Please give safety to Kim and Mr. P while they travel. I ask that they will enjoy a peaceful and fun visit. Thank You for their opportunity to have a vacation trip. Please ease Mr. P ‘ s pain, if possible, for the duration of their trip.
I continue to lift up Kbells and family as they live through this acute grieving time. Bless them with Your covering of love that comforts so well during such times.
Please bless all students who are traveling back to colleges this week. Keep them safe as they travel in sometimes treacherous weather conditions.
I lift up Mumsee, Mike, and all at home in the Nest. They continue on this road of Your calling to care for children with extreme needs. Please give them extra special blessings with this new year, 2016. May it be a Sweet 16 year at the Nest!
Please continue to bless AJ, Cheryl, and Liz this year with feeling better and please, absolutely no more accidents. Please put Your protective hedge around them so they have no anxiety because of past occurrences. Please bless them with all financial needs resolved.
Thank You for returning friends to the blog like Inbutnotof and others. Thank You for blog family friendships.
May Your will be done in big, little, and all things. In the name of Jesus, Amen
Michelle, would Stargazer be interested in writing articles on his favorite subject? You’d make a great editor. If he could get published and do some speaking engagements then he might become noticed in his field. Also if he went to a tech school for a short while and got certified to do something else as a sideline work until something opens in his field, it might make him feel more productive and he would get a paycheck. I always wanted my son to have a fall back on second ability as my father did and also my husband. It is an enhancement to life skills rather than to be thought of as not being successful, IMO.
Prayer for wisdom on how to keep the eighteen year olds busy for the next two weeks until their GED course starts. Then they will drive to town at six in the morning for classes, return for classes at the school and then to basketball. That should be busy enough. But the next two weeks could be challenging.
Praise for how well fourteen year old is doing. He has not missed an assignment deadline in school yet. Of course, it has only been four days. I told him he could keep his freedom as long as he had no late papers. Back to square one if he elects to disrespect his teachers by not turning in his papers on time. He likes his new life. But his general behavior is to do very well for a short time and then falter. Hopefully, he will make it this time.
Praise for how well fourteen year old girl is doing. It is like she is getting her brain back after a year off. She is immersed in her schoolwork, which she loves doing for about eight hours a day. When her brain shuts down, she goes to crafts. She decided to make bears so, she made herself a pattern, cut out some fabric, sewed it together stuffed, and added things like faces. She is amazingly creative. She will take almost no instruction though, so it is all hers. But the bears are sales quality.
Thanks for holding us up in prayer. We do appreciate it.
Really bad start to the day, but God’s tender mercies are indescribable.
Hubby and I were going to be heading out the door about the same time this morning, in two separate vehicles — him to a pre-op appointment where he will have surgery Monday, and me to Bible study, led by my best friend.
We planned on being out the door around 8:00 a.m. or very shortly thereafter.
Yesterday was pay day, and my husband always picks up his check in the morning, deposits part of it, and brings approximately $600 in cash home to be put into our cash envelopes for food, gas, etc. for the next two weeks.
I was planning on grocery shopping after Bible study, and as he was heading out the door this morning, I realized I had never gotten the cash from him yesterday. So I called to him, wondering where the envelope was so I could get grocery money out of it, and put the rest in the safe, like I always do.
Long story short, we can’t find it. It’s not where he thought he put it. He is virtually positive he brought it home, though, and didn’t leave it somewhere in all the run-around yesterday between clinic, work, and everything else. We looked and looked for probably 15 minutes, but don’t know where it is. I told him to just go to his appointment, I’d just come straight home after Bible study and look for it then, and if I couldn’t find it, I’d try to divert some funds from another source to get some money for groceries and the other cash expenses we’ll have.
He finally gave up looking for it and left for his appointment — I knew he would be late for it, and it was raining, slushy, etc. and I hoped he wouldn’t drive foolishly in his anger over the situation.
I just about posted a prayer request on here about all that, but I was late, too, in getting down the road to go to Bible study, so I left shortly after my husband did.
And then…deep breath…I got to Bible study, and my best friend asked the ladies present if there were any prayer requests, and I mentioned, among other things, the whole missing money mess above.
We prayed, studied in 2 Peter chapter 1, and I felt so much better about everything.
When we were heading out the door, my friend told me, “Come to my car with me.”
