This is a photo of the Big Yellow House in Georgia where we spend our days making memories. I don't have enough room to tell you everything I love about this house, but the thing I love the most is that this house is the hub of our family. It is the place I most want to be at the end of a challenging day. I want my babies around me and my hubby here and it wouldn't bother me if everyone 'out there' moved 'in here'. (I've never liked to be by myself.) Maybe I would feel the same way if we lived in a cardboard box...as long as we were together. I hope I never have to find out.
My house has a lot of family history and that makes me feel connected to the past. The way I look at it we are continuing that history making with our family.
Being a family means compromising each and every day. We have to learn to give and take. We are trying to raise children in this Big Yellow House who will be able to enter the world gently and make it a better place. This is a balancing act in parenting...How do we instruct without dictating? I want them to learn to make good choices, not to wait until Mama or Daddy comes around to tell them what is right. I want them to be guided by their personal relationship with Jesus each and every day. I have to trust them to soak up the lessons we are teaching, I have to trust myself, but most of all I have to trust the Lord who ultimately loves my children more than I do and wants to do them good all the days of their lives.
Family life is a challenge, but at the end of the day I have the exact life I dreamed of.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
Don't forget to count your blessings!
