In Hawaii Ohana means Family. Family means a lot to God. This has been a season about family…

Table Manners, Bed Time Blues and Vegetable wars…
First off I’d like to report that our current rental house off of the U of N campus has been more important than we realized for our immediate family! Within our first week here (after 2 years of community living on YWAM bases) we saw how much we needed space and focused attention for our children. When living in community the first thing to go is table manners. Yes, I said it. When you are eating with all of your friends who wants to spend time focusing on manners when there are so many other fun things to talk about?! The second thing to go is a healthy diet. The third thing to go is learning to sleep in your own bedroom. This has been a season of training our kids how to eat properly, overcoming the vegetable wars and getting over the bedtime blues (a.k.a.…getting them used to sleeping in their own rooms again after 2 years of all 5 of us sleeping in little tiny spaces together). ☺ We are grateful for the provision of this home and the joy we have as we spend time together as a family! Read the rest of this entry »