TOMS

Two posts in one week...that's right!
So Noel finally broke me down after weeks of asking me (literally) for money to buy new shoes...she got a new pair :)
Ok, so do you know about Toms yet?
Here's how it works, you buy a pair of Toms shoes and a child in need somewhere also gets a pair of shoes! GENIUS idea right?!
If you want to know more about the Toms Movement <-----check it out.
Even better they are super super cute shoes.
So using a bit of our tax refund, Noels tiny toes have been adorned with this adorable shoes!
I should also add, they are made really well! Nice leather soles...words from Noel..'comfy'
[note they do run mostly true to size but appear small at first as they are made to stretch out a bit, the website talks about this]

Ok so now if we're talking about good causes how about mommy getting a pair of Toms too...like
these!!!

Anyway...cute shoes + great cause = awesomeness!

In other good news take a look at these beautiful blooms!

My orchid has 5...count 'em FIVE new flowers!!! and lots more buds.. H E L L O spring!

Keeping this post as random as possible and to wrap it up....
Two nights ago, I was doing my good need of putting my dish sponge in the micro to sterilize the thing. Which I might add I typically do for 1 min. I remembered my dad mentioning something about putting it in for 3 min. to do this..
[enter thought process] my pump parts go in their little 'steam clean' bag for 3 min. to sterilize, maybe my dad has something going here?!
so popped that sucker in there for 3 min....cooked to a black crisp... fail
now my microwave smells like burnt sponge...double fail...

oh well...p.s. I gave up complaining for lent...it's not going so well ;0)

fruition

As much as I would like to be writing about some eco-green, amazing thing we have been up to lately, so that I may say that I have been living up to my pursuit.
But if I am going to be honest, I don't think we have done anything *green* in a while.  Unless re-stocking our green cleaning supplies....what a big move right?!
We DIY'd a bunch of Christmas gifts that I had all intention of blogging about, but since starting this blog I feel my priorities have shifted a bit.
MUST have something to do with growing 2 small people.

I will say we are still doing cloth diapers, and with both girls. (go green!)

But really in this post I want to talk about fruition.
Fruition as by google definition is: "the point at which a plan or project is realized
Wow, talk about not giving this word enough justice!

My quick definition..fruition...to come to the fruit! So think of it this way. You have this tiny tiny little seed (lets call it hope). You plant it, in which you hope is good soil. Sometimes soil looks good to start and then gets dry or overwatered. Basically you can plan for good soil, but circumstance (or neglect) can change what was intended to be good. But you always remember that little seed, even though you haven't seen it in a while and it's now almost seems lost buried beneath the dark black soil.  But you know it's there [faith].
So you nurture it, you care for it the best you can...of course only some comes from nurture the other part nature (my philosophy anyway).
But then finally what feels sometimes like eternity...you see a tiny little GREEN sprout!
Oh the joy...new life!!! And then...that little sprout seems to take an eternity to turn into a stem, a leaf...but without you hardly even realizing the centimeters it gains, there you have a stem...a stem strong enough to hold a bud!
And now the bud grows and grows and opens up to a flower...a fruit!!
Fruition...Amen!

I feel like we have been through this growth, new life, growing life. Some of it hard, some of it teaching us something, some of it amazing. But when you've been seeing good for a while, it's like you could almost be satisfied with the stem and leaves and then......fruit!
God is so good.

Not saying we're there, or when or what kind of fruit we're growing...but some days it feels like we have enormous buds of potential fruit just waiting to burst open.

God is so good.