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Dear Mazy Grace, Sweet girl, you are THREE! Happy Birthday! What an exciting and adventurous year it has been! We are continually in awe of the compassionate heart you have, the love you have to give, and the heart God has given you. You are filled with so much affection, with hugs and kisses always…
Another week with this precious girl! This week she really started to use her hands more, in grabbing at toys! She is even more intrigued by her wrists and fists, which is just adorable! She will hold them close to her eyes and just stare at them as if wondering “where did this come from…
This past week was crazy and chaotic with finishing up the floors and helping Mazy recover from the influenza, but like in everything, God is gracious and God is good. We are basically done with the floors, Mazy has recovered, and we are moving forward! By Tuesday, Mazy was feeling up to running some errands…
I had all these grand ideas of how I was going to be the perfect stay-at-home-mom. As much as didn’t/don’t want to admit it, we go into parenthood with expectations. I made the mistake of telling Dan that I didn’t really have any expectations, but the more I thought about it, I so did! I…
Our family spent the past week at the Conference Grounds, which is located along Lake Michigan. It was a BEAUTIFUL week, with rain only the first two days and then the day we left. Even those days were not complete washouts. For being the 2nd full week of June, we were surprised and thankful for…
I was sitting at my desk at school (I am a part-time elementary secretary), glancing up at the pictures I have pinned up on the cork board. Pictures of Mazy’s big blue eyes staring right back at me, pictures of her when she was but just a few months old, and candid pictures of life…