Heart Full

All day long today I have fought back sweet tears as my heart has been full of joy. Yes, I still miss my Pawpaw and yes, life is not a bowl of cherries everyday but today I was just reminded of how amazing Jesus really is.

My sweet, sweet eight year-old son was very sad this morning when he realized that he was going to be late to "see you at the pole." This is an event where one day a year children meet around the flag pole to pray for their school and friends. Kyle's bible teacher helped organize this event and he did not remember until we were on our way to school. He made me drive in front of the school versus the regular drop-off route so he could see if he was still in time to pray. I cannot tell you how full my heart was that my big, ever-growing eight year-old was excited to get to school to pray with kids from his school.

I am not sharing this sweet story about Kyle to brag about our parenting skills or the number of times this child has been to church. I think my tears came so readily today because I knew that Jesus has captured that child's heart. Yes, Mike and I have taken him to church and such, but Jesus has captured his heart.

I was so moved during prayer time today because I realized that despite the number of times I have been unfaithful, He is always faithful. Despite the number of times that I have not always shown Kyle the right way, His ways are always right. Despite love and kindness that I have not always modeled, His love is unconditional.

Mike and I have always taken that verse in the bible about training up your children so literally and we see it as the big commission of parenting. We believe that children must be taught the values that we want them to have-it truly does not happen by osmosis or chance!

Today I was reminded that Jesus is so faithful and that we are made to be in fellowship with him. My eight year old bolted out of our car to try to get to that flagpole today. I pray that he always pursues Jesus with this determination and that he is always this excited to be in fellowship with our Father. This Momma has a heart full of love tonight for the One who pursues us and loves us despite our flaws and our sin.

Funny Text

It appears that the hour I was gone to the PTO meeting at Kyle's school my boys had a lot of fun playing together.
I hear they played some basketball and then moved on to football. They tackled and had a great time.

After the meeting I got into my car and received a text from Mike asking about David's front teeth. To get an email from your husband asking about front teeth that you do not think are even loose is troubling.

But sure enough, David lost BOTH of his front teeth playing football with Kyle! Thankfully our dentist friend was outside watering his flowers and I took David by for a driveway consultation and he gave him the "all clear!" Even though the teeth had a little help with that game of football, he is at a perfectly appropriate age to lose those two teeth!:)

So tonight, my big first grader was so excited to leave his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy. Unfortunately only one was recovered from the football field (?) so the tooth fairy will just have to believe that there really were two lost tonight!:)

DAvid was so excited that he had a hard time going to sleep-anticipating a fairy being in your own room toting money is pretty darn exciting stuff! He really wants the tooth fairy to bring him $10 so he can buy a Frosty. God love him-that is all he could think of to spend his money on:) Hopefully the tooth fairy will not be too sleepy to remember to visit this little toothless wonder tonight and leave him some Frosty money!

A Mom and two boys

Saturday was such a thrill for me! I got to take Kyle and one of his sweet friends, Caleb to the Virginia Tech game:) My Dad has tickets and we love to go to the games. Lately I have felt like our household has been divided with Mike and Kyle going to do sports stuff and me staying home with David and Hope. I love that scenario, but I have also been missing time with my biggest boy.

So, I got to leave the diaper bag and my two youngest at home and head to Blacksburg with my eldest and Caleb. The weather was beautiful and we had such fun. Thankfully the Hokies pulled out their first win of the season and we cheered our guts out.

I want my boys to remember the times that Mom took them to sports stuff too! Mike is such a great hands-on sports Dad that coaches most of their teams, but I enjoyed every minute of being the only girl with these two cool kids and my Dad.

I want my boys to look back and remember that Mom was not too "girly girl" to scream at football games and jump up and down with them during "Enter Sandman." I want my boys to know that I am trying so so so hard to fit into their sports world and I am learning.

This Momma wants to love what my boys love and yesterday we loved us some Hokie football!