Friday, December 3, 2021

Family Pictures

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Finally got around to taking new family pictures. If you know me, you know my kids are my greatest accomplishment and then there is my everything, Brax! I don't boast about my kids but I do boast what God has done through my kids. As much as I've tried to shape them, they've shaped me as a person, as a mother, as a believer and as their friend. In that order too [smiles]. Friend lastly, mother firstly. 

In all of my runnings and in search of myself and the numerous reinventions of myself, being a mother to them has been the most rewarding and most invigorating version of myself that I have loved the most. In this season and in this moment, I embrace the reflections of my children that reflect back to myself. 

The reflection that mirror Christ's love, the reflection that takes into consideration the need for grace to deal with our imperfections. While they are all adulting now, I contemplate and recall being in their shoes, once upon a long time ago [hysterical grin]. I haven't forgotten the mistakes of my youth as those days have taught me invaluable lessons that has given me great faith. 

In hindsight, it is in the testing, in the mistakes, in our failures and lack of faith where we can gain our greatest opportunity to turn it around. Sometimes faith is supernatural and we see miraculously instant life changing faith overnight. Sometimes faith is progressive, where it goes through phases and grows a little at a time. As long as you find your faith (whether big or small) and work at it, put it to the test, you'll find it. The key is keep pushing, one foot in front of the other is all He's asking for. Keep stepping forward ya'll! 

This is us

Our Eldest, Byrd

Our Middle, Bay

Our Youngest, Bubz


My gift from God, I love you Babe!

My grandson is outdoorsy, like his Gamma.


Our EVERYTHING and his Mommy

My greatest accomplishment, my kids!!



I love ya'll so much. Even when ya'll make me go from 0 to 100 in seconds. 

Whatever you do, do it well. Suck it up and just do it. [looks at Bubz]

Mama's sharp shooters, less talk more action. 


Bubz: Work hard to play hard. Promotions come from God!


Nana trying everything to get Brax to smile. Brax: "Nana, I'm not in the mood"


Life hack: build a good work ethic from a young age, climb the ladder and put time under your belt.



Thank you God for the life you have given us.