Let me tell you a little something about Chaz. There is no middle ground with this one. He is either up or down, hot or cold. His excitement for life is contagious!
For the past several years he has been a Deshaun Watson fan. He first started following Deshaun in 2016, that season they won the National Championship and Chaz was so very excited! He continued to follow Deshaun to the NFL and the Texans. He still wears his Clemson jersey with pride, but thanks to Xmas 2018 he can sport is Texans jersey! I'm thankful for so many Christian young men in athletics for my boys to look up to. Men who are standing firm on their faith and using their platforms to bring glory to Jesus Christ! Both players and Coaches!
Last night during this years National Championship game, I was able to capture Chaz in his true form! I have attached a link for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy
Mama B
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Chaz in his true form!
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Three years have flown by...
A lot has happened within our home within the past 3 years. Kids have gotten older and messier. We have added two (yes, I said two) full blooded black labs. Moved to a different state, but not just any state, my home state, Georgia! Since moving to Georgia, we have moved 3 times within 8 months with a 4th move on the horizon. Personal health has declined with new health concerns. But through it all the Lord has been there. He has not moved, he has not shaken. My faith in the Lord has grown tremendously in the past 3 years. I'm so excited to dive back in on a weekly basis with you, to share tidbits of our life.
My passion is to embrace the glass house, but doing that gets messy. If you can bring yourself to let go of your (unhealthy) expectations and allow the Lord to penetrate every corner, closet and even the depths of the couch cushions (who knows whats hiding down there), you will give yourself the ability to find the beauty within the messiness of life.
My passion is to embrace the glass house, but doing that gets messy. If you can bring yourself to let go of your (unhealthy) expectations and allow the Lord to penetrate every corner, closet and even the depths of the couch cushions (who knows whats hiding down there), you will give yourself the ability to find the beauty within the messiness of life.
Be Free
Mama B
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
To the mama that sacrificed her body to give life to a baby:
STOP. Stop hiding in pictures. Stop refusing to be in pictures. Stop hiding behind sweat shirts, and sweat pants. Stop beating yourself up because you sacrificed your body so that you could bring a life into this world. Stop listening to Hollywood and media saying you have to look a certain way or be a certain size. BE YOU. For you are beautiful. You are beautiful for you were made in the image of God. You are beautiful because you sacrificed your body so that a baby can be born. You sacrifice your body daily so that your children get what they need. I'm not giving you an excuse to eat unhealthy or to skip out on exercise. We all need to do that. I am telling you to give yourself a break. Being a mom is HARD. Weather you birthed, adopted or chose adoption for your child. Motherhood is hard enough as it is without the added pressure we put on ourselves when it comes to our body. Don’t shame your body. Your children don’t. They love you just the way you are.
Sincerely, a mom.
Girls and their Drama
Ive got all the kids on my bed watching a movie while I get some computer work done before church tonight. ZoeLynn comes to me crying and stressing out. She has a slice of orange in each hand and a piece of orange in her mouth. She can barely get out her cries of frustration due to the orange slice taking up so much room in her mouth. I ask her whats the matter, and not even the baby whisperer herself could make out what this child is trying to tell me although she show no signs of you not comprehending. I don't know how she is still breathing. Chaz causally says "She upset that I wont give her an orange." Ok, I think to myself, lets pretend we were to give you another orange slice ZoeLynn, WHERE WOULD YOU PUT IT? So realizing she is simply throwing a fit I take her and put her in the tub (that is empty) in my bathroom and walk away. She lets me know she disproves of her current situation by letting out a scream. This continues for roughly 45 seconds. Then all of a sudden, silence. I walk in the room and ask her, "are you done?" She shakes her head yes. I lift her out of the tub and she waddles toward my bed and sits with her brothers to watch TV. Girls and their drama. Homegirl had a rush of hormone and emotions run over her and she needed to get all of them out (hence the screaming). And once she did, she was good. If only it will be this easy in 10 years when she will be almost 12. . . I can dream right. . .
Sunday, March 6, 2016
a day in the life of Jaden
Do NOT get used to this: 2 posts in one day. It's a record for me. WOW setting records on the first day. I might actually be good at this! Enough rambling, here is the point of this post. I have 4 children. Chaz is 7, Jedidiah is 6, Jaden is 4 and ZoeLynn is 1. I would like to take a moment to talk about Jaden. This kid is hilarious and I have no idea where he comes up with the things he says or does. I am going to share with you some dialogue that happened tonight between Jaden and his dad and then a "situation" I happened upon. Girls make sure you go to the bathroom or have extra padding on. You have been warned.
Chuck is sitting on the bed with Jaden playing his guitar.
