Raising Mustard Seeds: An Elmo Love Story

Intro

We named our blog “Raising Mustard Seeds” after the famous parable in Matthew’s Gospel. We had some mustard seeds of our own laying dormant in our hearts, and finally, the year before our marriage, we began to let those seeds grow. Our journey with Christ hasn’t always been easy, but it has bore more fruit than we could possibly imagine. And through the mustard seeds He planted in our hearts, He opened them to receive little mustard seeds of our own…

While Jesus in this parable is talking about how faith and our relationship with God should grow from something very small to something mighty and powerful, it’s applicable to our children as well. It is our hope that through prayer and proper parenting, our children will grow from small and helpless (tiny mustard seeds) to being mighty in Christ, so that they will be shining lights in the world and people will come to “dwell in the branches” of their faith.

So, this is our little space in the big internet where we will share our most likely crazy experiences as we start our family and we hope those who are close to us will enjoy laughing at us and with us, and maybe even learn something new :)

Friday, April 19, 2013

An Elmo Love Story

In these last couple of weeks leading up to Gianna being 3 months old, she's really gotten a lot more active. She has started to try to grab things. Well not really thingf, per se, but in specific--Elmo! Out of anything I put in front of her that I shake or that makes noise, she only has eyes for Elmo. It's quite cute, it I do say so myself, but I think pretty much every noise, move, or look she makes is pure gold, so I lack impartiality. :-)