Steve and Jenny Valentine

I am a needy person.  Most people don't want to admit that about themselves, in fact, I don't really like admitting that about myself, but I am.  Even worse, some people fool themselves and say they are not needy, so therefore wouldn't need to own up to that fact about themselves.  Of course we do this...we live in a culture where we do not "need" anything from anyone.  We can literally provide for ourselves (given that we have the proper resources)... We have stores very close to our homes, where we can buy all the food, clothes and anything we need and/or want.  Or we could just stay in our home and order what we need off the Internet and have it delivered to our home, how about that for service! We have restaurants to serve us Entertainment at our fingertips Theme parks (especially for us Orlando folks) Cell phones (most with Internet access these days) Social media (where we burn up hours of time looking at peopl...

Karis is ACTIVE...and that just might be a slight understatement!  Anyone who tells you that life goes by fast and appears to be a blur when you become a parent, seems to be telling the truth.  As I'm reflecting over the past couple months, I can't help but wonder how did they go by so fast!  I'm really learning what it means to enjoy every moment with my daughter and can't seem to thank God enough for allowing us to be her parents.  She has been learning and trying to perfect several new skills and it's fun to watch her personality really start to emerge! Month 6 The biggest news of month six, was she started crawling (and not just army crawling).  Steve and I celebrated our anniversary and took Karis along to Jekyll Island; after being in the car for 5 hours, she was ready to be out of the car seat and showed us by crawling once we got her out of the car.  We could not believe it was actually happening!  (As you can imagine, we are tr...