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It’s Eliza’s first day of daycare. I thought it would be easier since I’ve done this before, but it’s not. 😭 Thankfully her sweet teachers already sent me pictures of her taking her first daycare nap like a champ! 💪🏼 Also, Eliza’s stripe game is strong in her crib thanks to baby Max lending her an extra swaddle since I brought the wrong one 🤦🏻‍♀️
First of all, I will never know how to take a good selfie 🤳 But this morning as we were rehearsing for the @christchurchnashville service and singing “Waymaker,” I was reminded of worshiping with that same song at the beginning of last year. . @scottkcrider and I had just come through an extremely hard year in so many ways including our back to back miscarriages. I remember declaring in the midst of the unknowns that my God is indeed a Waymaker even when we don’t see it or feel it - and I remember feeling open handed with expectancy and not specific expectations (as my great Aunt Ann always reminds me to do) for what 2019 would hold - knowing whether it held sorrow or joy (and probably both), we would come through yet again knowing our God is always with us. . And now on this first Sunday of 2020, as I was declaring the same song “Waymaker,” I was undone with gratitude as these memories flooded me while now having my baby we didn’t know if we would meet sleeping on my chest as I sang. Eliza’s name means “abundance,” and we felt that word not only over her life but over our lives in this season as God continues to surprise us with such tangible examples of how He has been constantly working in and through and for us. And yet, even when we don’t see it or feel it, He is still working just the same. . So this first Sunday of the year, as we gather together to worship, may we remember some of us are worshiping in faith and some in response, some with tears of joy and some with tears of sorrow, some of us deeply aware of the nearness of our God and some unaware (though His nearness remains unchanged) - and yet our God remains faithfully always working in our midst. And oh how we need each voice joining together in praise.
Going into 2020 like...
A little photoshoot because she’s wearing a real outfit and we’ve survived the first 6 weeks, which means I’m starting to feel more human, we are all finding our new rhythm, and her personality is beginning to show, which is the best! Also, no impromptu iPhone photoshoot is complete without an inevitable photo like this last one 😉
Incredibly honored, grateful, and humbled to represent the Christ Church Choir and sing with the LEGEND Dolly Parton tonight live on the CMA Awards!!! Also, just a casual mention of our choir in Rolling Stone, nbd. What a way to dive back in after having a baby 😉
Aiden was never a great eater or sleeper as a baby (he has just been full of energy since the second he was born), so we have been wonderfully surprised that Eliza sleeps and eats like a champ!! My mom has laughed as @scottkcrider and I have both separately said “we’ve heard about these newborns that just eat and sleep but didn’t really believe they existed.” Haha. But she is doing amazing, and I am especially grateful as my recovery has been much more difficult with a hard delivery and now mastitis. Nonetheless, we could not be more grateful to now be a family of four with this baby girl! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

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