Praising God today!

The Lord answered a HUGE prayer request of mine and I just wanted to share with someone/anyone/everyone!

We have been homeschooling for almost 4 full years now. It can be a really lonely journey at times. Sure, we know some other families that homeschool - but most of their kids are either MUCH younger than ours or MUCH older than ours. {or we seem to meet the families that are kinda weird - don't laugh, you know you know some of *those* kind of homeschoolers!} LOL

Anyway, I have lots of great friends and so do my kids, but they all attend public school and we often feel sort of lonely as homeschoolers.

We became part of a co-op a couple years ago and after a year gave it up because of a big difference of opinions between some of the Moms {long story but it wasn't a good environment for my walk with the Lord}.

Anyway, I have prayed and prayed for a homeschool family that had kids similar in age and a NORMAL Mom {LOL} .... and I am happy to say the Lord answered my prayers!

Hope met this girl through Awana and they became fast friends ... so we arranged a playdate and just spent the entire afternoon at their house today.

The Mom and I had SOOO much to talk about and so much in common and we had such a great time! They moved out here from Washington State and the only bad news is that they probably won't stay here forever. :(

But for now we are going to enjoy their friendship and I am just so thankful to God for giving us these friends!! Praise God - He is so good to me!