In a blink of an eye...

Why is it that the days can seem so long and when I look back, it was only yesterday that we welcomed March with an East Coast "snow storm?" What have I been doing in these last three weeks? Where has the time gone?

• I'm happy to say that we conquered potty training in the last three weeks. Praise God! Our monthly diaper bill dropped and my three year old is an official big boy! We are so very proud of him.


• We also faced a full ten + days of sickness. I am STILL catching up on laundry!!


• Our cranky, fussy little girl was diagnosed with allergies: wheat and eggs to be exact. And so, we're learning to adjust to a new diet. Between the kids and my hubby, I need a spreadsheet to determine who can eat what.


• We're still in the midst of kitchen renovations: the cabinets and appliances are here, there, and everywhere as we finish prepping the walls for priming and painting. The end is in sight...and yet I still feel so far away from having a functioning kitchen.

Some days I read other's blogs about what they're doing with their children and what's going on in their lives and I feel like such an inadequate mother. Especially on those days when our biggest accomplishment is getting out of bed! And so I keep coming back to these words from Romans that are (usually) posted on my refrigerator:

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:1-2, The Message

Do you see what I see in here?

• "God helping you": I'm not alone in this journey of motherhood. And on those days when all we do is fold laundry and play countless games of Bingo, read the same books again and again...this life is pleasing to God.


• "Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him." Wow! All I have to do is look around at the people I live with to see what God has done for me...and I am silent, awestruck, humbled by the blessings bestowed upon me.


• "God brings the best out of you." Thank you Lord because if it were up to me most days...

Andrew has been going around the house singing and signing "What a Mighty God We Serve" and when I stop to hear his little voice praising God, I am gently reminded that my everyday, ordinary life is pleasing to Him...and it should be pleasing to me as well. Let it be so, Lord. Let it be so.

SNOW DAY

Our world, at 7 am...peaceful, silent, snowy, still, beautiful. I stand in awe of thousands of tiny snowflakes falling to the earth, covering the ground in beauty.



7:45 am: Andrew and Daddy enjoy a good snowball fight while shoveling the driveway before daddy has to report to work, two hours late.

11:30 am: a tradition in the Holloway household. On the first snow day of the season, my mom made homemade donuts while my cousins and I were sledding on goat hill; a tradition that I am more than happy to carry on and share with my own children (minus the sledding on goat hill).

~2:00 pm: donuts are cut with fun cookie cutters by Andrew and mommy and are ready for their second rise of the day.

3:45 pm: the oil is hot and the donuts are a'fryin. Daddy walks in the door to yummy hot goodness right out of the pan.

Can you see why we LOVE snow days?