My God is bigger than the boogey man...

Judah and I love to sing that song.

Anyways, I want to first thank you all for your prayers, thoughts, and the showering of uplifting encouragement when I needed it most. I can always count on you to love me and it means more than you will ever know!

Answers to prayer-
Judah started Kindergarten last week for a second go round. His teacher is AMAZING! She even held her own son back because he wasnt ready so she totally understands where we are at. It also makes me feel better that a Kindergarten teacher held her son back in kindergarten-- makes me feel like it is not on account of my failure as a mother but just that Judah needs a little more maturing and the right environment to THRIVE! ANd he will. He already is pretty proud of himself for how much he already knows!! He will be the smart kid in the class -- yippee!
He really is enjoying it and is making friends fast. He also enjoys riding the bus to his day care. He seems to like it there and so that is all I can ask for at this point. I even made a friend with one of the mothers of a boy in his class--hopefully we can get the boys together soon.

We went to Kansas City last week for my job. Judah came with me and was excellently behaved. It was a little overwhelming hanging out with my boss the entire time but he was so well behaved that she was amazed and even bought him a star wars figurine for being so good. : ) Judah loved "living the high life" in our city high rise hotel. He instantly lined up all of his toys on "his" night stand and got into our king size bed, and laid back with his hands behind his head like a King. We watched transformers movie one night and he thought that was pretty cool. I found a lady in KC that was able to watch Judah during the day while I was at the facility. He loved hanging out with her 4 yr old son and they had a few different pets for him to play with. He liked it so much he wanted to sleep over! (i said no of course)

We traveled to Ohio this weekend for my 10 year high school reunion. It was actually pretty fun seeing all my old friends and reminicing about the good ol days (Jeremy-- you really missed out!). Judah had a blast with Grandma and Grandpa. Gma had yummy rice crispy decorating crafts for him to do (which I got in on too.. yum!) On Sunday I was able to visit Cornerstone and Chelle and Diane invited me up to sing with them. It was fun singing again-- I forgot how much I miss it. I was late though, and missed Kari sing Sweetly Broken. I made her sing it when we got home and I was just so impressed with the gifts and talents God has given her. She not only can sing and play guitar like a rock star, she really picks great songs with such purpose and depth that you can not help but be spiritually challenged.

After church we went back to Mom and Dad's for a bbq and Uncle Rich, Aunt Judy, Jeanette, Jesse, Tania and Kevin, and the rest of the fam all came over. It was such a perfect sunday catching up with everyone, sharing in great food (cheesecake!) and just being "HOME". I wish it didnt have to end. In fact, I stayed longer than I should have and didnt end up getting back on the road til closer to 6:30 (which luckily is only 5:30 in central time). I dont know what it was about going back to Greenville, but it took me much longer than it did coming to Columbus on Friday. (5 hours to columbus, almost 7 hours going back...)

Well I am in a much better place this week. Please continue to pray as I find my way here. Work is still a nightmare and I just really dont know how to get it under control. Because I am so busy, I am also finding it hard to have the quiet time I need with the Lord...

We love you!
Katrina and Judah