9/12

They say whatever you are doing on the first of the year is what you'll be doing a lot of the rest of the year. Can the same thing be said for the first day of every month. Because we have spent the first day of this ninth month of 2013 with a special little boy, whose smile lights up his daddy's face, which in turn warms my heart.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. - Jeremiah 29:11

I cannot believe how fast the year has flown by. And I hear the years just seem to try to sneak up and on by you quicker the older you get, especially when you have baby's to watch grow up. The trick is to not let them. I know the last 5 months have went by so fast. I don't want to waste a single moment with my family. Brantley keeps hitting milestone after milestone, and even though I have looked forward to a couple of them (holding his head up, sitting up on his own, holding his own bottle) I know that he is just growing up on me and I will never have this cute little baby anymore. He will grow into this cute little toddler, this cute little boy, this smart little teenager and this handsome young man. One thing I have felt 100 percent sure of, is that the hand I will be holding through this journey will never change. I have been certain of this for quite some time now. It is one more thing that keeps my heart beating. I cannot thank God enough for my Hardy boys.

Proverbs 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.