Journaling for Jeez: November 2013

I would love to go ahead and start this by saying how disappointed in myself I already am w/ this blog gig I've got going on, or not going on I should say. I still have to update beach, pumpkin patch, more of f-ball season, Halloween and the list goes on and on. But as a parent, or even as a non-parent, that sounds familiar right? A list that goes on and on. Anyways, I digress. This post is about your Baptism Jeez. We just recently celebrated your Baptism-aversary :) 11-11-12 was a HUGE day in the life of you! Jonah Presley Jeffreys you were baptized into the Catholic Faith by Fr. Deasy at Holy Spirit Church. It was such a special day. I still remember the day clearly. I woke up with so much emotion I could barely contain my excitement. I cried ALL AM while getting you ready. Tears of happiness. I knew you had no idea just how big of a day this actually was, but one day you will. I seriously have had so many moments during Mass before you were ever here, just tearing up thinking about A. Having a child of my own and B. Having that child with me at church, experiencing the greatest mysteries our religion has to share and offer. I have prayed every single day since you were in my belly, from the moment we knew your existence that you will always grow up strong in your Catholic Faith. That you will stand up for what you believe in always, and know that you are truly blessed to be a child of God, in a Faith that started this whole thing people call religion. You have prayed countless rosaries already with me, starting again, when you were a child of God's making in my belly, from when you were a newborn rocking you, feeding you, holding you, crying with you, praying the prayers that you already know so well. Now, on the way to school, getting in 3 decades before dropping you off but making sure we say our special intentions daily for the day, as well as asking those special saints to help us out in whatever it is we need them to intercede for us. This is not only a tradition we have started Jonah, this is your Faith. A Faith that I will write once again that I pray you group up proud to represent. I can write so much more on this subject, but it is one I am truly proud of, and honestly one of the happiest days of my life- 11-11-12. The day you were Baptized. I hope your Daddy and I make you just as proud being your role models as you grow up in our family, and in our family of the Catholic Faith. This is my daily prayer. God, please give us the strength and knowledge to raise our children in the image and likeness of you, and love you above all things, for Jonah, you are the greatest gift that God has ever bestowed on us.