How many times can you wash a wall in a day

Allison has discovered that she loves to color, on my walls. Maybe she is modeling what she sees Madeline doing. Madeline spends much of her day coloring so there are always crayons out. I am thankful for the invention of the Magic Eraser. We are trying to help her learn to color on paper by cheering wonderfully when she uses paper. I make her watch me wash the walls and tell her that coloring on the walls is bad.

Mike made cookies yesterday. His favorite are the cookies Grandpa loved to make. Saturday we found some M&M's on clearance and used them in the cookies. It was a revival of an old tradition of making cookies on Sunday evening. We used to make them while watching AFV. We did not watch AFV yesterday but we still had the cookies. YUM...

Life in Vegas

Adam and Kayleigh are at camp so the younger kids and I went swimming. My IEC coordinator Michele invited us to come swim in her backyard pool. The kids had fun and I filled out an application to host Max a good friend of Sven’s from Hamburg. Michele has been very understanding and helpful getting all the paperwork done so that he can come to our home even though he is not on exchange through our foundation. We will continue to find a permanent host family for Max here in Vegas. We have Sven to thank for getting us into this! Yet I know I was prepared..Some months ago I had a very strong impression that I was to have two more kids. I immediately thought I was supposed to have 2 more babies of my own and took the matter to serious prayer. But was answered a very distinct NO. I felt very relieved to know for sure that I was done having kids. Mike was very happy to hear the news too.  I put the impression out of my mind until this past weekend as I have been working to help Max find a host family. I now understand the meaning of my impression was that this year we would welcome 2 exchange students. Because of this we have decided to welcome him into our home while I continue looking for a host family for him. I feel that the Lord has provided a way and guided me through this so that Max could come to Vegas.  We decided two years ago to host someone from Norway, but last year we were told that there were no boys from Norway available. So we turned to choose someone from Germany again, that is how we got Sven. So this year we looked again for a Norwegian boy and found Fredrik from Mandal. We are very excited to welcome a Norwegian into our home.  One of the first rules in double hosting exchange students is that you cannot host two kids from the same country. Adam is very much okay with all of this and does not mind sharing his room. He enjoys having someone there as opposed to being alone. We are going to go swimming in Michele’s backyard again today.