Today's the big day! My li'l boy is 9! We had a great party with family last night. The best part was when he blew out his birthday candles and oops, there was one candle left! Ohhhh--one girlfriend! He even named her. HA!
Yesterday was an 'ah-ha' day for me. You know how you are out and about in the community and see a family and say, "Yes, them, they have it all together...I want to be like that!" Well, I had a family picked out at church about whom I thought this.
She, the mom, approached me yesterday after services to talk about some things she saw regarding the kettlebell trainings I do. As we got to talking, she opened up about how this was their first year on one income and how it's been really tough. I was so wrong about them, as I thought she was a stay-at-home-mom all along and I envied her ability to spend time with her kiddos doing all the things moms should have time to do. I was 100% surprised when she told me she'd been working all these years and that this was her 1st year as a SAHM. They are struggling to make ends meet.
But her words of encouragement were what I needed to hear. The Lord provides. Always. He gives you the means to work out the kinks and in the end, this will be a wonderful decision for the family. And now I have a connection with someone I had put on a pedestal and thought unapproachable; maybe even made a new friend. It made me feel better to know we aren't the only ones, I guess, and to know there's someone else who does understand.
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