{i heart my kids}

They are silly ~They are happy~ They are beautiful~

How blessed I am to be grated as their mother. I am guilty of letting the overwhelming world get a hold of me at times. I'm tired, I'm busy and this beautiful gift of my children becomes foggy.

Only momentarily.

Why, well because just look at them. They are great!

 On this day I watched them laugh, I watched them be silly, I watched them work together as team, I watched their free spirits roll through the day. As I set back photographing them it took me to the day I became a mother. I was forever changed the day that beautiful little boy slipped into my life.

I all of a sudden cared about a list that almost never entered my mind.  I felt emotions I didn't know existed. The overwhelming unconditional love.

I was two weeks into the age of twenty.

Young i know...

God has plans~{Catherine is a wonderful mother}

 It seemed to be something I heard all around me. To be completely honest I never understood their statement. Usually when someone is good at something they have tried hard to achieve this. It's a challenging task they have finally accomplished.

Well maybe not but this is what I have always thought (especially at age 20). I could not be wonderful at this because it's not hard....

OK well the sleepless nights and days of worry ARE hard. Motherhood is hard. It is!!! BUT I wanted to do it.

I even enjoyed it.

I still enjoy it.

Who knew after two hours of sleep I could roll over and smile at that beautiful face screaming at me with a diaper full.

Who knew...

Who knew I would be smiling!

Was I crazy? Nope that's the gift. God gave us the gift of unconditional love. That's the only way we would get through motherhood, right! Also that cuteness, It really helps. Hehe!!!

There is no question to the choices I will make when it comes to my newborn baby boy. I now have a person that comes first in all aspects. He melts my heart, He makes laugh. I want to show him this big beautiful world God has granted us. I want to teach him. Lead him into a wonderful adulthood God has intended for him. I will protect him from all that I can.

The thoughts of his future. Being faced with the evil of the world bothered me so much, I would block them. I would push the thoughts away. Then I learned to trust.

I had to let go, give it to God and pray as it unfolds.

A mother carries her child in her whom. Then bundels her newborn wrapped in the sling next to her heart. She is running after the toddler exploring his world. Now as my oldest is nine. I'm letting go allowing him to make some of his own choices. Learning from his mistakes and trusting God through it all...

I talk so much of my oldest in this post not because my love for him is any stronger then the love for my other beautiful blessings.

 Because he is the one that made me a mother...

I grew as a person the day he drifted into my world. I am forever changed and forever grateful to my Lord for creating me to become a mother...

It is what I was created for....

As each of these amazing people drift into my world the love in my heart grows. To know this love is a gift.... Thank you Lord~

(Activity of Sheets in the wind)