If any of you know my daughter Grace, than you know that all she wants to do is grow up, get married and be a mommy. She would like nothing more than for me to HAVE another baby right now! Since that is just not a reality (at least not one coming out of my belly!), she has turned her affections on our little dog Tessie. Tessie weighs about 7 lbs. and is about the average length of a newborn baby (give or take a few inches). And, aside from the massive amount of black hair all over her body, you might often think she WAS a baby. She gets put in Grace's baby stroller and is strolled all over the house, Grace holds her like a baby and rocks her back and forth like any good mom would. And, I have even had to rescue Tessie on a couple of occasions from the onesie that is not only on her but SNAPPED into place!:)( I should have taken a picture first!). I thank God for that little dog and the joy she has brought to Grace's nurturing heart!
The reason I share all this...besides the fact that it really is pretty funny :)...is that Grace notices anything baby related and truly finds great delight in it. Tonight it was my stretch marks. My shirt apparently got stuck on a couple rolls of fat (and YES...I do have fat rolls!) and exposed part of my side. Either side would have worked..you can see stretch marks on both.:) Grace was sitting next to me as we waited for Daddy and family devotions...and she touched my side and blurted out sweetly,"Mom, I like your stretch marks".
Do you know how often I have thought how neat it would be to NOT have stretch marks, let alone actually LIKING them. But leave it to my darling daughter to remind me that my stretch marks were created as God created life in my womb...resulting in 5 gracious gifts from God! So today I propose that we rename stretch marks and give them a more fitting definition...grace marks! Not after my daughter, Grace...but after the grace of God displayed not only in our salvation and in every breath we take...but in the knitting of our precious lambs, HIS lambs, in our wombs!
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I like Brook's idea, by the way. What a neat thing to try and record some of these things that are said, from each of our children. (I know... making the time is definitely a challenge!)
There is a website that publishes Blog posts into book form--- Just an idea, too, if this is of interest to you. I plan to do this (someday!) with my family's blog, to preserve the memories in hard-copy.