The beging of a new season

As winter has turned into spring, you get the lion and the lamb,  some days are beautiful and some are stormy.  That is the same with the seasons of life too.  We have stormy days and seasons along with beauty and peace.   It is almost official, we as a family are going to be out of the preschool/toddler age.  Wow, I can not believe it.  Life is a flash of light that passes, quicker than you think. 
    We have three children sigh, one is now a preteen or "tweenager" and two are at the dawning of their school age.  How did this happen?  I have called them babies for so long, and they are not.  They are now what I call monkeys or duckies it depends on the day.  Duckies when they all line up and follow mommy around and are helpers.  Monkeys when well, they are themselves, wild and crazy.  In a good way though, very creative and rarely bored *Warning if they are quite, that probably is still not a good thing*.  
     The last six years have blown by, some days a whirl wind, some a peaceful dance.   Many people ask if our youngest two are twins, they are not.  They are thirteen months apart.  Many have said "How in the world do you do it?"   "Better you than me."  My answers, " God helps me every day, life isn't really that hard, it is easy if this is all you know.  Well we are out diapers and strollers.  We are now facing new challenges. Like teaching them not to panic one their bikes, paying attention to their surroundings, how to focus on school work, teaching them that letters have sounds and make words.  If the last six years have not aged me, I am sure the next two will.  I had no idea, teaching a child to read could be so complicated.  Just for the record, every child does learn differently trying to figure out how is a little more tricky than I thought.  I have recognized though which one learns like myself.  Which means more repetition and time.  I am okay with this though because they will be gone before I know it. 
    Our oldest, is at a whole different stage in life, she will be who she is for the rest of her life in the next few years.  Her views and morals are being set right now.  You can see a reflection of who she is when you talk to her.  You can see compassion, love, stubbornness and a yearning to be right.  I think she needs to be a lawyer.
   Although it doesn't mater what I think anyone of them should be, it is about what God has planned for their lives.  It is my Husband and I job to train them and help them with their natural abilities so they can be effective servants one day.  Not the servants, like a maid or butler, but servants of their Lord.  To teach them, how to honor Him in whatever they do.  Whether it is a missionary, lawyer, Doctor, wife, mother, teacher ect. 
     So as Spring has sprung so has a new season at the Moore house.  Welcome to the dawning of our new adventure.  I hope it will be just as wonderful as the the first.