Friends and Family! What a Blessing.

Ladies' Meeting

My kids have had an extremely busy summer!
The girls started singing with their cousin about 2½ years ago, and this year have really started singing often at surrounding churches. They even got to sing with Kay Chandler!
Bethany keeps a calendar, and highlights the days of the month that they are singing. I have flipped through that calendar, and have often seen 5 or 6 highlighted days in one month.
Many times when we go to one revival, another preacher will hear them sing and ask them to come sing at his church, too. Sometimes they are asked to come back and sing again during the week in the same revival. We end up attending more services than just the ones where they sing.

Also there has been camp and many Bible Schools this summer, as well as several ladies' meetings the girls and I have attended.

Now school has started, but the weekends are still staying full. Today my husband and the kids have gone off with a church group, and also will be going to a youth service tonight. We didn't know about this too far ahead of time, and I'm staying home to clean and cook for company tomorrow.  My son is supposed to go shoot paintball in a few weeks, and there is an upcoming hike we need to check the dates on.  

My kids are homeschooled, and some say hs'ers are unsocial.
Really? We are busier than ever!

Going to Dollywood

Because of singing and being at church, my kids have made tons of friends and have been invited to lots of places, including a trip to Dollywood. They sing in a youth choir group comprised of teens from local churches, they go to prayer meetings on Saturdays, and sometimes there is a choir practice there.  They get invited to go swimming at one church's pool (girls together, or boys together) that also has fishing and watersliding.  They get invited to cookouts, various youth outings, and so much more.

I'm so thankful that my kids have so many friends!
And I'm thankful for a husband who really wants his kids to be in church and serve the Lord.  What better friends could we have than those in the Lord's Family?  =)