She unlocked her car, dug in a bag on the floor, and pulled out an envelope. She and her husband had unexpectedly received some money, and she had planned to deposit it in the bank right after Bible study.
She handed it to me and said, “You take this and use it for whatever you need until you find the money.” And she emphasized there is no hurry.
There is $500 in that envelope she gave me.
I just stood there in the church parking lot and cried, my tears wetting my cheeks just as much as the rain coming down. We hugged, and I feel so loved by my Lord Who blesses me with friends like the ones I’ve got, and works everything for good.
And if I could add one more request for my husband.
A few weeks ago he told me he thinks he’s getting early-onset Alzheimer’s. It kind of freaked me out when he said that, but he may be onto something with that. Although he does just plain get far too busy, is always in a hurry, and that may simply be all it is behind his constantly losing things — keys, his phone, money…
The worrisome thing is that he sometimes can’t remember where he’s been. A bill that he normally pays at the auto parts store was overdue, and when I found out it hadn’t been paid, I asked him if he had gone to the store with the cash that I’d given him for that purpose, but he couldn’t remember if he’d ever gone into the store to pay it, or where that $200 would have gone if he didn’t pay it.
I go take care of the bill myself now every month, so we don’t have that problem. But it scares me that he couldn’t remember only a few days later if he’d even stepped foot in the store that week.
He needs prayers, and I could use them, too. It’s very hard seeing things like this happen with a husband who is only in his mid-50s. 😦
Money envelope is found. It fell out of the back of the toolbox drawer in which he’d put it, out in the garage.
Somebody opened her big mouth, though, after it was found, and suggested maybe we could make a habit of spending Thursday mornings that are paydays together as a couple. I go with him on his errands, we get time together as a couple without the kids present, which we never do anymore.
Bad timing, that suggestion. (I’m an idiot.) He got mad that he “need[s] someone to watch [him] every minute,” which I didn’t say or mean, but that’s what he got from it.
6 Arrows,
Some days it’s just plain difficult being a wife. Sorry to hear you’ve just had one of those days. Sometimes it is easy to feel taken for granted and not appreciated. 😦
I said that about being at the office and sitting in the adjoining office to husband because of the new computers. He gets so a grated when things don’t work for him and curses about it knowing that it bothers me but he does it anyways making me not want to be in the room beside him. I kept the peace not wanting to cause more anger knowing he has this procedure coming up on Monday. He will appreciate me then, but at the office, No.
6 Arrows, it doesn’t sound like early Alzheimer’s – it sounds like stress, with some absent mindedness mixed in. My father has always been absent minded about everyday things not related to work and has sometimes forgotten to pay bills. Sometimes, when he seems more forgetful than usual I start to wonder if dementia is creeping up, but then whatever was bothering him is taken care of and he is back to normal.
Mumsee, Eldest Niece also creates amazing stuffed toys without instructions. In the days before mass production of clothing, they could have been apprenticed to seamstresses or milliners – my elderly client I worked with last year had worked in her teens for sisters, British immigrants, who were milliners.
An acquaintance far away has a wonderful ministry in several different venues. Lately, she and her husband have been adopting children. They are to finish up the adoption process of a sibling group this month, bringing them up to seven adopted children, pre-schoolers to high school.
Over the holidays, a close family friend–a married man whom they’ve loved and worshipped with for years, celebrated holidays with his family, traveled with, close friend–sexually assaulted one of the children, several times.
Families are devastated. CPS had to be called in, of course, friend may go to jail. Church is involved, he may have sexually assaulted one of his own children . . . it goes on and on. Porn and alcohol problems have turned up and my acquaintance is beyond shocked and heart sick.
“This is what I was trying to protect them from with the adoption, and here it happened in my own house by someone I trusted.”
Please pray as the Lord leads. Thank you. I can’t imagine the guilt and horror of my acquaintances–not to mention the blame she may be struggling with over what happened.
Thank you, everyone. And, Roscuro, thank you for sharing from a medical perspective. My gut feeling was that it is all stress-related with my husband, but I’m given to moments of fear about what if it’s dementia-related, admittedly, especially when he often says he thinks he’s losing it, mentally.
It’s been especially noticeable since his dad’s death in late October, so I definitely think that’s part of it.
Last Sunday at the Christmas gathering for his side of the family, his sister showed a DVD she’d made of their dad talking with her when she’d visited him in the nursing home, and hearing his dad’s voice and seeing him on the video brought my husband to tears, the first time I’d seen him cry since the funeral.
