Molly's 1st...

the other weekend after church.

we took Molly out to eat and the waitress loved her.

she brought her a balloon.

here it is.

Dear Sunday

So far you have been so good to me! Thank you for your beautiful weather this morning so Molly and I could enjoy walking around the neighborhood and enjoy God's beautiful creation! Dear Molly, you are the cutest baby I have ever met. I love your giggles and how excited you get when you discover new things. Dear baby crib, I suspect some chewing in your future. Molly discovered how to pull up on you and here gums were very happy. Dear Husband, thank you for cleaning the shower yesterday! It was sparkly clean! Dear bathroom steam, I got out of the shower and thought I saw writing on the mirror. My mind for a minute totally believed that there was a ghost in the house like in the movie What Lies Beneath. Dear sleeping baby, I loved you before I ever saw you and I will love you forever and ever.

My little reader

My little reader....

Playing with Saturday's purchases:

A sealed bag of dog raw hides

A Bible story book

Butternut Squash baby food

Evil exists.

I can’t live in a world with this much heartache. I don't want to live in a world with this much evil. Those where my thoughts this morning when I read in the AJC that a family of three was found in a bathtub with a toaster close by plugged in. The parents survived. The baby did not. How can this be? How can this evil exist?


My heart cries out to the Lord, why? I can’t even imagine how much more the Lords heart breaks.

I am praying this morning for children who have found themselves in the hands of someone that does not have their best interest in mind. I pray that God would change hearts and speedily change circumstances. I pray also that he keeps this on my heart so that as my mind forgets this morning’s news story my heart and spirit will continue to pray for the little lives that are in such danger.

A blog that made me laugh all the way home

So my dear sweet friend Summer sent me this blog the other day. It cracks me up. I looked at right before I got in my car for the 45 minute commute home and it made me laugh out loud. I have since made Allen read it and a few others. If you have a kid or have had children then there is no way you won't find this funny.....

LAUGH

Da Da

My heart loves this photo

I know Molly is going to love it to when she is my age and she looks back at photo albums.

I can just hear her now " look at dad! he was so handsome when he was young! I was such a cute baby too. That cell phone is huge! Now cell phones are just little buttons we pin on our clothes."

love to dada and molls

xo

mama

Pros vs. Cons

I have been doing some thinking. I would like to share my thoughts here.

Before I started this little blog I was always online reading up on my friends blogs. I loved hearing about their adventures or seeing pictures of them in their own little life's going about every day. It was a great way for me to feel connected to those that were far away. I kind of made it my morning routine. I would wake up get a cup of coffee and sit down for some reading. Then one day I stumbled upon a blog of someone that I had never met and I started reading. I stumbled upon another blog and another blog. I found blogs about redecorating, cooking and repuropsing old things. I was in blog "heaven." I would use so much of my time looking into other people's lives and adventures and I enjoyed it.

Since then I have zeroed in on a few blogs that I regularly look at. I enjoy reading about particular things like home improvement or a friends life as a newly wed. I enjoy getting ideas on how to use things around my house for multi use instead of just throwing it away or how to cook a healthy meal for the husband and me. But I also have really allowed other's lives to make mine feel small. To make me feel like I am not pretty enough, or creative enough or happy enough. Does that ever happen to you? Comparing myself to others has always been a weakness of mine. I can be perfectly happy with my weekend plans and then I read that someone is going on a fabulous picnic with their sweetie and then taking a tour of historic wherever and then making homemade blueberry pies and I feel like my weekend plans of "staying home in PJ's and playing with Molly" is all of a sudden lazy and boring.  I hate that.

I think that for the next month I am going to read my friends blogs that encourage me like this one And I will also read this friends and of course hers. I don't personally know this family or this sweet family of four but I am always encouraged in some way by reading about their life.

I hope that while I take a semi hiatus of blogs that I find myself feeling less than after reading, that God will really do a work in my heart. I love reading about the lives of others and I am inspried to think outside the box when I read them, I just have somehow fallen into the trap of comparasion. It is no way the authors fault of those blogs, it is just how I see myself in comparasion to them.

I am excited about the work I am asking God to do. I know that He loves me so so much and I believe that He doesn't want me to look at someone else's life with longing. He has plans beyond my imagination for my family and I want to be excited about those plans not someone else's.

another letter.

