One Hot Mama...

The heat index is 114 degrees today! I mean, I am used to the Alabama heat since I have lived here all my life, but this is ridiculous!

My Daughter

Hallie is five years old and has short blonde hair, a little button nose and sweet brown eyes. Not only is she beautiful, she has a heart beyond her years. Fiercly loyal, extremely giving, very creative, affectionate, happy, responsible, nurturing, inquisitive, intelligent and deep...these are my daughter. Whenever I hear her playing with her brother I think to myself "She is going to be an amazing woman one day." She is, of course, a child and she still does childish things. I am not under the impression that she is perfect or that she will someday change the world. Like me, I think she will be content with just changing her world and those lucky enough to be a part of it. Fortunately, Randy, Ethan and I are. When I watch her caring for her brother, patting his cheeks or randomly kissing his head and telling him that she loves him so much..Or when she tells her daddy she wants to marry him...Or when she lovingly strokes my hair and says I am the prettiest mommy ever...Or when she prays "I love you and I like you, God"...I just can't take it all in. I know that I must simply step back, thank God, and watch as He continues forming her heart. I am in awe...not of what I have accomplished in my daughter, but what He has done in spite of our humanity. Is it divine spark or simply His way of reminding us that no matter how we may try, we cannot move away from what He longs to give us?

The love that I feel for my children...times infinity.

Imagery of the Skies

A cloudless night begats a romantic evening with my husband and his telescope.