My Easter Lilies!

This is a pic of our sweet, sweet girls in the Easter dresses I made for them. Excuse the rumpled hair and unkempt feet, but I put them into the dresses to try them on at the end of the day just before they got into jammies.

I just think they have the sweetest smiles. The dresses came out very nicely, even though I am not a true seamstress by any means. They are made from embroidered pillowcases. I did the embroidery -- which took about four times as long as the sewing of the dresses.

I am so excited for them to wear them on Sunday. I love Easter....it is my absolute favorite holiday. I like it even more than Christmas. It's all about new beginnings and the abundance of grace. I appreciate Easter so much more since I became a mama. I don't know that I really understood the love that Christ has for me, until I saw it reflected in my children's eyes when they look on His cross and sing about His name.

Turning A Corner

Last week, the Techie and I turned a significant corner in our parenting journey. For the first time ever, all four of our kidlets had perfect behavior reports for the entire week. I cried. The mother of the President, the mother of Miss America, the mother of the Nobel Peace prize winner could not be more proud than I am of those five little stars in five little calendar squares in a perfect little row.

Of course, life being what it is, I had to go out of town on a business trip for two days this week, and two of the kidlets decided to reward my travelling ways by racking up some very dramatic red frowny faces. Yet, I still stand tall in the knowledge that for one brief shining moment I was the mother of four -- count them, FOUR -- students of the week! :)

No one can take that away from me.

Hello, to everyone who ends up reading this! I guess my first post ought to cover a little about me and mine......even though the only people who will ever end up reading this are my own sweet family and friends and already know more than they'd like to about yours truly. Nonetheless, an intro seems rather obligatory.

I'm in my 30s.....and married to the Tech. The Tech and I have four children in our home right now. Sky -- our forever princess -- made us mommy and daddy through the miracle of foster/adoption. She's five going on twenty-five and the queen of the Kindergarten. The 3 Peas are 6, 4, and 4.....the sweetest sibling set you'd ever want to meet, and they've been in foster care with us for almost a year.

The Tech and I have been foster parents for four years, cared for and loved on 10 children so far, and are wanting to continue to build our family through adoption. This blog is going to chronicle our family, our day-to-day adventures, and our journey to the children that will complete our family.

The blog title comes from the words of Jesus about His blood being the new covenant. We are a family formed under the new covenant of grace...through the saving work of Jesus rather than through the tie of human blood.

I hope those of you who read here will enjoy following our lives and will comment often. Blessings!