finding beauty, confidence, and rest in motherhood
My Little Lovie … You have blossomed this month! Your personality is captivating and your movement is endless. You laugh, smile, wiggle and on your 8 month birthday eve you started to … CRAWL! Ah! It’s hard to look back at the last month and summarize I’ll you’ve done – its been very busy, just […]
I am overcoming obastacles in life and it is comforting to know I’m not overcoming them alone. Andrew Murray wrote, “We have a God who delights in impossibilities.” I don’t usually use words like delight when I consider something to be impossible. But I serve a God who does, and that allows me to rest. To […]
I had published this last week, but it looks like it never posted. Oh, blogger … are you still on the fritz??? Our week has been instagrammed!You know, like googled or facebooked — anything made via instagram. I was home with Jem on Monday and Wednesday and it made for a lovely, swift week at work. Two […]
This is our last no nanny week. We definitely miss her, but we’ve had lots of fun with our hodge podge schedule too. I was off work on Monday, Daddy stayed home today and I’m off again tomorrow. Last night we all huddled in the bathroom for a little splish splash bath. Jemma is ADORING […]
Last Friday my best friend and her daughter visited us from Idaho! It was a dream come true to have our girls unite and play for reals for the first time. They first met back in October when they were just wee bits, then again at Christmas, but this time they actually interacted. It was […]
Kisses for Jemma Kisses for Mama It’s lovely to be so loved. Slobber and all.
Jemma …You are getting so close to crawling! We plopped you in the papasan today, you saw auntie’s dog running around the yard and you were hell bent on finding him. I distracted you for a few minutes to snap these darling pictures. You are growing up in front of my eyes, little girl, and […]
Our nanny is out of town for a few weeks. We’re praying like crazy that she returns. Because we love her. She has promised that she will :) So, I’m not too worried. While she’s away, I have some fabulous days off (unpaid thanks to my maternity leave wiping out all my vacation and sick […]
On Saturday we got all gussied up and went to Saturday night service. Good thing too, because the weather was A-MAZING on Saturday (which allowed for outdoor pictures and Jemma’s first experience with touching grass). She did a great job sitting during service and we’ve been teaching her to raise her arms and say, “Hallelujah” […]
Ever since we landed on the name Jemma for our darling girl I’ve been storing away sibling names. It adds a whole new dimension to choosing names when it needs to coordinate with a sibling. Wouldn’t you agree? If we have another girl I don’t want her name to end in “a”. This rules out […]
I shed a few tears on the way to work this morning. Leaving Jemma 4 mornings each week isn’t really getting easier. In fact, it’s getting harder. I had hoped it would get easier once we established a routine. We have the routine down, but the ease hasn’t arrived. The more Jemma grows, the more […]