2 and a half years

Dear Addi,

You turned 2 1/2 a few weeks ago.  As always, I cannot believe how fast the time flies!

You are becoming more independent everyday.  I am so proud watching you "let me help myself" as you say, but it hurts a little bit.  Before I had a child, I had NO clue how bittersweet it would be to watch my children grow.  Grow you must, though...and you are doing a great job at it!

Sometimes (actually more like ALL the time) I worry that I am not the example I should be for you.  I realize that your beautiful eyes are watching me.  You will do something that I do and say, "Look, like Mommy does!"  So far it's been about good things, but it scares me to think I may do something that isn't so great and that you will copy me. Every day I strive to be better than the day before.  You have no idea now, but you make me want to be a better person.  In case I forget to tell you this when you're thirty, please let me take the time now to tell you, THANK YOU!!! Thank you for making me a better person!

Thank you for being the loving, sweet, silly, funny, adorable, amazing, smart, caring, beautiful, incredible little girl that you are!  Mommy loves you so much and you are my most favorite girl!!! :)

Oh, and thank  you for making potty training so easy!  Your daddy and I are loving the money we are saving on diapers! :)

A kiss and a hug and a lot of love from your adoring mommy!

Been Awhile

Wow...I can't believe I'm starting on week four as a Stay-At-Home Mome and haven't blogged once.  Truth is, I'm LOVING being home with my babies...as if there was ever a doubt.   I am keeping us busy with play dates and bible study groups, etc.  It is great!  Best part of all...being able to cuddle with my babies in the mornings, taking more walks with them around the neighborhood, soaking up every second possible with them and the list goes on.

I have so many things to say and so many lessons learned in the last few weeks, and yet, words escape me at the moment.  So at the risk of boring anyone who chooses to read this, I will end here. :)

Have a great week! :)

Where are your morals??

I am so sick of politicians who, when referring to abortion, say that women should have a choice of what to do with their own bodies.  OK, fine.  However, abortion is murder.  You go to jail for murder.  Come on, people, quit passing it off as a woman's right.  It is a woman's right to abstain from sex or to use protection - it is not a woman's right to kill a child (in utero or not).  It makes me sick.  It makes me wonder how anyone who is a Christian can support a politician who supports abortion.  If this offended you, I'm sorry.  However, perhaps you should look at your heart.  Do you really want innocent blood on your hands?  Why don't you try to be bold instead and stand up for the children who aren't having a chance to live out their lives?  Don't cover up murder by using the lame excuse that it's a woman's right to do whatever she wants to her body.

That's just my two cents.  Probably the first and last political commentary you'll see on this blog this year, but I just had to get that off my chest.

Shadows

Dear Addi,

One day in the future, I promise you this...your dad, you and me will all laugh about the night you were eating dinner and got freaked out by mommy's shadow.  You were so scared that you refused to continue to eat.  Before we realized what was making you scared, your daddy and I thought you were hallucinating.  That really scared us. We were glad it was only a shadow.  Even though it didn't seem to comfort you much, it did comfort us.  We love you, baby girl!!

Love,
Mommy

PS...I REALLY love how everything is "prettiful" to you right now.  Not pretty, not beautiful...prettiful.  You are prettiful and I hope you always know it!!!