Wolvertown

My heart is full today as we celebrate Lindsay’s 2nd birthday. We didn’t do the traditional cake, candles and presents…we’re sharing that with the rest of the clan at the end of the week. We simply shared a wonderful day together as a family. This morning we “swimmed” at a waterpark with Lindsay, where she splashed and climbed and went down small slides ALL BY HERSELF! As I said to Chris this morning in the very brief period of time that lapses between Lindsay’s eyes opening and the shrieking requests that flow from her well-equipped brain and oral motor structures to, “Come HEEEERE, Mommy!”…. I can’t believe two years have passed since the day she was born. I have the sense that I will blink my eyes and we’ll be dropping her off at someone else’s house to babysit their 2 year old so that Mommy and Daddy can go on a date (which Chris and I did this evening). Go ahead…judge us for leaving our daughter on her birthday. We felt a little guilty ourselves. The thing is, we had just arranged for a semi-regular sitter to come on Monday nights so that Chris and I could spend some quality time with each other. After second guessing and indecision (what??? from the Wolvies? No way! It only took them 9 months to pick out their couch, and another 9 weeks to decide that they hated it!), we finally decided that a healthy marriage was a great birthday gift to Lindsay. So…. we stuffed ourselves with fish and chips, filled up on great relational time, and stopped to pick up some dessert for later. I have a wonderful, marvelous life! I have not always been so grateful, but I have been seeing quite clearly more recently the many blessings I have recieved. The bible says, “Whatever is good and perfect comes to us from God above (James 1:17). I hope to learn more about how to praise Him and thank Him for the ways he’s blessed my life. For more on this subject, I highly recommend this book…