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Thursday’s Things to Pray For

All prayers about school today….We have today and tomorrow and the weekend, then school starts on Monday. (sigh)

  1. Pray for Evan. Changes aren’t easy for him. Transitioning back to school will be hard for him. And, not only will he have a new general education teacher, he will have a new learning support teacher this year too. Pray that he has peace about all of that and feels God’s presence with him on the first day of school.
  2. Pray for Ashlyn. She’s going to a new school this year since she’s starting 1st grade. We go today for orientation and meeting her teacher. Pray that she connects well socially from the get go and finds some girls she can hang with. Pray that she lives out God’s love to the other kids.
  3. Pray for me as I have to let the kids go again. It’s always a bit emotional for me as school starts up again. Pray that I would feel encouraged about our time together over the summer and that He would assure me that He has our precious children in His hands.

Pray for me, for these things I list. And, leave me a comment to let me know you did if you don’t mind. It would be a great encouragement. And, I invite you to do the same on your blog.

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Our little Collector

Have you seen the TLC show “Hoarders: Buried Alive.” Scary. Mark had it on the other day as I was working on the WAGI site. And, this is the kind of thing I looked up from my Macbook to see:

Yeah. That’s enough to freak me out a bit.
(NOTE: This is NOT Ashlyn’s room. This is a picture from the tv show. My husband told me today that some people sounded like they thought this was in our house. No, no, no!!!)

Over the next couple days, I realized Ashlyn and Lydia’s room may eventually come to this. Ashlyn is a collector (that’s the nice word for hoarder). She likes lots of little things–a bead or button she finds somewhere, happy meal toys, gumball-machine-like figures. If it can fit in a pocket, she loves it. Problem is, she loves about a gazillion of them.

I have finally had enough.

When I couldn’t put the girls’ clothes away because there was just too much junk in their room to figure out where to put the clothes, I knew something radical had to be done.

What was supposed to be just Mark and me discreetly cleaning the room became a family affair. All 6 of us were in there with a couple cardboard boxes and a bunch of trash bags. This was the deal–we wouldn’t throw anything out (within reason…we did throw out trash we found like tags and pencil shavings I’m so embarrassed). Instead, everything would be put either in the basement storage room or the playroom attic. IF Ashlyn asks for something specific in those boxes in the next 6 months, she can keep it. If she forgets all about it, it’s gone (unless it’s something Lydia may want…did I forget to mention that the hoarding tendencies may be genetic? My younger sister confirms this.).

Then, we found this. 

Totally not kidding. Seriously. It was in her room, 
buried under Puppy in My Pockets and pipe cleaner thingies. 

Lesson learned. And, (insert sigh of relief here) we have a clean girls’ room, everyone. 

Just don’t talk to me about that storage room, okay?

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