delicious love

what do you LOVE?
I love my babies' sweet faces. I love their hugs. I love it when they make me laugh. I love it when they laugh and so much when they are having fun with each other. I still love how they smell after a bath/shower. (but that isn't really a hard one, haha) I love it when all my babies are in my house with me, and even better when their Daddy is here too. I love that Nate has found that he loves and is good at piano. Thanks in big part to some generous friends who gave him free lessons his first few years. I also love that he knows who he is and has self-confidence like I never had. I love it when they are brave, let's face it when they are more brave than me, which isn't hard at all. I love these busy days of running boys to football, and band practice, and girls to birthday parties and piano lessons. I am thriving in the very schedule I thought would drown me other years. Thank You, Lord.

I love that Nate is going to get his braces on next month and finally be on his way to a straightened out smile that he isn't self-conscious of. And I love his grandparents for helping us with that. I love that Phoebe loves to practice piano and her teacher said she is taking to it very easily and will probably be a natural, like Nate. I love, love listening to Nate play piano. I love my oven after the cleaning cycle. I love making dinner, once I have figured out what I am making. I love the music up loud. I love trusting the Lord with my children and not having to worry because He loves them abundantly and perfectly. I love when I finally find the outfit that is 'me'. I love opening up the coffee shop and giving people their coffee and a smile! I love to daydream about the future and how things will be when I am old...er. :)
I love knowing my husband and I will never divorce. I love talking to my sister, mom, sister in law, and mother in law on the phone. I love when my husband talks to his brothers on the phone. I love getting together with a friend and praying and hugging and talking and laughing. I love having people over to our house. I love getting a room made over and finished off. I love drawing house plans and daydreaming about having a house just outside of town with a little land around us to play on and plant on. I love that Nate will take driver's ed this very year! I love how God has taught us and grown us and stretched us and blessed us. I love watching my kids read. I love having women come to bible study and praying for them and hoping to encourage them and scootch them just that much closer to our sweet, great God. I love listening to our baptist preacher get all worked up over the Word and our awesome God and His love for us.

I love listening to my husband and our dear friend lead us in worship with their voice and guitar. I love when my punkins measure themselves up against me, they are growing and that is good! Praise God! I love hearing them sing in church!!! I love waking up to the aroma of coffee and getting up before anyone else to have a cup with my Jesus and His Word. I love to pray for my babies. I love making my kids or my husband laugh! I love to get a workout in. I love a corny, happy ending. I love reading my friends' blogs.

And I love going to bed early! I love lavender. I love my special blanket. I love homemade soap. I love to read. And I love ...love!