Intentional Motherhood

2012 thus far (wordless Wednesday)

domesticday — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:23:42 +0000

Tummy time

Sweet nursing baby

Listening to books on tape

Brother love

Ollie learning to laugh

Pirate ship

Someone likes bath time! He often climbs in before its time!

Harvey “Serenading him to sleep because he’s tired!”

Peek-a-boo

How cute is he?!?!?!?

Mommy’s version of 7 minutes in Heaven. Litteraly this lasted for 7 min!!!!

Pretty things

Pretty Weather

Waking up to this

After a night of this with friends!

and lot’s of that

While mommy is busy!

2012 is starting off busy but good!

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Onward Bound 2012

domesticday — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:04:55 +0000

Well that last post was the last of my 2011. It was a full year but now its 2012 and i’m ready to see what is in store for year!

I have big plans for my year, new organization, new schedules, new workout, vacations, family time, time serving, and time spent with God. The most time consuming project though this year you can check out over here. Its Project 366 a photo a day every day in 2012. Follow a long and check out my ordinary days in photo fun!

What is your big project for the year?

(Day 2)

A Day at preschool (photos)

domesticday — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:56:12 +0000

Here is a peak into Harvey’s first day of Preschool Co-op. We sure do miss it, but lucky for us we can still do play dates with our teacher the talented Mrs. Leslie.

Heart for the Homeless

domesticday — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:42:37 +0000

Over the summer I delivered a box of food to a friend who was helping a girl through an organization who supports teen moms. I explained to Harvey that we were doing a “favor for Jesus” and that this girl had no food and so we were going to take her some. Well that little event trigged something in my little man and ever since he has a heart for those with no food. This inspired me to have him do a service project that ended up really blessing us as a family. We put together bags of food which we kept in the car for the homeless.

The boys even drew pictures which we included in each bag….

We have since handed out all the bags. The first was to a lady the very day we made them. Harvey handed it to her directly to which she replied he was an Angel baby he thought that was funny. We gave one to a man on the corner and then later that day we saw another lady to which Harvey yelled we need to give her food to! (she was standing on the corner trading stuffed animals for groceries) So for her we actually went into the store and bought a couple bags of groceries. We didn’t take the stuffed animal, we decided she could use it as payment for another bags worth of groceries from someone else. A couple weeks ago we handed out our last bag. It was to the same lady as the first time, but to me it was extra sweet to see the bag get handed out. of all the food we had handed out thus far, Harvey had either picked up on a conversation Tyler and I were having or we pointed the person out to him, but this time I was stopped at the light not even looking at the lady, and from the back seat i hear “Mom, that lady needs food, can I give her some?” I asked what lady and He said “That one!” pointing to the lady i had missed on the corner. I said sure and we circled around to give her a bag. When were done Harvey said Mom “I need to find a man to give food to!” and you know what the Lord honored him and later that day with harv asleep in the back Tyler and I stumbled upon a man in need. Sadly we had no food or cash, but we offered up the next best thing a prayer! It made me cry a bit with each bag to hear Harvey pray for these people and to see him so excited to provide them a need, but it also gave me a bit of a heart for them also, and helped me to see that even when i dont have anything to offer them i can always stop and say a prayer for them while sitting at the light.

Thank you Harvey for your Heart may you always allow the spirit to open it to those God puts before you!

His Favorite Spot

domesticday — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:37:31 +0000

Levi recently foun a favorite spot to play, under the table! To be honest it was my favorite as a kid to so i can’t really blame him. Something magical about playing under a table, the possabilites of what that table can represent are endless! Pretty much lately if your wondering were he is hiding just check the room for a table and there yo might find him!

how cute is this face?

Seriously that smile?!?!?

Makes me wonder where will this kids’ imagination take him some day!

The Big 3

domesticday — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:31:50 +0000

Harvey turned 3 back in december and so for his birthday we had a drive in night! It was raining so our drive in was held inside, lucky for us my mom has a big enough kitchen! We hand delivered each kid’s invitation; a moving box for them to turn into a car. Then we pulled out the project so old disney shorts (short black and white cartoons), ordered up some pizzas and had our selves a party!

Our Christmas

domesticday — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:31:12 +0000

I’m finally getting around to uploading photos from the last few months so working backwards i’ll update you on our fall/Winter happenings. First things First.. Christmas! We had a really good christmas we got to talk with Harvey about the Nativity story (this isn’t over for us, we have one more celebration at the end of the week for Epiphany). Harvey and Ollie were both in our churches reinactment of the birth of the christ; Harvey was a shepherd and Ollie was the Bright star. We had our friendsgiving/Christmas party (9 years running) the week before thanksgiving. We attended a “White Christmas” Christmas party with our church, where everything was themed…. you guess it; WHITE! Tyler got Time off work so he and I were able to sneak in a few date nights, thank you to our amazing family for babysitting, and i got in a lot a lot a lot of baking!

Enjoy a peak into our Holiday…

We hope your Christmas was filled with as much love as ours!

