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I found an alle zoner in my coat the other day with one clip left and then nolan found a 2 zoner with 6 clips left in his jacket yesterday. It doesn't make what I've been feeling for the last couple days any easier. It's hard to explain but my heart just hurts and aches when I think about all my experiences and friends in Denmark... when I think about the culture even. I long to just visit it right now. I honestly have grown to love where we are living now. I love my job, I love those kids. I love the beauty all around us and the quiet simple life to live right now. I know this is where we're supposed to be. But I poured so much of myself into Denmark and people there and Denmark has poured so much into me that it's hard to be apart of myself.


I miss my room that was always decorated by the holiday because of Amy. The funny but awesome mix we had in personalities from Hannah BM, Leah, Amy and I. Amy sleeping in my bed.
I miss my walk to the Kornbek-Hansen's and getting cozy on their couch before prime with Camilla.
I miss the whole second family of mine. Camilla. Mom. Bjarne. Mickey. Nadja. Jolle. Marten. Grandma and Grandpa too.
I miss the trains... but not buses.
I miss running with Ruth on the cobblestone and through my favorite park. I wonder how many times I ran through there in two years.
I miss going during the fall to sit and journal under the trees there when they were bright and watching families play soccer.
Of course I miss the cafes.
I miss biking... I can feel that I haven't been.
I miss Klippen and Johannes' laugh.
I miss the fashion.
I miss Lise making me coffee all the time and having coffee all the time.
I miss working at Menu before Christmas.
I miss the piano guy on the walking street.
I miss laughing with the worship team.
I miss biking to Melody's and having tacos.
I could probably go on forever at this point. Lord don't you say you give us the desires of our hearts?

parenting

I am learning quite a bit about parenting these days. Two of the girls I watch everyday live with their mom who is never home and see there dad on some weekends. They also happen to be the ones most easily upset and most needy and smartallic... think there's a connection? I'm falling in love with these kids and I have to watch my anger because some of the parents make me angry at times.

In my own parenting to Abe... He's learned to get on the counter pretty well now. Not so good because like today when he wasn't such a good kitty... ate some of the chicken they were making for dinner and chewed through a plastic bag twice to get to the muffins I had in there. Little stinker! Gunna have to put some more discipline on the kitty.

a post!

Lets see... One little girl who is 4 said "oh that's my bad" in her southern black girl accent to another teacher today. Remember we live in hick country so I don't know how she has this accent. Nolan's mom comes in tonight and his uncle and cousin are already here, so it's a full house.

Here are some pictures of our pride and joy and the flowers I picked down the street. I feel like a homemaker... weird. Plus I went to a pampered chef party on monday and have considered selling it myself. I guess that could possibly make me a grown up now... weird!

Discovery Time

For those of you who haven't heard I got a new job in a daycare center and I am loving it! I know it sounds like a lot of work and pretty exhausting, and it kind of is, I just haven't really noticed that part of it yet. The kids there are coming from some pretty rough homes. There are like 3 kids whose parents are together, and the others only have one parent. One of the boys doesn't even know who his dad is and every time a male comes into the center he calls him daddy. There are some pretty sad situations. I asked one of the little girls yesterday what she had learned in school and she said "the Jesus loves me", so I thought that was pretty neat. We also have a kid whose from the Netherlands, so he has been speaking dutch to me every once in a while. His parents remind me of Denmark sometimes, with how they dress and speak:) Anyways I love it!

belief.

Since I've known Nolan and I would be living up here in this small town I have had this assumption that finding a job would be difficult, bad pay, and probably not any fun. Since we have been here my assumptions seem to be true and only reaffirmed my idea of working in small towns. I've struggled with God about this because it's difficult and praying for his favor but really set in my mind that whatever job I could scrap up would be crappy and I'd just have to live with it for a year and survive. Kind of a contradictory prayer, asking for God's favor but not really believing it can happen. Well especially the last couple days, or ever since I got turned down for the last job, I've been so discouraged and frusterated with the idea of working and finding a job. It just doesn't feel hopeful. Then this morning as I was laying this before the Lord, complaining to him really, I was coming across and looking for things to encourage me and remind me of God's faithfulness and how he delivers us to his blessing... things like this. A while ago Jody, my new mom, had given me a book by Beth Moore, Praying God's Word, and I started reading. The section is called overcoming unbelief and she just started sharing how God had spoken to her one day about her unbelief and she wasn't even aware that she wasn't believing God for what he promised. I found myself in her words because it's not like this whole time I wasn't believing God would provide, but as she shared I recognized I wasn't believing for God's best. God did say he has my best interest in mind, so did I really believe that for what kind of job I would get? Then she shared this verse from:
Ephesians 1:18-20, "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead."
and I thought wow... what if I actually believed that God wanted me to have the best job possible in this place, with all the odds against me, and I lived in that causing me to walk around with this great power, the same power he used to raise the dead, and what job would come out of that power? That's a pretty incredible God. This is my struggle... to believe, but Lord please help me overcome that unbelief.

new tarantino:)

So as you may have seen on Nolan's side we got a new member of our family! The farm down the street were giving away some kittens and I couldn't resist. He's absolutely perfect. He always wants to be held, always purring, playful and just loves to love. We're great companions. Seeing as how we don't have any friends yet and our life has become to the exstreme low key from what we're used to, this little kitty fills a very big void in my life. In fact right now he has found a bed in my neck and is sleeping. What a great friend:)

new.

Everything seems to be new. New husband. New house. New furniture in the house. New church. Gotta find a new job. No new friends yet, but will soon have that too. We have a new lifestyle.... a really slow one. So there are a lot of adjustments being made, and we may soon be adding a new kitty to all of our newness... it just seems to fit:) Life is really good. The honeymoon was so much fun, I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures, I do. Continue to look on here for stories that will come in our new day to day life.