Actually it would appear as though no one waited, but I’ll carry on just the same. Why the long absence? Simple, real life has been so much more enjoyable than the virtual lately. When you have a baby, you quickly realize that your time is no longer your own, and honestly, I gotta say I don’t mind that one bit. I’m relishing every moment I’m able to spend with Heather and Linus, and lately staring at liquid crystal has just left me feeling drained. So I’ve been avoiding it.
So while you may have to wait two months for my next few paragraphs of dross, at least you can sleep soundly in the knowledge that I’m sleeping soundly.
Screw cyber space. Babies are way cooler!
o.k., cyberspace, one word, I know.
even more so when your baby turns 11. You look at your baby & you think - wow, 7-8 more years & she could be moving out and going off to college. That’s less then the amount of time that you’ve spent with her already - and that time just went by too quickly.
We have to save, save, save, save $$$. Jr & Sr. year is expensive…car, class ring, sr pics, & Sr missions trip, etc etc
Next college….or depending on timing - wedding???? Talk about broke town. Sigh, but for now, we have her beautiful face & cherish the moments. Sometimes I forget what it was like to have a baby. I remind myself by looking at pictures and I do miss.
The Lord blessed us with Elena Isabelle. Meaning: Bright, shining one God Is My Oath.
She has a heart for Jesus & nothing is more important than that. Nothing, NOTHING, matters more than to be able to see the child that God gave you here on earth - in eternity.
clarification - NOTHING matters more than the free gift of eternal life! What is better than knowing that the child God gave you to raise will also spend eternity in heaven?
In the house on Selma, when she was a baby, asleep in her crib - I laid hands on her & prayed this: what a joy & a blessing it is to be given a healthy baby. Father, I give her back to YOU! Let me not fail YOU, pray that you help me train her in the way she should go. Pray that she be your child and that YOU would be her 1st love. She is a part of me & James but she would not have been given life, had you not willed it. Pray that I worry less & trust You, the creator of the universe has a plan for her life(without YOU life wouldn’t be possible)!
That prayer was her dedication. Don’t know why I shared this but maybe I was supposed to?
B, you’re the best - this settles it. see you in september.