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Y’all watch ya hear! Will be singing a couple songs with @colemantime and chatting with the fabulous @jennasheinelle at 10am today woohoo!!! Kiddos are outside holding posters trying their best to get on camera 🤣 ❤️
We look like we are announcing a run for political office with this family picture 🤣 In reality, it was such an absolute Easter miracle that we made it to Church on time in civilized, upscale appropriate clothing-in the correct size-on every family member, that I think I’m framing this for every last coffee table in the house-room by room. So then maybe the children will remember us this way! If only!
Stella June told me she is done with me wearing my bathrobe to school drop and I simply must upgrade my 8am look. I’m considering. I’ve been meaning to show a little slice of spring for 6 weeks now but time doesn’t stop for parents does it? Since yesterday concluded our last day of homework for approximately 89 days and 9 hours (but who’s counting) my brain has returned to a state of 40% sanity and I finally gathered the pictures that make us look as amazing as we possibly can. That’s Instagram for ya! I hope everyone is finding some much needed rest in this season, finding some peace, finding some healing where needed, and that the sun is shining brightly towards your beautiful face. Yes, little ole you! Lots of LOVE ❤️ Mamas, I savored one 90 minute meal by myself last week. It’s a bare minimum must do if you feel like you are constantly drowning, the way I do. Prioritize a sliver of time of nothingness pretty please. We get so little time if you are in these stages ❤️❤️ NOT PICTURED-endless sibling fights that are eroding my very soul…
Happy World Down Syndrome Day!!!! Georgia Grace is the yummiest lump of sugar that I’ve ever come across!! I have no idea where we would all be without her-a miracle baby, at a miracle time-after such a harrowing season we had been through. I didn’t know her diagnosis until she was born (genetic scans came back with no concerns), and I’m so thankful I didn’t because I would have worried for months on end. She is the biggest blessing to every single person that gets to experience her magic-even in the grocery checkout line! We love her endlessly, and the entire precious-beyond-precious person in the Down Syndrome community ❤️ 3 is magic on her, the zoo carousel was her favorite thing she did on this special day! Hopefully you have had the chance to love one of these very special people with the purest and most beautiful hearts in the whole wide world, if we could only be more like them each and every day… #worlddownsyndromeday #downsydromelove
Three weeks later (and still sending out a few Christmas card stragglers because they are too adorable to be thrown away)…
Our holiday diet was modeled after Will Ferrell’s character in “Elf”, sugar cookies for breakfast, m&m bowls everywhere (easier than cutting more strawberries) and maple syrup on everything. I’m tired of meal prep so it worked out for a bit 😂 Precious memories were made with this wild and yummy crew, and we were so thankful for all of the hours alongside the ones that we hold nearest and dearest. I hope your holiday was shrouded with peace, laughter, love and joy-and somehow, someway the everlasting miracle of baby Jesus showed itself for you ❤️ Let’s all remember that if our home still looks like a no entry disaster zone, then that means it’s bursting and bustling with life! Therefore we are the absolute luckiest for one more year, together….
I am so thankful to be alive, to be spending Thanksgiving in the comforts of a home and not in a hospital, or on the streets. I adore these children beyond words, I am so thankful for each one of them. That I have the physical ability to take care of them. For our caboose Georgia, for her Down syndrome that has already felt like a precious gift of love beyond what I ever knew of love. I am thankful for every hour, every day that is gifted, that bittersweet awareness which I was only enlightened to after the tragedy of my sister dying so young in 2020. I am deeply thankful that my mom’s cancer has been under control for over 6 years now, and that my children can know her, and my father, and Chris’s parents. I am very thankful for the ordinary days and quiet, mundane, humdrum moments of parenting and family life. Because it means we are not navigating some impossibly hard circumstance in those hours, what a lovely thing. I am so thankful that the sun rises every single morning, and sets at nightfall, a rhythm from God that provides us a bit of clockwork, a bit of knowing and assuredness when all else might be failing. I am so thankful for silence, on the rare occasions I can locate it while the children are sleeping. I am thankful for music, and art, good words and good food. I am thankful for the possibilities of each day, each season, and the hope that accompanies that in the natural sense, whether we think it’s there or not. I am so thankful for my husband Chris, for much better years we are spending than prior ones. I am thankful to be loved by friends and family and Jesus and my dog. I am deeply thankful for my health, after a double mastectomy and c word scare a year ago. I am thankful for modern day medicine to accompany Georgia’s type 1 diabetes, and for hot baths to let the dust settle every evening. I am thankful for support systems doing life with us in many different forms of work and littles, and for laundry help when I think I might die in the pile. If you are reading this, we are among the luckiest. Wishing you the happiest Thanksgiving, with the yummiest mashed potatoes and chocolate chip pecan pies, from our household to yours ❤️
I’m living in a war with time
I can still reach out and touch you
And I wish I didn’t know the things I know
I’m standing in an open door
None of it was overrated and I’m
Never gonna wanna let you go…
@brandicarlile your newest masterpiece “War With Time” has absolutely wrecked me. This awareness you speak of is the most quietly painful part of parenting (and loving those closest to us) for me-in the beautiful, in the impossible, in the exhaustion, in the chaos-we are in fact always in a war with time, our most sacred gift. Thank you for this work of art and EVERYONE reading must stop what you are doing and listen!!! The greatest living female vocalist has served us up another one of her brilliant songs…
Y’all the children are 11,9.5 (don’t miss the half or you will be screamed at), 8 and 3. Georgia Grace is doing so good, she is the only Down syndrome child in her preschool class and it is just the happiest and most edible, precious group of littles! Her Type 1 diabetes has been quite the journey but I only allow myself to take it hour by hour, day by day. Like anything that feels incredibly hard, I have to put my worries on the “shelf section” of my brain and only commit to the mercy and beauty, hope and possibility that another new day offers. I really believe it’s the only way to live, is in the right here and right now of the present hour given to us. Y’all watch @colemantime playing tonight on the @cma with @chrisstapleton and @mirandalambert!!! And we will be @opry tomorrow night featuring the most FUN surprise guest ever if anyone wants to score some last minute tickets online!!! Can y’all believe it’s almost Thanksgiving, it feels that all I’ve done for a month is cut strawberries and match up socks, the absolute worst job of motherhood. Excited to sing a few tunes tomorrow night!! Sending so much love to you all ❤️❤️❤️
