Sunday, April 11, 2010
today i sat on the stand at church in my regular spot, hiding behind the piano and organ, appearing when the music began and disappearing once it ended. i love this calling. i love catching the eye of friends who make me smile. i love watching families arrive together i love watching my friends with their families, i love watching the primary kids copy my movements and get embarrassed when i smile at them. and, most of all i love watching my husband with my babies. today georgia sat on his lap, snuggled in close with her soft and bo. andrew was on his right side snuggled in, coloring in his star wars activity book. dylan was asleep in the aisle in his car seat. what a sweet picture i have in my mind from today. i don't know how to even express the emotions that swelled up in my mommy heart but i was totally overcome. it's a powerful thing, this family business. we started as young sweethearts, madly in love with each other with huge dreams and empty wallets. slowly that love grew and we added so much of our dreams to our reality. we added one tiny person, then another and now our third. while our wallets aren't much fuller, (thanks in part to three rapidly growing children) our home is and our hearts are. a young couple blessed their baby boy today, they named him andrew. this took me back eight years to a snowy morning in utah. i remembered blessing our andrew, how it seemed like such a miracle, this little tiny baby, that he was really ours. i watched him today, from behind the piano, he's turned out to be such a handsome boy. full of joy and energy topped off with a faux-hawk. (he made me do his hair that way today) i can't believe he will be baptised this year. and that sassy georgia, what can i say, she has stolen our hearts. and i can't wait to see what our laid back go with the flow dylan has in store for us. what a gift to be a mother, to have a beautiful family and to have so much love around me. there are a few snapshots of life i carry with me, this will always be there, in my mind. a father and his three babies, snuggled together on a church bench. maybe next time i could come out from hiding behind the organ and piano to join them. hmm, maybe not, then i'd have to play finger puppets and color star wars guys and search for binkis for dylan.
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This is very sweet! I didn't know you were the chorister....it is fun to sit on the stand and watch people!
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