Friends are wonderful. Especially at the age of 10. Friends can be hard to find when you are new and lots of people in your school have been together for 4+ years. I signed Grace up for Girl Scouts in the hopes of meeting some girls from her grade, and hopefully one or two girls that hit it off with Grace. Thankfully at one of our first events, it seemed a few of the girls and Grace seemed to be having a great time. Totally melted my heart. I hate for my child to be the new person, yet again. Let's face it, I hate being the new mom, yet again. It's hard. And it's easy to just say I'm not even going to try. Grace is a very social little girl, and needs to have contact with friends. So we set up a baking day last weekend, and invited a few friends over. A Halloween baking day is sure to be up any preteen's alley right?! So Taylor and Christina came over and we made edible eyeballs, and chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting and even made little bats out of fondant. I stood back and let them have free reign of the pastry bags and orange buttercream frosting. That was kind of hard. Seriously. Everyone had fun, and most importantly, Grace realized that although the new girl, yet again.....it can still be fun to make new friends. Can I just say how much I love Girl Scouts!
Mom of three super fun and super cool children (Caleb, Grace, Madeline) and wife to one super cool dude - Andrew. Just living life and trying to do the best we can to mold these little sprouts into who God designed them to be. And trying to be "IN" the moments with them rather than looking back and wishing we had spent more time together as a family. And...to be content. Content with where I am in life as a wife and mom. Content with the circumstances God brings into our lives. Life moves by at warp speed, and I want to be present for it. (Jer. 29:11)
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