Week in Review

Our week started off on a positive note with Kevin receiving the Germantown Teacher of the Month Award. We went to Germantown Town Hall to receive his award. Here we are before we left:

Here is the mayor of Germantown presenting the award to Kevin. I sure am proud of him!!!

Several of Kevin's students came to support him. The mayor said she has never had a high school teacher's students show up for this. It was obvious how much they love Mr. Carter!

We started the weekend off Friday night at Cracker Barrel.

Then we headed to a birthday party at Sky Zone. The girls loved that place! Hopefully, we can go back over the summer on those really hot days. Here is Ava jumping.

Here is Elia jumping. (She is the one in yellow.)

Towards the end of the party, Ava started crying and turning green. She said she felt sick so we headed home with a big garbage bag in the backseat with her. She passed out before we got out of the parking lot. We were worried she was getting the stomach bug when we remembered she had pancakes, chocolate milk, and gummy bears at Cracker Barrel. HA! The thought of that makes me turn green too.

Ava felt much better on Saturday morning which was good because she and Elia had their first soccer game of the season. The team played great and their team won 4-0.

Kevin and I went to a gathering about foster care on Saturday night. I teach with a girl named Ashley, and Kevin teaches with her husband, Patrick. Ashley and Patrick adopted a baby, Kate, this past year.

Their baby stays with Jane Nason during the day. Jane was my roommate in Guatemala when we went with Faith a few years ago. Anyway, Jane was the speaker at the meeting last night. (Don't you love it when things come full circle like that?) Jane and her husband have fostered over 70 babies/children and he works for DCS so they are definitely the go-to people for foster questions. Kevin and I went to the meeting just to get information and boy did we ever. The foster care system has a program where you can foster to adopt. We did not realize this before the meeting last night so it is a lot to think about. The other thing to consider is they have been getting more and more Hispanic babies. Kevin and I can honestly say that we do not know what we are supposed to do with all of this. Are we supposed to just support others who foster? Are we supposed to just foster? Are we supposed to foster to adopt? We have both agreed that it is something we intend to pray about and see where God takes us. Our past has shown us that God is in control and he handled everything better than we could have with the girls' adoptions. I feel confident that God will do the same with all of this. Listening and waiting is the hard part. The neat thing is that the sermon this morning at church was called "A Time of Remembering What God has Done." In the middle of service, Ava looked at me out of the blue and said "Mom, I want us to adopt another baby." Please pray for us that we will be obedient to God's will whatever that may be.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.