35 weeks pregnant with Titus Glenn and my four other awesome sons.  Gregory (almost 13), Adam 9 1/2, Luke Samuel 3 1/2 and Gideon 20 months

 I get overwhelmed by the mundane just everyday life stuff. 
Another meal to serve, more messes to clean up, another load of
laundry to wash, another diaper to change, another fight to break up.
For those with young kids it can seem so endless at times and can be very tiring.  Some days I do wonder if I’m making a difference, if what I’m doing matters.  But then I stop and think.  This is my calling.  This is what God wants of me.  So yes, it does matter.  I pray that I can be the best Mother to these blessings I can be.  I read the article below and it really made me think of what really matters in this life! I want to make every moment last and every moment be WORTH something in the kingdom. I don’t want to waste my life here.  It matters!  Lord, help me 🙂 !

“……………This summer, God used a sad and very tangible experience to infuse
fresh hope and energy and vision into my soul, and to encourage me to
keep pushing forward as a mother.
It was four weeks ago, on a warm summer’s evening, that I said good-bye to her.
Her husband had called that morning, saying this day might be the last.
I found a sitter for my children and tearfully ventured to my dear
friend Katy’s home to say the words I had dreaded saying. I prayed hard
for strength to walk into that familiar home and see the faces she
would leave behind and somehow trust that my God was mighty in the midst
of even this situation, and that He alone could work it out for His
glory and yes, even for good.

You see, Katy was not only my friend, but she was a wife and a mom. A
wife to Peter, of over a decade. Devoted, steadfast, faithful, loving.
And a mama to 3 beautiful children, aged 5, 3 and 1. Playmates of my
children, and nearly the same ages. They were well loved, carefully
nurtured and exceptionally cherished by their mom.
Katy didn’t spend her “mundane” days of laundry, cooking,
cleaning and child rearing knowing just how short her time would be with
these little ones entrusted to her. 
Throughout her 8 month battle with cancer, she fought hard, as only a
mother who wants to see her children grow up can fight. She wanted more
time. More days to love them. More months to train and shape who they
would become. More years to faithfully pray for them and watch them come
to know and trust and serve the Lord.

For reasons I may never know, the Lord didn’t give her those extra
years or even days. He gave her 5 1/2 short years to mother her
children, and to pour into them all that she could.

Not one of us knows how many more years or months or days are written in the book of our lives, or of our children’s lives. And that makes every moment precious because we have it NOW.

Each day is an opportunity to love them. To teach. To train. To set an
example of following Jesus wholeheartedly. To share the Gospel. To pray
with and for them. To kiss them. To enjoy them. A day to cherish and
to use to the fullest.
by StephanieLangford

I’m begging the Lord to help me not to waste a single moment. Will you do the same?”

We did this SAME pose a month before Gideon was born.  Awesome how similar it is! Love the back side shots.  The one we did in Aug. 2011, Gregory and Adam look like they are in the SAME pose.  I didn’t plan that.  Just funny.

Love my Guys!!

 Thankful to Brian a great husband ! Thankful he made me a Mommy 🙂

These guys are so adorable 🙂 LOVE THEM so much and can’t wait to add another BOY to the mix!!