I want to remember...

Time seems to be slipping away so quickly and there are moments that I want to freeze in time forever...

Today was one.

I decided we would bake cookies this afternoon. We went to the store and got our supplies. Came home. Turned on Sara Groves...who is a singer/songwriter that I LOVE. And started the process.

Eventually, Lexi got sent to bed because she kept eating the dough and then was chugging the sprinkles...so it was just Haley and I. After all the cookies were done, I put her in charge of decorating while I cleaned up the kitchen.

She was so serious about it. Decorating. Organizing. Talking to herself. I just started watching her.



She looked so precious. And in that moment, every fight, every argument, every lie, every disobedient act that drives me insane didn't matter. It was my daughter standing before me and she has never been more beautiful...more perfect.

I stopped to take a picture and then I heard the lyrics of the song playing in the background...

Loving a person just the way they are
That's no small thing...
That's the whole thing.

She went outside to eat a cookie, and I just leaned over the countertop, almost like the wind was knocked out of me, and just started praying... praying that I would be the mother that she needs me to be....the mother that God has designed me to be. That I would be patient. Love her through the hard times as much as I love her in these sweet moments. I asked God to protect our relationship....to keep us close. And to help me to love her just the way she is...cause after all, that's no small thing. It's the whole thing.