The Real Wood Family

Crazy is kinda how we roll! It's way more fun that way! ;)

My Sons

"My son(s), if your heart is wise,

then my heart will be glad;

my inmost being will rejoice

when your lips speak what is right"

Proverbs 23:15-16

I Love Him...

...more today than I did the day I married him 11 years ago! He was and still is my best friend. I thank the Lord that He has allowed me to spend my life with this man! We have been blessed beyond measure.






God has given us a love worth fighting for!
Nehemiah 4:14 “...Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”

December 10th

The day that I dred every year.
The day that would have been our fourth child's birthday...this year, his 5th birthday.
The day that I never talk about to anyone...not even those closest to me.
The day that emotionally wears me out.
The day that reminds me every year of the things that I am missing out on.
The day that makes me feel lonely, like no one in the world understands my pain...even though I know that I'm one of many members of the moms-with-babies-they-love-but-have-never-met club. A club that no one...NO ONE...wants to be a part of.
The day that I'm always sure will become less painful as the years go by...but it never is.
The day that makes me want to pull the covers over my head and cry and cry and cry.
The day that, combined with the holidays, makes me miss my babies more than any other time of the year.
The day that I intentionally hang two tiny little stockings up right along side the other four, so that there is a physical rememberance of my tiny children.
The day that I think about how they get the spend Christmas WITH our Savior. They get to celebrate right along side Him. They get to worship Him face to face on His birthday!
The day that, year after year, God reaches down and proves His unmatched love and faithfulness to me.
The day that my heart is once again filled with unspeakable hope and in that hope comes joy and a peace that pass ALL understanding.

Psalm 34:18 "The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."

O Christmas Tree

O Christmas tree, how lovely are your branches! :)

(Sorry for the blurry pic...it was taken with my phone)

We finally got our tree up and decorated! In our eleven years of marriage, we have never been this late putting up our tree. Life has been busy...really busy! Regardless, it's up now and I love it!
When I was growing up, my mom would always hang the most beautiful ornaments at the top of the tree. I always thought that the top section of a tree was to be reserved for the most beautiful and treasured of ornaments, this was so that everyone could see them and see how special they were. It wasn't until I was much older, that I realized that this "tradition" only came out of my mom's desperation to keep the breakable ornaments out of the curious grasp of small children. Even so, to this day, I can't decorate my own tree any other way! As per "tradition", my most beautiful and treasured ornaments will always grace the sacred top section of the tree, reserved ONLY for such ornaments! Because it just isn't the same any other way! :)

Getting Back Where I Belong

In Your Arms

I'm turning the world off
Embracing the silence
Walking away from all the voices
That are Screaming in my ear

I've been too caught up
I've been so stressed out
All of the noise replaced the whisper
That used to be so clear

So I close every door
Put my face back on the floor

And I'm in Your arms
Where I belong
There's no other place for me
Than right where You are
Some things just don't change
When I call Your name
You never hesitate to wrap me in endless grace
When I'm in Your arms

I'm letting my fears go
Giving You control
For You are the one who holds me closer
In my soul's darkest night

Everything I see
Is so temporary
So help me to run the race before me
With eternity in sight

Now I close every door
Put my face back on the floor

And I'm in Your arms
Where I belong
There's no other place for me
Than right where You are
Some things just don't change
When I call Your name
You never hesitate to wrap me in endless grace
When I'm in Your arms

To sit at Your feet
At Your table of mercy
To gaze on Your beauty, my Lord
To drink from Your well
And be changed by Your glory
How could I ask for more
Jesus, how could I ask for more

And I'm in Your arms
Where I belong
There's no other place for me
Than right where You are
Some things just don't change
When I call Your name
You never hesitate to wrap me in endless grace
When I'm in Your arms

Amen and Amen! Lord, let it be so!