Give
Your giving is changing our community.
For any inquiries or to make your tithes or offerings, please fill out the form below or contact us directly at info@gracepoint-church.com
Young Mom's Blog:
With the start of every new year, there is also the many resolutions made. Many of which will make it no longer than the first couple of weeks of the new year. At least that is how many of my resolutions went until the year I stopped making resolutions. Instead of resolutions I started a jar of keepsakes throughout the year. A jar filled with movie stubs, concert tickets, event tickets, wrists bands, restaurant receipts, pictures, shells, etc, any and everything that marked the events of the year. Even the sadder moments, like the hand out from my Mimi’s funeral. The years go by so fast, that at the end of the year instead of focusing on all that God had done and taken place, I was hyper focused on what I wanted to do or change for the coming year. But I think it’s important to pause and take a moment to look back over the year and give thanks for all that God has done and all the ways that He has shown up in our day to day lives.
This year's jar though was a bit different from previous years. There were no movie tickets, event stubs, or passes. They had been replaced with hand written sticky notes, name tags from church events, children birthday party invitations, and the tag from Allie’s first pair of shoes. And though I would be lying if I said I didn’t miss the days of exploring the world and seeing so many amazing things when we were out and about. I wouldn’t trade a single thing to get to experience seeing Allie take her first step this year. Watching my hubby and I grow together and learn how to navigate a house with an energy, love-filled toddler. Starting my first blog. Planting green beans for the first time. Being able to keep 4 house plants alive!
I am sure as the years pass the jar will be filled again with momentous marking all the adventures that my hubby and I have embarked on throughout the year.
And I am sure in those years I will miss the sticky notes. So I want to be intentional to be grateful for all that God is doing right here and now.
I have so much to be grateful for and so do you. It is so easy to look over our lives and compare it to someone else’s, to what you thought your life would look like at this point, or at previous years gone by that seemed easier. And I challenge you as you are starting off 2026 to be intentional to see all the ways the Lord is showing up around you each day. Pray to have the eyes to see all that the Lord is doing. It’s easy in the hustle and bustle of mom-ma-hood to feel like God isn’t present and you are just running this race on your own. But scripture says that those who draw near to the Lord, He will draw near to them, James 4:6.
Rest in that truth. Us mom-mas are never alone, we have a good, good Father that always shows up and is present for His daughters.
Your Friend,
Demented Unicorn
January 2026
Enjoy Both
I’ve been thinking about lasts a lot lately. Like when Allie nursed for the last time, took a bottle for the last time. The last night it was just my hubby and I in our home. The last morning we got to sleep in past 7:30. And wondering what other lasts we will all be experiencing as life continues to move forward.
Right after Allie was born my sister gave me a children’s book that was all about lasts and the underlying message was to treasure the lasts as much as you treasure the firsts. Many of us will always remember the first time we held our babies and the first time we saw them smile. But do we give the same care and intention to remember the last time our toddler wobbles over to us to be held, the last time we will rock our baby to sleep?
Even thinking about all the lasts I will get to experience had me bawling. I can safely say that I have yet to finish reading that book my sister gave me over a year ago. I have only gotten two thirds of the way through it before my tears blurred my vision. It is so easy to get lost in the business and craziness of day to day life, especially with kiddos that we may miss those last moments. Moments that we would want to cherish as much at their end as we did at their beginning. Reading what little I have of this book has made me more intentional with Allie’s lasts. Not all of them, but just an awareness when a behavior changes or a favorite pastime is no longer the favorite.
For example I remember when Allie stopped nursing, I cried because the last time we had nursed she just screamed and screamed. It wasn’t the bonding, special one on one time that it had been up to that point. My poor girl had so many teeth coming in at once that it just hurt her mouth to nurse. She could take a bottle no problem but straight from the source not so much. So I continued to pump for her and I’ll never forget a few weeks into pumping, that I got to have a redo on her last time nursing with me. It was around Allie’s nap and she was snuggling me so I decided to try and nurse her again to have a better end to that chapter and to my joy she latched and ate without any discomfort. Mainly because she fell asleep within minutes of latching on. I took out my phone and took a picture of Allie laying on the nursing pillow next me, peacefully asleep to mark the last time she nursed and then bawled again. Which I am sure is not a shock to any of you at this point in these posts, I cry at the drop of the hat. That’s just me
Now I am not saying to put pressure or take a picture of all the lasts you want to capture in your child’s or children’s lives. I have one baby and I get to stay home with her, so that is how I chose to capture those moments. I am just wanting to share the intention around lasts that I got when I was given the book. Our firsts and our lasts are all big mile markers within any life, not just our baby’s. It’s okay to pause and enjoy all the firsts and the lasts.
Your Friend,
Demented Unicorn