Blog Fever

All this introspection goes to your head!

I figured I should do a family update since my last and first blog was a too-long explanation of why I chose my blog name. So here we go!

Elizabeth celebrated 8 months to the day yesterday. I am astounded daily at how quickly this year has gone by. I cannot believe she will turn 1 in August! It seems like it's just around the corner and I should start making her birthday cake now. When I was pregnant, it was like my mind didn't let me think past the due date. I remember being surprised when people would plan things for, say, the middle of September. (Her due date was Aug.24.) Surely the world and time stop when you have a baby! Not so much.... Apparently they go into double-time.

She is smiling at the drop of a hat, babbling, and boy can that girl stand--with a little support from Mommy. :) Tony and I both think she might walk before she crawls. She is just so not interested in being on her tummy on the floor! Too little to see, I think.

Tony is still liking his job. We love our friends (who, for the most part, are also his coworkers), and I tell people all the time that they are the best part of Atlanta for us. They make this huge and impersonal city quite home-like for us country folk.

I am enjoying spring arriving in Georgia. I'm not one for cold weather (unless it's December 24 and 25), so I am in hog heaven in Hotlanta! It's our second spring here, and I'm loving not being pregnant this time. Elizabeth and I have started taking long walks and with all the new green of the grass and leaves and the tree blossoms, it's just so lovely.

I get very specific feelings about each season as they come, usually connected to past experiences. Last year I was fighting nervousness as I remembered springtime track. AH! Thankfully that has slackened somewhat this year and I can behave like a normal person who has not run a race in 5 years! You'd think I would have been over it.

I hear my baby girl talking in her crib, so I'm going to quit this post and go get her--my favorite thing in the morning. Thanks for your patience and indulgence.

Doxology Mine.

Names say so much. They are first impressions; they are identity. They shape your thought about a thing before you even encounter it. Accordingly, I wanted to give my blog a fitting title, so people could decide for themselves whether it would really be worth their time reading yet another no-name-nobody's two cents. After thinking long and hard about it, and at the risk of sounding overly pretentious, I came up with the present name. Yeah, I liked the sound of it, and that definitely satisfies the pseudo-poet in me, but more than that, I needed to christen my blog with a name that would remind me what I initially wanted this profusion of me me me to be about:

The Lord.

I hesitated for a while, wrestling back and forth about what it said about me if I considered my words and ideas and opinions worthy enough to spend hours, possibly, collecting and expressing them, not to mention to have my friends spend their time reading them. So if you're reading this right now, I am honored and humbled and more than a little anxious about what you might think. I don't think I have anything special to add to this table of rampant monologues, but tonight some friends convinced me of the value of putting thoughts-to-blog (pen to paper, as it were) in the hope that while I'm hashing out my faith day to day, you may be encouraged to do the same.

So I start this blogging season of my life with the prayer that it will become another branch of my life where I may add more glory to Jesus in some way. That's the intention I put in the name, anyway. Leave your first impressions as you will.