The Heart of the Home

Okay.  Do I have your attention?  *grin*

My dear sweet husband has written a children’s book that has just been released.  Our hearts desire was that it be for homeschoolers and DS placed his seal of approval on it, too.  *smile*

To order visit Publish America at www.publishamerica.com.  Use the ISBN 978-1-4489-5482-7 when ordering.  If you decide to order please use the coupon code Discount20 to receive 20% off your order.

The synopsis is as follows:

 Humans have cats living in their home but have little knowledge of what goes on in the cat world.

The Cat Chronicles tells the story of one such cat, Dusty. He finds himself caught up in a desperate struggle to save the cat kingdom and the human world from a plot formulated by the evil panther Coal.  Dusty is helped by a mysterious cat known as Master Seven who helps him understand more about Truth and the Great Cat of Judah.  This adventure will take Dusty from Columbia, South Carolina all the way to the deserts of El Paso, Texas. Hang on because you’re in for a wild ride.

Those of you who have seen much on my blog will recognize Dusty.  Yes, my big sweet, once-shaved-almost-nekked, asthmatic kitty is the hero is this book.  He may not could ever dream of doing these things except in a book but he is our sweet Dusty.

Would love to hear from anyone who reads it!

I honestly cannot believe that 2009 is almost over.  Where does time go?   Of course if I had a nickel for everytime I opened a post here with that I would be…..well, somewhat richer than I am now.   *snicker*  Christmas was gone before we knew it and here we are staring 2010 in the face.

Christmas was so very blessed this year.  We scaled down the gift-giving and focused on gifts of God’s Word to family this year.  I bought pretty business cards and printed Scriptures on each with the person’s name filled in then placed them in boxes.  I had hoped to give each person at least 100 verses but seeing as how I am so very techno-challenged it took exponentially longer than I planned so everyone got around 30-50 cards in their boxes. 

DS had a lovely Christmas getting knights and things associated with knights to go along with his learning chivalry, pledging to be a godly man of honor, etc.  He did also get laser tag.  That might have been a family gift disguised as a gift for him.  We played at a friend’s birthday party a while back and are now hooked.  What fun!  We have decided that DS has natural sharp-shooter or sniper abilities.  Scary. 

School is going swimmingly.  We are l-o-v-i-n-g ATI.  This is awesome stuff.  It fits with what I felt the Lord leading us to all along.  I know I always talked about training DS’s heart not just academics and this is a perfect fit for our family.  I am also learning so much.  It is not just education but truly a way of life.

Another piece of news is that we are beginning an adoption journey!  We have prayed about this for several years.  We knew when we got married that since we were "older" we might not be able to have children so adoption was always on our minds and in our hearts.  Several years ago we were told we would not be able to have more children.  So we began praying about adoption again.  Life in the military delayed what was our timing for it but it has become clear the Lord is saying, "Now" is the time.  We are so very excited.  We will adopting an older/waiting child from the foster care system.  That is an exciting prospect and one we know the Lord has laid on our hearts.  Honestly something we might not have considered a couple of years ago but the Lord began that work in our hearts and now we know it is right for our family!

We would covet your prayers as we embark on this journey.  Please pray for the child or children the Lord is preparing for our home.  Pray for their hearts to be ready and for our hearts to become knit with their’s even now.  Please pray for protection for him/her/them till they are ours.

Until next year~~~~~~May God make His face to shine upon you and give you peace.