Sunday, August 28, 2011

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.

Friday, August 26, 2011

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.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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.....

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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.