Brief Update

So, lots has happened since the last post in June. So, will try to update as briefly as possible!

Savannah has applied for, been accepted and sent in her letter of intent to Salem College for the Fall of 2010!!! Can you say PROUD?? Yes, I am!! Very! She also applied for and became inducted into NC 4-H Honor Club, the highest honor a 4-Her can receive! And once the school year started, was nominated to be on the Homecoming Court for Davie County High School. And, she has also been selected as the Special Olympics of North Carolina Spotlight Coach for November 2009 on their ENewsletter, which will also be posted to their website!! So many accomplishments!

Not much else has really happened in our lives except for, well, living! We had a great summer and are hoping to have an equally wonderful "school year". Our Special Olympics cheerleading has started back, once again, and we have 12 cheerleaders, so far! That is after losing two of our cheerleaders from last year... so, we lost two and gained THREE new ones!!!

I am so thankful to have spent the last 17 years of my life raising my best friend. Savannah has been such a blessing from God, and although I am sad to see this part of our journey together end, once she graduates, I am so excited to see who she will become! I hope I am half the person she is now, when I grow up!!!

God is good, and is ever present and moving! We have had our struggles the past few weeks, with new relationship, growing pains, etc. Savannah is at the stage in life where she does not want to part from me, quite yet, but also wants to exert her independence. Would not trade places with her for anything. She only has a few days of school as a junior left, and is ready to declare herself a senior! Hard to believe that I only have one more year with her before she is off to college. God has surely blessed me by choosing me to be her mom, would not take anything for it! She is the second best thing that has ever happened in my life, of course, my relationship with Jesus is the first! She is a teenager, and tests the limits, but she has a strong faith, will, love for the Lord, love for self and self respect, and loves to help others. With her dad not being present in her life, and the presence that he has made known not being the most positive one for her, she has really done well and tried to adapt. I am very proud of her, and could not ask for more in a daughter! I can not wait to watch the continued journey of her life, seeing how she will develop into adulthood, career, wife, motherhood, and woman of faith. To know that this life, that you mothered and cared for, will someday mother and care for her own, is a feeling so surreal. It is not the destination in our child's life, it is the joy of watching every step of the journey they take to reach it!

To God be the glory... in all things. With everything we experience in life, there is an opportunity to see God in every turn. He is ever present, even in the hard times. He is there to bring you through, so that you can share with others how His love and mercy brought you through, so that they may know Him and the power of His love! And when there are no struggles, know that God is there and has blessed you with every good thing you have received... God is SO GOOD!!!