How did my baby get to be 15 mos old???

15 months ago today our sweet Mary was brand new!






It seems like only yesterday in so many ways, but here we are today:



She can babble, wave, clap, climb and even walks when she wants to. We love to hear her say "mama" and "dada" and "CAR!!!". As far as she is concerned every animal she sees barks and she should be able to follow her brothers anywhere they go. She loves to point out that everyone has a nose and she has an odd fasination with poking people and dolls and stuffed animals in the eye. She does a very cute little wiggly dance when she hears music she likes, and we all melt when she gives us hugs and kissses!

I will rejoice ...even today

1 Thessalonians 5:16
Rejoice always;


Oh boy! Have I repeated that verse over and over today. I will be honest here ... Its been a bad day at our house today. I wanted so badly to crawl in bed and just hide under covers. Several of us have summer colds, I think I'm coming down with mastitis, and the boys just had one of those days when they could not agree about anything ... and I mean every thing lead to an argument today. By the time my hubby got home I was fit to be tied, I wanted to run away (just for a little while of peace and quiet). But I was too tired and ache, so I just sat in my truck in the drive way, laid the seat back and closed my eyes while hubby fed the kids supper.


When I see verses like these I am reminded that we are to rejoice in the Lord, not when we feel like or when things are going well ... we are just simply to rejoice in the Lord, always. No matter the circumstnaces, no matter the feelings ... those do not affect our salvation after all and they don't change our great God. So even when I'm sitting in a clinic waiting room or listening to children argue I will rejoice. I serve a great and awsome God!!!


Isaiah 29:19
Once more the humble will rejoice in the LORD;
the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.


Luke 10:20 (New International Version)
However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."


Ecclesiastes 11:8
Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.


Philippeans 2:17-18
17But even if I am being (AM)poured out as a drink offering upon (AN)the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
18You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

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