Interesting Place

I often forget that I am 31 years old. I KNOW that I have been married for 9 years-tomorrow, I KNOW that I have 5 children, I KNOW that I have an occasional gray hair-but for some reason I still think that I am in my early 20s. I'm still cool-right!?! Okay, so I never was really cool-but is anyone, really? Don't you just think you are cool? So that leads to my interesting place that I find myself.

I am the 31 year old mother of 5 children-ages 7,6, 4, 4, & 3. I am working diligently on packing up our house to move the above children and my wonderful husband to our new, exotic destination-SOUTH DAKOTA!! While packing up my 7 year old's room I was faced with an interesting problem-do I keep the plastic "fake" puke that he is so fond of? I mean, he is really, really attached to it. It has lead to a lot of great laughs. Do I take it or throw it?

WOW-is that a reality check or what? As a young college graduate who was newly married & expecting her first child-did I ever, ever imagine that I would contemplate whether or not to keep the fake puke? I can honestly say-I never thought I would have this problem. Yep folks, the glory & splendor of motherhood-it's awesome.

By the way-I DID keep the puke. It IS pretty funny & he is very attached to it. Am I cool or what?

I love it when a plan comes together.

Things are starting to move and fall into place. This is such a relief. There was a point last week where Dan & I just looked at each other and said, "what in the world are we doing?". I mean, really, we have a house we love, our grass is looking awesome (it was a disaster zone of waist high weeds just prior to our move in), our kids are in great schools getting every service they so desperately need, the list goes on & on. If we did not ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY feel that this is where God is calling us we would have said forget it.
God is amazing-he can do anything & use anyone to help bring glory to Himself. We have been blessed by so many people, already, who have done so many things to help us with our move. We feel so loved by so many. We (or at least I) had no idea that we were that loved. It's a great feeling-to leave somewhere you love to get to go somewhere you love. Most people are not so blessed. We have the countdown calendar on the wall with a little picture of a van loaded down with stuff. Each day we move the van down one number-we're down to 23 days before the big move. WOW-I'd better get crackin'. Keep us in your prayers as this remains stressful on all of us for so many, many reasons. Even good stress is still stress.

Hello, my name is Crazy.

We are MOVING!! Yay! I am so excited to be moving back "home". Dan accepted the call to be the Senior Pastor at Emmanuel Church in Yankton, South Dakota. We both grew up in the vicinity, all of our family is there, and most importantly-the church is awesome & has accepted us as we are. We are all so excited.

However, the moving part has me stressed to the max & beginning to feel A LOT crazy. Yankton is a small town (depending what standard of measurement you use-by South Dakota standards-it is a decent size town, compared to Denver-small). We are looking for rental housing but it is eluding us as of right now. We are loading up the moving truck & hitting the road on June 10th! That leaves us not much time to find a place to live.

Yes-I know God will provide. He ALWAYS, ALWAYS does. You'd think I'd learn to trust a little bit. What I need to remember & what Dan & I have reminded each other almost daily is: "God provides, he doesn't necessarily give us what we think we want/need/deserve (ie. a large, large house with a large, large yard for our ridiculously large, large family)-but what he does give us is ALWAYS better than we could have envisioned for ourselves". Now-I'm not throwing out the name it & claim it theology here-I'm just trying to remind myself that God knows ALL THINGS. It may be in my family's best interest to squeeze into a 3 bedroom apartment for 6 months-I don't know. But luckily, I don't have to. God has got it under control.

So-I may need a few gentle reminders about what I posted. Feel free to email me at kelly.freng@live.com to remind me-because I can guarantee you that I'll be stressed out & freaking out again by tonight.

Where am I?

I just realized that I haven't posted for a long, long time. Oh well...it seems my public can live without me.
Life has been crazy around here (as in most of your homes as well, I'm sure). The spring fever has blown right into summer fever & my kids are ready to be done with school. I am mostly ready for the snow to stop. Seriously-Colorado is ridiculous. 75 degrees in January & snowing in late April. I am also ready for the non-stop shuttling to stop for a few months.
Any bets as to how many days I last with NO ACTIVITIES going on? I'll say about 3 days & then I'll be ready for my kids to be doing something again. I need to just prepare myself for the bickering-it's just part of being a kid/brother/sister.
I also have realized in this time off that I do spend way too much time on the computer. So...I will not post as often as I did in the past. There is really nothing I have to say that means that much to anyone anyways.
Keep us in your prayers-we've got a lot going on & more to come!