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OUR EVERYDAY

TRAVEL

FAITH

  • Children are mirrors. Mirrors of who you are. And it’s scary. Like so scary. And this week, thus far, the reflection I see in my four year old moves me to want to be better. Slow to anger, quick to listen, content and joyful in everything. She sets me on fire to be better. And I’m so thankful the weight of that doesn’t have to rest solely on me, I can lift it up in prayer and ask for help from the God who created both of us. The reflection you see in the people you love can burden you are cause you to rise to the occasion, so rise to the challenge. Don’t let the nudging to be more like Christ be lost in the guilt that fills you, or the crazy hustle of this world.
  • It’s winter time. So we are busy. Catching up on those missed quiet times we don’t get during our busy season at work. Plus we’ve been getting ready for E’s favorite time of the year... her birthday, oh I mean Christmas. 🎄
  • “Today was a pretty good day” the girl with pink snow pants says. It’s only because we promised we’d be back on the ice tomorrow. She has big dreams of doing “twirls in the air, on top of the world.” I’ll do my best to make it happen. ⛸
  • You know those days where you ask yourself if their teething, if their sick or getting sick or if they just didn’t sleep enough... That is what my mom would be saying about me if she spent the last few days with me. I am so thankful that these two are so quick to accept my apologies and be patient with me.
  • The best part of tree trimming was letting her unwrap and look at every single ornament before we tag teamed putting them all up. We’re still a bottom heavy tree family... I don’t see that changing anytime in the near future. I’m okay with that. 🎄
  • So one time we were playing video games and frantically I was like “oh no, school!” So we got up, get her in the car and drove. We had enough time to take some selfies, eat a cheese stick (aka lunch), have a good talk and still be the first one there by five minutes. Moral of the story: we rock at getting out of the house in under a minute.
  • If only these smiles were given when the lighting, setting, and outfits were perfectly planned out. Instead it’s in a target cart on the way out the door, with a phone. I would say though, that the lighting is practically perfect and I will, in fact, treasure it forever.
  • When your plans change because of some flu like symptoms.... you snuggle in with some electrolytes.
  • When the snow starts falling you won’t hear us complaining. It means our season of rest is coming. And this year, more so than in the past, my soul is longing for it.
  • Each one of these ladies has been an answer to a prayer over the last 30 years of my life. How amazing it has been to be with them all at one time for a full weekend. I missed my tiny humans but I already miss their sweet company!
  • Weekend getaway. 🌲🍂
  • The perfect way to spend my first day of being thirty. 🦖
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