Prayer Requests & Needs

Since I wrote out some specific prayer requests for our connection group today I thought I might as well post them here, too. I know many of you are praying for us, which we are incredibly thankful for.

1. For God to help Jason and I communicate well and be unified in how we parent the kids. For extra grace and patience with each other.

2. Wisdom to know how to connect with each child and re-connect when the connections are lost.

3. Specific wisdom for knowing how to parent one of the girls. She is incredibly difficult. We are beginning to identify some underlying issues, but need wisdom to know how to address them.

4. English, English, English . . . we need God to help the kids learn English! Pray for God to work out the details of enrolling the girls in ELL/half days in school. Pray for their adjustment to this. We know they want to go to school, but we also know one of them is going to have a very hard time with that transition.

5. Minute-by-minute grace and wisdom!

6. Half of us are sick. Abram and Isaiah and Jason all have a cold/bronchitis and Isaiah probably has something more. Please pray for restored health.

Also, many people have said, "Let me know if there is anything I can do," which again, I am very grateful for. The survival mode we are in has rendered me useless to try to think on the spot about what we could use or what we need. So, I have figured out a way for you to help if you are wanting to or if God leads you to: pray for us and bring us groceries (from the list below).

We had to change the plan for people bringing us meals to people bringing us some food items for me to make meals either myself or with the girls. It is working very well. We are sticking to some basic things which the kids are loving to eat but we are going through food like CRAZY. And it is hard for me to put a sufficient grocery list together at this point of the survival mode. So, if you think about us and want to help, besides praying for us, you could drop some things from this list off to us when it is convenient for you. We don't want the kids to be seeing people coming and going too much (although if we are outside playing it is okay) so we have been having people text me (five one five two three one one two one zero) shortly before they get here. I can open the garage door and you can put the stuff on the white freezer. Sometimes I might be able to say hi but a lot of times I can't. Here is the list:

Eggs

Peanut butter (we prefer the natural kind - so far we have been able to limit sugar pretty well)

Yogurt (plain or vanilla - I mix two plain to one vanilla)

Chicken (cooked or not, chopped or not)

Ground turkey

Olive oil

Chicken broth

Rice: Reg rice, brown rice, instant rice, Uncle Ben's Ready Rice . . . any & all options work

Pasta noodles

Spaghetti sauce

Sandwhich thins (flat buns)

Spinach

Mangoes

Bananas

Oranges

Sardines - all but the mustard kind (I failed to mention last night that the kids ate sardines for dinner - interesting sight for me but they were in heaven! )

Tuna

Canned chili beans in sauce