Our new church family! We placed membership yesterday and it feels so wonderful to be back with a great group of people.
A fridge that works. (Last week it went out and we lost waaaay to many groceries. This week we're fully restocked.)
Our location. There's so much to do within a couple of hours of our new home!
Austin meeting new friends at church that are good kids.
Warm welcomes from new friends and neighbors.
Four Things I Can't Stop Thinking About:
My trip home that is coming up. (Yep, still the same as last week!)
FLYING WITH BELLE. AAAAAAH!!!
All the errands I have to run today.
Our trip coming up next weekend, TO THE MOUNTAINS!
Three Things I Want To Accomplish This Week:
Every bit of laundry. It's neverending and I want to have at least one day where I don't have a thing to wash.
Clean my car out. It's getting messy and I can hear my mom's voice in the back of my head telling me to clean it! (Love you mom!)
Purchase and install the wall mount for our TV so we can get it off of our fireplace. Nope, we still haven't done that.
Two Things I Am Working To Be Positive About:
My voice. People cannot hear me half the time, and I am talking as loud as I possibly can. I wind up with my throat muscles feeling tired after trying to talk loudly when I'm out with people.
Belle will learn how to walk on a leash by my side instead of pulling. It's a process, but we'll get there.
One Random Thing:
So.... Belle has been bringing me her treasured bones lately. Not the every day run of the mill bones, but the ones that she truly loves and tries to keep hidden from everyone in the house. She brings them to me and I'm pretty sure they are a gift from her. If I try to give it back to her, her ears go down and she looks offended. I asked Carl what I'm supposed to do with the bone and he simply said, "Start eatin'."
Sorry I haven't been blogging lately. I've been really busy during the days, and nights are reserved for family time. I hope to have a few minutes to blog soon, but until then, here. Watch this video. It's a sure thing that it will make you smile and say, "Aww."
The sweet card and letter my husband gave me for Valentine's Day.
The beautiful weather here in the valley.
You! Thank you for reading!
Belle's cuddles since she got a haircut. Three in the bed makes it a little difficult to sleep, but how she curls up under my chin is worth it.
I have a phone that I can actually talk on, so I get to catch up with my friends back home.
Four Things I Can't Stop Thinking About:
My trip home that is coming up.
Sammy is a year old now, and I SWEAR it was just yesterday that sweet baby was born.
My sweet Georgia baby, I don't want her to forget me being so far away.
Potential jobs. I've been on the hunt, and I hope I find a job soon.
Three Things I Want To Accomplish This Week:
Settle down into a church. We're having a heckuva time trying to decide which one to go to.
Put pictures in my empty frames. Seriously, they have been empty for over a year. Ridiculous.
Purchase and install the wall mount for our TV so we can get it off of our fireplace.
Two Things I Am Working To Be Positive About:
The fact that I require more sleep than the others in my household. I don't know why it is, but I'm going my best to just accept it. I already go to bed at 9:30 every night and comfortably sleep till 8 when my alarm goes off.
We have tile kitchen counters. I do not understand why anyone would make their counters made of tile. Because it's cheap? Maybe. I don't know, but I do know that grout is a bear to clean and I'm constantly lysoling the kitchen (especially after cooking meats!).
One Random Thing:
This wasn't my idea, the whole countdown thing. I jumped on he bandwagon from Lori. Thanks for the idea, Lori!
Last night, the three of us sat down to a delicious Valentine dinner made by yours truly.
We enjoyed heart shaped ravioli, in a home made tomato-cheese sauce. And you know, since it was Valentine's day and all, we ate by candle light with a rose on the table.
It wasn't the type of Valentine's day Carl and I are accustomed to, but it was still a lovely evening. Carl and I are going on a date for the two of us this coming weekend.
I wanted to show you our adorable pasta. Take a look!
I hope your day is full of love, romance, and appreciation.
Although love, romance and appreciation often go unnoticed, I hope today is the day that you take the time to feel all three.
And, to give all three.
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When I was little, Valentine's Day consisted of carefully tearing the perforated cards that my parents would buy from the drugstore, so I could give one to each of my classmates.
As I got a little older, Valentine's Day consisted of me blushing when a boy would give me a card professing his undying love for me.
Side note: I was none too thrilled with this. Especially with the fact that he told everyone in the school (where my mom worked and heard about it before I did) that we had been secretly dating for a while.)
Who said girls were the only dramatic ones? Sheesh.
Then I got a little older and my Valentine's Day consisted of me getting a card at school that said, "I love you." And I kept my classmates guessing at who the sender was. Although, I knew who it was from. My daddy.
Then came the teen years full of teddy bears, balloons, stuffed animals, chocolates and roses.
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Now Valentine's Day is still full of all those little sweet gestures, but it's more than that. It's still a romantic day that we make sure to love on each other a little extra. But, being married, it's not only chocolate and roses. It's about loving the real stuff, too. And, taking the time to really appreciate it.
This song I have for you to listen to is not about Valentine's Day, and it's not about romance. It's about real life. It describes me and Carl pretty accurately, and I'm sharing it with you because these are some of the little things that we appreciate in one another. We do our best to not take them for granted.
And this Valentine's Day, I hope you, too, find the little things to appreciate in your relationship with your loved one.
Are you a part of a prayer chain? If so, you may have experienced something like this. If you're not part of one, listen to this anyway. You'll have a nice laugh :)
I'm Lindsey.....a wife to my best friend, a mom to: a teenage boy, a baby boy, and two fur-baby girls... . My guy and I tied the knot on 6.20.09. God is great, and life is good. Thanks for stopping by my little corner of internet land!
"I remember well the day we wed, I can see that picture in my head. I still believe the words we said forever will ring true. Love is certain, love is kind. Love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find... It's something that we do."
