markets...

Dollar ice cream cones from Burger King....

Late night movies with teens and twenty-somethings piling in our living room...

Living the God dream -- the One He has wrought -- so satisfying, so blessed.  Our home is full and our hearts are full; we are so in awe of what happens when His hands gently remove our plans and replace them with His own.