I had been praying for several years that God would send me a husband. I prayed for what seemed like a long time, about five or six years. I was about fourteen when I realized that I was approaching dating age. In my parents eyes, we were not aloud to date until we were sixteen, and really this is not a bad idea. I have to appreciate the raising that God blessed me with each day. However, I will not lie I thought some of there rules were a little weird, but what teenagers doesn't. We still joke about the fact that until the day I got married that I had to be home during the week at 9:00. By the way, I think I was the only child that had to be home at 9:00. God truly blessed me with a wonderful husband. We will be married four years on July 14. Shane has been everything I have prayed for and much more. One thing that I learned when I was praying for a husband is that God sees the bigger picture. It is easy for us to focus on a small piece of the puzzle, but God knows the end results. I am reminded of Jer. 29:11 when it simply tells us that He knows the plans that he has for us, plans for a hope and a future. I have to thank God each day for all the blessings that he places in my life each day. I sing a song at church call "Drinking from my Saucer," in this song it talks about being blessed so much that your cup is overflowing. Each day that I live I can look around and truly see that my cup has overflowed many times.
Several Months after we married I found out that I would be having a baby. This was overwhelming, and exciting. I could not wait until I would find out the babies' gender. I will never forget it Shane and I would take quizzes on the internet to see if we could figure out what gender the baby would be. I know this sounds crazy, but it was exciting. I could hardly wait until my twenty week ultrasound when they would tell me the babies' gender. Finally the day came, the baby was not wanting to take any part in our game of finding out his gender. We tried everything, finally after an hour and half she decided to cooperate. They finally told me its a girl. One could only imagine my excitement. I was excited it would be about four months and Kennleigh Taylor would arrive on August 22,2008. I counted down the days. I could not wait until she would be born, and I could come home and just rock and sing my heart out. It didn't work this way with Kennleigh. In fact, I thought I would get to sit and hold her for at least four months... Not. Kennleigh had other plans for Mama, we would be sitting up at three and half months, crawling at four and a half and walking at ten months. I learned so much from Kennleigh everyday. I will never forget the day that I truly learned from her. Kennleigh and I were going to go shopping, and I had been teaching her how to clap and she just would not do it. It really did not matter what I tried or how hard I begged she refused to clap. I was driving and practicing my song that I would sing at church on Sunday. I herd something and glanced in my mirror. Yes, it was Kennleigh clapping and laughing while I sang. God revealed something to me that day. It was like he said,Leigh, do you see how she did that when she was ready or her timing, thats how I work in My timing. He was saying he is always Right on time and amazingly enough he used my eight month old child to reveal this to me. I knew that God worked in his timing, but I had not thought about it like this before this particular day.
So we had two and half wonderful years with three of us. Kennleigh always kept us on our toes. We never knew what she would say or do, but each day was a true blessing from God.
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