A Little Help

Language intrigues me. It is fascinating how we communicate. We are able to take certain sounds grouped the same way each time and repeat words. This may sound very obvious and elementary, but in our house beginning to use the English Language correctly has been no small feat. ;) Some of our children more than others have indeed had trouble. We have come to a place, though, where we can finally understand around 90 percent of what is said in our home. Anna, being two, is doing a pretty good job of mastering the language. She mixes up some sounds here and there and has a few invented words, but we can understand her almost completely. The other day, however, she had me stumped. I knew what she was referring to but could not for the life of me understand what word(s) she was saying and why she was calling that particular object the word she kept repeating. She found a set of old mini-dumbbells. They were pink and about her size, therefore very exciting. She lit up every time she saw them as if they were the greatest thing since lolly pops! I thought maybe I could enlist your help in understanding what in the world Anna may be trying to say. If you have a second, please watch the video below and see if you can tell what she's saying. She says the word she calls the little weights a few times and then tells me she got them "in the office."



:) What in the world are paddy-paddies?!? :)

A High Calling

This song was such an encouragement to me today. I hope it is to you as well. We mothers have an extremely high calling. Even when it doesn't seem glamorous, the teaching, guiding, nurturing and instructing we do with our children may be the most important job we are called to do. With the Lord's help we may be changing the world.

07 - One Heartbeat At A Time by 6lambs

One Heartbeat at a Time
by Steven Curtis Chapman

You're up all night with a screaming baby
You run all day at the speed of life
And every day you feel a little bit less
Like the beautiful woman you are

So you fall into bed when you run out of hours
And you wonder if anything worth doing got done
Oh, maybe you just don't know
Or maybe you've forgotten

You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

With every "I know you can do it"
Every tear that you kiss away
So many little things that seem to go unnoticed
They're just like the drops of rain over time
They become a river

And you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
Oh, I believe that you
You are changing the world
One little heartbeat
At a time

And you're changing the world