The best thing thats ever been mine....

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. ~Joyce Maynard

Being a mommy is an unspeakable joy. Seeing three sweet little smiles everyday is better than any amount of material joy I could ever have. It's no secret that the decision to have the kiddos was God's. He knew just what I needed before I knew what I was missing. Now saying that being a mother is blissful every second of the day would be a big fib...but just when I think the day is worthless one of the kids will say something to brighten my day. They are why I get up in the morning....why I am going back to school....why I smile when no one is looking. They literally are my life and my joy. Without them my life would be empty and before them I never realized just how empty it was. To feel the immense love of a baby growing in your stomach and then to see that same baby become a toddler and then a little boy/girl is bittersweet. Oh how I miss my babies but on the same hand I am sooooo proud of my kids that aren't quite babies anymore. My heart flows over with love.




Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret

In life we are blessed by little things that we often take for granted. One of those blessings is my marriage. For those of you who know Brady and I intimately...well you will know what an amazing marriage looks like. We have hurdled over almost every obstacle and cleared them one by one. It has never been easy although some times are easier than others. I take for granted all he does for the kids and I sometimes but in my heart I know just how lucky I am. There have been times when we were held together by nothing but a thread, but as we have grown both individually and with each other we have built something stronger than any thing life could throw our way...God is good and he knew Brady and I needed each other.