My Ella-bella is turning 2...

Wow. When I was first pregnant with Ella everyone told me that the time goes by so fast. We'll... everyone was right and it's true.

Where did my oh-so-tiny peanut go? The pink and sweet little bundle that depended on Jeremiah and me for everything? In its place is my independent big girl who wants to do everything herself and can count to ten, sing her abc's, dance like a butterfly,and knows all her colors and shapes...even an octagon!

She's just so cute now. So unbearably cute! Expressions roll across her face at lighting speed: interested, delighted, frustrated, amused, too fast for me to follow, even. New words and skills pop out everyday: "Did she just say that?" "Did she just do that?" How I want to hang on to this moment! Her smallness, her sweetness, the fresh smell of her skin and hair that I breathe in when she runs to me for "hugs".


My heart fills up with something I can't describe at those moments. What is it about being a parent? Your capacity for grief and pain expands at the same rate as your capacity for joy. It is agony. It is bliss.

Lord, I am just so thankful that you have given me this opportunity to be her Momma.

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Favorite moment of my week...

It's Thursday evening. Jeremiah is off of work. The kids are both up from good naps and in good moods. Dinner is done & cleaned up. We put on music in the living room for Ella to dance to (the girl is going to be on broadway some day!). Jeremiah is looking thru an old cd albumn and changes out the Dora soundtrack to an old Cademon's Call and puts it on a favorite song of ours while we were dating in college and hours and hours away from each other. He pulls me into the middle of the living room and we slow dance. Ella squeezes in-between us and moves with us. Ezra starts to fuss and Jeremiah picks him up. Now we are a family of four...moving slowly together. The crook of Jeremiah's neck still smells so good to me. This is a moment to remember.

Why listen to anything I have to say?

Yea, that's pretty much why I haven't done the whole blog thing before. But, after being inspired by my good friend, Tasha, I have decided that I don't really care if anyone reads my blog...it'll just be good for me to have an outlet for my thoughts. Maybe people will just like knowing what is going on in the Hambrick world? Or maybe someone will be challenged in their walk with Christ after reading about something the Lord is doing in my life? Or maybe I'll just be able to ramble on about my thoughts...

Oh yea...I get to brag about my kids too!















So for what it's worth...this is my inaugural post to my blog.

Hope you enjoy. I know I will...