Day 7

Day 7 - A picture of your most treasured item.

 This is my most treasured item. This picture is not of my Bible, although I wish I could make a picture like this because it's beautiful. I am so in love with my new relationship with my Lord. I am amazed at what he will do for you when you truly open your heart to Him. I have let Him down in the past, and I am certainly still stumbling as of now but everyday brings me one day closer, and I couldn't be more excited. This is my most treasured item because without it I wouldn't know Him at all, this book is my road map. The Bible is a way of life, and I haven't read it near enough to know enough to bring me close enough to Him. Everyday gets better, and everyday is a new opportunity to learn and grow in Him and I will live everyday trying harder to please my Lord.








My 2nd most treasured item is this--->

This is Adriana's blankie, and it's something that will stay with us forever. Adriana was such an amazing baby, she never cried and if she did you knew something was wrong. There weren't many times that you would hear anything out of her, only when her stomach was hurting and when she was hot. When she got hot she would SCREAM, I would take her clothes off and in five minutes she was fine. She was a blessing for a 17 year old, and I know if I were to ever have another baby I would probably get a rude awakening. Adriana was easy to break from everything. When I was ready to take her bottle, I handed her a sippy and she was done with her bottle, she never picked up another one. When it was time to take her passie, she cried for 2, maybe 3 nights and she was done. She realized it wasn't worth crying over because Mom wasn't giving in. When it came to potty training, she was a major blessing for a girl who had no clue how to go about it. We put on big girl panties, she pee'd in them about two times and when she realized that she was going to walk around with wet panties, she didn't do it again, to the potty everytime. She was definitely a mother's dream when she was a little tike, and this blanket was the only thing that she was attached to and I couldn't imagine taking it away from her.

When we met Ron and Emily almost five years ago he was stunned that she was still carrying around a blanket at six years old. He asked me many times when I planned on taking it away from her to which I responded, "it was never in my plans." A few years ago Adriana went to church camp with my aunt Pam, they camped at Pickett State Park in Jamestown, Tennessee. We packed all her stuff for the trip and we had to include the blanket. She couldn't be gone for days without it. The day she came back she fell asleep in the car on the way home so I carried her in the house and then carried all her stuff in. As I was unpacking everything I start to get nervous because I'm not finding her blanket, and the further I get into her stuff the more I start to freak out. Finally she wakes up, and I very nonchalantly ask my seven year old baby girl if she knows where her blanket was packed away at, and she says, "yeah, Aunt Pam put it in my pillow case." Shew, disaster averted and when I told Ron he said, "well, it's a good thing you found it because I'm not driving all the way down there to get that blanket." I replied with, "I would drive to the end of the Earth to get her blankie!"

I love my baby girl, and she loves her blankie and that makes her blankie one of my most treasured items too!