It's Official

We are moving to Asheville on August 1st. I will post more about this soon!

On another note Baby Stephen is now 9 months old. He is pulling up on everything and definitely showing more and more personality. It seems like overnight I went from having a little baby to having an almost toddler. I know this is opening up to a whole new world of motherhood and I am glad that I am reading "Shepherding a Child's heart" right now!

One funny thing he does is that when music is playing he opens his mouth and says "ahhhhh" really loud like he is trying to sing. :)

He also wants to eat everything in site! He doesn't even have teeth yet. No matter what I give him he will scarf it down like he has been starved for days. If anyone is eating around him he cries for their food or even if I am cooking or preparing food he will whine for it. (This is something that we are starting to work on.) He would be totally happy to never have a bottle again but only eat table food. (But of course I won't let him do that.) He still eats pured food but also eats a lot with his fingers. Oh well I am happy that so far he isn't picky. Hopefully this is something that will continue.

I am hanging on to every moment of his last year of life and trying to enjoy all his "babyness".

On a final note, I went to a funeral this week and someone sang the song "In the Garden". Since my church doesn't sing hymns often I haven't heard this song in a long time. I remember my grandmother always loved it. But as I listened to the words they hit me in a powerful way. It is such a worshipful hymn.

I came home and looked up the history behind it and have been thinking about it all week. So as an encouragement to you I thought I would post the words. No matter what we are going through or the pain that people around the world are going through it is awesome that for those of us in Christ there is a "secret place" we can go to with the Lord and experience joy indescribable.


In the Garden

Verse 1
I come to the garden alone, While the dew is still on the roses; And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, The Son of God discloses.

Chorus
And He walks with me, And He talks with me, And He tells me I am His own; And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.

Verse 2
He speaks, and the sound of His voice Is so sweet, The birds hush their singing, And the melody that He gave to me, Within my heart is ringing.

Verse 3
I'd stay in the garden with Him, Though the night around me be falling, But He bids me go; Through the voice of woe, His voice to me is calling.