I think that was good for him to have that cry, because he hasn’t done that at all, I don’t think, since his dad’s passing, except for a little at the funeral. He throws himself into his work and holds in his grief. (Or maybe I should say he processes it that way. Everyone grieves differently, of course.)
Tears are a good stress-reliever, IMO, and so maybe that cry he had will help ease the stress sometime soon. (And we have a copy of that DVD, so we can pop it in again whenever we want.)
Sadly, a huge number of children in foster care have been molested and can be very aggressive in their behaviour, thinking that is the way to get people to like them. In our view, they must never be left alone with anybody for a moment until they have firmly learned that it is not and there are better ways. That willingness is very attractive to those who would harm them. Which is why we never allow our children to attend Sunday School other than adult Sunday Schoo; with us. We have allowed them to go to VBS under very strict supervision. Even so, you know what we went through a couple of years ago. I most definitely will be praying for this family. They will need it for years to come.
6 Arrows–I’d forgotten about the loss of his dad. Grief will cause you to be absent minded for a long time. I give everyone a pass on everything they say and do–within reason, of course–the first year after a significant loss. You just don’t function up to par for quite a while.
Good point, Michelle. I have zero experience losing someone I’ve lived with. Both my parents are living, all of my siblings, my husband, and all of the children born to us, so I don’t know what it is like to go through that, and how it affects those left behind.
Cheryl, I saw your comment on yesterday’s prayer thread just now. I’m hoping that will be the case — it does make sense.
Hubby got a call from someone in insurance today while I was grocery shopping, and he says tonight, after a call from someone in the medical system where he’ll be Monday, that everything — insurance included — is all in place, and everything’s ready to go for Monday.
His tension seems to be completely wiped away tonight, and he is now at Wal-Mart, buying loose sweat pants that the hospital recommended he wear Monday. (The ones he’s got are too tight, he believes.)
Everything is so much better tonight than it was this morning, and I know without a doubt your prayers had much to do with that. Thank you all so much.
And can I just put a little praise on here for something entirely off-subject? Before I went grocery shopping this afternoon, I found a picture for my living room wall (that wall I kept talking about all the time), AND a pretty little lamp for the one seating area in the living room that does not have a lamp near it.
Lamp + shade: $5.00.
Picture: $2.99.
Now my living room is the peaceful sanctuary I’ve been searching for for months.
6, my father will also get upset and say he must be losing it. And Michelle is right that grief will also impact the memory and the ability to function.
Michelle, it is so terrible, that level of betrayal and yet it seems to be so common. I’ve just been reading about the new lawsuit filed against Bill Gothard, which alleges rape, and weeping over the terrible stories communicated by the legal phrases.
Mumsee, it isn’t just foster children who are vulnerable. I had a peer in the ATI program who hated Christmas. It turned out that was when her family visited relatives, one of whom, an adult male, took the opportunity to abuse her. This relative later confessed to her parents, persuading them not to make charges. In her innocence, she thought her parents might change their minds if she took the case to Bill Gothard; but he, of course, refused to interfere. Now you all know why I am not surprised at any of the allegations that have arisen recently. She eventually left her family and cut off all contact. I do not know where she is now.
My husband was relieved to not have to have anything done on his arteries.
Our well pump and tank has been acting up since last summer. It finally went completely today, so we will spend a weekend without running water. No problem, though, since we have plenty with which to drink and cook. We also have plenty of snow to melt to use for the toilets. We were so glad it did not happen when the four grandchildren and their parents were here recently. I did point out that it would have been wise to take care of it long ago, because it certainly could have been far more inconvenient. I was surprised when my husband later told me it was pure irresponsibility on his part. Good for him! He is relieved to have an appointment set up to get it all fixed. Me too. 🙂
Sad about the molestation. Sadly, I have seen it too often to be surprised. Prayers for all involved.
Wandering Views 
Heavenly Father,
Good morning!
Thank You for light of day!
Please give safety to Kim and Mr. P while they travel. I ask that they will enjoy a peaceful and fun visit. Thank You for their opportunity to have a vacation trip. Please ease Mr. P ‘ s pain, if possible, for the duration of their trip.
I continue to lift up Kbells and family as they live through this acute grieving time. Bless them with Your covering of love that comforts so well during such times.
