A Blessed Mess Blog

On this rainy, icy Thursday I sit at my laptop with pure excitement!  It's been one of those days, I'm happy to report!  Work was a little crazy, but what do you expect with 7 little 3 year olds?  Gotta take the fun mixed with the drama and craziness.  Thankfully I work with a wonderful person, Ms. Leah!  I was thrilled to come home and find my used American Girl doll on the front step waiting for me.  It's always a risk to buy something used, but I've wanted to do this for so long.  My doll clothes business has been going great, but I felt like I needed to try to offer some used dolls to the buyers and I finally found a used AG doll I thought would work.  I spent more than I wanted on her, but hopefully I'll still be able to pass along a great value to someone wanting to get a nice, used condition doll for less than the price of driving to Dallas or Kansas City, or one of the other far located stores, or having one shipped to their house for $1...

Today is kind of a day of reflection for us.  Today we celebrated Sophie's 10th birthday.  Wow, it even seems weird to type that.  I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that my first born is now 10...a decade old...double digits...my goodness!  It seems impossible.  Wasn't it just a few years ago that I labored for 20 hours and finally pushed that little stinker out?  She was the most absolute beautiful little girl... so perfect!  The three years leading up to her birth were difficult.  For a year we tried to conceive a child and then after months of fertility drugs and finally achieving that conception we went on to lose that precious baby at 12 weeks.  Being the skeptic I tend to be, I was certain that we weren't meant to have that baby, that for some reason we were going to just be child-less in life.  Man, little did I know that God needed to prepare us and grow us a little bit more before He gave us that gift.  I'll never f...