Mothers with daughters..

http://www.deeprootsathome.com/why-have-we-stopped-protecting-our-daughters/

Hi everyone I just wanted to share this article with you. Mothers and fathers with daughters or sisters this is a must read in our "fast paced- making our kids grow up so fast society"

In Christ's love
    Mattie

Walking with my friend

Here we are approaching our two year wedding anniversary.  Looking back I am so humbled by what God has done. We are two broken people, pieced back together by Gods gentle hands. He has made us uniquely different and its perfect. Not us, but his plan. We still struggle, and grovel, and fight, we still have our own way if doing things and we probably won't every be on par with eachother. But we make it work, we brake down barriers and build up walls of protection in prayer. We seek God together and we try to look beyond ourselves. We are growing a family, much, much harder than a garden. We see eachother completely and look beyond the blemishes. We are still learning, and some days just trying to fight the tide. We still marval at how this all happened and still can't believe what Gods goodness has done. We smile, and laugh, we dream and we sing. (We really do sing.) We are smitten as can be by our babies, and with each passing day our love grows bigger and bigger, than we can even contain. We are two imperfect people, two sinners, we say, we come together, we kneel, we pray, we sit at the cross, knowing someday, we will all sit with the King at his throne and praise.
Walking with my friend,  my very best friend, is not something I take for granted. After all I wasn't the one who brought him here.

In Christ's love
       Mattie

Having a Jesus heart.

Oh to be like you oh God! To know, understand and have the compassion that you do! I feel so heart broken when I look at the world around me. I don't like where its headed, I don't like the world me children will be growing up in. I honestly just want to cling to Jesus and let God hold us all. Because these days are evil, the world is corrupt, wrong has become acceptable even to the point of punishment to those who aren't tolerent of it. People kill their babies and government takes away our rights. How do we get through this? How do we stay strong. Maybe I'm the only one who sees it? Maybe I'm the only one who feels how God's heart breaks for his children. When they choose to walk along the path that seems right but will only lead to distruction.
All I can say is I just want more of Jesus!  I want my heart, my life, my husband, and my children all to be so filled with God and his love that they will cling to him through out their whole lives. I want to know God more and seek his face. I want to pray more and grow closer with him. I don't want to waver in the face of fear. But stand upon the unshakable rock, who is my Lord and my redeemer! My ever present help in time of need. He has always been there and always will be. He is the beginning and the end. The first and the last. He is the one my soul longs for, and he hears me when I call. He leads me beside still waters and he restores my soul. He will never leave me nor forsake me. Under his wing I can take refuge. I can be strong and courageous,  because the Lord my God is with me! He has plans for my life and the lives of my family, they are good plans, plans to prosper us and not of harm. Plans to give us hope and a bright future. I can come to him and pray and he hears me.
I want to have a Jesus heart, I want to know him more. I want to have a Jesus heart, I want to know him more.

In Christ's love

-Mattie

Making your home a haven.

Who doesn't want peace. So often I find myself running in circles and forgetting what matters most. I came across this beautifully simple idea to remind ourselves that our families need us to pray for peace.  This is such a wonderful article you just need to read it for yourself!  ♡

womenlivingwell.org/2012/11/making-your-home-a-haven-week-1/

In Christ's unending love, Mattie

Lilly is 3 months old!

Oh my sweet baby girl. How you have grown so much since you were born, the last 3 months have just flown by! You are on a pretty good schedule for being only 3 months. Your day starts around 9-10am, you don't cry to wake me up you babble in your crib. When I come to your crib you always have a HUGE smile on your face for me! You melt my heart! I then proceed to change you, which you do not like right after I pick you up out of your crib. After you have a fresh diaper on mama feeds you, you are such a good eater! My little chunky cheek baby :) We will find out tomorrow how much you weigh and how long you are. Daddy and I always have a little contest before you get weighed and measured to see who guesses the closest. I think you will be 13 1/2+ lbs.  and around 26 inches. Daddy says 13 1/2- lbs and around 27 inches. We will see...   You were 11lbs 10oz at your 2 month apt. and 23 inches, you have grown so much from your 7 lbs 8oz and 19 1/2 in when you were born. Back to your daily schedule, after your breakfast you you like to play, this is the time of day along with early evening around 6-7 o''clock when you like to learn. You usually play on your play mat and pull on your musical bug that hangs above you.You look around at things like you are thinking and learning about them. You are so smart! I love watching you, and playing with you, and showing you new things. We are currently teaching you how to put your hands together when we pray. You have done it a few times, and when you do you look at us like you understand, You amaze me. I'm still trying to get that big belly laugh out of you, you almost did it the other day, but you got the hiccups instead. Around 1-1:30 you like to take your afternoon nap, you are already a great napper. You sleep from about 1-1:30 to about 5-6 in the evening. You usually nap in your swing, which works great for me, I like when you are close by while you sleep. When you wake up I change you and feed you, then we play again. You go from play mat to bouncy seat to crib to mommy's lap looking around and playing, cooing all the while. You really are quite the talker! you say "ah-goo", "bah", and when you do you move your little lips so much, like you are trying very hard to get your words out. You can almost roll over, you go about half way then change you mind and go back. You are so good at tummy time and you are so strong. I love watching you grow! At about 745 you like to take another little nap, just aroung a half hour, then you eat and play some more and eat again and go to sleep between 945-11. You wake up twice still, and thats ok. Around 3am and 6am then you sleep until 9-10am. Then we start our day again.

Everyday with you is a blessing! Watching you grow is a miracle! and being your mommy is my joy!
I'll love you forever and always, and you'll always be my little one!

Happy 3 months old my Lilly love!

Love Mommy

Look who found her hands.

The last few days Lilly has been observing her hands, opening them and interweaving her fingers together. What a smart girl! She will be 3 months old in 5 days and already she is working on those motor skills. Yesterday I brought out some smaller toys and two small musical animals to place just within her reach so that she could touch them and bat at them. She had so much fun! I love watching how she grows and it seems like everyday is  a new adventure for her, she wakes up ready to learn and explore, well, as much as she can within a few feet of her. She is a very observant baby, she acts like she wants to eat my food while I am eating, even if I just fed her. She opens her mouth and sticks her tongue out, its so cute to watch.

OH the faces she makes

Every morning I wake up and walk over to Lilly's crib to find the biggest good morning mommy smiles on her face! She is such a joyful little girl, and sometimes its not just a smile that we get to see!

Ever since she was just a few days old, she has been a girl of many, many faces.

She has her curious faces.

Sad faces.

SUPER happy faces.

Chubby faces.

and they ALL melt mama's heart!