Blessed Chaos

Our summer so far has been a time of blessed chaos!  I can't believe it's August already.  That means homeschooling, at least in the formal since with text books and all, will begin again soon.  I've been cleaning and organizing our school room here and there so it's coming along.  But let's not go there too soon.  I still want to savor the summer!

Anna on horseback!

 Like so many girls her age, Anna is a horse lover.  She recently started weekly lessons at a horse farm close by.  Her dream is to have her own horse...like right now.

Happy Campers!

 We spent another weekend at our camp in the Adirondacks.  This lovely couple is enjoying their morning coffee by the lake.

Pirate Slava

 Slava recently saw the eye specialist again.  Now that he is able to read, he can take the more thorough eye examination which includes letters.  The more thorough exam revealed how poor the vision in his left eye really is. So now we have to patch 4 hours each day. That's not going over so well.  I started him off at 1 hour and will add an hour here and there.  The whole idea is to strengthen the sight in the left eye by forcing it to work while the right eye is patched.  We'll see.

Bubble Blowing on the Boat

 Sierra enjoyed making big bubbles using the wind generated by the boat.  The bubbles traveled pretty far and took a long time to pop on the water.

Andrii Wakeboarding

 This is a great shot of Andrii just before he crashed - on purpose.  He's so athletic and can do jumps and spins too.

Watermelon Twins

 We go through a lot of watermelon in the summer.  My kids love it.  And these two, Slava and Anna, eat most of it!

Lego Maniacs!  

 Funny how reorganizing the school room and putting 5 trillion Legos into new plastic bins that will fit under the little boys' beds can reignite one's passion for playing!  Curtis is my original Lego maniac.  He got Lego sets every Christmas Eve from his grandmother and would build them late into the night.  He passed that legacy on to Andrii, and now Jordan is able to follow the directions and assemble sets too.  I'm always so blessed when I see Curtis playing with the little boys.

Me recording our Orphans No More radio show.

 The Lord is opening so many doors for Justice For Orphans using radio.  Our weekly show will begin airing on Friday, August 9 at 1:30pm on The New Light WDCD 96.7fm.  If you don't pick up the station on the radio you can stream it live from the internet.  Eventually the shows will be in MP3 form on the JFO website.

Partnering With The Sound of Life!

Wayne, me, Tom Michaels Zahradnik, Mary, and Aaron.

We are so thrilled to announce our family and ministry partnerships with The Sound of Life radio network.  The Flach family businesses have underwritten the Albany transmitter project.  By October 1st the Sound of Life Albany station will be loud and clear throughout the Capital District on 94.9fm!  And to go along with that, Justice For Orphans will be heard daily on the air in 1 minute feature segments each week.  We are also kicking off a November campaign on SOL to celebrate Orphan Sunday and National Adoption Awareness Month.  Sound of Life can also be streamed over the internet.

Check out more about our ministry at:  http://justicefororphansny.org/

God is good!