Fish and Chips Story — The Story of Us

I don’t know what happened, I didn’t see it coming.  One minute I looked over at Alora and she was a toddler and now she is turning into a little girl.  I see it in her eyes, my baby is growing up into a fine young woman.  Why did no one warn me about this?

The end of my daughter date. Library, toys r us, dollar tree and wendys.

Came home and opened our strawberry shortcake dolls, ate our nuggets n frosty, watching ginormica aka monsters vs aliens and eating a marshmallow cupcake shaped lollipop!

Quite a day.

Well it’s time to get back on the horse called blogging. The beginning of the new year brings resolutions and goals, but not for me, not this year. This year I’m going to refocus and get back to the things I love: God, family, and community. To some this may sound like a resolution, but to me it sounds like simplicity. So, as I clean out my drawers I’m hoping to be a little less structured and a little more in love with life.

It’s amazing the things in life we take for granted or get to easily to easily excited over. Yesterday Alora came frantically running into the office to ask where her My Little Pony book was. She needed it urgently, she told me. I pointed to the corner of the office where all the new Christmas books are stacked awaiting a home. She scrambled over to the pile and dug out the thick pink book and started wildly flipping pages. She kept muttering to herself “Where is that page, I know it’s in here!” Finally, she proudly waltzes up to me with her Melissa and Doug wooden ice cream cone set in one hand and holds up the My Little Pony book in the other, to what seems to me a random page and says “Look mom! I’m holding the same ice cream cone Minty is sharing with Rainbow Dash.” Low and behold in this story the ponies were sharing a double scoop vanilla and chocolate ice cream cone and Alora proudly produced her cone in her hand and they were identical. She then asked if i would like to share a “lick” with her.

In anyone else’s life this would seem trivial, but in my life I see this as a small beaming moment when she has memory recognition, math patterns and a sharing heart. I’m glad a took a few moments away from my “computer time” to share it with her.

Well Christmas and all it’s glory is uploaded in pictures in the gallery, head on over and check ’em out!

Well after much slacking on the website now begins the new year with new resolutions. One of this year’s resolutions is to keep up on Fish and Chips and update all the wonderful things our family is doing and learning. This year Jason and I are working together to look at everything through “Christ-colored” glasses. In our family that means dedicating more time to reading the Bible, Praying the Word of God and spending our time as a family, truly as a family.

29 all over again, You are finally younger than ME!!!

Love Jason and the Girls