A Savior is Born

Posted on 2 December, 2013 by Laura

Over the last few months I have been a part of the writing team with Christian Military Wives. Today I’m sharing a devotional for the month of December!

There are always great articles being written for military wives and each one has been a source of encouragement for me.

Join me over there today as we talk about the importance of our Savior.. {Click Picture Below}

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How was your Thanksgiving? Hopefully the time with loved ones was time well spent.

We were visiting family and stayed for my niece’s first birthday party. I’m glad we are close enough to make it to family gatherings again.

We were up most of last night with our very sick little boy. He has laid on the couch all morning and i’ve been catching up on all the dirty laundry from our trip and the stuff he threw up on. That’s always fun! I love that God wired a mom to nurture.

Anyways, I should finish up some more work. My stomach has felt sick all morning and I’m waiting for my turn to be sick. Hopefully this week i’ll be able to share some pictures and stories from our Thanksgiving weekend.

Until next time,

Laura

You’re making a difference!

Posted on 23 November, 2013 by Laura

Excuse me,

I’m waving my hand over to the woman who is on her first load of laundry today. Also to the one who has cleaned her house all week and is currently enjoying a Saturday free of work. (Does that exist?)

Pull up a chair for a minute?

I’m thinking about you today as I make this grocery list and menu for the coming week. We women are creative with our systems, and the neat thing is they don’t have to be the same to be effective. It’s what works best for our families.

You’re pretty amazing if you didn’t know.

This week you managed to keep an entire home and family running. It doesn’t matter if you served pizza three nights this week or whipped up delicious, made-from-scratch meals. You’re still inspiring.

I want to write powerful life-changing words but you’re exhausted and i’ll keep it simple…

This year you planned birthday parties, events for the kids, took countless trips to and from their school, and made sure meals were there, laundry was folded, and homework was finished. There was much effort in coordinating all the logistics with the extra curricular activities and how the evenings and weekends would run smooth. You woke up in the middle of the night to clean up after a sick child, and made sure everyone maintained a pleasant attitude in public places. (Well at least you tried!)

Even though we each come from unique homes of our own, can we admit our work is cut out for us?

If we don’t have enough to take on as it is, we also have an enemy that devises plans to destroy us through the well crafted lie that we are insignificant. How often do we believe it?

If ever there comes a time you feel like it’s all too much and you’re barely hanging on remember this..

In the Lord I take refuge. Psalm 11:1

We’re training up our children, and as my sister-in-law told me this week, that’s a calling placed on our lives by God. How special that we’re blessed with families. Even on the hardest days of dealing with behavior issues, I remind myself that this is a gift.

I hope you enjoy your afternoon and if you ever need to be told how awesome you really are, we’ll talk again!

You are valuable, loved, a hard-worker, creative, and one of a kind! What a privileged to know so many of you and admire you over the years.

Until next time,

Laura

At the Botanical Gardens

Posted on 29 May, 2013 by Laura

It feels like summer has kicked off around here! Even though summer technically isn’t here until later in June we have a heat wave this week that has me dripping! We are almost at 90 degrees this afternoon!

After working out this morning I quickly put together a picnic lunch, grabbed the sunblock, and we headed out!

Garrett enjoyed looking at the ‘fowwwerrs’ and I loved having some quiet time with the Lord as we walked through these beautiful gardens!

I’m thankful to be given the gift of time with my son. (This is no dig at working mothers! Everyone’s situation varies) I knew that staying at home with our son meant sacrificing the luxuries of a life that I desired but in exchange what we’re given is something far more important to me.

Yes there are days when I don’t feel very valuable after little hands grab at me and I fill up one more cup of milk. But this time spent with my little one is a gift straight from the Lord. Garrett is a joy to be around and these babies don’t keep!

I try to thank my husband from time to time and let him know how much it means that he has provided for our family over the years. We’re blessed because of his hard work!

A few more pictures to finish our time?

As some of you remember my son loves airplanes. Living on base we are able to see plenty of the military aircraft and he’s been thrilled! At the botanical gardens they have an area that overlooks the local airport and you can take a seat and watch airplanes taking off and landing. I thought it would be fun for Garrett to see where the planes are coming and going from. He was one happy child!