Stary Eyed

Birthday time!!

I love you girls and I am so happy you are my daughters. I hope you have a wonderful day and wonderful year.
So I will refrain from going on the regular trian of thought I follow on my children's birthdays - the how-did-they-grow-up-so-fast train. Instead I just want you all to know what a blessing it is to be a mother, seeing children grow is amazing. I think it must be something like that for God, He probably gets all stary eyed when he sees us growing in Him ....COOL

so I want to give some thanks ....
My Mom is a special lady she always sends me flowers on my children's birthdays ....Thanks Mom, love you. Beautiful Lilies.

hanging on to summer

I am going to miss this.... that is what I thougth as I stood in my kitchen today, canning crab apples, The hampster dance party on in the back round and kids running through the house, summer is almost over and soon this house will be too quiet. In September all the girls will be in school. Yap that means the twins are off to kindergarten.
Oh ya sure I'll enjoy the peace and quiet and spare time, plus I know the girls will really love school but I still feel this sense of sadness that my babies are big enough to be in school. They where wonderful as babies and they have grown into wonderful little girls, it all happened so quickly.
Besides it has been so long since peace and quiet has been part of my life, not sure what I will do with it.
Well for now I will enjoy the next few weeks of summer.

John's Advice

All day I have been in a slump, unmotivated and dragging my feet. Last week Ben was in a slump, so looking for help, I asked him what he did to get out of it. Being the wonderful man he is he said he worked it out with God for a few days, he encouraged me to do the same... I had a few quiet minutes with God just now and listened to John 3, the Holy Spirit caused verse 30 to stand out to me. John is telling his disciples a few facts of life about the place of Jesus

He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.

This is what I needed, Thanks for the advice John/HS/Ben. I hope tomorrow I can live more with these words on my lips ... More of God,less of me.

Pictures

Our family enjoyed time together this summer it was wonderful for all of us to be together again. The first photo is all of us together by Mom and Dad's Creek the second is my baby girl and my baby sister.

Simply Royal

The conversation went like this.....

my DD - "Mom I'm a princess you know. "
Me - "oh really"
DD - " ya because Jesus is my daddy and he is a King."
Me - " You are right Honey you are a princess."
DD - Are you a princess Mommy?"
Me - " Yes because Jesus is my daddy too."

Feeling royal on Cindy Street tonight.

beginnning....

It seems everyone has a blog these days i was starting to feel left behind ... and besides I need to find one more place to spend all my spare time ...LOL ya right. But I think it will be an all around good thing to begin writting my thoughts and experiences. I hope I will have.... no wait.. make the time to write here. Not sure who will really read it adn I suppose it doesn't really matter.