In case you wondered...

I just posted about our adoption to most of my friends and family on Facebook.  I have discovered something about myself...  I am sort of shy I guess.  I really don't think my life is all that interesting to anyone else.  It sort of befuddles me that anyone reads this blog at all!  I hope you are laughing WITH me and not AT me and learning from my mistakes world!  I really enjoy my life and it is not the easiest life but I wouldn't have it any other way!  This is because although my life and our family is different it is where God has us (Mike and I) it is our passion, our calling.  We LIKE being parents. We enjoy the kids!  I have a lot of friends who raised kids along side of our first batch and they are now settling happily into Grandparenthood and Grandparenthood is a very nice hood!  Their kids are grown and on their own and they have other interests and diapers and carseats are a  distant memory.  Mike and I are still right there and we are happy.  Sometimes I wonder why God led us down this different road.  I really don't have an answer for that question it is just who we are.  So I write about our life but thinking that people actually read it is... uncomfortable to me!  I usually don't see the need to explain us and why we have all these kids (more coming) calling us Mommy and Daddy.  Yeah we get some strange looks and more than one time I have had to tell people politely that these are not my grandkids...   I know of several other families who have a LOT more kids than us and are quite a bit older...   Mike and I have decided (and yes we have had this conversation...)  That because this is where God has led us and where our hearts are we are going to just keep on!  We are going to keep loving these kids and teaching them. We are going to spend our lives following the calling .  When it is all said and done and our lives on earth are finished we will have made a difference.  This life is a very short time in eternity but how we spend this life is everything.  It is in this life that we have the chance to show God that we love him through our obedience. It is So not about earning our way to Heaven because that is not Biblical. But once we get to Heaven the time for proving what we believe is gone.  The time to obey the Word and minister to the "least of these" is gone.  We can't wait till we get to Heaven to tell God he matters to us.  Life is like money... Spend it wisely.  If you waste your life on yourself you will have nothing to show for it.  In Eternity what kind of car we drove or clothes or houses we possessed will not matter.  Our Children on the other hand will!  They say you "can't take it with you" when you go and that is partially true but you CAN take souls with you! You can teach and give and love and touch other people and THAT is ETERNAL.  What we are doing today DOES matter. Make it count!