Dear worship team at PCC, you are awesome. Thank you for your excitement and commitment to bring Glory to God every single time, my husband and I enjoy worshiping alongside you! Dear man at church who almost sat on my head (seriously), please next time look before you sit down. Dear Maggie, thank you for making me laugh this morning when you stole my bath mat. I will forgive you even though you know I hate the feeling of wet feet on a bathroom floor. Dear husband, I love you. Thank you for your easy going personality. I am so glad your not a type A person.

Dear Sunday

Dear Sunday,

I am gonna be honest. I am not always a fan of you because you signal the weekends' almost over. Dear baby girl, thank you for being a rock star. I love that you slept for an hour and a half this morning I got a lot done. Dear yellow munchkin inflatable duck, you provide so much fun for molly I can't believe it. Dear mama, thank you for being my mama. Dear husband, you are so sweet. I love that you told me I was prettier than the sunrise today.

Love,
me

hall, brown, beverly, dobrenic

now known as: teacher, friend, sister, mother, helper, nurse, wife, lover of Jesus.

Friends are so hard to find. Hold on the ones you have and make them feel special.

Summer photographs

oh. how we all miss these days.

And thank you

To Sarah who sends me awesome photos of baby moments and to Haley who calls to check on me and to Summer who suggested that I put pictuers of my family and also her up in my room to not feel so lonely. Don't think I won't.

And of course to molly and allen for making my room sign and for hugs and kisses. And all my other family and friends who have shown me that they care about me. It is such a wonderful feeling. I love you very much.

Day 2

Thank you Jenna for your words of encouragement. Day 2 is slightly better. Bulletin board is halfway complete and Social Studies is sounding less boring.

Whoo to the hoo.

I feel like the "new" kid in school

Everything is different, everything is new.

New hallway. New principal. New classrooms. New students. New co-teachers. New expectations. New faces. New feelings.

And I am at the same school I have been at for 5 years. I feel like a duck out of water. I am struggling with Molly being far away. Molly on someone else's schedule. Molly not having her crib to rest in during the day.

Its day 1.

Almost the last day....

It is Saturday and almost the last day of summer for me.  I am usually not this attached to summertime. I mean sure, I love the sunshine and the lazy days and the no work thing, but Molly has made it much harder.

We have had such a blessed summer. I can't believe all the amazing things we have been able to do, places we have traveled and memories we have made. Molly has grown by leaps and bounds this summer and I am so glad that I was able to be there every second of it.

I am praying that tomorrow lasts forever and that our little family will make the most of the year that is yet to come.

2012

If you are my friend please remind me in 2012 to get a different job. No matter what I say. So.tired.of.this.

If only money grew on trees...

Could totally use this in our guest bathroom :

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=1&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=19586494&parentid=A_FURN_BATH&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,&navCount=0&navAction=jump&color=&pushId=A_FURN_BATH&popId=APARTMENT&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=

Or this in our kitchen:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=81&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=21151428z&parentid=A_DECORATE&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority&navCount=135&navAction=jump&color=&pushId=A_DECORATE&popId=APARTMENT&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=

Or this in our entry way:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=161&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=20296034&parentid=A_DECORATE&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority&navCount=75&navAction=jump&color=&pushId=A_DECORATE&popId=APARTMENT&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=

Or this behind Molly's closet door:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=401&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=20051751&parentid=A_DECORATE&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority&navCount=90&navAction=jump&color=&pushId=A_DECORATE&popId=APARTMENT&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=

I hope those all turned out alright!

Its hot.

Isn't it SO hot out ?

I mean, really hot!

Hotter than last summer right?

Check check check

Things have been wrapping up at our house for the summer. The days are fading fast and I am starting to prepare for my job as "teacher" not just "mommy."

Sooo in preparation of little time left to get things done and hurried schedules I have been doing a few things.

We re-arranged our living room to maximize crawling space for Miss Molly and also to just give it a fresh feel.

I painted an old ugly dresser and placed it in the dining room for some extra storage.

We turned a wall in our hallway into a chalkboard so that we can make lists, create reminders and write silly things to one another.

I still have a few more things to get done but it feels soooooo good!