Brightness

How can my "baby" be 3 already?? Doesn't seem possible that 3 years has come and gone since I've held that not so tiny newborn in my arms. My sister does something where she writes her kids a note on their birthdays and I love that idea. So I'm stealing it... :o) Maddux here is your note. My beautiful boy, Oh how I wish the words I love you were enough to express just how deeply in love with you I am. I look at your beautiful eyes, your crooked ear, your little belly and I can't help but smile. You are absolute perfection!!! I feel beyond honored to be your Mommy!!! You are 3, and what a 3 year old you are. Your starting to become very independent, "I do myself" is one of your favorite lines. Along with "I big boy now" as a way to do something dangerous or break a rule. :o) It makes me laugh when I think of it. Even though your independent your kind and compassionate. Mommy had her feelings hurt and was crying and you came and offered...

Growing up I would get shoot pain up my legs at odd hours of the day for not particular reason. My Mom always called them growing pains. She said they were making me tall and strong. Oh how I HATED those growing pains!!! They would keep me up in the middle of the night, hinder my activities during the day and required me to sit still which I hated to do. But my Mom was right, like she most of the time was. I grew tall and strong because of those growing pains. Today I was again reminded of how life is a lot of different growing pains. There are times in our lives where everything is going smoothly, all relationships are fantastic and life couldn't get more sweet! Then there are other times where pains invade our world, keeping us up at night, hindering our activities and sometimes requiring us to sit still and think things through. I think for me I am going to stop looking at them as growing pains. It sounds so negative and I don't think all growing is negative. It doesn'...

So I am once again on this journey of reflecting over my life and thinking through things. I think it's good to do this because it reminds me where I've been, where I've triumphed, and where I've stumbled. This past week in the shower I was thinking about the girl I used to be in High School and College and if I was the same girl or different. It's funny that I would ponder such a question because honestly it's been FOREVER since I've been in High School but I think for so long I've tried to prove to myself that I am better then I was in High School and I wondered why I do that. High School was a BLAST for me!!! I LOVED it!!! It was fun, had lots of friends, a few boyfriends along the way.... I was involved and enjoyed most of my subjects. I was VERY lucky to have the friends that I had and to run in the group I did. God blessed me entirely and shielded me from so many things and I am SO appreciative of that. But for as much as I loved High School I re...