A Letter, A Divine Burden, and Band!

I've been meaning to post about this for awhile. One day, I was gone shopping and I came home and found this letter:
Evidently, the cotton ball on Lily's poodle skirt I had made her fell off. I just thought it was hilarious that Madison wrote me a letter and put in on my sewing table, along with the skirt. LOL!! I just wanted to make sure and post about it, so I can look back on it. Kids are so funny!

I have SO much to do this week, but I am tired!! LOL!! Luckily, we have no more dance this year and the girls don't really have any homework this week. I still have teacher gifts to make and goody bags to make and someone at Madison's school had a bright idea to have them wear "colonial style" clothing to school on Wednesday for Colonial Day...........right here before Christmas! I really have tons to do and going around trying to figure out what kind of skirts they wore during colonial times was not exactly what I had on my agenda. Ha!! I always try to look at the bright side though, and so I thought this will give me a great reason to shop at our pregnancy center resale shop.....so really it will be a chance to make a donation by purchasing a skirt there. Let's pray they have some kind of long colonial skirt. :D

This year, our church has some members who are going to be traveling into Mexico for Christmas, so we are donating lots of things so that they can drop them off at Lily of the Valley orphanage in Chihuahua, Mexico. I was so excited, because one of my resolutions this year was to figure out my "divine burden". Your divine burden is what God has given you a passion for, what breaks your heart, what He has placed upon your heart and called you to care about. Well, my divine burden is the orphans/adoption, so to find out about this opportunity was just like a huge blessing! I went shopping today and I had to stop myself several times from just crying in the middle of the hair goodies aisle at Target. I was just looking at all the pretty things and picturing a little girl putting them in her hair, and hoping and praying that she will know that she is loved and that someone here in Texas cares about her.......that Jesus loves and cares about her. It just made me realize how much I take for granted. Every day I hurry through brushing and fixing my little girls' hair, putting pretty bows and clips in them, hugging them and giving them a kiss and telling them to have a great day. How many sweet little girls don't have that? Oh, it breaks my heart.

I have thought a lot about my business, Summer Suzette Couture, and I have decided to shut it down for awhile. I'm donating the remaining things to the orphanage. I just do not have any time at all right now to focus on it and you just can't run a successful business when you don't have time to devote to it. I may open it up again in a few months, if I can streamline my products into things that aren't quite so time-consuming.

Today, Kaylee came home with a letter saying that she was being invited to be in the new primary school band! Evidently, her music teacher was awarded a grant for this project and they are going to practice on Mondays (our one free evening.....thank goodness it didn't conflict with her dance!) and will be learning to read music and focusing on mainly percussion instruments. Doesn't that sound so neat?! They've never had this before, so I am honored that Kaylee was chosen. She is really coming into her own and blossoming with her own unique talents. I love that!

Whew! Busy, busy, busy............and lovin' it!