Beloved Books...

About 10 years ago, when I was in college, a friend of mine handed me the Mark of the Lion trilogy and told me I needed to read them. And read them I did! I took them to class and had to read them under my desk because I COULDN'T put them down! Since then I have read the trilogy of books about 5 times! They are Christian historical fiction written by Fracine Rivers. The books have remarkable story development and deep meaningful characters that I come to care about deeply and miss when I close the last page.

I love that God chooses to speak to His children in many different ways. I have learned that God speaks freely to me through story. Jesus knew to teach in parables...which means that there are many others like me! The story in these books takes place about 70 years after Christ's assention starting off with the fall of Jeruselum. The story explores the new Christian church and her followers through the disparity of ancient Rome, slavery, emporers, gladiators, and more. The faith of the Christian characters in the story is breathtaking and truly rocks and awakens my love for Christ.

I truly love these books and love to tell others about them. I hope people will pick them up...you will not be dissapointed. If unsure, look on amazon and you will see hundreds of others who agree with me. Happy reading!

School's out for summer....school's out forever!

It just hit me a few days ago that if circumstances were different I would be heading back to school tomorrow to greet the smiling faces of a new class of first graders. Now that I am staying home with Grayson my life has and will be very different. I enjoyed so much my time as a first grade teacher in Charlotte and look forward to the day when I will reenter the teaching profession once my responsibility of being a mom to very little ones has passed. There are many things that I will miss about teaching and many things I will not!

Great things about teaching:

1. Getting the opprotunity to teach kids how to read, something that they will use for the rest of thier lives.

2. Little smiling faces.

3. Wonderful teacher friends that can truely understand what teaching is really like.

4. The challenge of a job that never gets old or tedious.


Things that make teaching difficult:

1. Long commute to work (half hour each way)

2. Behavior problems that I can't seem to handle.

3. Watching kids struggle with issues that they should not have too at such a young age.

4. Being so overworked, and overwhelmed that I can't think straight!


While there are many cons and they often block out the pros of teaching, I am excited to have been part of the profession and will always be a teacher at heart.

Oh my...

So Grayson has been doing well with his rice cereal. He actually can eat with a spoon now after about two weeks of trying. I am pretty amazed that when he first started he had no clue and now he can eat somewhat properly which he will do for the rest of his life! Here is one of the earlier pictures...before we figured out the spoon...

Video of Grayson eating his rice cereal!

Here is my first video!

rice cereal

After Grayson's 4 month doctors appointment a few days ago, his doctor said it was OK to start rice cereal. I figured it would be fun to start, so we did. He made the FUNNIEST faces! I don't think he got much down and not sure if he liked it, but we will keep trying!

Soccer or Jesus

Today some kids from a church came to the door and asked Ryan to take a survey. When he was done I asked him what they wanted. He said they were passing out flyers for the church. When they asked him where he was going if he died, he said heaven because of Christ's grace and mercy....they didn't give him a flyer.

After that little conversation, I was in the kitchen while Ryan was in the living room playing with Grayson. I hear Ryan telling Grayson, "This is more important that life itself" "Always remember that." Etc.

As I was walking into the great room I asked Ryan, "Are you telling Grayson about Jesus?" "That's so sweet!"

When I got to the living room I saw Ryan holding a soccer ball in front of Grayson trying to get him to kick it. So much for a spiritual conversation with his child!

tummy update

After a week of stressing myself silly, I have made myself sleep in my own bed for two days now. It hasn't been easy as I know the little guy is up breathing out of half of one nostril, but he has shown me he can do it. If he wants to do a faceplant in his bed, I am going to have to trust that the Lord designed us to clear our airways when needed. Keep praying for sleep for me...I'm pretty deprived...

tummy time...and one nervous mommy!

Grayson's new found trick is that he loves to sleep in his crib...on his tummy! Much to my distress, he continues to do this every night! I have been a nervous wreck night after night about him in there like that. I have succumb to sleeping on his floor jumping up at every squeak making sure his isn't face plant into his mattress. I called the nurse today and she said that as long as he can move his head (he can) there is nothing I can do about his sleeping, if he is going to flip over, his going to flip over. Please pray that I can not be so anxious! At least he is sleeping MUCH better on his tummy!