Embrace the Mess

God is working on my heart in a lot of areas right now, but there seems to be a specific focus on my desire to control. Control and not trust, control and not love, control and not "fill in the blank". If there is one thing that having a new baby will do to your world is make it spin out of control. I'm seeing that my desire to try to control (in the midst of spinning) is leading me to be super anal about things like how clean our house is, eating healthy, etc. Thankfully God in his grace is teaching me to trust him with those things and to not allow those things to keep me from engaging the IMPORTANT things, i.e. my two beautiful boys.

So to practically fight this desire to control (while God works on my heart), Titus and I decided to embrace the mess. I know to a lot of you this might not seem like a big deal, but when you are not sleeping much with a newborn and can barely find a moment to fold laundry the thought of a dirty kitchen is overwhelming! All the other moms just said amen! :) We embraced the mess and made cookies!

We didn't just bake cookies, we made a huge mess! Titus was my helper the whole time! You can imagine how that increased the mess. Titus even did some of his own cooking with cheerios! (He stirred and dumped cheerios everywhere while I read the ingredients and got everything out!)

At one point when I started feeling overwhelmed by the cheerios we were crunching into the floor, we decided to start chanting, "mess, mess, mess". It was fun!

here's our cookies in the making, recipe thanks to jami's blog

And where was Bram during this wild time...

HERE