My Most Precious Jewels...

In our house, we call kisses smoochies and hugs squeezies. We love snuggles (nuggles as Sunshine pronounces them), bunny kisses (rubbing noses), and cuddling. We love doing all of these any time of the day. I steal kisses when we tuck them in before we go to bed and I love to cover my Little Man with smoochies when I'm feeding him at 3 am. Yes, I would LOVE to be blissfully asleep, like my husband, but I am beyond thankful for this precious being that I am holding.

Oh so fast this season of coos, snorts and snuggles goes by. So, I'm holding my babies every second and in every way that I can. Proverbs 31:10 says, "Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies." (NLT) I believe that the Proverbs 31 woman knows the importance of being a mother as it is a gift from God. Parenting is work, but not "a job". It is a privilege and not a right. It is the most complete challenge a person can take on with no certainty of the outcome. Yet, we do it with complete surrender of our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls.

I prayed for my future children and the mother that I would be. I prayed for my children when I was pregnant and the character they would embody. I continue to pray for myself to be the mother that God needs me to be for each individual child. I pray for my precious babies and the choices that they will make as I earnestly desire them to choose to accept Christ and live according to His will.

In the blink of an eye I will be an empty nester. Yet, even then, the most precious jewels that I will ever adorn are the arms of my precious angels that God is so graciously allowing Mr. Wonderful and myself to raise. I know they are His. I'm thankful that they are His. I'm forever grateful that He loves me so much that my jewels are called Cupcake, Sunshine, and Little Man. Thank you, Lord, my cup runneth over and my jewels are the most precious and priceless, for me, in the whole Universe.