The holidays are a busy time for our family. Just after Christmas we celebrate back to back birthdays! On New Year's day we celebrated Mariah's 13th birthday! Just got Matt out of the teen years and now Mariah enters the teen years. Praying we survive them with this spunky girl! :o)
Someone gave me this New Years crown when she was born. We have taken a picture of her every year. She asked me this year when I was going to stop doing it. :o)
Mariah is so excited that she has passed Madeline up in shoe size and now in height. These things are important when you are thirteen! :o)
Mariah was easy on me this year for meal planning. She requested chili dogs and a chocolate sheet cake! We had a quiet day at home with just our family. She loves Little House on The Prairie, so we all sat together and watched it in the evening. Thirteen is the age that Marc takes the girls out by themselves and gives them a "purity ring". I will post about that soon!
Mariah is a fun, energetic, creative, hardworking girl! She loves horses, drawing, all things sweet and being outside. She is my "get it done" girl! She doesn't always want to get it done, but when she is under pressure or sets her mind to it she can work circles around most people! She is at a pivotal age and I pray that she continues to yield her life to Christ. This is the age that I have seen so many parents cave to their kids. It is such a balance of "holding the line" (Marc's famous line!) and starting to slowly let them make some decisions (and sometimes fall) on their own. Not always easy and I pray that we remain diligent as her parents.
"So you shall observe to do just as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left. "You shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess. " Deuteronomy 5:32-33
No comments:
Post a Comment