Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Thinking About Strawberry Shortcake

Gracie will humor me the longest, enduring long photo shoots.


I'm grateful, because I could do this all day.


I'm trying to choose a favorite to order in an 8 x 10 for our family photo wall.


But I can't!


Can you help me?



In the next two photos I told her to think about strawberry shortcake.


Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Happy Birthday Gracie!

Yesterday you turned 5.  I couldn't be more proud of you.  I couldn't be more blessed by you!  My baby, my firstborn, we love you so much!!  


PS.  Is that loose tooth ever going to come out?!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Bittersweet

I feel "five" coming fast.  


And while I look upon this changing creature with awe and slight panic, I greatly respect and adore the little person she's becoming.


She's not a baby anymore. It makes my heart do funny, wistful somersaults.  But her path is just sheer beauty unfolding in front of me.  Even the mess-ups and the mix-ups.  It's all beautiful.  It's an honor to be a part of it, a blessing to help guide her.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Innocence is Beautiful

So.... I don't let my daughter watch PG movies.  (And some G movies too!)  I don't like movies with sexy princesses and teenage romance as the central theme.  I don't like adult humor infused into children's movies.  I don't like the use of the word "fat", "stupid" or "idiot" in children's movies. I don't like movies where the characters are disrespectful to their parents and mean to their friends. Call me crazy.


Grace doesn't yet understand what a "boyfriend" is.   Call me overbearing.


She doesn't yet have an attitude.  She wouldn't even know the first thing about putting her hands on her hips and rolling her eyes.   


I take one look at her, see her thriving, see her so in love with God, and I think--am I missing something here?
For heaven's sake, let them be little!  I guess you can call me conservative if you must, but I'm really not.



There will be plenty of time for all the concerns of a young woman later.
But for now, she can just be whoever she wants.  She can be a precious little girl who found out on her own that she likes dresses and snails and climbing trees (while wearing dresses!) and her rock collection and fuzzy black spiders and flowers and tea party gloves, without a TV commercial telling her so!  Imagine that!  


Anyway, right now, she's too busy building a relationship with the first man in her life, Jesus.  The one who will never leave her, never change on her, never fail her and never stop loving her.  

Oh, and yeah, you can call me a Jesus-freak any time!  Thanks for the compliment!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Grace