Birthday!

I feel so loved today. Well actually all week. I tried to celebrate my birthday on Monday when we were all going to drive out to Siesta Key and go to an awesome seafood place and my favorite beach in the whole world and then eat fancy cupcakes. Well, Stace got held up on a closing and seeing as Siesta is 2 1/2 hr drive my parents and sis couldn’t make it.  So Mike and I drove down (across?) and ate Clam Chowder at our place and then spent 2.5 minutes on the beach. It turns out it IS kinda winter here and the sand there is so white it looked like snow to me. Florida snow. So we went to the mall and then drove back drinking chai tea and had cupcakes at 10:00 pm with my family. Yesterday we went out to work birthday lunch and then had dinner with high school friends at Agave Azul an incredible Mexican place. Today I had my favorite blonde lunch at Olive Garden to celebrate and we’re going to Cheescake factory tonight to try and celebrate with the whole family again. I am writing all of this down so next time I complain about having a b-day close to Christmas I will reread this post and realize I have been blessed way beyond what I deserve. The head of the seniors ministry just called and sang me happy birthday over the phone. My friend is taking me out for birthday sushi lunch on Saturday. Best birthday week ever!

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Erica’s Bridal Shower

One of my lovely friends Erica is getting married. We have been friends for probably 6 years and I couldn’t be happier or more excited for her. Her fiance Brent owns Redlight Redlight an awesome bar downtown and it was the perfect venue to hold her bridal shower. Everything was perfect down to the last detail and the FOOD was amazing. Truffles, chocolate covered pomengranate seeds, chicken salad croissants, mini grilled cheese, fresh mozzarella and tomato skewers, cherry cupcakes.. I could go on and on. Suffice it to say I ate way too much and probably had 4 glasses of champagne and lemonade before we attempted to make the ultimate wedding dress out of toilet paper. Great friends, great food, great time.

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A Conversation of sorts

From the first letter I typed this felt like it was going to be a long post. So much has happened this year but now I find myself in the last pivotal weeks of this year and it may be time to turn the kaliediscope and get a new perspective on life. Scratch that it is time.

So what has changed… we now have a new puppy Riley and she’s getting bigger and cuter and rascallyer (should be a word) but she definitely feels like part of our family and seeing as it’s the 14th we may get to take our Christmas photo card before it actually hits Christmas. Mike is starting a new job in the new year and it’s one that he is really excited about and definitely a blessing from God. We can again start to save up for a house and a yard for Riley so it’s exciting that’s on the horizon.

I am approaching the threshold of over processing what it means to be sad. I have been sad. I didn’t run away from it and I feel like I stood through many rainstorms and downpours and all of it has washed over me and I feel like it’s time for the sun to come out again. I understand that it will always be part of me and my life but it’s also time to not be afraid to live a recklessly faithful life. I believe in God’s blessings and as someone told me, God’s blessings never run out.

I’m excited it’s going to be Christmas for reasons that I didn’t anticipate. Just because something looks different from what you expected doesn’t mean there isn’t joy in it. I am also discovering a love for new aspects of ministry. I found myself in the position to plan our entire Christmas eve service (!) and after getting over the fact that it was overwhelming I absolutely love seeing the kids in angel wings and shepherds outfits as they beg their parents to go to our service on Christmas eve. It has also been awesome to plan our music and Stacey and I are singing a duet on Christmas eve. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….

Love, Lynn

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So it’s time..

We could start trying to have a baby again if we wanted to and the point of this blog is not to say yes or no to it but just to acknowledge all the different emotions and experiences that come with it. Life got harder this year but it also got a lot less insurmountable. The things that used to scare me don’t anymore which I think is a sign of strength. I now approach a lot of life experiences knowing if I don’t surrender them then they have the power to keep me awake at night. The first time we wanted to start our family it was exciting and happy and I couldn’t wait. Then we had to wait and knew beforehand how long it would be. It was a conscious decision that we should make the best out of these months because they were going to come and go whether we liked it or not. I also feel like I understand the weight of this decision and no matter how heavy it gets it’s a burden I want to carry. There’s a lot of love here and more trust and faith than I could even imagine. And I think God can take all that and create something so beautiful.

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Hello December

I wish I had news to report but right now I am waiting and praying and trying to distract myself from the fact that it’s hard to wait. Sometimes that’s all you can do. This is the first day of december and it marks a whole year of blogging and it hit me what a year it’s been. I’ve had some of the hardest days of my entire life this year but I think this will be the year when I look back and realize it was the year I grew the most. The year I struggled to be thankful and the year I learned what thankfulness really was.

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