About This Blog.

     I started this blog after blogging at www.prayingmomof3.blogspot.com for several years.  However, I never felt that  Praying Mom of 3 was right.  I was, am and always will be a Praying Mom of 4.  When I started that blog, I was a praying mom of 3...but soon found out it was going to be 4.   You see, when I married Paul,  I became a mom to a 10 yr old little boy named Jack.  Jack was my first blessing, he was my "red headed step child"(we told each other this as a joke), my son!     9 months after Paul and I were married, we were blessed with our first daughter Kylie.   Eighteen months later we were given the gift that is Alaina.  Our family was then complete....or so we thought.  Almost two years to the day after Alaina was given to us, our second son Jason came into this world...a melody all to his self.  

    After Jason, our family really was complete.  We had Jack, Kylie, Alaina and Jason.  Each one a different  note yet all tied together in the same song.

   So I searched and searched and thought and thought for a name for a new blog.  It came to the point that I quit blogging on Praying Mom of 3 because I was not inspired, or even led to blog.   I prayed for a new blog name.  Prayed, and thought and prayed.  And finally I gave up.  And started blogging spradically again under my same old blog name.

    Jack grew up, got married to his wife Amber, gave us our first grandchild Eli and was the wonderful Godly man we always prayed and wished and dreamed he would be.  Then September 9th, 2010 changed our lives forever.

    That Thursday will forever be in our memories as will the day before and lots of days after.  That Thursday, Jack was taken home to be with God forever.   He was killed on his way to work by a flash flood at the young age of  19 years, 11 months and 3 days.  Just 27 days short of his 20th birthday.    How our hearts broke, our tears flowed, our prayers were numerous, our understanding was minimal.....but we slowly picked up the pieces, are still picking up the pieces......there are pieces that will never be picked up....

   A few weeks after when all was settling down, I was trying to think of a post for my blog...I had not posted about Jacks death...as a matter of fact, the last post I had was the Monday before for Monday Meanderings...

  I had asked my sister for blog name ideas and she had told me to think of my favorite song.....at that time, I could not think of my favorite song....all I could think of was how we were going to make it through the next days, weeks, months, years.   Then as I was driving down the road  with my three little blessings  a few days later, a song came on the radio that I had heard often and loved and sang at the top of my lungs every time I heard it.    "Better Than a Hallelujah" by Amy Grant   .

God loves a lullaby
In a mothers tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.
God loves a drunkards cry,
The soldiers plea not to let him die
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

The woman holding on for life,
The dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes
The tears of shame for what's been done,
The silence when the words won't come
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody

Beautiful the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

Better than a church bell ringing,
Better than a choir singing out,singing out.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah


Repeat Chorus

  And the name hit me...."Life's little Melodies"    So I asked my wonderful amazing big sister what she thought of it and she told me she thought it was great!!!!  

   Our lives are all a lot of little Melodies enter-twined and linked together in one great big Song!   My melody was meant to be mixed with Paul's, Jack's, all of our kids, Amber's and Eli 's....... God hears all of our cries, the good, the bad, the heartbreaking ones.  He heard all of our melodies turn sad the day that Jack's ended.  But you see, even though Jack's own little melody ended, the part that he played in our song goes on and on.....Jack's melody will always be a part of our lives.  Always!!!! 

So while this blog was thought of and named and created around Tragedy,  It will always be a  place where I journal our day to day melodies.   Living a Godly life, Loving my wonderful husband, Homeschooling our three wonderful songbirds, trying to be more frugal (wisely using what God has blessed us with), photography of God's wonderful world and blessings, recipes of wonderful meals we share.   All in All,   this is our song....our Melodies.  

Please come along and join us on our journey of writing our song.  

Many Many Blessings

Crystal

   (Cryssi)