Moving

Ok...so after some time I realized it's silly for my blog name and site address to not match.
Now they do...but that means you have to move. :-)
Please note the new address is:
Thanks!
Sara

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Go Away Mom....


....I'm eating after a my big swim race!

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DANGER: Restricted Area

I'll tell you where I went to see a sign like this.......


...later but I will tell you his name is Charlie.
I loved Charlie.
Don't you just want to hug him?!? I do.

....More to come....

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Madelyn, Jessica, Sarah and Mark

Last night was a huge sleep party in my room....meaning the kiddos & I slept in the same bed…
if you can call it sleeping when your hanging on the foot of the bed .... hoping to not get kicked again while listening to the grinding of your son's teeth.
Its so nails on the chalkboard for me...makes my skin crawl.

We, ok rather, they wake up....which means it's time to wake the Mommy. Violently woken by two kids jumping on you...yeah! I’m up, I’m up.

We proceed to enjoy our morning cuddle and tickle time...when Hope just out of the blue stated:

Hope: "When am I going to get a big belly?"

Me: (not quite sure what she's referring too....this could be dangerous to my ego as she & Mark enjoy calling my tummy - jelly belly - go ahead and laugh....sadly it's true) Careful not really wanting my ego hit today I ask, "What do you mean?"

Hope: "When I become a Mommy, I'm going to have three girls and a man. I'm going to call them Madelyn, Jessica.....and Sarah after you Mommy. She laughs, "He he"...(she's got the cutest laugh) And I'll have one man....he will be Mark's twin named Mark."

Me: "Ok, so long as you're done with college and married before any of this takes place."

Hope: "I'm going to get my dph....just like MARK (this was yelled)."

She means PhD but hey...she got the letters so I won't fault her.

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Becoming Elliott ~ Defined

Life is about the journey, it is not about "being, but the becoming."

Definition:

becoming…adj. fit, suitable, congruous, proper, graceful, belonging to the character or adapted to circumstances…

Elliott....Origin: Hebrew, "Close To God"

"This life, therefore, is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness; not health, but healing; not being, but becoming; not rest, but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."--- Martin Luther


This blog is about my journey of Becoming Elliott.

Always,
Sara

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