Posts Tagged ‘cry’

I am so blessed with the awesome life God has given me. A husband who loves me deeply and three children that I am crazy about!! Our 3rd child, Layla Grayce, came much later than our two sons Jacob and Noah. There are 9 years between Jacob and Layla and 7 between Noah and Layla. My husband and I went through several years of infertility before we became pregnant with her. In fact, we had stopped all infertility treatments and had come to accept God’s plan for us (My husband got there a lot faster than I did) when a few months later I became pregnant. God is so good!

Isn’t it amazing how much children can teach us? Before I became a mom I can remember thinking of the things I wanted to teach my children but I soon discovered, they ended up teaching me way more!!!

Today, Layla is three years old, and I am in school!!! She is teaching me every single hour she is awake!! Some of the things she teaches me, I have already been taught, I just needed reminded. Other things she teaches me are definitely, AH HA, moments. Here are just a few:

Sometimes a girl just needs to scream
Being held, even when you are mad at each other, is a good thing
Candy/chocolate makes me want to dance
Chocolate can be the ultimate deal maker or breaker
When it hurts…cry
Criss cross applesauce
Jump in the puddles!!
Take your shoes off and feel the grass between your toes
Balloons are awesome
I am beautiful
I am a ballerina
I make really ugly faces when I am angry
Girls ARE different than Boys
Elastic around the waist really is the best!
Dance when you hear the music
Giggling while drinking milk doesn’t work
Patience
Jesus is everywhere…be careful not to sit on Him

Deuteronomy 32:2
“Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.” NIV

For me sometimes it is the simple things that can really make my week, day, morning, ok , help me get out of bed!  Here is a list of just a few:

A fresh pot of coffee in the morning, that I didn’t make

10 minutes in a bathroom, ALONE…ok, 5 minutes…3….

Everyone at the dinner table

Everyone at the dinner table, happy

Everyone at the dinner table, happy, with a meal prepared by someone else!!! Yes!!!(wait, this probably means I just had a baby or I have a broken bone somewhere….)

The soft cooing a baby makes as it nurses or drinks from a bottle

A shoulder to cry on and a big hug

Being the shoulder to cry on or giving the big hug

Secret chocolate stash

Laughter

Laughing so hard my stomach hurts, I am crying and crossing my legs!!

Watching my boys toss a ball back and forth (no words, just being together)

Listening to my daughter take care of her dolls, and tell them about Jesus

Girlfriends

Sisters

Fall and the smell of burning leaves

Being able to sleep diagonal across the bed, just because I can

Little feet coming across the bedroom floor and finding me in the middle of the night to snuggle

Unsolicited I love you, or thanks mom

Socks in the hamper

Knowing that it has nothing to do with who I am or what I have done that gets me to heaven!!!!!

John 3:16 (The Message)

“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”