Grace

Life is such a compilation of bittersweet moments. We are pregnant! Finally! We meet our baby boy in 12 weeks and we couldn't be more thrilled. But....

Next week our Grace was due. 10 days from now we would have held her and awed over her and Fallin in love with her even more. As excited as we are to meet Cyrus and love him and snuggle him , my momma heart misses that little girl so much. I wonder what she would have looked like, would she have her daddy's eyes or my lips. Would she look like her brother? 

October is miscarriage and infant loss awareness month. Would you say a prayer for those moms and dads who are grieving- it's not something that goes away just changes over time. 

- in remembrance of our Grace due October 16th.  

Tasharae

Simplicity

Simplicity is something that I've always admired.... In others. However it's not something That I have done well at. Over the past month there have been a lot of changes around our home. The main being that i quit my job and  am now staying home taking care of an 18 month old. With a sweet little messy person running around my heart longs for a more simple home and lifestyle. My goal over the next month is to de clutter our home making it more simplistically beautiful and finish some unfinished projects. My rule for getting rid of things is 

"If it isn't useful or doesn't add beauty to our home it's gone" 

Do you have any tips for simplifying your home?

Echoes from a rough week

This has been a rough week. Like a beat you down and rub dirt in all your wounds kind of week. Friends have lost siblings, babies have been sick, longings and desires have gone unfulfilled only to see others receive what you have hoped and prayed for, hours later. Rough week. My flesh wants to wallow and lay in bed all day and eat cupcakes and scream at the ceiling.....

BUT there is this echo deep in my soul that asks me to have hope one more time, one more moment, one more breathe. When I feel like I can't take anymore He asks me to hold on. 
I've been doing a lot of thinking this rough week. I am an extremely black and white person. I don't think I have a grey bone in my body. I  deeply want understand why things happen. What's the purpose for all this rough? Guess what? There isn't a good answer except that we live Ina broken world and He is with me through it all. Sometimes I want Him to just fix it all and take away the pain. If your reading this would you pray a little prayer for me? Would you ask that He be enough. That I wouldn't run after the things of this earth, as good and as beautiful as some things are, this world will always leave me empty and hurting. Would you pray that He be my desire and that He be enough?

Maybe you need to pray a little prayer for you too?