The best years!

I used to think that my 20's were supposed to be the best years, but my 30's are by far the best ever!
In fact, 33-35 were incredible, holy, and life-giving in countless ways. I am hoping for even more fun, more peace, more trust in God's will for my life and my family in the next year ahead!
Today as I am preparing dinner, talking with my husband, and carrying around a precious boy on my ankle I knew that I needed nothing else in my life, God and my family are more than enough! So very grateful to be at a stage where another birthday does not sting my heart but I can look both ahead and behind and be thankful for all the time our good and gracious God is giving me!

By the way, Joseph brought me my early birthday card tonight and it was the best feeling in the world to hold him tight and know that this is the life I always prayed for and these are the moments that my makes my heart overflow with gratefulness!




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Going private.

I have been having it in my heart for a few months now that my blog needs to be private. I really like being publicly around for certain reasons, but currently don't feel free to truly share the struggles I am facing right now.
I need a place to express my feelings without the worry that it will be viewed and misunderstood by really great people.
My blog initially became a place of healing for me as I recovered from my first surgery with Dr. Hilgers as I sought others who shared the journey of infertility alongside me. My life has been changed by the very grace of community these blogs created for me!
Speaking of grace, it has only been by grace that this very humbled if blog became a mommy blog. I find that I now blog primary with the goal of making a book out of my blog so that I can share these memories with our family for many years.
So I will be transitioning my blog to private in the next week but really would like my friends to follow along. Please email me or message me on fb if you want to be added as a reader!
Thanks for stopping by ;)
I have enjoyed having you all be a part of our lives!


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Funny josephisms!!

Last Sunday when we were trying to come up with ideas for the afternoon to help Joseph burn up energy I jokingly said "let's go to chuckle cheeses!l". Jessy and I loathe that place so I was just being sarcastic to Jessy. Well Joseph apparently shares our opinion because he said "no cheese Chuck". Jessy and I are still cracking up over that one!

Joseph loves to go to church but he tells the whole congregation when he has had enough by clearly and distinctly saying "no more Jesus". He also uses that line when he doesn't want his night time prayers said with him because he would rather be reading Curious George.

He has been really loving his puppy these days. First thing the last two mornings he pops out of bed after saying "good morning mommy" and runs to get his puppy and starts to feed him the car food from the cats food bowl. The puppy is a pretend puppy and the cat food is real. So this morning I though I was a genius and gave hime two bowls to pretend with as the puppy's food bowl and water bowl. I was thinking of making a pretend type of food for the puppy but in moments he has transferred to cats food to the puppy's pretend bowl. Boy was he proud to feed the puppy!

Joseph's favorite color right now is yellow! I love that he loves to say the word yellow because it is the cutest thing ever. At one point this week it looked as though he was finally getting the idea about colors an would correctly answer us when he was asked what color something was but then he started saying everything was yellow! It is yellow, yellow, yellow folks!!



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