Please bless all students who are traveling back to colleges this week. Keep them safe as they travel in sometimes treacherous weather conditions.
I lift up Mumsee, Mike, and all at home in the Nest. They continue on this road of Your calling to care for children with extreme needs. Please give them extra special blessings with this new year, 2016. May it be a Sweet 16 year at the Nest!
Please continue to bless AJ, Cheryl, and Liz this year with feeling better and please, absolutely no more accidents. Please put Your protective hedge around them so they have no anxiety because of past occurrences. Please bless them with all financial needs resolved.
Thank You for returning friends to the blog like Inbutnotof and others. Thank You for blog family friendships.
May Your will be done in big, little, and all things. In the name of Jesus, Amen
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I got a lot done yesterday; thank you. Haven’t seen Stargazer.
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Michelle, would Stargazer be interested in writing articles on his favorite subject? You’d make a great editor. If he could get published and do some speaking engagements then he might become noticed in his field. Also if he went to a tech school for a short while and got certified to do something else as a sideline work until something opens in his field, it might make him feel more productive and he would get a paycheck. I always wanted my son to have a fall back on second ability as my father did and also my husband. It is an enhancement to life skills rather than to be thought of as not being successful, IMO.
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Prayer for wisdom on how to keep the eighteen year olds busy for the next two weeks until their GED course starts. Then they will drive to town at six in the morning for classes, return for classes at the school and then to basketball. That should be busy enough. But the next two weeks could be challenging.
Praise for how well fourteen year old is doing. He has not missed an assignment deadline in school yet. Of course, it has only been four days. I told him he could keep his freedom as long as he had no late papers. Back to square one if he elects to disrespect his teachers by not turning in his papers on time. He likes his new life. But his general behavior is to do very well for a short time and then falter. Hopefully, he will make it this time.
Praise for how well fourteen year old girl is doing. It is like she is getting her brain back after a year off. She is immersed in her schoolwork, which she loves doing for about eight hours a day. When her brain shuts down, she goes to crafts. She decided to make bears so, she made herself a pattern, cut out some fabric, sewed it together stuffed, and added things like faces. She is amazingly creative. She will take almost no instruction though, so it is all hers. But the bears are sales quality.
Thanks for holding us up in prayer. We do appreciate it.
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Really bad start to the day, but God’s tender mercies are indescribable.
Hubby and I were going to be heading out the door about the same time this morning, in two separate vehicles — him to a pre-op appointment where he will have surgery Monday, and me to Bible study, led by my best friend.
We planned on being out the door around 8:00 a.m. or very shortly thereafter.
Yesterday was pay day, and my husband always picks up his check in the morning, deposits part of it, and brings approximately $600 in cash home to be put into our cash envelopes for food, gas, etc. for the next two weeks.
I was planning on grocery shopping after Bible study, and as he was heading out the door this morning, I realized I had never gotten the cash from him yesterday. So I called to him, wondering where the envelope was so I could get grocery money out of it, and put the rest in the safe, like I always do.
Long story short, we can’t find it. It’s not where he thought he put it. He is virtually positive he brought it home, though, and didn’t leave it somewhere in all the run-around yesterday between clinic, work, and everything else. We looked and looked for probably 15 minutes, but don’t know where it is. I told him to just go to his appointment, I’d just come straight home after Bible study and look for it then, and if I couldn’t find it, I’d try to divert some funds from another source to get some money for groceries and the other cash expenses we’ll have.
He finally gave up looking for it and left for his appointment — I knew he would be late for it, and it was raining, slushy, etc. and I hoped he wouldn’t drive foolishly in his anger over the situation.
I just about posted a prayer request on here about all that, but I was late, too, in getting down the road to go to Bible study, so I left shortly after my husband did.
And then…deep breath…I got to Bible study, and my best friend asked the ladies present if there were any prayer requests, and I mentioned, among other things, the whole missing money mess above.
We prayed, studied in 2 Peter chapter 1, and I felt so much better about everything.
When we were heading out the door, my friend told me, “Come to my car with me.”
She unlocked her car, dug in a bag on the floor, and pulled out an envelope. She and her husband had unexpectedly received some money, and she had planned to deposit it in the bank right after Bible study.
She handed it to me and said, “You take this and use it for whatever you need until you find the money.” And she emphasized there is no hurry.
