Happy Birthday Mommy!

This was supposed to be posted yesterday, I forgot to click “post”:

Today is my mom’s birthday. I just wanted to take a few minutes to talk about how wonderful she is. She is such a strong woman and is absolutely the best mom. I feel very privileged to have her as my mother. We didn’t get along that great when I lived at home but it seems the day I moved out we have become so close. I now talk to her everyday even multiple times throughout the day. Over the last year she has been able to watch TJ everyday for Tim and I while we are at work. TJ loves her and always gets excited when we are walking up to the door.

She is so talented and has so many of them. She makes amazing blankets, scarves, and washcloths. She can make some mean cookies and can come up with the most creative recipes. Well recipe is not the best word for it. I think we only have about 2 or 3 that were actually written down. The other thousands that we’ve had, we only had once. HAHA

She is such a great wife to my dad, mom to me and my siblings, grandmother (Kaykay), sister, and the list goes on.

I love her so much and am so glad that she is in my life. She is not only my mom but my friend.

If you don’t know my mom you are truly missing out.

Happy Birthday Mommy!

New Routine

Within the last couple of weeks we’ve decided to change up a few nightly routines in our house. Over the past year we found it easier to give TJ a bath in our bathroom. We always changed him in our room and that way we didn’t have to worry about toys in the guest bathroom. It’s gotten a little insane in our bathroom. I didn’t have a nice bath toy holder so all of TJ’s bath toys stayed in a basket on the floor next to the bathtub. Our bathroom which we completely remodeled last year was now look cluttered and unclean. Last week we ventured out to the good ol Target and invested in a bath toy holder. It keeps all the toys, shampoo, and soap nicely hung on the wall. TJ thinks it’s funny and I think its organized.
Now that TJ is getting a mouth full of teeth we’ve been working on teaching him to brush his teeth. He was doing really good with the concept. He hasn’t been a child to stick everything in his mouth so for the first time I had to go get my tooth brush and show him “how we brush our teeth”. He has been doing this every night for a week and a half. Last night and the night before he was pushing the tooth brush away and would just lean toward me and open his mouth wide. I guess he finds it easier and much more convenient for him to have me do it. HAHA.

Update on walking:
He does know how to walk and he only walks when he chooses to walk. I think maybe he realizes that when he walks he won’t be a baby anymore. Well I don’t know that he realizes that or not but he only walks on his terms

What to Write?

I feel like I have sooo much to say but can't seem to find one specific thing to talk about. So many things have happened to me and been on my mind. I even started this post with talking about decisions. Obviously I can't even find the words to right in a blog about choices. I sit here with such a desire to write but can't write. I guess that's what you call writers-block.
You know I love where our life is right now. I love my Timothys, I love my family and friends, and I love my house. Church has been great. My dad has been teaching on redemptive gifts. Tim and I are really finding who we are as in our gifts that the Lord has given us.
I look at my days that go by and see who I am becoming. I wonder how I got here and if I would have made one slightly different choice how it would have changed my life forever. I always think if I did do this or didn't do that would I have still gotten married and would I be the mother of TJ? And my answer is yes. One of the reasons God put me on tis earth was to be the wife of Timothy and the mother of Timothy Jr. I can't think of what I have to get out of this life and what I want but what can I do for the people God has put around me. If that's changing a diaper or running back to the store to get Dr. Peppers.

I know I really haven't said anything profound or even something worth making a title of this post. But I wanted to write and I needed to write.

I think I'm going to call it quits on this. I promise I'll get a topic before I start the next post.

Have a lovely evening and a fabulous week!