How Did We Become a 7 Kid Family?

How did we become a 7 kid family?? 🙃

This time last year we had 5 kids and my cup was full-to-the-tippy-top-spilling-over. I never planned on 7 kids…I never planned on 5 kids…I never planned on any kids! I didn’t want to be a mom. I wanted to live in the city and work in an art museum and be “important.”

But thank God that He writes better stories than we could ever dream up.

He takes a selfish woman with small, here-and-now kinds of hopes and entrusts her with the important, impossible mission of creating a healing home for kids.

He takes a couple committed to building their one boy, one girl, happily ever after American dream and opens their hearts to loving and serving other people’s families.

He takes ordinary, subpar kind of people and calls and equips them for an extraordinary, eternally inclined kind of life.

He is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine. To Him be glory. Amen.