Thankful List for April 2014

Thankful List for April:
-conversation with Amy our new adoption coordinator
-people still praying for her (thank you Krista Tiller for telling me about your sweet boy's everyday prayers)
-stamped notes from a boy
-"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer"- Romans 12:12

And a few random things that have nothing to do with adoption:
-baby shower for Maryam at the BSM (and the students who threw it and Sarah and Kristin who so generously gave to someone they didn't know)
-5K Run for Cake... the students hard work and the people who gave to it and came to it and made cupcakes (Sharon, Kelli, Krista, and Kristen)
-The White's joining us for BSM events
-Tucker working hard and saving all his pennies for months to buy a Wii and he finally did it!
-package from Jenny
-friends and students coming to watch Tucker play baseball
-our second "StageIt" concert and being able to sit at our table as a family and watch Andrew Peterson play music in his living room with his family
-little girl's watching Frozen
-lunch at school with Tuck
-Our pediatrician

-our Crockett "playground community"
-my parents came to visit!!!  (And they cooked and painted and and built and stained and sewed an odd-shaped window seat cushion and transformed our hallway and dyed Easter eggs and played games and babysat and encouraged and loved)
-He is Risen!!  I know my Redeemer lives!
-Lenten lights (and the beautiful candle holder Ben made for starting this tradition), our Easter mound, resurrection rolls, Resurrection eggs...
-Libby getting to watch Frozen with her grandparents who had never seen it
-after a long time of sickness between both kids, we are finally through it
-McAllister's fundraiser for the BSM went great
--real mail for Tucker and Libby from grandparents
-parents watching kids so I could go to the last Refuel of the semester

-real mail from Dianna and Katie
-family walk
-Truett is better
-celebrating 34 years of Ben!!