Just a few thoughts

               I must admit, I didn't want to be one of those people who stopped blogging as soon as the baby came along...but here I am 9 months later and I have only blogged a handful of times. Haha.... Lesson learned: never say never. And then as I began thinking of things that I wanted to blog about and what updates I should post it started to get a little overwhelming so I just decided to skip it. But I must admit....I have missed sitting down and getting a few thoughts out every now and then.

              California and motherhood and life in general is looking good right now. Julia is 9 months old today (we will be taking our 9 month old snap shots here shortly). She has been crawling around the last 2 weeks and about a week ago has been pulling up on anything and everything. Which has brought some new aspects of parenthood to life for me....discipline. Teaching Julia what is ok to touch and not ok to touch seems like a never ending cycle of "no" , "no no", and "Julia, no ma'am." :) As I was watching Juju crawl to a side table that isn't stable enough for her to stand with I began to think, "Man the easy thing would be to just let her do it this one time so that I don't have to tell her 'no' again." To which God reminded me about the importance of being faithfully consistent in all areas of parenthood especially that of discipline. So as she crawled her way over, I had to make the decision then and there to say "no," even though it pained me to constantly say "no" to a little girl that I so desperately want to give her all she could ever want. Such a basic lesson of parenthood that I think is silly to even blog about, but it is what is currently going on right now and one that God is using to speak to me.