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What a winter! What a spring! I have had very little time to blog or update pictures of our life on the go-go. I don’t think I can apologize for it, though, because I have been spending as much time with Margo as possible. Working full-time, along with being a mom full-time, is tough business. I have been humbled by the lessons I am learning constantly.

Mother’s Day is around the corner and I am certainly seeing my mother in a different light. Being a mother to 1 is tough, but she was a mother to 4 (under the age of 5). I am seeing scripture in a new way. I am seeing what Christ did on the cross in a new way. I am seeing my marriage in a new way. I see the students I work with daily in a new way. Being a mother is selfless. It is definitely one of the most selfless things I have done. It takes a lot to raise a child, to spend all of your spare time teaching and loving a child, and to working through your tired, achy days to give them the love they deserve, not the love that’s left over. I look up to every person who is a mother. I understand how challenging it is. I respect mothers who are single, mothers who also work full-time, mothers who raise their children full-time, mothers of multiples, mothers who have family far away, and mothers who have husbands in school. I have a new respect for teachers who spend their days loving babies and children that are not their own. My list could go on and on… my whole perspective on life and Mother’s Day is different.

I also have a joy that I never had before and that I never knew existed until I became a mother. It’s so great to see this sweet child of God growing and learning. I tear up every time I think of the gift that she is to us. One day she will do amazing things for the kingdom of God and it excites me that we get to support her in that!

Margo is doing really well. She loves school. She loves rolling over. On Easter Sunday she found her voice and she loves to sing and talk to her animals. She is enamored by Olivia and everything Olivia does. She loves her daddy so, so much. She loves her taggies and teethy toys. She loves bathtime and looking at herself in the mirror. She loves looking at pictures in books and being outside. And she still has beautiful blue eyes. We love being her parents. We look forward to watching her grow; although, yesterday Jeremy made her promise that she would never have a boyfriend. She’s the sweetest and we are blessed by her! And for those wondering, we are definitely not ready for number 2. J