By George, I think She's Got It!

We have been homeschooling Miss Madi for 4 days now and I am so amazed at her!!!  Everyday so far, she has learned new concepts that last year completely stumped her.  It was like by the time she had gotten home from 7 hours of school she was so done with learning and using her brain that homework was always impossible.  Because she is fresh and getting it all one on one, those concepts are a breeze for her now!!

Plus, I think the medicine she is on right now is working so much better that the other stuff.



We have had some rotten attitudes from her and the oldest the past few days though.  J's 9th birthday was yesterday and their bio mom got her a TON of Tinkerbell stuff.  Madi LOVES Tinkerbell, and J has only recently started liking it.  Also, the oldest had a birthday a month and a half ago and their mom got her nothing. No cake.  No balloons.  No gifts.  Nothin.  When I asked her about it she said it was "whatever".  But she was mean and grumpy for more than a week after that.  Now... she is the same since J has gotten all her stuff. 

It makes me so sad.  We try to be very very fair with the girls.  We spend the same on them, celebrate the same... basically treat them all equally.  Even Madi.  Yea, she is adopted, but the other 2 are part of this family too.

We try to do everything we can... but sometimes its just not enough.  We are just praying for the wounded spirit I know she is carrying around.  For Jesus to just bind that up and heal it.

At church the kids all got a book by Brad Jersak http://www.bradjersak.com/ called Children, Can You Hear Me?.  It is such an amazing book that Mike and I had fell in love with before we had any kids.  Brad came to our church to help us learn how to teach our kids to pray... awesome.  Anyways... total God story here:
We had planned on going to our old church's family dinner that they do every few months... which is held in place of a church service.  The usually have a little bit of worship time and some prayer, then eat.  It was supposed to start at 11.  Mike wanted to skip going to our current church, Faith Alive... but I really felt like I wanted to so strongly... so we went.  At about 10:45, they dismissed the kids from worship time and we ducked out.  Miss Sue, our awesome kids teacher comes running out of the church and said, I cant let you leave without giving your kids this.  She gave each one of them the book and a CD of some prophetic worship and a few little lessons on it from some awesome local Godly people... geared towards kids.  Then she gave them a sheet of grey circles so that whenever someone hurts them, physically, mentally, spiritually, whatever... they can take the circle (the hurt) and give it to Jesus.  (they put it in the back of the book). 
I just felt so blessed by this woman who cares about my babies that much that she chased after us to make sure that they got this super important stuff.  It also cemented the knowledge that this IS the right church for us.  We are absolutly in the right place.  YAY JESUS!!!

And we are waiting on a call from the person who is scheduling all the worship and speakers (we dont have a pastor or a worship team becuase of a major church issue a while ago) becuase he asked us to lead worship one Sunday in Sept!!!  Im super excited.  :o) We havent led since January.  Yikes!! haha!