Intro

We named our blog “Raising Mustard Seeds” after the famous parable in Matthew’s Gospel. We had some mustard seeds of our own laying dormant in our hearts, and finally, the year before our marriage, we began to let those seeds grow. Our journey with Christ hasn’t always been easy, but it has bore more fruit than we could possibly imagine. And through the mustard seeds He planted in our hearts, He opened them to receive little mustard seeds of our own…

While Jesus in this parable is talking about how faith and our relationship with God should grow from something very small to something mighty and powerful, it’s applicable to our children as well. It is our hope that through prayer and proper parenting, our children will grow from small and helpless (tiny mustard seeds) to being mighty in Christ, so that they will be shining lights in the world and people will come to “dwell in the branches” of their faith.

So, this is our little space in the big internet where we will share our most likely crazy experiences as we start our family and we hope those who are close to us will enjoy laughing at us and with us, and maybe even learn something new :)

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

BIG NEWS!

QUICK UPDATE: I'm very excited to announce that tomorrow we are closing on a house! It's been a long time coming and very dramatic and disappointing at times, but we are so happy we found a house that we can grow a family in. And to make everything more awesome, we have 1 more month on our lease and it's like 1/4 mi away from our apartment so we can move in at a snail's pace (AKA, you-have-a-high-needs-child pace).

The house is smallish (1730 sq ft), but has 4 bedrooms and an enormous backyard, which were both very important to us. We have plans for a swing, a hugelkultur garden, 6 backyard chickens, a picnic table, edible landscaping, and more! All in good time, of course.



I've been packing a box or two here and there, but we're really waiting to get a good feel for what needs to be done to the house before we move in (built in 1975).

Oh, here's something really fun that I've learned. Gianna hates the sound of packaging tape being ripped. You know, like to package boxes. For moving. It makes her scream and sob. Every. Single. Time. Here's the proof:

  If the video doesn't show up, here's the link: http://youtu.be/Xt0BTB04oNg

This should be fun.  ;-)

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