So thankful we're in this together!

For the last few months, I've stunk at parenting.  There are seasons when I  am motivated to engage with my kids and I enjoy them and I have a vision for their little hearts  but there are moments where I really fail at all of that...when I chose to stare at my computer rather than help them put together puzzles.  And if you string a lot of those moments together, you get a few months...and that's where I have been...just pretty blah and negative about my very very important job.   I am thankful for grace and thankful that the Holy Spirit lives in me to keep transforming me.  I so need his help to  keep on keepin' on in this job of shaping their hearts and wiping their bottoms and repairing their broken lego creations.  

 Thankfully for them and for me, their dad is on his parenting A game right now.

God has just given Andy so much grace to really thrive in this role as a dad these days.He's been gentle and kind and lots of fun.  He's especially great at playing with them.   I love hearing his thick Scottish accent as lego battles rage upstairs.   He's spent hours just playing with them recently and he's pretty much their favorite person in the world.  They both love to dress like him.  Jack is maybe obsessed...so much so that we've had a few major meltdowns when matching clothes weren't available. 

I feel like God is using my little Judah's arrival to motivate my heart once again for this job.  I am thankful for that.  And I'm  grateful that God has given Andy a heart to love our kids extra well in a season when I have been falling especially short!