Welcome to my new blog! It needed to be done. Gone with the old, in with the new! To commemorate our fresh start, we are retiring our old family blog and beginning anew.
It's the perfect time of year for the new. It's Christmas! It's the time of year to celebrate the birth of a brand new baby boy who was sent to us to save us. Usually, I look at Spring as a time for re-birth but there's something about this season this year that makes me want to celebrate the new.
The past couple Christmases have been hard. We've gone through our mourning and adjustment period and now we're ready to MOVE FORWARD! To do that, I have had to embrace being a single mom. It's not easy. It's really scary! I mean, I'm now the one who has to make sure the doors are locked, that the car gets an oil change, and that the garbage makes it out to the curb. I am now the one who has to tie Ethan's tie for church and talk to him about shaving! (What? SHAVING??) I also don't get to say "wait till your father gets home." I get to be the one who deals with all discipline. Woo-hoo. This single mom thing is so not easy, but there are up sides. For instance, I'm the one who always gets the snuggles. I get to enjoy the best moments my children give me. I don't have to share! And, if I want to have pink sheets, I can! (In truth, my sheets are turquoise, but if I wanted pink sheets, I could have them.) Perhaps this may sound selfish to you, but I get to reap this particular reward of this brand of motherhood.
When I am alone and start to feel the self pity start to creep in, I think of my six amazing children and suddenly I feel just fine. The past two years have sucked. There really is no other way to describe it! But we decided to "Cowboy Up." After all, the Lord has promised He'll turn everything around for our good. Even my horrible mistakes will be to my benefit if I allow His hand to guide us.
Here's to an amazing Christmas! It's going to be a Holly Jolly one!
