What makes the seasons sweet

After a long and very nice hiatus from blogging, I thought it was about time I posted something. I've given this blog a lot of thought over the last three months as to where I want it to go. I've had so much fun over the last year sharing with you many of the traditions that I grew up with and are now instilling in my own little family. In all honesty, I started this blog mostly for my own benefit as a way to document my adventures as a new mother and to make a record of the traditions that have helped to make my life so rich. But I have appreciated those of you who have taken an interest in it along the way and for the sweet compliments I have received. So with this new year upon us, I thought I would start sharing more of the simple day-to-day things that make 'all seasons sweet to me'- from the literal seasons of the year to this particular season of my life - that of being a young mama with tiny ones at home.  

I absolutely love what one blogger said about becoming a mother. 

"People tell you a lot about how much parenting will change your life and they’re right. But usually they mean that you won’t ever sleep in again (you won’t) and a few other things about how much we “give up” to become parents. [But] no one tells you how much you’re going to laugh. No one tells you how much wisdom resides in these small humans, how much they will teach you about love and life and friendship and forgiveness and worship. No one tells you how good and freeing it is to leave your selfishness behind. No one tells you about recapturing your own wonder and innocence, about re-reading the Ramona books, about playing football in the basement, about birthday parties and snow days and every day beauty. All the best things I know about the big nouns and verbs of a life came back into my life because of them."  (Sarah Bessey, http://sarahbessey.com/learning-live-ache/)

Before becoming a mother, I thought of all the things that I wanted to teach my children and to instill in them. But like Sarah said, no one told me how much my children were going to teach me. I never knew how much I would grow alongside them and how much of the 'wonder and innocence' of my youth would come back to me because of them. I am thankful for everyday that I have to look into the eyes of my precious boy- to laugh with him, to get down on the floor and play and be a kid with him, and to re-experience the beauty of the world and of life through him.  So it is my hope that this blog may continue to be my small way of sharing with you just what makes my life so wonderful, so complete, and so so sweet.