Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Activities from September
Hey everyone
It’s been a busy month as we have finished painting and hanging our stuff on the walls at our new place. We truly have enjoyed our new house and especially being able to have fires at night in our fireplace. The girls love roasting marshmellows. This past month we were excited to have our first parties in our new home. We had Kayla’s preschool class for breakfast and a fun time of games. I didn’t know all 18 kids and their families would show up but we had a fun time of eating and playing a few games with the kids. It was great to have a home large enough for everyone with plenty of room left over. Our second party was the 10th grade from school. We had an 80s themed party with all those fun outfits from the pastel era. We had lots of junk food and watched Back to the Future. Eric set up a big sheet on the patio and we were able to project the movie onto it from the movie projector. We opened the patio doors and had an outdoor big screen movie night. Will you pray for us and our new house the vacant lot behind our house was just bought and they have proceeded to cut down all the nice trees and are supposedly going to put in apartments. So the past few weeks our nice and quiet house has been surrounded with chainsaw sounds and the sounds of hammers breaking down the stone house. I am fearful that these new apartments are going to be looking down into our backyard and that we won’t have any privacy. One of the challenges of living here is that we are watched constantly. Wherever we go especially when out with the kids Kenyans just love to watch us and so having some privacy especially at home is essential. I’m not sure what plans God has for that house and how that will affect us but I can only hope that we didn’t go to all this work of moving just to have to move again in a year because of noise and privacy. So please pray for our attitudes and that we will trust God for this new place he has us in.
The next few weeks we are going to have a high school harvest party with games and everyone is going to come dressed as one of their favorite movie characters. The following week we are having the 10th grade over for our annual donut making party followed the next day by selling the donuts as a fundraiser for our senior trip at the semiannual garage sale. It should be a fun few weeks we are just excited to be able to provide a place for the fun to happen.
Emma had her second birthday and we celebrated with a Winnie the Pooh cake and just had a little family party. She is an independent spirit who loves to play outside she can play with even a basket of socks for 20 minutes. She easily amuses herself all the time. She is my little sweet heart and loves to go shopping with mommy and to help put the groceries in the basket.
We continue to see growth in Kayla in many areas and have been fortunate to have a therapist that has been coming to our house to do therapy with Kayla this past month. Each day as well I do about a half hour of purposeful play with her incorporating lots of activities that will help strengthen her physically and mentally. It is quite the challenge for me to incorporate the activities for her each day without letting her know it,s for therapy. This year will continue to be a challenge for us with Kayla as she continues to struggle with her responses to things she doesn’t like and when she gets overwhelmed. We deal with constant screaming outbursts and intense crying periods. It seems to be a combination of her age, personality, and the disorder. Please continue to pray specifically for these areas for Kayla as she continues to demand a lot of our family time. The Lord continues to teach me so much through this and we have been thankful to connect with several families who share similar family experiences with kids like Kayla. It is intense having kids with this disorder but I am thankful for her sweet spirit as well. Daily I pray for the Lord to continue His healing process in her.
Thank you for your continued support of our ministry we are truly blessed by you all and continue to see God’s work being done here.
Kara for the Gibsons
It’s been a busy month as we have finished painting and hanging our stuff on the walls at our new place. We truly have enjoyed our new house and especially being able to have fires at night in our fireplace. The girls love roasting marshmellows. This past month we were excited to have our first parties in our new home. We had Kayla’s preschool class for breakfast and a fun time of games. I didn’t know all 18 kids and their families would show up but we had a fun time of eating and playing a few games with the kids. It was great to have a home large enough for everyone with plenty of room left over. Our second party was the 10th grade from school. We had an 80s themed party with all those fun outfits from the pastel era. We had lots of junk food and watched Back to the Future. Eric set up a big sheet on the patio and we were able to project the movie onto it from the movie projector. We opened the patio doors and had an outdoor big screen movie night. Will you pray for us and our new house the vacant lot behind our house was just bought and they have proceeded to cut down all the nice trees and are supposedly going to put in apartments. So the past few weeks our nice and quiet house has been surrounded with chainsaw sounds and the sounds of hammers breaking down the stone house. I am fearful that these new apartments are going to be looking down into our backyard and that we won’t have any privacy. One of the challenges of living here is that we are watched constantly. Wherever we go especially when out with the kids Kenyans just love to watch us and so having some privacy especially at home is essential. I’m not sure what plans God has for that house and how that will affect us but I can only hope that we didn’t go to all this work of moving just to have to move again in a year because of noise and privacy. So please pray for our attitudes and that we will trust God for this new place he has us in.
The next few weeks we are going to have a high school harvest party with games and everyone is going to come dressed as one of their favorite movie characters. The following week we are having the 10th grade over for our annual donut making party followed the next day by selling the donuts as a fundraiser for our senior trip at the semiannual garage sale. It should be a fun few weeks we are just excited to be able to provide a place for the fun to happen.
Emma had her second birthday and we celebrated with a Winnie the Pooh cake and just had a little family party. She is an independent spirit who loves to play outside she can play with even a basket of socks for 20 minutes. She easily amuses herself all the time. She is my little sweet heart and loves to go shopping with mommy and to help put the groceries in the basket.
We continue to see growth in Kayla in many areas and have been fortunate to have a therapist that has been coming to our house to do therapy with Kayla this past month. Each day as well I do about a half hour of purposeful play with her incorporating lots of activities that will help strengthen her physically and mentally. It is quite the challenge for me to incorporate the activities for her each day without letting her know it,s for therapy. This year will continue to be a challenge for us with Kayla as she continues to struggle with her responses to things she doesn’t like and when she gets overwhelmed. We deal with constant screaming outbursts and intense crying periods. It seems to be a combination of her age, personality, and the disorder. Please continue to pray specifically for these areas for Kayla as she continues to demand a lot of our family time. The Lord continues to teach me so much through this and we have been thankful to connect with several families who share similar family experiences with kids like Kayla. It is intense having kids with this disorder but I am thankful for her sweet spirit as well. Daily I pray for the Lord to continue His healing process in her.
Thank you for your continued support of our ministry we are truly blessed by you all and continue to see God’s work being done here.
Kara for the Gibsons
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