There is $500 in that envelope she gave me.
I just stood there in the church parking lot and cried, my tears wetting my cheeks just as much as the rain coming down. We hugged, and I feel so loved by my Lord Who blesses me with friends like the ones I’ve got, and works everything for good.
Praise God!
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And if I could add one more request for my husband.
A few weeks ago he told me he thinks he’s getting early-onset Alzheimer’s. It kind of freaked me out when he said that, but he may be onto something with that. Although he does just plain get far too busy, is always in a hurry, and that may simply be all it is behind his constantly losing things — keys, his phone, money…
The worrisome thing is that he sometimes can’t remember where he’s been. A bill that he normally pays at the auto parts store was overdue, and when I found out it hadn’t been paid, I asked him if he had gone to the store with the cash that I’d given him for that purpose, but he couldn’t remember if he’d ever gone into the store to pay it, or where that $200 would have gone if he didn’t pay it.
I go take care of the bill myself now every month, so we don’t have that problem. But it scares me that he couldn’t remember only a few days later if he’d even stepped foot in the store that week.
He needs prayers, and I could use them, too. It’s very hard seeing things like this happen with a husband who is only in his mid-50s. 😦
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Money envelope is found. It fell out of the back of the toolbox drawer in which he’d put it, out in the garage.
Somebody opened her big mouth, though, after it was found, and suggested maybe we could make a habit of spending Thursday mornings that are paydays together as a couple. I go with him on his errands, we get time together as a couple without the kids present, which we never do anymore.
Bad timing, that suggestion. (I’m an idiot.) He got mad that he “need[s] someone to watch [him] every minute,” which I didn’t say or mean, but that’s what he got from it.
Sigh.
Thanks for the prayers.
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Praying with understanding, Six.
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6 Arrows,
Some days it’s just plain difficult being a wife. Sorry to hear you’ve just had one of those days. Sometimes it is easy to feel taken for granted and not appreciated. 😦
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I said that about being at the office and sitting in the adjoining office to husband because of the new computers. He gets so a grated when things don’t work for him and curses about it knowing that it bothers me but he does it anyways making me not want to be in the room beside him. I kept the peace not wanting to cause more anger knowing he has this procedure coming up on Monday. He will appreciate me then, but at the office, No.
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grated?
Silly phone rewrote the word aggravated.
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6 Arrows, it doesn’t sound like early Alzheimer’s – it sounds like stress, with some absent mindedness mixed in. My father has always been absent minded about everyday things not related to work and has sometimes forgotten to pay bills. Sometimes, when he seems more forgetful than usual I start to wonder if dementia is creeping up, but then whatever was bothering him is taken care of and he is back to normal.
Mumsee, Eldest Niece also creates amazing stuffed toys without instructions. In the days before mass production of clothing, they could have been apprenticed to seamstresses or milliners – my elderly client I worked with last year had worked in her teens for sisters, British immigrants, who were milliners.
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An acquaintance far away has a wonderful ministry in several different venues. Lately, she and her husband have been adopting children. They are to finish up the adoption process of a sibling group this month, bringing them up to seven adopted children, pre-schoolers to high school.
Over the holidays, a close family friend–a married man whom they’ve loved and worshipped with for years, celebrated holidays with his family, traveled with, close friend–sexually assaulted one of the children, several times.
Families are devastated. CPS had to be called in, of course, friend may go to jail. Church is involved, he may have sexually assaulted one of his own children . . . it goes on and on. Porn and alcohol problems have turned up and my acquaintance is beyond shocked and heart sick.
“This is what I was trying to protect them from with the adoption, and here it happened in my own house by someone I trusted.”
Please pray as the Lord leads. Thank you. I can’t imagine the guilt and horror of my acquaintances–not to mention the blame she may be struggling with over what happened.
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Thank you, everyone. And, Roscuro, thank you for sharing from a medical perspective. My gut feeling was that it is all stress-related with my husband, but I’m given to moments of fear about what if it’s dementia-related, admittedly, especially when he often says he thinks he’s losing it, mentally.
It’s been especially noticeable since his dad’s death in late October, so I definitely think that’s part of it.
Last Sunday at the Christmas gathering for his side of the family, his sister showed a DVD she’d made of their dad talking with her when she’d visited him in the nursing home, and hearing his dad’s voice and seeing him on the video brought my husband to tears, the first time I’d seen him cry since the funeral.
