Category Archives: Day in the Life We have: 1. Welcomed home a precious little boy from Ethiopia and watched him meet his forever family at the airport. The Carley’s are in our small group that meets every other week in our home. We’ve gone to church with them for several years–and we’ve watched them wait for 2 years to bring this […]  Lake Lanier Lights The awesome folks at Lake Lanier Lodge (THANK YOU April and Lake Lanier staff!) sent our family a ticket to come enjoy their Magical Night of Lights. So we loaded up the crew and headed out to let the kids Oooo and Ahhh over the lights. The loved the drive-in movie of […]  Last night they got all gussied up… for a night with (might be hard to see as it was snagged with my iPhone!)… THE PINK PIG! Gigi and Aunt Reid had the honor of the Pink Pig cruise with the Young kids while Rico Suave and I watched the annual tradition. BECAUSE…if you live in […] I have been meaning to come over and leave you a recipe. My little Granny has Celiac disease and we make everything gluten free for her. One of our most favorite recipes is a sweet potato pie casserole and it is fabulous! I take it to everything and no one ever knows it is gluten free and a am asked for the recipe by at least two people each time. I put the recipe on my blog today, so forgive me if I do not type it out a second time. I thought of you this morning as I was making the casserole and once again as I put it on the blog, so God MUST want you to have it! http://smalltownjoy.blogspot.com/2011/12/saturday-top-ten.html Love reading your blog! Your babies look so sweet in their coordinating outfits! Your weekends sounds so much like my weekends. Filled with family fun and projects. Between our Jesse tree, family games and traditions, there is no room for parties and other activities;) but that is what I love, time with my little (soon to be bigger) family. And now I have to make a trip to ATL to ride the pig!!! Cute pics. Never heard of a pink pig ride haha…cute though! Those cake pops looked yummy and isaac looked adorable in his pjs! ;0) I got my isaac some adorable ones too for christmas! I ran into an old friend the other day at the grocery store–and instead of catching up and sharing how we were doing…she asked me if I was done with my Christmas shopping. You know–your “go to” conversation piece during the holiday…right? Before I could answer, she excitingly told me she was relieved to be […] This is absolutely the most wonderful thing I have ever read! AMEN!!!!! Love this so much! This is my goal every year and then I get caught up in buying way to many presents to show my “love”, which is how I was raised. Beautiful Post Andrea. Thanks for reminding me what I already know. Merry Christmas. It warms my heart to see those words about Christmas. We really try to make Christmas about “giving” to others in need. My 5 yo told his Grandpa that he really needed to earn some money quickly to give to “the Orphans” along with some toys when asked about what he looked forward to this Christmas. It made me smile. PS We made a beautiful Jesse tree by doing mod podge wooden ornaments with your scrapbook paper idea! This is our 1st year to use a Jesse Tree & we love it! thank you. i have been really struggling this year with presents vs. preparing my heart and this most was so beautiful and challenging. AND i am a huge fanilow, so there’s that too. 🙂 Andrea, how is it possible that we have never met …big age difference …but,such similair thoughts . Went for a jog Wednesday and was contemplating everything you just wrote. There is nothing under our tree (doesn’t matter to me at all~I know a few things wil appear)yet,it is so filled with remembrance of days gone by…handmade ornaments,pictures of Trey and Shockley on an angels…such sweetness and the glory of Advent ,being in the Word ,JT time,being with each other,hearing the boys play piano and guitar together….Listening to where they are in connecting Christ with their daily life. Each of us sharing …hearing SHockley share that a classmate needs to get together …the classmate feels he is getting off track(his dad is in Afghanistan)…we prayed for this young man and SHockley will give him the gift of “fiendship”…those are the gifts I like to give ..prayers for friends,praise to God and allowing the Holy Spirit to grace me. Today I have been going through a cedar closet to create another giving away box. I asked Doc about a coat and he said it was one of his favorites on me …I let it go. For a minute it hurts…but, I’ll be smiling big thinking how special someone will fill in it and warm. Girl…you are needing to shout this message today on the mountain tops. Creating with what you have and nice crayons and pencils and “dressup ” closet clothes …there is the magic….it doesn’t need to be too much . I believe it makes children sad. Maybe how we grew up is why we are connected.You are a remarkable person. I believe you just gave each of us reading your blog a GIFT ! Thank you. Girl, you have SO done it! AGAIN!!! I so LOVE your heart and your powerful example of what it is to be a loving Christian momma!!!! You are such a beautiful mentor for me, as I excitedly {and not so patiently} await the arrival of our boyS!!!! I share your heart, though I am not confident in my ability to communicate to our boys this very message…..the true meaning of Christmas!!! Reading this post inspires me. And reminds me that God has this covered. All I have to do is let Him lead me in my parenting! As long as I keep Him the focus ~ at Christmastime and otherwise! ~ on Him, He will help me mother in the way I hope and dream to do!!!! You are such a blessing, Andrea. Not only to your family, but also to your friends and blog family too!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS, DEAR FRIEND!!!! Keep on keeping on!!!! <3  The princess celebrated her 6th birthday this weekend…and the praise God party that she sweetly requested was a hit! It was so much fun to see Loo-bear and her sweet little friends dancing in circles together and just celebrating together. Here was the cake she requested…she wanted Jesus and Laney on the top of the […] I LOVE her party–so beautiful! (Yes, it would be hard to eat Jesus!) And love Ginny Owens, too–how fun! amazing!!! you have one incredible little girl!!! such pretty little dancers… I can’t even imagine how blessed our Father was by her birthday party. Precious. |
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