a new chapter ahead

Dear Anna, 

I have loved praying and listening and writing to you through this year in this Baker's Dozen blog.  It's time to close this chapter and cross over into this next season of your 14th year and on into your teenage years. 

May all of these words from this last year be a reminder of this passage below

and may you be more rooted and grounded in His love.  Remember to celebrate this love each day and to be kind to yourself... 

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:14-21 

I love you to the moon and back,  

Mom 

celebrating COWS

a video celebrating Anna's Crossing celebrations in Anacortes, Seattle and Nashville: 

https://youtu.be/x2HjC3hPhTM

giving thanks for the amazing COWS in your life! 

The Crossing- Part 3!

What a gift to celebrate you today with your home team here in Nashville.  You are so dearly loved! 

  

  

  

  

  

            

                

      

  

    

    

  

  

     

     

the significance of the Baker's Dozen

Anna,

You have heard the story of your birth a number of times in how my labor was long and how we thought you might be born on the 11^th, then the 12^th, and then finally you came on the 13^th. You’ve heard how I had a moment where I shared my disappointment that your birthday was on the thirteenth because in some people’s minds, it was an unlucky number.  But Janie turned it around immediately and put a silver lining on that reminding me that 13 was the number of the “baker’s dozen.”  The 13^th item in the baker’s dozen is that extra gift that is not expected or deserved, and that is what you are.  You are an extraordinary extra gift in our family and you are our treasure, Anna.

May your 13th birthday celebration (that we still get to celebrate in Nashville in a few weeks) and may this Baker's Dozen blog I've kept for you this year be markers to you in your heart.  May they be reminders to you that you are loved, that you are a daughter of the King, and that you are such a gift to us.  

I love you to the moon and back, little one.

Love, Mom

life ladder

Anna, I love the things you chose to write down for your life ladder.  

Giving thanks for your life and for these wonderful markers over the last 13 years!