Once, I had a friend...well, I still do, but we don't work 12 hours a day together and hold one another accountable anymore and haven't for like 9 years. But, when I worked with that friend, we would make resolutions each New Year and keep them. They were challenges, new ways to discipline our spirits and we succeeded every year. I can tell you it is a great feeling to make a resolution and keep it for an entire year, especially for someone who has never played sports and achieved sports pinnacles...it feels good, strong, willpower is something else. But, God is so much more than willpower, He is Holy Spirit power and I have found that sometimes my ideas of willpower are my own ideas and not His. So, as I resolved to read more, God sent more people into my life to start and grow relationships with. Maybe he wanted me to get off my pc so I could interact with people, and not read more, who knows? I am still reading more, but more importantly, I am connecting with peeps...my kids, my friends, new friends and new acquaintances. I just have more time and I love it.
Though, I do miss my blog and moments like these I "need" to record. Like this first moment...The first time Preslie cut her own hair. Yes, new parents, every kid (even yours) cuts his or her hair at some point. Jesse did it in a craft aisle in a store once and I had a complete stranger tell me, "Um, your son is cutting his hair, while I was looking for art supplies. Proud moment.
(p.s. i love her belly in this shot. absolutely
L to the ove it. How much longer will she have a baby belly?)
So, fortunately, Miss P hasn't had a haircut and still owns the baby mullet, so no one can tell she cut it, but she did. Kinda proud, not gonna lie.
As for lulubee, she has been scratching her molluscum and everyone we meet freaks out that she has chicken pox...she doesn't, and she is starting to get paranoid. I think it is the Scentsy buddy Santa brought her b/c they were tiny white dots until froggy showed up. NOW she is irritated and clawing at her face. So, we are putting medicine on it twice a day and hoping it clears up before Matt and Kristin's wedding. The sad part is that people are so bold in their questioning and they don't realize that she is 4 and can understand what they are saying. She keeps asking her daddy if she is still beautiful even with her "pimples" as she calls them. It breaks my heart. She is beautiful.
SO beautiful, dots or not!
