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Name: Rebecca
Birthday: 11/3/1979
Gender: Female
Interests: Loving God and preserving the earth!
Expertise: None worth writing about!
Occupation: I am a home maker!
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Member Since:
7/14/2006
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| This year is going way to fast! I believe that the older we get the faster the days and years go! Despite the speed, fall in my favorite time of year! Jeff celebrated his 31st birthday, I celebrated my 29th birthday and we celebrated our 8th anniversary! We didn't really celebrate because we never had the chance to do more than wish each other happy..... you fill in the blank. We are just so busy!
Elijah is happily adjusting to being in preschool two mornings a week. I love the time to myself. Although I find myself wondering what to do during those 2 1/2 hours on Tuesday and Thursday! Annabelle is loving school. Jeff and I have been reassured over and over in the last 2 1/2 months that Hudsonville Christian is the place God wants our kids! It's one of those feelings. It just feels right. I get a tear in my eye whenever I hear them singing praise songs. I choke up when Annabelle tells me she loves God more than anyone else. It is worth every penny we are spending to send her there. Jeff is moving up in the detective department. He is very excitedly working on a homicide case. It's the same kind of thrill that a nursing student gets when she first gets to put in and I.V. He loves working a homicide.
Jeff and I have decided to serve in Colima, Mexico in February. We have been feeling an urge from God to serve more than just our area for some time now (rebecca more than jeff). So we decided that we were going to try it out. Financially it is not smart. Timing wise it is not smart but again it's one of those feeling. Our way makes sense but doesn't work, God's way makes no sense but it works. God has provided for us kid sitters, dog sitters, money and very speedy passport services. It's just reassuring to know that God is in control of this. It feels so good to trust Him with this. We will be leaving on February 18th (Annabelle's 6th birthday, tear:( and we will be gone for ten days! Part of this trip is finding out who I am. Since I can remember I have wanted to be a missionary. I remember sitting in sunday school listening to the missionaries that come home and wanting to be them. It's just in my blood. Since our kids are only two years away from being in school full time I am starting to think about what that is going to look like for me. As much as I would like to sit home all day for the rest of my life I know that is not what God has called me to do. Since the beginning of kids for us I have, without guilt, compromised who I want to be. I don't regret staying home with our kids but I have compromised what I want. So it's my turn to try and figure this out! Needless to say I am so very excited to go to Mexico with Jeff. It is a common goal for us. Pray that we raise the $2800.00 to go and that everything works out smoothly! | | |
| Here are the five kids I care for every Wednesday! I have grown to love each one of them as if they were my own. They all get along so well together.
Eli, Isaac Ippel, Annabelle, Kendra Ippel, and Avery Dykema | | |
| I LOVE Tuesday and Thursday mornings! Today was my first morning in 5 1/2 years that I got to go out for breakfast with my best friend and not have to find a sitter or order a kids meal. I ate at 9:30! I got the veggie omelette with homemade sour dough bread! It was fantastic. Even more I got to sit and talk and not cut little bite size pieces of food up for my kids. THEN I got to go for a bike ride with my best friend! We went to Grand Rive park. I never knew that place existed! It's off from Filmore in Georgetown twp. They have amazing trails to bike or hike. We decided for the rougher biking. It was amazing. THEN I had 20 minutes before I had to pick up Eli from his first day of preschool so I stopped on a cul de sac in the middle of the woods near the grand River and prayed. It was such a wonderful morning I can't wait to do it again on Thursday and then again next Tuesday until next summer. I love having time to myself and I am finding out that I enjoy my kids a little bit more when I am not with them all the time. It's been so great. At first I thought I should feel guilty for wanting to be away from my kids but I am finding out that it is making me a better mom. I am actually upset that I didn't give myself more time to myself before. So for all you moms of young kids not in school yet, give yourself at least two mornings a week to yourself. It will do wonders for you and your kids and your home and your husband and your body. I feel so good! | | |
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