Psalm 66:19 & Matthew 21:22

Psalm 66:19- but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer.

Matthew 21:22- If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.

What a caring and loving God we serve! Nate & Alex have been praying for God to send them some snow so that they could make a snowman. Allan & I also prayed on behalf of them for God to send snow so that the boys could learn that God hears their prayers and answers them. The forecast late Tuesday was starting to put doubt in my mind. At most, they said we may get sleet, but the snow was going to mainly be in the north east and would miss us. I continued to believe that God could bring snow wherever He wanted. I still prayed and believed big that He would send snow to us. And, my heart swelled yesterday as Nate & Alex napped and the snow started to fall! I woke them up from their nap to tell them God had answered their prayers. They were so excited and amazed. Nate then shouted, "THANK YOU GOD FOR THE SNOW!"

We let them go outside and make mini-snowmen since we figured it would be gone by morning. Sure enough, we woke up this morning to melting snow, not even enough left to make a snowman. But, I am thankful to God for sending snow our way, even for just a couple hours of fun, just so that our children would learn that God hears and cares about every single prayer they send up! It was truly the best couple of hours I could have asked for! Blessed we are indeed!

Nate & Alex looking at the snow from Heaven!

The Perimeter is Covered....

Covered in TOYS that is!!
Most of you know that our formal dining room is just that.. Formally the dining room. It now belongs to Woody & Buzz, push toys, cars & truck of all sizes and shapes, balls, books and all those what-cha-ma-call-its that you can't really categorize. I don't think there's room for anything else. We seriously need to downsize all the madness. Most days I really think they don't need all those toys anyway. They only play with a couple of them. Not only do toys monopolize the whole dining room, they take up one whole parking place in the garage. The TOYS have minds of their own & are taking over our house!! Remember as Woody from ToyStory once said, "We Toys, we see EVERY-THING". In the garage there's a 4 wheeler power wheels, a big wheel, 2 bikes, 1 tricycle, a Little Tykes Car and now the JEEP. There's a wagon and a basketball goal and a kiddie pool full of sand & sand toys. No wonder stores make a bundle on parents trying to organize the madness in January. But, soon, I'll give Target some money for things to help me tame our madness.
Does your toyroom look like this?? Mind you... this is after the boys have gone to bed & Mommy has cleaned the whole toyroom by herself.