One Year. One Baby. One Love. ~ A Birthday Tribute

Happy Birthday to my beautiful, adorable, smart, loving, playful, crawling, babbling, wobbling, life changing, amazing, 8-toothed little girl!

Here’s a special tribute from my heart to yours.

Love, Life, and the Little Things…

I’m feeling good today. I took this picture this morning when I got to work because I wanted to capture what ‘feeling good’ looks like. Better yet, what having joy looks like.

You know how sometimes, even though you know God is with you…you can’t exactly feel Him? Well, today isn’t one of those days for me. I feel His hand on me and His presence in my life is evident. Not by some grandiose act or miracle, or door opened, or prayer answered…it’s just that I see and appreciate Him in the little things. I’m grateful for my life, for my husband, my daughter, our family and friends. I have a warm bed to sleep in at night in a home that’s full of love. There’s food in the fridge and I have a car to drive that runs fairly well and is PAID for. What more can a girl ask for?

Just the Way You Are

My baby is beautiful. My mission as she grows up (because I know that it starts with me and her dad) is to show her how beautiful she is. I want to teach her that beauty comes from within – not just what’s on the outside. There’s beauty to be discovered and cherished in everything around us.

Side note: have you ever looked up the definition of the word beauty? As I write this I realize that I haven’t, so I just did.

I Dedicate: Speechless

The talented musician and fellow new mommy Alicia Keys just released this song via her Twitter page on Monday. It’s a song she made about her son, Egypt. I felt that it matched my previous post to my Natty-Bear beautifully! See, this is why I love music. There’s a lyric that works in tandem to every emotion out there. Music flows through my veins and is a huge part of the fabric that makes me, me…and I love it! Enjoy.