I love being a mother and am grateful that I have been entrusted with their lives. They are teaching me patience, sacrifice and a glimpse of what the pure love of Christ is all about. I still have a whole lot to learn. I am realizing that this is not an event, this is a process! A long one. Lifelong. There is nothing harder but yet, nothing more rewarding. I love my job and am thankful for a very forgiving husband and children.
I owe so much to my own mom for the unconditional love she has given to me through out my life. She is a great example of one who always serves and would give the shirt off her back if needed. I am grateful for her acceptance and love she has for me and my children. I don't know a person who is as accepting as her.
We had a wonderful baby dedication at church where we had Jayce dedicated along with a bunch of other amazing parents and their babies.
Jayce with his buddy Raegan only 15 days apart.
I read this quote recently. It reminded me to remember that the every day things are the best things, and to treasure them up because they won't last.
"The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while [mothering]. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three of them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4 and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less."--Anna Quindlen
To my babies:
Make You Feel My Love
When the rain
Is blowing in your face
And the whole world
Is on your case
I could offer you
A warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When the evening shadows
And the stars appear
And there is no one there
To dry your tears
I could hold you
For a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you
Haven't made
Your mind up yet
But I would never
Do you wrong
I've known it
From the moment
That we met
No doubt in my mind
Where you belong
I'd go hungry
I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling
Down the avenue
No, there's nothing
That I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love
The storms are raging
On the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
Though winds of change
Are throwing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing
Like me yet
I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends
Of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love