A little back story here, Chuck comes from a musical family. His mother is a classical pianist and his brother has a band and is a pretty awesome worship pastor. He has another brother that is a recording genius. And has 2 other gifted siblings who plays the drums and sings. Chuck was never one for playing instruments growing up. He was either playing baseball or reading a dictionary, concordance and Bible at one time. BUT the boy naturally has a talent. He is not "get on stage and lead worship" good, but he is "play around a fire" good. So just keep that in mind as you read the following.
So Chuck is sitting on the bed with Jaden playing his guitar. Jaden closes his eyes real tight and rolls away from him with his hands over his face...
Chuck: Jaden, are you ok?
Jaden: I'm having a bad dream. A REALLY REALLY bad dream.
Chuck: Well are you ok?
(We have a history of night terrors within our family, more on that later.)
Jaden: not yet. I'm trying to get it out of my head.
Chuck: well what is it about?
Jaden: I'm having a bad dream. Really, really, really bad.
Chuck: Well?
Jaden: (with his eyes still covered) I wanted you to stop playing and I was going to punch you in the face. That's why I covered my eyes. So it would go away! (uncovering his eyes).....ok. It went away. You can keep playing now!
Who's kid is this???? But the night gets better. Earlier today I am at walmart and I found this heavy duty plastic 4 drawer thing. It's made to put in your garage and store things. Well I look at it and think it would be perfect to put the boys clothes in. I would need at least 2, 3 would be nice but they aren't cheap. So I got one to test it out. My boys are 500% boy and rough on EVERYTHING. So in all honesty I wanted to see if it would live up to its "heavy duty" name. All 3 boys share a bunk bed with a trundle underneath. The older 2 boys are asleep and Jaden is wondering the house (trying not to punch his daddy). I go in to check on the boys, who were sleeping peacefully and I hear Daisy. Daisy is our almost 1 year old puppy rescue. I quickly remember the boys wanted Dasiy to sleep with them. I look for her in their beds and she is no where to be found. So I call to her and I hear her whimpering. I start getting nervous that she is stuck under the bed or in a corner or any other horrible scenario my mind can come up with in this 15 sec time slot which was actually many horrifying senarios. Nope. None of the above. Jaden decided it would be fun to stick Daisy in the bottom drawer of his new "heavy duty" dresser. Well its "heavy duty" all right. Enough to keep Daisy for wiggling her way out! Poor thing jumped out as soon as I pulled the drawer open. That poor dog. I just hope she will understand that is Jaden's unique way of showing his love for her.
WHAT WAS HE THINKING < this is a phrase the comes across my mind often when I think of my sweet Jaden Pierce Johnson. This kid is going to unashamedly preach the Gospel from the mountain top in a way that only Jaden can with a heavenly atonement. I can't believe I get to be his mom!!!!
I hope your night was as fun and eventful as mine!
Blessed
Mama B
Chuck is sitting on the bed with Jaden playing his guitar.
A little back story here, Chuck comes from a musical family. His mother is a classical pianist and his brother has a band and is a pretty awesome worship pastor. He has another brother that is a recording genius. And has 2 other gifted siblings who plays the drums and sings. Chuck was never one for playing instruments growing up. He was either playing baseball or reading a dictionary, concordance and Bible at one time. BUT the boy naturally has a talent. He is not "get on stage and lead worship" good, but he is "play around a fire" good. So just keep that in mind as you read the following.
So Chuck is sitting on the bed with Jaden playing his guitar. Jaden closes his eyes real tight and rolls away from him with his hands over his face...
Chuck: Jaden, are you ok?
Jaden: I'm having a bad dream. A REALLY REALLY bad dream.
Chuck: Well are you ok?
(We have a history of night terrors within our family, more on that later.)
Jaden: not yet. I'm trying to get it out of my head.
Chuck: well what is it about?
Jaden: I'm having a bad dream. Really, really, really bad.
Chuck: Well?
Jaden: (with his eyes still covered) I wanted you to stop playing and I was going to punch you in the face. That's why I covered my eyes. So it would go away! (uncovering his eyes).....ok. It went away. You can keep playing now!
Who's kid is this???? But the night gets better. Earlier today I am at walmart and I found this heavy duty plastic 4 drawer thing. It's made to put in your garage and store things. Well I look at it and think it would be perfect to put the boys clothes in. I would need at least 2, 3 would be nice but they aren't cheap. So I got one to test it out. My boys are 500% boy and rough on EVERYTHING. So in all honesty I wanted to see if it would live up to its "heavy duty" name. All 3 boys share a bunk bed with a trundle underneath. The older 2 boys are asleep and Jaden is wondering the house (trying not to punch his daddy). I go in to check on the boys, who were sleeping peacefully and I hear Daisy. Daisy is our almost 1 year old puppy rescue. I quickly remember the boys wanted Dasiy to sleep with them. I look for her in their beds and she is no where to be found. So I call to her and I hear her whimpering. I start getting nervous that she is stuck under the bed or in a corner or any other horrible scenario my mind can come up with in this 15 sec time slot which was actually many horrifying senarios. Nope. None of the above. Jaden decided it would be fun to stick Daisy in the bottom drawer of his new "heavy duty" dresser. Well its "heavy duty" all right. Enough to keep Daisy for wiggling her way out! Poor thing jumped out as soon as I pulled the drawer open. That poor dog. I just hope she will understand that is Jaden's unique way of showing his love for her.
