Wonder....

So it has been a while since I found the time to update my blog. The reason for this is in short...we moved, "Ta da!" What you had no idea we were moving? Well neither did we. But it all worked out for the best at least on our end. My Aunt and uncle came home from their mission early for medical reasons and we are praying hard for my Aunt Louise who has cancer. (please feel free to join with us in that)...

But the subject of my update today is my musings....My little sister Tory has a favorite movie which she has been begging me to watch for a long time, which i finally did. Rise of the Guardians, for those of you who haven't seen it it is all about all those childhood heroes and how they protect the world, not just spread joy. Santa, the Easter bunny ect. ect.  The reason each of the guardians are chosen is because of some element of childhood they posses.  Santa at his very core represents "Wonder".

Since we watched the movie I've been thinking a lot about this idea of "wonder". It's true, it is a quality children posses. Everything is so much ....more when you are a kid. The grand canyon is endless, not just deep. A new toy is magical not just new. But I think true wonder is not something I really experienced until I became a mother. 

I find endless wonder in watching Annabeth. I vividly remember the moment months ago when she discovered she could command her hand to pick things up and drop them again. I could watch her fascination with the pattern on a blanket all morning and never get tired of it. The wonder she experiences as a child I experience ten fold as her mother. Which is why being a mother is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me. (Pun intended because I am married to Joseph, that's why."

-the end.