Getting started

Last night as I was going grocery shopping with my wonderful husband. My daughter Lydia, who is 4 and a half months, was in the backseat just cooing and talking away. I started thinking out loud to Joel and just realized how blessed I felt to be a mom. People had always told me that being a parent was one of the greatest gifts God could ever give to you and I now understand what they were saying. While being pregnant I just thought about how awesome it would be to have the baby here and to hold her and to love her and to see her develop, but nothing prepared me for the biggest blessing ever. I realized that God gave her to me. She has quickly developed her own little personality and she is slowly not needing me so much anymore. She likes to lay on the floor and talk and try to roll over. But then there are the times where I pick her up and she rubs her face against mine or she will seemingly pat me on the back, when all it is, is her learning that she can move her own arm. How awesome to see how God has put that small little detail in her little body to see WOW!!! I can move this thing and it is so cool so she repeatedly does it time and time again. So as I was talking this all over with Joel, he thought to himself, "Michelle should start writing these downs so she can remember them." So today I have created this blog to number one, keep you all updated on her and maybe share the joy and one day frustrations as I know will soon becoming of discipling her with you, and number 2 so I won't forget the Biggest Blessing of parenting a small little child and I can go back one day when it seems like I won't go on and read all about her and the blessing I know that God has given me. The Bible says "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They shall not be ashamed...." Psalms 127:3-5a. So my prayer is that you will read this and be thankful for your children and maybe I can help you with your children just be reading this and knowing someone else is experiencing the exact same things.
Humbly
Michelle