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| Our Smallest Valentine Love, 5 months old today! |
This is my little morning companion, rocking away in his carseat next to me as I write. Smiling, chattering, a toy in each hand.
He is really into his fat, round toes, still loves to suck on his fingers and finds toys extremely interesting!
His sissy thinks she is now big enough to carry him and I found her doing exactly that the other day.
After I recovered from my near-heart-attack, she exclaimed, "But, mommy, I am a BIG girl!"
Yes, you are my dear. And he is a BIG boy!
His sissy is back in school and I wish you could see his little face light up when she comes home at 12:30.
Our world is okay when sissy and daddy come home.
He is a joy: easy going, sleeps wherever we happen to be, made the transition to his big crib with nary a peep, loves his bath, hates the heat, loves attention (almost to a fault!) and promptly falls asleep in the car, Ergo baby carrier and sling.
His smile is contagious and he uses it often to melt our hearts.
He is our 5 month old boy!
Happy birthday to you, my dear, sweet, precious son.
We love you, Noah Miguel!
As it is not Valentine's Day in Brazil (we get to celebrate again in June!), my husband and I will not fight crowds when we go out tomorrow night.
Yes, I get to go on a date! Been awhile. Not even sure how long. Worth getting my hair and nails done for, don't you think? I am as excited as a teenager waiting for her first date.
I really am in love with my biggest Valentine. He makes my world okay.
Our world gets pretty topsy-turvey sometimes, but we are in it together.
We make a pretty good team.
Together we find ourselves often at the Throne of Grace.
Which is the only place to be, really.
Which is the only place that life really makes sense.
Because when I find out yet another friend our age (more or less!) has cancer, my world rocks again and I wonder, where does it all end?
And I find myself once again at the Throne.
And I know I can TRUST a good, gracious God because in His world, it all makes sense.
I have decided I need a chalk board for my dining/living area for the growing list of prayer requests.
Not because I will forget them but because I sense the urgency to be continually in prayer.
An attitude of prayer.
I forget so quickly in the craziness and busyness of the day to day.
I forget that my frustrations with the messes, the never ending laundry and dishes, the fussy children are but a small thing in the big picture of so much suffering, illness, brokenness, the need to show my children a Jesus spirit even in the "little," daily things.
If I can't show them Jesus in the little things, how will I ever teach them to weather the storms that life is so full of.
The big stuff: a tiny, newborn baby I read about yesterday, dying from a genetic disorder, a young father and husband finding his new normal with a cancer diagnosis, my friend's family as they near her one year anniversary in heaven, my neighbor working through the pain of a struggling marriage, the list goes on...and on...and on.
May you find yourself before His Throne today. Where indeed, we will find grace in times of trouble!
Have a blessed weekend,
Jama
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