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A Father’s Love
Happy Father’s Day! To all the men in the world who took a stand to be a father: Grandpa, Papaw, Poppa, Dad, Uncle, Foster Dad, and Step-Dads alike. Brad Paisley said it best in his song “the Dad he didn’t have to be.” If it weren’t for these men stepping up and taking a stand, rather it be their own blood or not, each child would be at a loss, longing for something, and wondering what it was they were missing. Dad plays a BIG role in a child’s life. Ask anyone who has lost a dad. You can ask any psychologist or counselor who has counseled a child with…
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What Brings You Joy?
Where is your Happy Place? When our summer home, the lake house or cabin as we call in the south, sold, I lost mine. I lost my place, the place you go to get away. The place where you call your “home away from home.” This place was my happy place. Yes, I still have memories and photographs to look through. But my place of peace and writing, my home of 30+ summers, was now gone. All the friends, family, and loved ones that shared this special place know how wonderful it was. But, at the end of Summer 2017, it was time to let go. It’s now summer again,…
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Here Comes [Insert Name] in a Baby Carriage
In one year, I planned five, yes five baby showers. It was like this epidemic at work. I had just finished going through fertility testing, finding out I was unable to bare a child. Yet, all these women around me were pregnant. These women would go around, rubbing their bellies, planning baby nurseries, searching for baby names, and comparing if they would be a “stay at home mom” vs. a “part-time mom.” The copy of “What to Expect When Not Expecting” book lying around the lunch table. One day, I went shopping for one of the baby showers. I literally got so overwhelmed on all the different kinds of blues…
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Life Verse
My life verse has been with me since my senior year of high school. Yes that is almost 15 years. (Telling my age). And no, I don’t care what you say, I am NOT a millennial. My age/year of birth may say it, but let’s make one thing clear, I am NOT a Millennial. Ok I’m off my soap box now. So it was a month or two before graduation and I kept seeing 11:11pm. Isn’t it odd that certain numbers tend to stick out to us more than others? I would fall asleep, and for some reason, I would wake up at 1:11am. I remember from the Bible, God…
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The Missed Mother’s Day- Part 2
God gives us the deepest desires of our hearts even if all we have is faith of a tiny mustard seed. I know, because at my lowest moment, when all I had been through, not being able to be a mother, I asked God for my husband and I to be parents. I did not care how, or when, or at what cost. I wanted to take care of a child, to help raise and care for them and guide them. Show them love, show them the Lord’s unconditional love. And one day we received two beautiful young girls. Now a year and a half later, there’s a possibility it…
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Mother’s Day- Part 1
I guess you could say this is my first official/unofficial mother’s day. What did my family do? They let me sleep! Let me tell you how glorious that is! Normally my little ones will come in around 6am on the weekends. Today has been a peaceful day. As I write this now, I hear the girls up the street with the neighbor kids playing, my husband washing his truck, and I am laying outside in a lawn chairs as I listen to the birds chirping and feel the summer bugs crawling in our backyard. What a beautiful, sunny day! As I sit out here, I reminisce on previous mother’s days…
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Sanctity of Human Life
All my life I grew up in church. Growing up in a Christian home, I was taught the sanctity of Human Life. I remember my mother’s own story. She was given the option, to make a choice; to terminate the life of what they thought would be a downs baby. They went through how hard it would be to take care of a child of special needs…(guess what guys, my brother is normal than ever, most of the time). Growing up, my mother spent the majority of our childhood years working with special needs children. I believe that was her calling. If she hadn’t of had that option, I don’t…
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What’s in a Name
So what is the meaning behind my blog name? Honestly, I looked over at a bookshelf by my lounge chair I was sitting on (my thinking/writing chair), and “joy in our hearts” was written on a picture frame that held a photo of the best day of my life (well second best day), my wedding day. Different milestones come up to play as I think of the “best day ever” (as my oldest says). Salvation at Camp Cherokee. This was and still is my “Best Day Ever.” It is when I gave my life over to the Lord. I always grew up in a Christian home. I just assumed I…
Keeping the Smile in your Journey
