The crack of dawn....

Today actually started at the crack of dawn.. YAY... except my ideal "crack of dawn" morning was going to be ME waking up and making some hot chocolate, having my quiet time (in the quiet), making my pumpkin loaves, cleaning the kitchen and showering all before Anna woke up. Instead, Anna woke up at the crack of dawn (if six o'clock is considered to be the crack of dawn) with me so WE fixed her a bottle, had a quiet time (NOT in the quiet), had breakfast, and made the pumpkin loaves.





Yes.. the yummy pumpkin loaves are making my house smell delightful!!



Click HERE for the recipe.. it's not mine. I found it online. It isn't quite as scumptious as Starbucks' pumpkin loaf but it's pretty tasty if I do say so myself. The recipe makes three loaves so it makes for a good "gift-recipe".

So eventhough my morning wasn't quite MY morning.. we had a good time. After Anna ate a little breakfast she played in her walker while I made the bread. She only ran me over a couple times and pulled my pants down four times!!



She definitely knows who I am and how to get my attention! Multiple times I would feel the tugging on my shorts and hear her sweet little voice whinning, "Mommy".. which is more like "Nawnee-nawnee" over and over until I would look at her and say, "Yes, that's me.I'm mommy." Then she would just smile and go back to checking out the kitchen.



After the pumpkin loaves were in the oven I started to clean up the kitchen. AND... THIS is when I praised the good Lord for my many, many blessings! After loading the dishwasher in a split second Anna rolls her walker over to the dishwasher and I see/hear her grab for a paring knife. She didn't get it (thankfully) but then I noticed only one was there. I looked in her other hand... and THERE she had the other one. I very calmly took the knife from her little fingers and checked her all over.... (At this age Anna thinks everything is hers and a sudden move from me usually indicates a "game" to her- so yes, I did this very calmly!) Then I praised God that she hadn't cut herself. Even though she only had the knife a split second. it was a very scary moment for me!

I of'course didn't want to put that part of the morning in my post (because no one wants to tell a bad story on themselves) but anytime we can praise the Lord and give Him the glory we should!!
I do praise the Lord all the time for this precious little bit and today I truly am so thankful she's safe and healthy too!



The rest of our day has been pretty good. I should have known it was looking up when I walked into a store and THIS was posted on the door:



I'm sorry but that is the funniest sign ever. I had to take a picture of it (naturally, naturally).. haha. What in the world could have happened that they felt the NEED to post that sign? I mean, it's got to make you wonder... I couldn't help but tug my pants up some..haha!

Next I saw this:



I just loved this picture because daisies are my all-time favorite flowers and this beautiful butterfly was just hanging out there. I decided that maybe I DO need to start bringing my camera with me on everyday store runs!

I hope you all have a delightful rest of your day! I'll be back soon!

Oh.. and if you thought "Keep on reading on" sounded strange yesterday.. it did. BUT ...when I was a senior in highschool our youth minister was giving a blessing and you know how sometimes when you are praying out loud if you lose your train of thought for just a second you get all nervous and your words sometimes get jumbled up? Well, this happens to me ALL the time and it happened to him that night! In his prayer he said "...and Lord, I just thank you for what you've given us and I pray that you just help us to keep on...(short pause)..keepin' on". Haha.. You know the class clown that I was couldn't let him get away with praying that we keep on keepin' on... so here nine years later I still can't start to say "keep on...(anything)" without thinking about that.

So, y'all have a good day and "keep on reading on"! =)