UBP: Thankful Bunch

I love the Ultimate Blog Party and finding new blogs to read.  My name is Sara.  I'm married, and I have 4 kids.  I like to blog about our family, home school, my faith, adoption, books, and anything that seems to catch my interest and I think might be interesting to others. 

You can see some of my interests by my labels on the sidebar.  One of my recent interests is tea. So I started a 2nd blog called Sara's Tea Time all about tea, and I am now an independent consultant for Tealightful Teas.

In all I do I hope to bring glory to God.  He amazes me everyday, and I am SO thankful to Him.  That's why I named my blog, Thankful Bunch.  I have been learning about abiding in Him, that all things are possible with God, that He ALWAYS answers my prayers and keeps his promises, and how deep His love is for me as He has shown through His Son, Jesus.

Thank you for stopping by.  I'd love to return the visit to your blog!

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Welcome to Thankful Bunch.  My name is Sara.  I love my life with my husband and 4 kids!  My two littlest are adopted, and my oldest is getting ready to go to college.  We are a homeschooling family as well.  We try to follow God in all we do.  The topics I love to write about are family, adoption, everyday blessings, orphans, giving, God's story for our lives, homeschool, etc. One of our focuses as a family this year is sharing the gifts God has given us with others.  We call it Scattered Gifts.  I have been feeling challenged lately that we need to dig deeper and give even more.  You can read about our Scattered Gifts monthly projects here.  I will be posting on our April project in a couple of days.  (We've had Easter, tummy bug, standardized testing, etc. all this week, so I'm a little behind in posting.)

A couple of notes about me:

*I start each day with a cup of tea.
*My favorite food is rhubarb.
*I love Spring.
*I love thrift stores.
*I'm an all or nothing kind of person.  I tend to jump into my plans.  Luckily, my husband slows me down.
*I don't live close to family, and I miss them terribly.  Soon my son will be off to college half way across the country.  I don't know how to reconcile these feelings of aching to be close to my family while God has me far away.
*I know God loves me, and I trust he has me in the best place.
*I pray to be faithful in all God has given me, and I hope to use my mistakes to teach my kids more about God or rather that God can use them.

That's about it for now.  I'm off to check on my husband who is the current one down with the tummy bug.