A Blessing

When my daughter was born, she had colic for the first four months of her life. It was TERRIBLE! But during the day when we would take her out in public, she would be all sweet & smiles. People would always say that she was such a blessing. Well, I have to be honest, at the time I did not feel that way. But now that she's five, I view things very differently. It's amazing the look and opinions of an innocent child. Now I can enjoy being a parent. Don't get me wrong, it's not always fun and games. I have to discipline her plenty, but now she is more able to understand things when they are explained to her. When she's sick, she can tell me, and I don't have to try and guess what's wrong with her. She's so much more of a person with her own opinions and feelings about things. And I'm sure as time progresses there will still be plenty of challenges, but also plenty of opportunities to truly feel her being a blessing to me.

Curve ball!

Tonight I was handed an envelope, and inside it contained a gift certificate for a professional portrait session, and a gift card for what I feel is a sizable amount of money. My eyes keep welling up with tears, and my cup runneth over. This was so completely unexpected.

Ya know, sometimes God throws us a curve ball to see if we can catch it. The past month has been a little insane for me, my parents moved in, of course Christmas is knocking at my door, and my precious little girl's birthday is exactly one month after Christmas. This time of year is supposed to be fun, and instead has been filled with anxiety, and stress. I try so hard to be a good mom, and wife. Sometimes it feels like I don't, or can't do enough. There's always more work than there is week.

I don't know who was so generous to my family and I, and they will never know how much we appreciate their generosity. So to whoever the gift giver(s) may be, Thank you soo very much!

Christmas is coming. . .

Well, Christmas is on its way, and I must say that this year is not ending in any way that I expected. My parents are moving in with us, that wasn't on the list. I'm sure that God has a plan for this, I just wish sometimes He would share His insight. There are many challenges, and advantages to this whole situation.

My little girl is turning 5 in January. I can hardly believe it. She is growing into such an amazing young lady. She also provides me with many challenges, but there are so many blessing that come with her, too.

Christmas this year is probably going to be very small, and that's ok. It's not supposed to be about getting mountains of gifts, most of which we really don't need. So I am quite ok with not getting lots of gifts. It also provides my daughter with a new learning experience about the holiday, and that's a good thing too.