31 Days To Connect with Your Children

I have 3 children, all very different, requiring different ways to connect with each one.   How does a mom go about this?  She rotates, and she shares, she makes every effort to spend equal time- this is my journey to carry beyond these upcoming 31 days.

How do we find that place again where your heart feels still as you hold your newborn, that peace you feel when you climb in bed at night after telling them their bedtime story and they go to bed so peacefully.

Elaborate on that feeling

It's like hearing the ocean waves, it's that calm place, that peace of a days love joyfully given.

As days turn into months, and months turn into years people change.  I've seen it between just my husband and I within the last 11 years of our marriage.  We are all such unique individuals, and sometimes our own uniqueness doesn't want to agree with the others.
If I'm honest, that is precisely because I am so comfortable in my own uniqueness, that it is really hard to step outside of that and see someone elses point of view.  This is going to be a hard one for me, I'll tell you why- I have this type of phobia that I am right "most" of the time--- definitely more than less, this is my control issue.  Funny though- it is the exact kind of issue that in reality stirs me up inside and spins me completely out of control- because I obviously cannot put my family in my own little world.

Oh but when my babies were little, I showed them how to do everything- and they were so teachable- until about thesweet ages of 2 and up- this is when that special part of their brain kicked into full gear called the "opinion".
I have three children, with completely different opinions, how do I connect without feeling sooooo torn in soooo many directions and end up in a place where I'm too stressed to connect at all?

These next 31 days, I'm going to focus on how to do just that.
To find that place where once agian I listen for that calm place, and receive the peace of a days Love joyfully given.

Five Minute Friday} "True"

I'm writing this Friday on Saturday- with the word True. 
Not worrying whether it is right or not- 
I'm supposed to just write.  
That's what I love about Five minute Friday, 
not worrying allows True to blurt out on my keyboard without interruption.  
This week I have been true- truly truthful :) 
As a Mom of three beautiful children, I know I need to see them each individually for who they truly are. 
Not who I shape them to be.
To do that they need to see me be true to them, and myself  in every since of being a Mom.  
True in investigating each and every one of their personalities.
Instead of creating one for them.
True to see them through this life we've been given as a gift,
so they will be inspired to pursue Gods calling, no matter what they face.  
True in allowing them to feel their real feelings and not wondering if they are right or not.  
Because I learned this week, "Feelings aren't right or wrong, they just are".
Just as I honestly type out these words on my keyboard to without interruption appear on my computer screen, 
they should be able to honestly voice their true feelings...
knowing their words will reflect off of their Mothers loving eyes. 
 A Mother who will see them through this sometimes crazy world we live in.  
A Mother who will see the world through their little eyes to find the beauty they see in it...
and join them in it's God given magnitude.

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Happy Anniversary to Us!!! :)

What a fun night!!! My hubby and I got to go out to celebrate our 11th anniversary!!! Concert night and we called ourselves the plaid twins :) Thank you Mom so much for blessing your grandchildren with your sweet sweet presence!

Five Minute Friday} "Lonely"

Have you ever felt lonely in the midst of a crowd?
It is possible to feel lonely when we are not alone,
we tend to shut the world out- while all along we know they are there.

Have you ever felt lonely next to Jesus?
It is possible to feel lonely next to the one who wipes our loneliness away,
when we tend to shut Him out knowing He is there.

We don't have to be lonely- when we cling to Him we gain security and a sense
that is beyond explanation of acceptance.
We must also, reach and accept.

I imagine a child clinging tight to his or her Mother,
not wanting to feel alone, and that sense of love that eases the soul.

I imagine wrapping my arms around my husbands strong right arm
no longer lonely,
 instead... part of something special-
I feel Loved.

As I sit back, take a deep breath, and clutch tightly the word of God against my heart
I no longer feel lonely, instead,
part of something beyond my loneliness-
LOVED!

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Five Minute Friday} "Story"

We all have a story, it is a beautiful story that God has already carefully written for us. 
He knows where we will go, 
what we will do, 
the struggles we will face,
 and all the triumphs we will experience.  
He knows our story...
 the parts that will make our hearts flutter,
 those that will turn us into knots,
 and those where He will make himself known.  
Even the parts of our story He knows we will fight, but that is what a story is.  
We fight it, not knowing that He knows the outcome. 
 In each and every story there will be trial, 
and in each and every story there is an ending- 
where He has always been my Hero!!! :)

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