Not a Blogger...wish I was....

So I am officially not a blogger :( I really want to be but when i get a second of downtime the main thing i do is drag myself to my bed and hit it so hard i could give myself a concussion! So this will be an occasional update thing that we will have going on instead of an everyday here are all the details of my life....So now that we have the expectations clear there are some new details in my life:) I am PREGGO with number two.  And if you read any part of my earlier blog you would know that this is yet another miracle!! Yes i am due any moment now and can't wait to meet our little boy Jacob Cohen Woodward!! 

There are several things that make my life an everyday continuous joy. One would be the ongoing adventure of encountering the Lord's presence in the midst of being 9 months pregnant with a 2 year old, who is the cutest thing you will ever see, but also is in the throws of needing some sort of boundary or discipline in her life! But alas HE MEETS ME!!  He meets me in the moments where I have nearly knocked myself out hitting the bed so hard, when i don't have strength to go on HE gives me all that I need to make it through the day.  When i see my little girl responding without hesitation to an everyday mundane task i do for her, saying "Thank you mommy" or "I love you mommy".  He is so very near there are just many times I need to open my eyes to see it.  

So that is my prayer for us moms who seem to have lost vision on how the Lord meets us in the everyday....that our eyes would be reopened to His nearness.  That He is the God that sees and cares.  About every little detail, whether it is changing a diaper or cooking another meal or doing yet another load of laundry.  That in the midst of the mundane and your discouraged heart He is there to bring you hope through the contagious laugh of your little one or the look on your husband's face that says " you are far better at this than you think you are".  There is a Jason Upton worship song that i love that says "in the silence You are speaking." 

But my new motto is "in the chaos of everyday life of being pregnant with a toddler You are speaking" I just have to make sure i am listening! When we are able to recognize the goodness of the Lord in the everyday and convey that to our kids we cultivate an atmosphere of expectation for the Lord to show up and reveal His goodness, which He loves to do,  all while showing our kids what a grateful heart looks like.  

Well baby Cohen will be here soon and i will hopefully begin to blog a little more on what life looks like with two and the adventure it will be! Until then i pray that you encounter the Lord in the everyday and let HEAVEN INVADE YOUR HOME!