Monthly Archives: April 2012

Apr25

Casualties in Moving

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“No one is hurt……..BUT……”

Have you ever gotten that kind of a phone call.  Or maybe you’ve been the one to make the call.

Luckily, I haven’t had to make many of those calls.  But now that we’re in the toddler phase with Little Man, I have a feeling that it’ll be happening more.

I was shocked to find that Little Man got into my lipstick and managed to smear it along the back door and a couple walls when we’d only been in our new house for less than a week.  But after the latest incident, lipstick doesn’t seem so bad after all!

Although we quickly unpacked almost all of our boxes, we’re waiting to get settled in more before we start decorating.  So currently, our dining room is a little shop of our own decorations to begin with.  Also, we were going to wait until last weekend to hang up the full-size mirror in the master bedroom.  It’s wasn’t just any mirror.  This thing was HUGE.  It was really more like a heavy piece of furniture, that would appear to be propped against the wall, but would actually be mounted into that position.

You may be wondering why I’m talking about this gorgeous, framed mirror in past tense.  And you can probably guess what the answer is…….Little Man.  (I would’ve preferred that he’d stuck with playing in lipstick!)  Before mounting the mirror, we kept it propped up with the mirror side facing the wall.  As I was organizing our closet last Friday, Little Man was working hard, too.

He managed to get between the mirror and the wall, and push that ginormous piece of furniture!

A corner of the frame crashed into the wall, leaving a nasty gash.
The back of the mirror crashed onto the bedside table and shattered!

Tragic.

One of our favorite pieces of furniture.

Destroyed.

This Little Man didn’t set out to be destructive.  He just happened to show off his strength in a place and a way that we never expected!

I would’ve taken a picture to share, but it was too sad to capture.

So I’ll keep telling myself a phrase that I’ll probably have to get more and more familiar with.

“It’s only a thing.”

joy: Beginning to imagine something new to go in its place.

Apr24

We’re Here!

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We’re here!!!  I’m so thankful to be in our new house and that our old house is completely sold!  It has instantly felt like home, and even Little Man doesn’t seem to wonder about what happened.  He’s really enjoying having more open space to run around in!  Especially since we don’t have much furniture on the main level, yet!

I’ll share more stories about the adventures (and misadventures) in our new place.

But for now I really just have one word to sum up how I feel when I get up in the morning, go to bed at night, and everything else in between: THANKFUL.

joy: BOXES!

Apr6

Why Easter is My Favorite Holiday

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“….it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.”
Acts 2:24

Although Jesus was put to death, it was physically impossible for him to stay that way.

He, the King of the Universe, allowed his tormentors to physically overcome him.  But He knew the WHOLE story.

Jesus, the Author and Perfector of Life, knew what was going to happen.

He could have prevented it.  He could have stopped them.  He had the power and the ability to rewrite the story.

But he didn’t.

Instead, He experienced the most gruesome and horrific torture that I’ve ever heard of.

Then, hanging there by his torn flesh, he died.

Even worse than all that, He was separated from His Father, the Lord.

WHY would someone endure such a treacherous, embarrassing, unbelievably painful death?

The answer is YOU, my friend.

It was all a part of His plan.

When He was despicably betrayed by one of His closests friends, it was all a part of His plan.
When the crowd chose Him, and begged for Him to be crucified, it was all a part of His plan.
When they crushed a crown of thorns into His scalp, whipped Him with lashes of sharp debris, mocked His identity, and cruelly drove nails through His hands and feet, it was all a part of His plan.

His plan is to know YOU and for you to know HIM!
His plan is to give you a path to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
His plan is to earn the right to become a child of God FOR YOU.

He died.  He paid the price.

And then, when all was said and done, He came back to life!  And He is alive now!
He conquered His own death.
And He conquered the chasm of death that separated us from Him.

Only the Holy and Righteous can be in the presence of God Almighty.
A title that is absolutely impossible for us to achieve.

But He achieved it for us!

So let’s cling to the LIFE that Jesus gives us!
Let’s REJOICE in His physical resurrection that offers us spiritual life!

Jesus Is Alive!
There is no greater news.

joy:  When I see a dogwood flower, I see a tiny crown with petals shaped like a cross and tiny rose colored marks on the ends of each petal.  Yet it’s one of the most gorgeous flowers, full of life and beauty!

Apr2

Child-like Amazement at the Zoo

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This morning, I took Nolan to the zoo for the first time!  He. Soaked. It. Up!  While his favorite animals were the meerkats, alligators, and flamingos, at every exhibit, he told me multiple times, “Mommy, I SEE IT!”.  Actually, he even told me that as we were walking along the paths surrounded by lush greenery and bugs.

Let’s be encouraged by Nolan to take notice of the world around us!
What are little things that are easy to pass by that could bring God glory and bring you joy when you take notice of them?
What are big things that have become just normal, that you can be especially thankful for?
What are some exciting things around you, that have lost that spark as you explain away it’s wonder instead of marvel in it’s beauty?

Let’s open our eyes and approach each day with a child-like thrill of the amazing world the Lord has created!

joy:  We got to see the anteater take a bath and the lemurs bathe each other!  (Anteaters are the strangest looking animals I’ve ever seen!)

Mommy! I see it!
Fish! Fish!
Hi, fish.
Fish, where are you?!
I see it!
Bye, fish. See ya.

I see it!
Hi, animal.
Mommy, come on!
Animal, where are you?
Hi, animal.
I see it!
Bye, animal, see ya.

Bird! Mommy, Bird!
I SEE IT!
Bird, where are you?
Hi, bird. I see it!
Bye, bird. See ya.