Fun Observations...

Do you remeber when you were little and you would play make-believe things? I used to love to play horses, school, restaurant, and store. What I find so incredible, is that God was using this time in my life to prepare me for my adulthood! I still adore horses, and love to take the kids down in the back field and feed them carrots, and give them kisses. I love to teach. It's a passion of mine. I know that God will use me in this, especially as my kids grow and go to school themselves. I work in a restaurant as a server which is exactly what I used to pretend to be when Dawn, my sister, and I would play this. Sometimes I would be the cook, and make fun concoctions with ketchup, mustard, applesauce, lemons, anything we could combine really! But I just find it so interesting that I find myself still drawn to the same things I was drawn to as a young girl. Does that mean I haven't grown up yet? :)

Scott used to take things apart all the time. (Like his parent's lawnmower) just to see how it worked, and then he would put it all back together! This is what he does now at work, to support his family, only not on lawnmowers, but bigger, way bigger machines! How funny, how God just prepared him to be mechanically minded, and started him using his hands when he was so little. He also adored fishing and hunting and anything to do with hot rods! These things are still his passions! He loves to pass these things onto Ryan too! And in a lot of ways, Ryan doesn't have to be encouaged, he is just naturally like his dad! It's uncanny! I know his mom said he always talked about wanting to get married, and it was a very serious thing to him. And he is still that way with us. We are so important to him, and in the end I know we are the driving force behind him working so hard, and doing all he does for us. He is the kind of husband who loves his family, and I feel like we genuinely matter to him! It's more of a blessing then I deserve, I am sure.

I also always had kids and a husband in my make believe world. I always knew I wanted to be a mom and a wife. It's what I am created for. And I am so blessed to be a mom three times over! Wow! I am blessed! Today, Bailey was playing school, and I was her "aide" and she taught Ryan and Grace. She was so good at it! I wondered as I watched her play out being a teacher in her classroom, if God was giving me a glimpse of what He might use her for when she is grown! She is incredible with her creativity and loves to teach her brother and sister all sorts of things, and of course that makes her even more the boss of them! :)

Today we made collages. It was raining and cold. We took out some old magazines, and the kids went to town cutting things out and gluing them on paper! The thing that struck me was how they chose things that were so them! Bailey picked out things like shoes, phones, flowers, candy, a golden retriever, and a birthday cake! Ryan cut out cars, cars, suv's, trucks and cars. Grace cut out baby everything! Baby faces, babies, cribs, excersaucers, walkers, and again, more babies. As I looked at their papers tonight, after they were in bed, I was amazed at how God has created each one so differently! So uniquely! I am so glad that he did!