Coming out of Hibernation in the ROC!

Hey Momma's!! Happy Mothers Day!!!  It has been a crazy couple of months over here and I am sorry we have had to put off our moms night the past two months.  I know many of you have been asking.  Soooo the next one has been scheduled for Friday May 30th.  I know a lot of you prefer Saturdays but it just wasn't possible.  I just returned from a refreshing weekend in Vegas where I am happy too say I enjoyed laying by the pool soaking in the sun with a strawberry daiquiri  in hand a little too much! lol! Now that I'm back,  I am  running all three kids to their spring sports and Friday night is the only night we don't have something going on.  I have two in soccer this year and one in baseball!! As well as gymnastics and Jiu-Jitsu sat am!! AHHHHHH!!!! LOL!!!  My brain is going to explode trying to keep this all strait.  I am sure to show up with the wrong kid at the wrong place in the wrong clothes at least once I'm sure!

 I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the sunshine as you come out of Roc's hibernation!!! It has sure been a long awful winter!  I know I was starting to go out of my mind for SURE!  Especially after we had those two beautiful days..... and then it SNOWED!!! whahhhhhh!!!! 

I was feeling especially mopey not too long ago... you know those days,  no sunshine, probably vitamin D deficient as a result which can leave you feeling depressed enough without the fact that your cooped up in the house with children, isolated from most of the world and spending your days doing endless laundry and dishes! then lets just add some PMS ontop of that and a kitchen that is a complete unorganized disaster with no doors cuz your remodeling.  And yes I wanted you to read that all in one long spewed out sentence for effect. ;)

So, I was feeling this way and thinking who am I to encourage moms, to run a moms group? I am a freaking mess half the time!!! Lol!!! Well that same day, just in the everyday things I was doing, I met a mom.  I made a connection with a single mom that was visiting our church and just in a few kind words over our boys being the same age I made a small difference and made her feel welcome her first time visiting.  I felt like God whispered in my ear on the way home, "See, you don't have to have it all together to serve me and make a difference, you just have to be willing"   It reminded me of a verse, 2 Corinthians 12:9 , "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness"  When we are "weak" realizing we can't do it all on our own, we are forced to depend on God and his strength and in that we are strong.   

So Moral of the story...... as we all come out of our winter hibernation be looking for that new mom with the crazed look in her eyes that has been cooped up all winter with a nursing, crying, pooping, stole my body newborn, or maybe that is you? If THAT is YOUUUU, look for the mom with the older kids pulling her in five different directions at once, buried in sports equipment, breaking up sibling fights, constantly stocking up on snacks for the every growing, eating you out of house and home boys! you need eachother! you can encourage eachother! We have the hardest Job and we often feel isolated but that is far from the truth! Open up to someone, risk looking like a crazy interaction deprived mother and maybe you will have the opportunity to encourage another mom and be encouraged yourself! :)

On that note, I hope to see you all on MAY 30th!!! I hope you all have a great mother's day!!! and I will leave you with some mom humor! 

Love,
Shannon