WHAT WAS HE THINKING < this is a phrase the comes across my mind often when I think of my sweet Jaden Pierce Johnson. This kid is going to unashamedly preach the Gospel from the mountain top in a way that only Jaden can with a heavenly atonement. I can't believe I get to be his mom!!!!
I hope your night was as fun and eventful as mine!
Blessed
Mama B
Something "new"
For the love of all things random. I am the Queen of needing things to start very particularly. Anything "new" has to start on Monday. Sunday isn't the beginning of the week for me, Sunday is a week in and of itself (can I hear an AMEN from all the Pastor's wives out there). So since Monday is my "day 1" that is when all things new must start. (repeating myself, get used to that). Well today is Sunday, and I'm starting a blog. And because I'm being random I'm not gonna do a fun fruity intro blog. You will figure out real quick who I am and who my family is, because we are REAL. People say Pastor's families live in a glass house. Well I embrace that glass house. I don't have anything to hide. Nobody benefits when you start to hide things. We Christians are here on this earth to help each other grow in Christ while sharing the Gospel all around. Galatians 6:2 tells us to carry each others burdens. How can we do that if we all try to hide whats going on in our hearts. See their is freedom in Christ. There are no unrealistic expectations, for we are covered in the blood of Christ. When you try to do things on your own, and hide the problems you are facing you force unrealistic expectations upon yourself. You don't have to be perfect. I will say it again. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT. Jesus took care of that and everything else we could possibly worry about. Trust Him. Relinquish your expectations and abide only in Christ.
I hope you all have a blessed Lords Day!!
Mama B
I hope you all have a blessed Lords Day!!
Mama B
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Does Jesus know anything about Motherhood??
I love my life!!! I really do!! Absolutely no doubt! I Love my life. . . Let’s be honest, I do love my life but there are days that I wish morning would NEVER come. But of course it does, and it is usually welcomed with a little tiny voice of I’m hungry. Or a baby crying in his bed cause he has pooped or peed so much the night before he is almost swimming in it in his crib. Yay for me. Not all days are bad, well depends on your definition of bad. If I can make it through a day of eating at least once and my kids getting 3 decent meals and no trips to the doctor I’m good. I’ve often wondered if it will get better as the kids get older but as I hear each new age group brings about its own unique problems. Great, that’s exactly what I wanted to hear. I wonder if Jesus ever felt this way? Actually there was a day in Jesus’s life that he knew exactly what his day was to behold. Granted it wasn’t changing poopy diapers, cleaning up after a potty training 3 year old, trying to do something that resembles “school” to a 4 year old, Hearing I’m hungry/I’m thirsty 5 seconds AFTER you sit down for a break, doing an infinitely amount of laundry. Searching on pintrest for a good kid friendly easy healthy meal, just to get it completely turned down at dinner and then realizing as you lay your head on your pillow that night (finally) the closet thing you came to a shower today was the splashes from the kids as you gave them their nightly bath. No he didn’t have a day quite like that, BUT he did go out into the middle of the woods, got down on his hands and knees and cried out to God to change his day . . . Now that I CAN relate to!!!!!!
Matthew 26:
36-38 Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane and told his disciples, “Stay here while I go over there and pray.” Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he plunged into an agonizing sorrow. Then he said, “This sorrow is crushing my life out. Stay here and keep vigil with me.”
39 Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?”
40-41 When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, “Can’t you stick it out with me a single hour? Stay alert; be in prayer so you don’t wander into temptation without even knowing you’re in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there’s another part that’s as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire.”
42 He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”
43-44 When he came back, he again found them sound asleep. They simply couldn’t keep their eyes open. This time he let them sleep on, and went back a third time to pray, going over the same ground one last time.
45-46 When he came back the next time, he said, “Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners. Get up! Let’s get going! My betrayer is here.”
Matthew 26:
36-38 Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane and told his disciples, “Stay here while I go over there and pray.” Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he plunged into an agonizing sorrow. Then he said, “This sorrow is crushing my life out. Stay here and keep vigil with me.”
39 Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?”
40-41 When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, “Can’t you stick it out with me a single hour? Stay alert; be in prayer so you don’t wander into temptation without even knowing you’re in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there’s another part that’s as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire.”
42 He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”
43-44 When he came back, he again found them sound asleep. They simply couldn’t keep their eyes open. This time he let them sleep on, and went back a third time to pray, going over the same ground one last time.
45-46 When he came back the next time, he said, “Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners. Get up! Let’s get going! My betrayer is here.”
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