Dear Kids,
The other night I had a powerful reminder of how important it is to keep writing down the stories of our lives. I had a reward moment as a mom!
We had Jeff, Julie and Jace in town and we were doing a camp fire together with them and roasting hot dogs. I'm not sure even how it happened, but Gabriel found the journal entries from 2009-2013 that we printed and put into a spiral bound book.
He started reading them. He started laughing and crying a bit. He started asking me, "Mom... do you remember when...?" There were several thing he read that I had a VERY vivid memory of when it happened, and when I wrote it down. It was a reward moment as a mother! It reminded me that YES, everything I'm keeping track of, all these stories I'm writing down ARE making a difference and they will keep making a difference... and the spirit essentially SCREAMED in my ear, "Andrea... DON'T STOP! Keep writing! Keep telling the stories of your life! They are powerful and they are something to be learned from!"
So here I am, making sure to get back onto a more consistent path of writing down my stories again. I also think because of Shayla passing away that it has become more vivid for me as well. I think of what a treasure all of this would be for all of you if something happened to me or to dad. All the stories of our family and what an amazing life we have all together! All the little moments, all the messiness, all the beauty, all the trials, all the hardship, all the conflict, all the laughter, all the small moments and big moments... everything about our life is something to be proud of. Everything that we have together that we learn from. All the emotions that we feel about it all and what it means for us as we are creating our lives and creating the very cells of our bodies.
Yes it is an amazing thing.
So I'll keep on writing and keeping track of those things. I'll keep doing it because God told me too, and because eventually it will be a gift for many people.
I love you kids,
Your Mom
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