this is a new school season for my family & things are changing up in the deter household! my babies will ALWAYS be my babies, but they are growing up, so freakin’ fast! kinda too fast! ðŸ˜and, when people say the days are long & the years are short, man, are they accurate!
i cannot believe that chloe is now in 2nd grade & olive is in k5! although, the fact that they are at an amazing school with awesome teachers, has made this transition 100 times easier! #wontHedoit!?
you can bet your bottom dollar, that though things are ever changing in my season of motherhood, it’ll always include me crying out to God for help & wisdom, because i need it, like all the time. i mean, here i am, with this incredibly important role of being a mother, flawed as i am, yet, redeemed, graced, gifted & entrusted with the epic privilege & responsibility of raising my two beautiful girls. but, in all this, God is faithful & has supernatural power to work all things together for His good purposes & glory, so ima trust Him to work it all out & not lean on my own understanding. He’s got this!
switching gears, let’s talk about their little style choices…….i got these cute, metallic pink backpacks on sale at jcrew last year because their quality & sales are always obscenely good. i love these shirts & just had to have them for my little girl gang! you can find them here! i rarely buy them shorts because i prefer to just cut-off jeans instead. i found ’em here & here . and, these long socks, classic vans & converse tie this look togetha pretty good!
styling my girls is so fun & love it, but even if they didn’t have this cute stuff on, it would never, ever subtract or add to their worth & value. simply, because their worth & value is not tied to the temporal. it’s not tied to how they are styled; it’s not tied to their outfits. what a freeing viewpoint! seriously! when i was younger & started to notice clothing & etc, i was def particular about what “vibe” i was going for & really wanted to express myself in certain ways because not only did i think it was cool, i thought my identity was solely rooted in visible stuff, such as clothing. i thought if i wore the “right” thing, it would make me not only make me valuable & noticed by others, but that my uniqueness was tied to the branding & styling of clothing i was trying to rep. my misunderstanding of this whole thing caused major identity issues, striving, comparison & shame. thankfully, God has since revealed truth to me & set me free in all this! sooooo, now, i am teaching this to my daughters & all women, who are willing to listen & want freedom & true confidence. do not get me wrong, i think it’s so fun & fine to style oneself creatively through fashion. i totally do that! but, i now i know better. this truth is rooted in God’s word & has set me free & given me the confidence to step into all that God has for me, which will produce freedom in my girls too! this truth is life & freedom for all who want it!
thanks so much for reading! what are your thoughts? i would love to know!
love,
sarah
