The best but worst week!

I am sitting here this morning with so much on my mind. It has been a really hard week for us in our house, and it seems to be only getting worse, between everyone at one time or another being sick, high emotions because of stress, finding out sad news from our family and now the latest news that we may be losing our house, is so much to take all in one week. But I must say it also has been the best week in some ways. John got into a study at children's hospital which is for helping doctors to better do an actual doctors appointment (well child check up) with kids with Autism. As a part of this study they do all of the updated testing like the ADOS, an IQ test and a few others, and we will get all of the results and at no cost to us, plus in April he will go back for a doctors appointment so the can put to use what they have learned about these kiddos. Also we had the boy's parent teacher conference's. What a joy these bought to my heart in the past few hard days. John is doing so excellent in school and is really getting the hang of it and is having fewer and fewer melt downs. But I must commend his team of people that work with him at school, they are the best I have ever seen minus Ms. Annies team in Arizona. These women work endlessly with John and have brought him so far in school. He has one aid that I really like named Melissa, John is such a joy to her heart and she works incredibly with him and doesn't allow him to pull one over on her, and her passion and love for him has brought her to each and every meeting we have ever had about John and I appreciate her commitment to him and his success. Each person that works with him is awesome, I can't say enough about them and could write a novel about each one and how great they are. I say he has won over many hearts with his greatness. Ximon is doing so well, making so much progress each and every day and I could not be prouder of him and all of his hard work. Coming into first grade he was not doing well at all, but now is right there with the rest of the kids mostly, we are still working on some things, but what a blessing. His teacher is so impressed with how far he has come and can't wait to see where he is at the end of the year. James is also doing excellent he is every ones favorite not only in his class but in the school, well actually our whole family is. Everyone is amazed at what great boys we have and how they listen and obey and are so friendly and polite, it blesses Shawn and I's heart to hear that we are doing well as parents, even though it is such hard work. But to raise our boys in the Lord there is no greater reward then to see them living in such a godly manner even at such a young age. James's teacher is one of my favorite that I have ever had to work with, this women is so sweet and so sad when we don't bring all of our kids to see her at school every time we come. She during the conference just wanted to talk about the boys and how they each were and find out more about Shawn and I and how we came to be, which was such incredible opportunity to share with her the Lord and his mercies and just our relationship with him and how we are what we are because of him. Who knew that this is where God would use us the most in reaching out to the teachers and staffs at our boy's school with the gospel by just being our crazy unique family. And the thing that brought me the greatest joy this week and brought me to tears and even to tears as I write this is that I am the mom to all of these boys and they feel it in their hearts. Let me explain. Yesterday Shawn and I had to go to the hospital to be with my sister who is there with my nephew, who is having a very hard time right now, all of them are as a family, please continue to always pray for them and lift them up everyday. Since we were gone, Becky was here to pick up Ximon off of the bus, and he came home, and asked where mom was and said that he missed me. I was amazed and so blessed and then at bed last night he did call me mom and my heart was bursting with Joy. I can't put to words the greatness and fullness that I feel being the mom of these boys and the wife of Shawn, I have felt only a few times in my life that I am right where I should be in such a strong manner and peace and this is one of these times. Even though in the mist of all of this goodness and peace the Lord is stretching me. We got a call yesterday that the man we are renting from is going into forecloser and will need to sell the house. We are offered the first go at it, but we don't know if we are going to be able to buy it. My name is still on Gabe's house and we are not sure if we make enough money to get a loan so we are praying desperately for guidance and peace about what our next step should be. This house is perfect for us, Shawn and I and the boys have friends in the neighborhood, it is safe, but more so the boy's school is the best fit that we have ever had so we don't want to take them out. As I prayed and tossed last night, I was seeking my Father to sit at his feet and lay out my heart about this awful situation. And I prayed and cried and told him all about our situation and told him all that was on my heart, that we have never been more settled and happy and that to uproot the boys would just be too much, and to uproot me would be too much, and I was comforted so much by him and his quite words to me. That I am to be anxious for nothing but to make my requests known to him and then allow HIM to give me the peace that surpasses all understanding. Because he does know our whole situations more than I could even express to him, he knows my boys and what moving would do to them, and exactly what they need. And I was comforted that his ways are not always our ways that I have to trust him and allow him to do what is best for our family even if it is the hard way. I woke up with such a peace in my heart that my Lord is going to care for me and my family no matter what and I just need to lay it all at his feet and let it go and let him do his work whatever that may be. And we will be happy no matter what because we have him and we have each other and we have 6 wonderful little boys who are God's gift to us and he will take care of us. I ask as we go into some very hard months ahead of us that you pray that we continue to trust the Lord and lay it at his feet and only move in his directing and if it is his will that he will give us a miracle. I know this is a bit jumbled but thanks for hanging in there with me. I will update more later about the house as we move on in the process. Thank you all that pray for us everyday and are such dear friends and family to us. You are God's blessings to us!