Hawaii!

Hi from Hawaii!
I’m here in an internet café on the beach catching up on all your posts, missing you and being very thankful for the modern internet age! Vacation has been good so far. I’ve spent the mornings floating in the water, reading my bible on the beach(which is more difficult than it sounds, the pages are so bright I need to wear my sunglasses to read them) and praying thru the bible verses we gave you guys for Christmas for each of you!
Afternoons/evenings are another story. Bussy/hectic/structured and so good! The boys are older and way more of a handful than last year, but between the meticulous feeding plans (200 gluten-free calories every meal), and generaly speaking working with and around their autism I am exhausted but in the best ways. Our days are filled with Bubbles on the perfect grass outside of our hotel, ice-cream dates w/ me and my boys, sun-set swining in the pool, sunny afternoons on the beach digging huge holes and bed-time disney movies and popcorn. It's a good time!
I'm so glad to hear from thoes of you who facebook me. I'm reminded of when we went kayaking (I already shared this analogy w/ drew-dawg and Kurtis). I had trouble w/ the first rapid, so the instructor told me to "Paddle Hard" cuz that was the only way I was going to get thru the rapid saftly and in control. I'm praying 4 you guys in this time. It's like a huge rapid, things are going every which way, currents are taking you all over the place and they best way to get thru it it to "Paddle Hard". Read your bible.......Hard! Pray..........Hard! Seek God.......with everythign you have in you and although it'll be hard, you'll said thru this transition saftly adn be more in the likeness of Christ because of it!

Love you guys, praying for you 3 hours behind here in Hawaii!