Wiggles has been busy sewing gorgeous premature baby clothes today. 
I have a quick Prayer Request for you all.
Hi guys, sorry that we haven't posted in a while. We have been finishing off Christmas Presents for our closest friends and family in New Zealand. 
I am ready for a real snow storm, 
I remember when we would not see each other in a little over a month and I would get really upset and long to see my best friend. Now it's been three years and eight months, and it's not getting any easier.
I remember when we would eat so many Feijoas that we would feel sick.
This time around I want to discuss the affects that our friends have on our self image. 
Self judging is when we go through our day and lives in the privacy of our own minds, thinking of all the things that we did 'wrong' and punishing ourselves for it.
We need to examine how our friends are affecting our self esteem because in the end, what we think of ourselves is what we think of God's creation. In Genesis 2:7 it says, "Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature." 
It contained things like this family photo, photos of the children's bedrooms our Home Study, Police reports, and lots of other documents. Now we just have things that need to come from New Zealand to gather together.
Two days ago Papa Bear found a van for sale that could replace mine. My van sadly is rusting out with all the salt they use on the roads here to melt the winter ice. When he told me about the new van I felt we needed to wait a couple of days before going and looking at it.
Anyway, that brings me back to the van. It only seats seven in total. 
Slowly over the years I have seen God pry Papa Bears fingers off the main controls of his life. 
So sit down with a cup of tea and pray about what the Lord is leading you to give up for HIM!!!
But what does all this have to do with self esteem you might ask? Well, our look affects what we think of ourselves through what others think of us. As people we do value other peoples opinion. Even when we think that we don't. We subconsciously yearn for affirmation. We yearn to be told that we look nice. How we dress is an extension of our attitude, it reflects our state of mind. 
When someone tells us that we don't look nice we feel that they are telling us that 
Looks also affect the way we picture ourselves. When someone that is dressed differently from us gets a complement we start to second guess everything about ourselves. We wonder if our whole being is good enough. So Looks affect our self esteem because they mirror what we are like on the inside. When we get complemented, or not, it is not only effecting the way that we think of our image it also effects the way that we think of ourselves.
But thankfully no matter what we look like or what others think of us we can know that God loves us.
Today Papa Bear became the official Pastor of a little country church. 
To me this narrative has 3 parts. 
She didn't talk about any great disaster she had brought upon herself when she was a teen. 
What sort of message are we giving our children about the life inside a marriage? 
How is that teaching them about sharing a marital bedroom? Do our children see us working together to share common spaces?
Are we setting our children up for troubled marriages and divorce because we are nurturing their individual needs, before nurturing our family togetherness? 
Are we helping our teens to learn the skills needed to survive the early years of marriage and parenthood? 
Is it not more beneficial to future families that we share bedrooms... 
In the 200m freestyle he also came 3rd in a time of 2:39.47 Taking off 10 seconds 
It also snowed today, which I love! But melted as soon as it touched the ground so I am going post some photos from last winter to help me get ready for the first big snow fall.
