Dear July,

Dear July,

 I don't know why but you feel different this year. It sure feels like summer now. We've had our campfire s'mores and live in bathing suits and the backyard. We went to a band concert at the park. Lena Sue was sure they were playing way too loud and let them know!  We rock on the porch and watch the birds bathe in their bath. Its really hot! We went out for dinner for our eighth (gasp!) anniversary and since we had no babysitter the girls came too.  But seriously, this summer feels like summer with two toddlers and one of them is verging on little girlhood. My goodness. Its something to marvel about.  Emmie B started piano. It just happened over night. We made a chart, she learned two songs, we bought a book. And then..... she does nothing else but play her pieces and beg for more.  Lena discovered books, not the reading at bedtime with Mama books, but sit on the floor surrounded by books all afternoon books.  Its sweet watching them discover and move into new seasons of life.

Its been eight years of being married. How thankful I am to have lived those eight years with Adam. We've traveled a long road. There were the two weddings (one in ICU and one at church), there was mourning Mom, losing jobs, moving three times, grieving again our sweet babe, doing two Phds at the same time, finishing a Phd, having heart surgery twice, buying a Pipe Organ Company and raising two daughters. If it was up to us we'd not have made it I'm sure. Life was, and is, too hard. But the covenant we made in 2008 stays strong because our God is faithful and is carrying us along in His grace.