Reflections and Anticipation

domesticday — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:44:48 +0000

As the new year approaches it is a time for many to look back at the year and reflect and to look towards the new year with anticipation and hope. For me 2011 was full of answered prayers, low lows and high highs. 2011 is the year my husband and I paid off our debt, only to be flat broke 2 months later when he got let go from his job. It is the year we learned what it is like to be on government aide, but also what it is like to provide support to others. 2011 broke us and built us up. Its the year the lord blessed us with #3 and my husbands dream job with a paycheck to match (at least in our eyes anyway!). 2011 gave us a new church, new friends, and new depths within our faiths. 2011 was the year we saw the lord in abundance over and over and over again! For me 2012 is a year of much to look forward time. Time spent with my sweet boys, and celebrating 5 years of marriage! Its a year of saving for our future house. Its also the year i’ve claimed the word “Joy” to define. I’m searching for joy in my family, my kids, my marriage, Joy in all I do; But also the year i’m looking for God to redeem the moments i have allowed to rob me of my Joy and in return give it back to me.

I shared before that at christmas every year my husband’s grandmother passes a round a can full of little scrolls. each scroll has on it a verse that she has prayed for and over. Last year the word i claimed was abundance. I wanted to see God Abundantly. I want to see him show in our finances abundantly, I want to see him in my marraige and parenting, and I want to see him in my day to day. Some of the places i desired to see him seemed impossible. Circumstances looked at with the naked eye looked impossible, our paychecks didn’t seem to stretch far enough, the loss of the Job seemed hopeless, days seemed long and never ending and yet they didn’t seem to provide the time of solitude and quiet that was needed. But the verse that i received on christmas read “Do not become discouraged! Your situation may seem impossible in the natural. But if you put your hope in me, I am able to change your circumstances. Nothing is impossible if you only believe. Psalm 42:5 and Mark 9:23″; and so i claimed abundance as my word. and I prayed with expectation that God would show up for beyond what i could imagine’ and he did! I have a lot to be thankful for and am greatfull that what seemed impossible in the natural is possible for a God that loves me!

While i still am seeking is prescence to complete what he has started this year I am now claiming the word joy for this year as i said. I claimed it a few weeks back during a moms group conversation, and then again during services on a sunday. I’ve prayed it over and over again in my journal these last few weeks as i wrote out the many blessings the lord has given me. and Then on Christmas i received my scroll and I know the lord has heard my prayer, and I believe that he will answer it in the same abundance as he did last year!

My promise for 2011 from the lord “You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away. your life will be brighter than the noonday; even darkness will be as bright as morning.” Job 11:16, 17

Thank you lord for being true to your word, faithful to provide, to answer, and to love. I look forward to 2012 and the JOY it brings.

Submission

domesticday — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:36:09 +0000

The call to submission is not one that teaches that men are superior to women or that we as women are to bow to their every whim and desire, but rather its a call that assures us as women its ok to follow the lead of our husband becuase he has our best interest at heart, it teaches our children obedience out of respect for our knowledge as parents, and It calls our husbands to lay their lives down on ours and our children behalves whether its their pride or itelignece that needs to lay dormat to our desires, gifts, and beliefs or their physical life which they must die to save our lives. The call to submission requires children, Women and Men to put themselves aside for the betterment of those around them.

I’ve been learning a lot these last few weeks about submission, Building up ones husband, and just in general what we as wives are called to as godly wives. Its been a real discipline that really is very counter-culture to what we are taught in the world. But i’m working on it. I am learning to submit to my marriage in a way that i have not in the past and to be honest its very freeing! It takes some of the stress out of my day actually. In learning to submit to my marriage i am also learning not criticize and instead build up my husband. This is where the real freedom has come in for me. I read a quote in the study I’m doing (“Created to be his help meet”) that reads “Its better for the job to be done poorly by your husband then to be done well by you.”

I’m gonna leave you with that because well that is where I’m resting right now. I’m not putting much thought into things past that. I’m learning how that fits into my day, how submission fits in. and well I’m resting in this place of struggling with the world and God and sitting on these thoughts right now.

ME

domesticday — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:28:05 +0000

Ever feel like you have too much in your brain to hear yourself think? That is me lately…

Santa

Christmas

Jesus

Schedules

Cardio Barre

NY Friends Adopting

Pray

Marriage

Wife

Read

Work

Sew

Etsy Orders

Custom Orders

Tball or Multi sport

dress for “White Christmas” Party

New Years resolution

Bible Study

Sleep

Dona Doula Certification

Family

Lots and Lots on my mind, that’s my life! But here are some updates….

I submitted my Dona Application! Mailed it in the last day, they received it, now we wait 2 months to hear back!!!

I’m reading Bittersweet, and Created to be his help meet. Love them both recommend them!

Learning that really Joy, Happy marriages, Good parenting, deep faith comes from Thanksgiving. God has been teach me this the last 6 months and it’s really starting to click this week. Thanksgiving in Everything the good, the bad, everything!!!

The Friends we made this summer who were visiting from NY to adopt a little boy, are coming back next week to adopt another!!!! go read their story Please!

Lastly I’ve been doing a 30 day challenge centered around building up my husband. Its been great! Its been really changing me. Between that and our recent service at church on Ephesians about marriage and submission God is showing me a lot. To much to go into now but I hope to get my thoughts together enough in the next couple days to share with you all I’ve been learning.

Well that’s the update on me off i go back to my long list!