Kaake Family Blog

I first want to apologize for not blogging in quite awhile. Life has gotten crazy and I had to take time for my family.  In the midst of all this crazy, I have even more so found out that God's ways are not my own.  Funny eigh? For years Matthew and I wanted babies, babies, babies.  With 3 living children and 4 (maybe 5) miscarriages, then moving into adrenal problems we decided we were done.  Did you notice I said "we"?  Funny that. Just a couple weeks ago (has it been that long already), my children left with my mother-in-law to go be with her for a whole week so my body could have a chance to rest.  At least that was MY plan. You seeing where this is going? The very first whole day the kids were gone, I went to the store to pick up a pregnancy test.  Not to see if I was pregnant but to confirm that the reason I was late was because I had been stressed.  This in my mind was to confirm I was indeed not pregnant so I could move on with my ...

My children and I have recently had several conversations talking about people that are mean and rude, people that make us angry, etc… How we are to treat them and how they are people who need love the most.   And then how hard it is to love them. And then the question remains, why is it hard to love.  Is it possibly based in selfishness?  Selfishness that someone isn't treating us the way we think they should?  Selfishness because someone has more than we do?  Selfishness, selfishness, selfishness.  Can love abound in this? "We're all constantly inhaling the N.A.S.A. grade rocket fuel for the ego, and you go through these illusions that you're accomplishing great things.  Here is Mother Teresa, with her humility accomplishing what you know are really great things, and you say "if this woman, 4 feet 11, I doubt she weight 100 lbs, with her humility can accomplish these great things, then why am I wasting my time on these illusionary ...