Great friend, Renie, you will be missed. My sweet, best friend Renie and her family are on their way to Atlanta. I have known for a couple of months now that this time would come for them to make the move but still didn't prepare for feelings and emotions that I am dealing with. Would like to share a few great things/memories. 1. Of recent, Renie loved to have craft time with the kids. Always fantastic ideas, not always super age appropriate. Actually so much fun because that meant us "adults" either got to play and do the crafts or eat the supplies! 2. Many, many great adventures together-some favorites...MEXICO, Ohio, Florida, Charleston, Greenville, Georgia, Fountain Inn, Hendersonville, Gatlinburg... 3. Renie, I learned so so much from you as you became a mom to Jack and now Piper, in what the heck I was suppose to do. 4. Over the years, as we have been on the wild ride of church planter's wives, I had an ear to listen, shoulder to cry on, and someone to laugh with. 5. Your discernment and wisdom as hard to find, that has always been such a blessing to me. 6. Thanks for being so loving, patient, and understanding to someone like me. Just to name a few.

step up.

Take a look at this, truth. Let's encourage and push our parent's generation. A really precious friend wrote this on her blog. www.gatheredfromafar.com

Picture of Joy.  10 things I love on a daily basis watching Zoe do these days...

1. Wanting to be chased around the house, and looking over her shoulder to see if we are coming after her. ( the only bad part is she doesn't always look ahead to see where she is going and runs into the wall!)
2. Trying her hardest to totally communicate with me, but really she is the only one who knows what she is saying.
3. Flips through books as if she is really reading them, she LOVES books.
4. She has got "Pwweeaase" down pat and says it while pointing with two fingers at what she wants, hard at times to refrain from everything she wants by saying please!
5. Imitates me by putting her hands in hair to wash her hair in the bathtub.
6. Loves to climb, especially at the park, and watches other kids to see what to do next.
7. Eating strawberries, hummus, and grapes are about her ultimate favorite foods.
8. While at the zoo, she has no fear of the giraffes and feeding them.  She grabs lettuce and goes at it at feeding them.
9. She has started being a lot more cuddly when going to bed, I love every little bit of her laying her head on my shoulder as I walk her to her room.
10. Watching Zoe play with Jack, my best friend's little one who is about a year older than her is priceless.  She wants to do everything he is doing and be right in his business, and smiles the whole time!

new thing...

So I am giving this a whirl, starting a fresh new blog. For about three years now I had done a blog, www.thetippingfamily.com, which was started as we received news that we were expecting sextuplets. I used the blog to really update folks through that journey of pregnancy, preterm labor, losing the babies, and grieving and the journey thereafter losing the babies. It also became a place to share my heart as we got pregnant with our little girl, Zoe. As she came into the world, I have been less than great at posting things and updating. Also, we are now in the works of adoption as well that I would love to be sharing more about. A little bit ago I decided to cancel the blog, because one the renewal few was pretty pricey to continue with, and two, I just didn't feel like I wanted to continue the blog and didn't know what to say...well, I know the Lord is using this to teach me and to share more as I write. We will see how it goes. I hope that through this new phase, The Tipping's on Mission, you will get to see the good, the bad, and the ugly as you go on mission with us as I share my heart and what adventures the Lord has us on. Big news right now...on Valentine's Day, we also got all approval for adoption stuff through Bethany, so now we are a a waiting family, waiting to match with a birth mom.