Random Things...

Hello all! Sorry for my tardiness! I've been meaning to blog all week....but don't have anything big to blog about these days.

Most of my "extra" time is filled with study hours. 2 weeks from today and I will be writing the NCLEX exam already! So, I have certain areas that I really need to work on and review and we as a family are going to be putting in the hours the next 2 weeks. And then it will be done =)

I've really been enjoying learning again and using parts of my brain that have been a little dormant =) It has been mentally refreshing and is good for my heart! I'm so thankful for the grace the Lord has given us for this short season and I'm glad that it isn't like this all the time because that would be too much =) Normally, I always nap when Noah is napping. With the blessing of the time change and the grace of the Lord for studying, I have been able to use many naptimes for studying instead =) Yay!

So, please pray for me in the next 2 weeks and especially on April 12th as I take the test!

Here are cute family pictures from last weekend after a 2 year old birthday party!

Introducing....the long-awaited......sign!

Community living has awesome blessings and large challenges that ebb and flow in different moments and quarters. It has been the cause of many smiles and many tears in my world over the past 2 years.

We've thought about putting up a sign on our door many, many times but just hadn't done it yet.

Well, it has been done. We have a sign on the door.

I have laughed and laughed about it this week and find it funny (and awesome) that my incredibly gracious and patient husband finally had enough of the business knocks at all hours of the day and wrote it, laminated it and put it up =) I'm giving him a high five!

I'm guessing you want to see this sign....so here it is. Welcome to the Farrows!

And ps. we've had no business knocks since the sign went up this week! It's been peaceful!

So Weird....

Midwest...your weather is so bizarre.

Tangtop, flip flops and 26 degrees Celsius this afternoon. Walking outside in the beautiful weather.

This evening, rain, thunder and lightening with a 30% chance of snow tonight.

So weird.

Official!

At the beginning of January, I wrote that I was pursuing writing my NCLEX (aka American Nursing Exam). I felt the peace to proceed forward in the process back in fall and started the mound of paperwork required, doing a bunch of it during my trip to Winnipeg in November.

This week I got my official letter in the mail and the authorization to test email from the testing center! I can write it whenever I'd like to now!

So, I'm still praying about the exact date but am hoping to write the test in the next 5 weeks before my mom and Henry come to visit! I'll keep you posted as I know!

The study motivator has been turned up! I'm aiming to studying 2 hours a day over the next few weeks and working on a schedule to make that possible. It has been fun to be in the books again and feeling like a student again =) My sister and I even had a study date at a cute coffee shop yesterday morning =) Fun!

Love Feast with the Returning Missionaries!

Last night, we had the honor of being invited to the Love Feast for our returning missionaries of our September DTS. A love feast is a special dinner the school has together to celebrate together and love one another. It was most famously practiced by the Moravians, according to Wikipedia.

Today is their graduation so last night was a special meal together where they all got dressed up and ate together, connected with one another and showed slide shows of their 3 different outreaches. It was so great to see their pictures and hear a few stories from the field. Tonight they will share more in our community gathering and that will be fun and faith building! And the food was awesome....and such a blessing to not have to cook =)

On a mama note, in the midst of the early evening, I decided to be a little flexible over the bedtime hour and kept Noah out a little past bedtime, which we practically never do. He's sitting in his booster seat at 6:30pm, hanging off the edge saying "home" and "I tired". Lol! My little routined toddler THRIVES on his routine. And that works just lovely for this routined mama =) So funny that I live a little and give him a special privilege and he's the one asking to go home and go to bed =)

Either way, it was a great time and an honor to celebrate those who have spent the last 3 months of their lives loving on people in foreign countries and sharing Jesus in the nations!

Go Canada Go!

A week ago was the end of the Olympics and the final gold medal mens hockey game.

Since our house is alive at 6am, we thought it would be fun to open up our living room to the other Canadian guys on base who would want to watch the game =) So, there were 7 of us Canadians (me being the only girl) and we watched, cheered and felt a little Canadian pride over those 3 hours together! It was fun and Noah loved having the guys over bright and early =)

Yay! Go Canada Go!