Fearless with Complete Trust

Ethan will be 15 months old tomorrow. He is a busy fellow moving and exploring from the time he wakes to the time he goes to bed. He is completely fearless. And he has complete trust in us as his parents. Yesterday I was sitting on the floor in his bedroom, which also doubles as our guest room and houses a twin bed. Ethan was behind me crawling around on the twin bed and looking out the window. Apparently deciding he'd rather be down on the floor he dove off the bed headfirst over my shoulder. And when I say he dove, I mean he DOVE, like he was diving into a swimming pool. My back was to him so I didn't see it coming, but thankfully managed to catch him halfway to the floor. I understand why a mothers hair may turn grey early. Was he worried I wouldn't catch him? Nope! He was laughing and thought it was great fun, and given the chance I bet he'd do it again.

I find myself wishing I was completely fearless. I wish I had complete trust. If not in earthly things then at least when about my Father's business. But I lost that along the way. Ethan challenges me every day to think about my relationship with my heavenly Father and I can only pray I'll be a better Child as I learn from my own.

He loves to climb up on to the rocking chair...and then onto the bed.

Climbing again...I find him in all sorts of interesting places!

Look mom! I'm up high!

My Poor Abandoned Blog

The funny thing about a blog is that it doesn't lie. I can say to myself that I haven't posted for "a while," and think in my head that my last post was in December. But the data doesn't lie...yes, it was September! Ethan was 9 months old and we opened the Vimeo account I had forgotten about!

September was also the month our newly mobile Ethan decided he didn't want any more pictures taken and threw away our camera. Well, we think he threw it away or recycled it. He likes to recycle lots of things! The months have gone by so quickly since then. He is a toddler now and while I type is sitting on my lap laughing because he just figured out that when he moves the mouse it moves the arrow on the screen. :)

Recently I started a new blog named "Escaping Debt." Money is a funny thing. We all interact with it, we all need it, yet so few of us want to talk about it. I've been blogging for a while (anonymously) about our journey to becoming debt free (the journey continues...and will continue to continue for many years unless something exciting happens like winning the lottery we never play!) but wanted a place that I could share things with friends too. But my other blog is more about money and homemaking than TJ and Ethan and family things...though the two will probably intersect!

In starting the new blog I realized that my family blog was abandoned. And that maybe now is a good time to resurrect it! I don't plan to post often, maybe once every couple weeks as a goal. And if I find I post more often than that...great!

The sun has come out and the rain has gone, so I'm going to take Ethan out for a romp in the yard. And maybe today I'll even put the right size shoes on his feet. :)