"Is that a dog bone your daughter is chewing on?"

Ok, so it happened in Jason's Deli. It is one of my son's favorite places to go! He says "Momma, Let's go to Jason's!" Anyway, back to the story. I was having lunch with my little girl (15 months old) and her grandparents. Well if you have children or seen children in restaurants, they are not always the quietest, or most content individuals in the place (at least mine aren't). EE was getting a little frustrated with the fact she was being contained, and not allowed to do exactly what she had in mind, so my mother took out a nylon dog bone that she bought for her Yorkies and handed it to EE. I really didn't think much about it because it kept her entertained, and I knew my mother would never give her something that was dirty! Like I said, I didn't really think much about until a lady at the next table said,

"Excuse me, I don't mean to be nosey or anything, but is that a dog bone your daughter is chewing on?!" Oh my goodness, what she must have thought!!!

"Actually, YES IT IS," I replied! "Sometimes you'll do anything to eat lunch in peace."

To which she replied "I was really just wondering if that was the NEW thing to teethe on! My daughter is fixing to have a baby, and I was going to get her one if it was."

Wow, was I relieved to find out she wasn't going to turn me in or anything for letting my daughter chew on a nylon dog bone!!! She actually thought it was kinda cool (hmmm). I told my Mom and she just laughed with me. I guess we should probably pay more attention, since you never know who is paying attention to us!

My little girl!

Every little girl needs a tutu, RIGHT?

Time With Them

I know this blog is a little late, but I am going to do it anyway!

This past June was my daughter's first birthday, and this past Friday my son turned four! I absolutely cannot believe it. I remember so clearly the day each of them was born. My heart was so full of Joy I didn't know what to do. Before I got pregnant with TR, I could never have imagined how I could love something so much that I had never even met. Then, I saw his face and I understood the meaning of true love, and joy. The second time around I wondered how I could love another as completely as I love the first! Oh but I did! The moment EE was born I understood that God made my heart able to love completely two precious lives given to me as gifts from my Lord. I have to remind myself often of the fact that these two are not mine, but His. That He was, and is, so gracious to allow Will and I the opportunity to raise them. I am honored and blessed. I just watch the time go by so quickly! I am amazed how different they are,a nd how wonderfully God has made each one of them. There are times I just want to hold my children, protect them, and say "don't go, don't grow up, stay here always." Then I come back to reality, and understand that my children are here for a purpose beyond me, beyond them, and beyond what they can comprehend at this moment. I see glimpses and TR asks me questions that blow my mind that a four-year-old would ask about the Holy Spirit and His God. Or when my EE stretches her hands to the sky as she looks up and sings. My God is good, and I trust Him. I know I cannot stop time, and hold them in one place. I realize I don't really want to, I just want to cherish every moment, to learn about who God is making them. I pray that I can encourage them to hear His voice as they chase after His heart to find out why God created them exactly the way they are. I am so glad He gave these two to me. I release them to the One who gave them to me. I will never know how much time I have with them, so I choose to make every moment of time I have with them real.