My very dear friends and some respected and loved fellow bloggers are filling in for me for a long overdue weekend away with my husband.
Tag: Human Interest
Laura at Heavenly Homemakers has offered us the opportunity to share what we’re thankful for in the last year. It’s supposed to be “Grati-TUESDAY” and today is Wednesday, but I was traveling yesterday and hadn’t written this ahead of time.
I have a very dear friend named Nicki. One weekend, while we were visiting them, she made pancakes. She pulled out an adjustable measuring cup and measured everything with it – wet and dry ingredients. I was dully impressed. Then I forgot all about it. A year or two later, I was at a kitchen products party and saw one and promptly purchased it, trying to figure out just how I planned to explain to my husband why I spent $10 on a measuring cup when I had a drawer full of plastic ones, stainless steel ones, and glass liquid ones in all different shapes and sizes.
Limiting was HARD. I was all done in a day, then the next day saw something else, and the next day Gregg wanted to order something online, and the next day I thought of another great gift idea…but because we had committed to each other that it would only be three presents, from here on out, we kept ourselves from going overboard.
During this Christmas season, as we celebrate the greatest gift of Love this world has ever seen, take a moment in the busy hustle and bustle and give your husband or wife an extra word or two of adoration, admiration, love, or respect.
My husband sent this to me. I said, “I don’t get it.”
He said, “Just look at it.”
I said, “I still don’t get it.”
So, he very slowly said, “Christmas….EVE.”
I said, “OHHHHHHH, duh! HAHAHA.”
I added a Prayer Request page. You can get to it from the tabs across the top or from here. Let’s all use it and be a blessing to each other.
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve hesitated about doing this post for a while now. I am not a decorator, nor do I pretend to be. I don’t know what to do or how to do it. I can copy what someone else has done, but when I go to copy it, I have a super incredible really hard time spending the money to do it.
Case in point: my husband built the bookshelves and fireplace mantle you’ll see in these pictures in August when he was home for vacation. In August. Most of the shelves are still bare. I just really don’t know what to put on them.
But, in the spirit of the Yule, and in hoping that after I hit the after Christmas mega sales on decorating items, this will bring you a little bit of joy and maybe provide me with a “look how much I improved since last year” post next year. :)
Today is my husband Gregg’s birthday. I won’t tell you how old he is, but I might leave you a clue. :-) (Hint: today is the second anniversary of his fortieth birthday.)
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given…And he will be called …Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6)
