Tristan Holt Barber is SEVEN: January 2016

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Mommy 1975

See... told you we look alike!!!

Aunt Trish and Uncle Jack's house... 1975 (ish)

Valentine's Day 2016 - here we come!

I found a template...

Printed out the sheets, and cut the hearts...

and I LOVE how they came out!

T signed each one after we glued on a pink heart...

and how cool is this bouncy ball!??!??

Then we bought some chocolates for his after school teachers Ms. Emily and Ms. Charlene

Found these very sweet tags (that were not so sweet to cut out)

added a bow.... and voila!

and finally some nice hand lotion for his 3 teachers that I adore

Hopefully everyone feels a little of the love!

Pretty excited over here!!

Hmmm, what to do....

82 and sunny here.... same for you?

OOPS- SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRY!!

You hang out with old blue eyes.... in the hammock

Church - CHECK!

Lunch at Benihanas - CHECK!

Groceriers done - CHECK!

Food prep for the week - CHECK!

HANG with your child - CHECK!!!

Loved every second of today. Thank you Lord!!

Friday, January 22, 2016

Report Cards are in - great job Nugg!

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Wild Kratts LIVE! kind of night!

I asked T what he wanted for his bday.. and he chose Wild Kratts LIVE! show... and I'm glad he did because it was fun!

Mrs. Tracy was kind enough to drop the little man off at my office... after homework - he quietly played on the ipad and played with everyone in my office!

Then we headed off to our date night!

We had dinner at Chick-Fil-A (shocked he chose there!)

and then we headed to McFarlin Auditorium for the show.

Check out these seats!!!!

I tried to get a shot of us but he pinched his finger in his chair so he was sad...

then the show began!

and there was so much screaming and jumping and more screaming

we had a blast and Martin and Chris did a great job

So thankful to have special moments with you Tristan

and I absolutely love sneaking a peak at you in the moment - PURE JOY written all over your face!

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

When all you can do is worry, it's time to pray

Oh T, my heard is so sad, so heavy. Unless God moves in a big way, you won't be going to TCA with your friends but hopefully you will remain at Grace until we can figure out what to do.

TCA is an insane amount of money, just completely out of our budget, as is Grace Academy but God HAS provided and I'm praying He does again. God works miracles all the time and we need one. Well, we need one IF this is in His will.

If I could get a job there it would be the answer to ALL of my prayers and help us so much. I would make less money but we could have generally the same schedules, and life would have much more balance. I have wanted to be a stay-at-home mom so bad ... well... I love working but I've wanted more time, more flexibility and I don't have that and I know this will be a huge regret for as long as I live.

I stare at what is in the checkbook and what is needed and they are so far from coming close to being even... so far. I hate that you will be separated from Grayson, but you survived Cohen being gone. I hate that we won't be on sports teams anymore, everyone will be gone and there aren't enough boys in your school to make a team so where does this leave us? I don't know. It leaves me sad, and depressed and scared and angry. Angry that I can't do more.

Why am I even writing this? Well, I guess it would be nice to see that God DOES answer prayer (if that's in His will) and if He doesn't... we'll see what he does on the other side.

Daddy and I discussed moving but we'd have to fix up our house and that won't be for a while. You will NOT be in public school... like over my dead body - it's horrible here... and I can't quit my job.

Mommy is sad, and scared and feels very alone. But sitting here I am reminded, if we say we believe, we have to believe in the good, the bad and in the unknown. I'm in the unknown but holding fast to the knowledge that God is GREATER than anything we could ever face. I have to trust that you WILL be ok.