May 12th 2013

Happy Mother's Day! Happy 7th annivsary! 

I've been a wife for 7 years and a mother for a little over 4 years now. Yikes! 

This past year, from may 2012 to 2013 has been the hardest year yet as a wife and mother.  Becoming a preachers wife and a working mother has had some growing pains.  Major. Growing. Pains. But it's all about learning to trust and rest in Jesus:  for a different job situation, for peace about not being home with my baby girls, for guidance about our family and for direction on how to be a preacher's wife. 

I love my girls. I am blessed beyond measure by Evie and Mavery. To know the love of a mother is to know a love that is tender and fierce all at once. My love for these girls can be so tender at one moment; tender enough to want to snuggle every morning and be late for work, tender enough to just want to watch them sleep sometimes. Yet it's fierce all at the same time that if anything ever put one of them in danger, I would put myself between them and whatever threatened them. 

I love how imaginative Evie is. She comes up with the wildest stories. I love seeing her learn and get excited about the smallest things, like the bug catching set we brought her back from vacation. I love watching her help Mavery and try to mother her the way that she sees me mother Mavery. (Although Mavery isn't always receptive to the help...)

I love this age that Mavery is at.  She is still snugly but she is becoming "I do it myself!" Independent. I love the way she says "shes you mama" when I sneeze and "shansh you mama" when I give her something. I love the way she puts on a purse and says "bye-bye" and comes to give kisses like she is off to go shopping. 

I have sweet, sweet girls and I am one blessed Mama!