I think that was good for him to have that cry, because he hasn’t done that at all, I don’t think, since his dad’s passing, except for a little at the funeral. He throws himself into his work and holds in his grief. (Or maybe I should say he processes it that way. Everyone grieves differently, of course.)
Tears are a good stress-reliever, IMO, and so maybe that cry he had will help ease the stress sometime soon. (And we have a copy of that DVD, so we can pop it in again whenever we want.)
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Praying for all the needs listed here, too, I meant to say.
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Sadly, a huge number of children in foster care have been molested and can be very aggressive in their behaviour, thinking that is the way to get people to like them. In our view, they must never be left alone with anybody for a moment until they have firmly learned that it is not and there are better ways. That willingness is very attractive to those who would harm them. Which is why we never allow our children to attend Sunday School other than adult Sunday Schoo; with us. We have allowed them to go to VBS under very strict supervision. Even so, you know what we went through a couple of years ago. I most definitely will be praying for this family. They will need it for years to come.
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Thanks, Mumsee.
6 Arrows–I’d forgotten about the loss of his dad. Grief will cause you to be absent minded for a long time. I give everyone a pass on everything they say and do–within reason, of course–the first year after a significant loss. You just don’t function up to par for quite a while.
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Good point, Michelle. I have zero experience losing someone I’ve lived with. Both my parents are living, all of my siblings, my husband, and all of the children born to us, so I don’t know what it is like to go through that, and how it affects those left behind.
Cheryl, I saw your comment on yesterday’s prayer thread just now. I’m hoping that will be the case — it does make sense.
Hubby got a call from someone in insurance today while I was grocery shopping, and he says tonight, after a call from someone in the medical system where he’ll be Monday, that everything — insurance included — is all in place, and everything’s ready to go for Monday.
His tension seems to be completely wiped away tonight, and he is now at Wal-Mart, buying loose sweat pants that the hospital recommended he wear Monday. (The ones he’s got are too tight, he believes.)
Everything is so much better tonight than it was this morning, and I know without a doubt your prayers had much to do with that. Thank you all so much.
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And can I just put a little praise on here for something entirely off-subject? Before I went grocery shopping this afternoon, I found a picture for my living room wall (that wall I kept talking about all the time), AND a pretty little lamp for the one seating area in the living room that does not have a lamp near it.
Lamp + shade: $5.00.
Picture: $2.99.
Now my living room is the peaceful sanctuary I’ve been searching for for months.
Ah… 🙂
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6, my father will also get upset and say he must be losing it. And Michelle is right that grief will also impact the memory and the ability to function.
Michelle, it is so terrible, that level of betrayal and yet it seems to be so common. I’ve just been reading about the new lawsuit filed against Bill Gothard, which alleges rape, and weeping over the terrible stories communicated by the legal phrases.
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Mumsee, it isn’t just foster children who are vulnerable. I had a peer in the ATI program who hated Christmas. It turned out that was when her family visited relatives, one of whom, an adult male, took the opportunity to abuse her. This relative later confessed to her parents, persuading them not to make charges. In her innocence, she thought her parents might change their minds if she took the case to Bill Gothard; but he, of course, refused to interfere. Now you all know why I am not surprised at any of the allegations that have arisen recently. She eventually left her family and cut off all contact. I do not know where she is now.
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Roscuro, there are often things you mention about your dad that remind me of my husband. 🙂
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My husband was relieved to not have to have anything done on his arteries.
Our well pump and tank has been acting up since last summer. It finally went completely today, so we will spend a weekend without running water. No problem, though, since we have plenty with which to drink and cook. We also have plenty of snow to melt to use for the toilets. We were so glad it did not happen when the four grandchildren and their parents were here recently. I did point out that it would have been wise to take care of it long ago, because it certainly could have been far more inconvenient. I was surprised when my husband later told me it was pure irresponsibility on his part. Good for him! He is relieved to have an appointment set up to get it all fixed. Me too. 🙂
Sad about the molestation. Sadly, I have seen it too often to be surprised. Prayers for all involved.
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My sister’s nephew’s wife and their 4 little children were just hit by a semi. Please pray.
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Praying, Kare.
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1 little girl died, mom seriously injured, 3 children not seriously hurt. So sad.
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Praying for the needs mentioned here today.
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