Proud Mama

Little Dude kept me on my toes today. We were stuck inside all day after church and my active little man was going bananas. He was so good though to be cooped up, just wild busy :)

He was doing and saying funny things all day today too. I got a few on camera and wrote the others in his quote book. This post was started though to say how lucky I am to be his Mama. His bedtime routine is always the same and normally he asks Josh or I to start his prayers then he adds who/what he wants to pray for. Tonight, though, he asked to say the prayer himself. It went like this:
"Dear God, thank you for this day and thank you for my blessings. Thank you for my family and my food, thank you for getting us home safe from church in the snow. Thank you for my daddy and please keep him safe at work. Thank you for my family (he said that twice :)) In your name I pray, Amen.

It just makes me so happy and melts my heart to hear him talking to God that way. Although completely sinful and full of failures every day, I am so glad that God gives us some type of provision and guidance to teach Major that God loves him more than anything else. My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for choosing Major for us. He is everything to me and I am so proud of him. 

Love

I'm not a big Valentine's day person, but I can't let this day pass without saying how much I love my husband and how grateful I am for him. I think this is Valentine's day 13....regardless, I am so thankful to share my life with him.

-Insert adorable picture here-

I suck at taking pictures of the two of us. I need to be better about that. I guess as Major gets older he can do it but as of now most of our pictures in the last 4 years also include Major, but that's how we like it.

Back to my lovie shout out: In all seriousness, I am really just over the moon blessed to call Josh my husband. He loves me fully and completely. He loves me and my imperfections. We've shared the majority of our lives together and honestly I can say I am a much better person for having him in my world. I am grateful for every day I have with him even though I take advantage of it often. I forget to thank him, I nag him, I don't cut him enough slack. Together we fail in our relationship, we fail as parents, we may get angry with each other or on each others nerves, but at the end of the day, we are in each other's corner. We are deeply in love and committed to this crazy life we have created together. Blessed, thankful, grateful, those words just aren't enough to describe my gratitude to God for allowing us to share our lives with each other.  I would be nothing without him and am happy for every moment that we are able to spend together. Happy Valentine's Day Babe, I love you so much.

Quick lil fix

I've had my craft room for about a year or so now. It is still a work in progress but is mostly a hodge podge of all the other stuff the in house that didn't fit anywhere. Most of the stuff in there already needs sprucing up and when I say sprucing, I mean replacing in many instances. My ironing board is a disaster. It gets used all the time, for everything. It is on the door of the closet, which isn't ideal but it's where it is, so it constantly goes up and down, up and down. Anyway, it is nasty:

 Told ya. See all those stains and such? So nasty. And lets not even talk about how I tolerated those wretched blue stripes for over a year. I didn't even realize how bad they were til now. 

So anyway, I was browsing Pinterest and saw this tuitorial. It spoke to me. I went and got some cute, but not on sale fabric.....fail.....and got to work. I didn't do awesome. I tweaked it, it still wasn't working great, so like most everything else, I winged it. It is a little too small, but I have enough fabric to try again. Here is the new:

Doesn't it look so much better? I think so! 

I actually love it so much that I am about to do the curtains in the same fabric and have my old I mean loved chairs recovered.

Anyway, it makes me feel better seeing this rather than that nasty ole thing that I had before, even if this one isn't perfect. :)

I don't deserve this

There are days that go by that I take my life for granted. I take my husband and my child for granted. I take the amazing blessings that God has given me for granted. I don't deserve the life that I have, but I am so grateful that God felt that I did.

 My life would be empty and boring and without purpose without these 2 in my life, well 3, Tillie counts now too. :) I am fulfilled and humbled my God's grace and generosity in my life. I never want to disappoint Him or take the blessings He has allowed me to have for granted. My prayer is that I am aware everyday of how lucky and blessed I really am. These guys are everything to me.