A Very Special Day!

Yesterday was a very special day for our family. Awhile back I wrote this about my son looking for a home to buy. Little did I know at the time that he would be buying a most "special" house. Much to my joy and amazement he bought the house where Mr. P and I first lived when we were married!! Y'all, God's hand was definitely in this!!

This house was the house where as a young bride I was carried over the threshold by my handsome new husband. It was in this house where I found out I was pregnant with my son. I had done the EPT test and back then you had to wait forever for the results. I was waiting in the bedroom and Mr. P went in the bathroom not realizing the results would be showing already. When he returned from the bathroom he had a big grin on his face and Mr. P ended up telling ME that we were having a baby!! How often does that happen?? LOL It was in this house that we brought my son home from the hospital. It was in this house where he was loved on, rocked, sung to, loved on. read to, loved on, prayed with, loved on . . . . . you get the picture! I'm sure that sounds familiar! It was also in this house where I brought home his baby sister and where they both learned how to crawl, walk, talk, and LOVE! For six years we did a lot of loving and living in that house. It was a home filled with much joy and happiness and it does this Mama's heart so good to know that my son wanted to return to his childhood home!

I think the Lord has a hand in everything in our lives and I believe he definitely had his hand in this. This particular house came on the market just at the time that my son was looking for a home! I believe that the Lord led him to this house and I know without a shadow of a doubt that he will be watching over my son and daughter-in-love all the while they live there.

When I entered the home last night I felt like I had literally walked back into time. I would run from room to room showing them where the crib used to be, where I rocked them as babies, the sink where I had bathed them, where they played outside, etc... Tears of joy sprang to my eyes because of the thought of the future that they have together and the future that they will build upon in this house. As Mom moments go, this is a pretty wonderful one for me. I thought it couldn't get any better than when he proposed to our daughter-in-love on our 24th wedding anniversary, but I was wrong!

Ladies, enjoy each and every precious minute you have with your babies because it goes by sooo fast. After you have done all the rocking, and singing, and playing, and loving you can possibly do I have a prayer for you. My prayer is that one day you to will get to see your children grow into wonderful young adults and spread their wings and be ready to fly on their own. All the while still remembering where they came from, know who they are in the Lord, know the door to your home and hearts is always open, and that they tuck this knowledge into their heart for the rest of their life. One day this great and firm foundation will be passed down to their children and then their children's children. When that happens that's about the best "Mom" moment there can be!