Life

Sharing a few things making me happy lately!

1. Bible time. Our house is rarely quiet, but 5:00 am is probably the most silent it gets. You’ll usually find me with a mug of coffee, my Bible, and a notebook to take notes.

2. Heirloom recipes. I got a surprise package in the mail yesterday. My aunt sent me a few recipes that were my grandma’s and great grandma’s. I can’t wait to try them out!

3. Cornbread. Yup, cornbread is making me happy, okay?! I hadn’t made a pan of it in a while and this one definitely hit the spot. Niva supervised the whole process from start to finish, lol. If you’re a fan of cornbread, do you like it sweet or no? I’m a big fan of the sweet kind! My favorite recipe uses honey to make it sweet.

4. Naps. Sometimes you just need a good nap, you know? Are you a fan of naps?

5. Teaching Sadie about Christmas. I’ve been going over the story of Jesus’ birth with Sadie this week and it’s such a joy! We read Baby Jesus and acted it out with her nativity set.

6. Conversations with strangers. Sadie and I were in Dollar Tree yesterday picking up a roll of wrapping paper and a lady shopping nearby saw Sadie and they had a cute conversation.

-Lady: Hi! Are you helping mommy shop?

-Sadie: Mhmmm.

-Lady: What do you want for Christmas?

-Sadie: Umm, snacks?

7. My dad and Sadie. My parents watched Sadie on Sunday between the morning and evening church services and my dad and Sadie took a nap together.

8. Baking. I’ve been baking up a storm this week and loving every second of it. Do you do any baking or treat-making for Christmas?

9. A new book. I’ve been wanting to learn more about essential oils and I found a book that shares scripture references for oils mentioned in the Bible and how they were used. It also has great information on safety as well as remedies and recipes.

Tell me something that has been making you happy lately!

It has been quite some time since I wrote a behind the picture post. Basically, I share some pictures and tell the stories behind them!

Here’s a look at the pictures we took for our Christmas card this year 🙂

-We took these photos in our backyard with a tripod; no fancy photographer here.

-Sadie is obsessed with our next-door neighbor and the second we went outside, she wanted to hang out with her. Our neighbor had to bribe Sadie with a snack to take pictures with us 😂

-Sadie’s dress has a bow on the back and when Jimmy got her changed for the pictures, he wasn’t sure which side of the dress was the front. He ended up putting it on her backwards and she looked like she was wearing a bowtie. I couldn’t stop laughing!

-Sadie’s hair bow is so cute… but she very rarely keeps one in for more than a few minutes 🤷🏼‍♀️

-I don’t know how we got Niva to sit still for this picture?!

-She also got a major case of the zoomies and almost knocked Sadie over a few times 😳

-My hair? It pretty much never looks like that. That took some strategic taming and curling, lol.

-Sadie didn’t want to take a picture with Jimmy holding her, so he pulled the cool dad card and let her hang from our dogwood tree. This ended up being one of my favorite photos!

-After this picture, she wanted to hang from the tree again. And again. And again. She wasn’t very happy when we went back inside 😉

-We had to bring Malcolm in on the fun! We’re those people who send Christmas cards with our cat in the pictures 🤓

-Niva is really good with Malcolm in the house, but when he comes outside, she instantly wants to hunt him. Jimmy was holding him to make sure he didn’t get down and run away from Niva.

All of the memories these pictures bring to mind are such blessings!

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