Wife talk

Husbands, your wives need you to ...

1. GIVE UNEXPECTED SURPRISES. Your wife loves unexpected surprises you give them. An occasional unexpected small gift, her favorite candy, flowers, come home from work early for some quality time or surprise her with a romantic night out. Consider some weekend morning greeting her with breakfast in bed when she wakes up or fix her favorite meal and clean up after yourself. Unexpected surprises aren't just for Valentine's Day ... do them all the time.

2. ARRANGE THINGS WELL. If you take your wife out (and you should do this regularly), you make all the plans. Get reservations at a restaurant she likes, you line out the babysitter and then tell her what time to be ready.

3. DO THE LITTLE THINGS. Women love it when their husbands take time to do the little things. Like giving her your full attention when she's talking about work, the kids or anything else going on in her life. Make her, and what she's got to say, more important than your phone, a ballgame or anything else. Give her quality time.

4. TAKE AN INTEREST IN HER INTERESTS. Try to find out the thing that your wife always loves to do and agree to do it together on a weekend. AND IF YOU DO, try to honestly enjoy it without complaining

Weekend Recap

Friday 

I had my friend Amy over for the day, we hung out here with the baby, then we went to a little diner that is up the street from my house.  We had a fun time. After they left I had a migraine headache and took a nap, it didn't up to  much. 

Today was my Brothers College graduation- he makes me so proud, I wish I could have been there

My College Graduate- this is his 3rd grad that I missed

High school 

Univeristy 

College 

Him and His beautiful girl 

Now he is off for his work term and then the real world starts for him. 

Around 5:15 pm we went to help our new Pastor and his family move in, I really like them already and cannot wait to get to know them 

Brooke had a sleepover with two of her friends from school

Girls are laughing so much, it does a momma's heart good because only living here for 3 years... it was a fear of this momma's heart that she would not have any friends here, she proved me wrong, she is pretty well liked with her friends

Saturday:
My day started super early
we had to run errands before the Farewell party for our Pastor
here are some pictures of the decor and some others

It was a super fun day, very busy for me because I am the hospitality coordinator here at church so I needed to be there from start to finish so I came home and took a hot bath and a nap, then I needed to go to Walmart to get some groceries. Call me crazy because that is how I felt 

Sunday:

Here are some pictures because we had a crazy busy Day..
Brooke had her year end concert at school

Then we had a mini photo shoot- these were by a beginner because I have no idea what I'm doing but every now and then I like to get out my camera and take some pictures with it, sad to see that nice camera just sitting there on a shelf after all the money spent on it ;)

Have a great week, I am off til Tuesday so I'm gonna enjoy my monday 

Ghost Boy- Review

Martin Pistorius was an active little boy, until the day his body began to inexplicably deteriorate. Within 18 months, Martin was completely non-responsive, spending his days strapped into his wheelchair, staring into nothingness. 

Martin provides us with such an immense insight into the value of life, one that doctors washed their hands of, one doctors said should be left to die, a life people thought worthless, a life many objectified and abused. Just imagine being fully cognizant, inside your own body, but unable to communicate in any manner, no sounds, no movements, nothing, a "vegetable". Martin knew God was real and with him in the darkness just as he knew God knew he, Martin, was real. With God's presence, he persevered until one day a caregiver convinced others that there was more to Martin than they all thought. An inspiring story of love and the preciousness of all life. A must read!!

5 TIPS FOR SINGLES ...

I usually only share Married couple stuff but I came across a single's blog and I realized I need to post some encouragement for those of you who are not married because I know it can be lonely. I also know I have some single friends that read here, well today this is for you.


1. Love when you're ready, not when you're lonely. Don't just settle for someone.

2. A bitter person will say, "All men/women are the same." A wise single person will quit picking the same type of person.

3. If you're going to make love to that person you're in love with, doing it wearing the safest thing ... a wedding ring.

4. Your self-worth shouldn't be defined by your Facebook relationships status. Whether your "in a relationship" or "single" God loves you a TON. Base your self-worth on that.

5. Satchel Paige said, "Love like you've never been hurt." Taking your past hurts into your new relationship will sabotage it from the beginning.

Weekend Recap

Friday:

My day started early for a day off.. my dr wanted me to go for a full blood work as she had found some pre cancerous cells so she wanted to check everything. 

Then I had to go see her after my blood work- thankfully all blood work came back ok and nothing to worry about. 

She was worried about other issues though- I have not been feeling so great since Monday- I thought it was a case of gastro bug, but she was thinking it was something  serious with my bowels and wanted me to go for more tests at the hospital but I thought I would come home and try more fluids but by 6 pm I knew I needed to go to the Emergency and see what they thought. 

So I got triaged and they took me right into a bed- they started an IV for fluids and I waited for the dr,  he ran some tests and he told me nothing showed up with my bowels and it was a case of bad food poisoning and bad dehydration.. it was a relief to know nothing more was wrong. 

Saturday:

I woke up and I was feeling so much better after getting the fluids… I cleaned the house after a week of not feeling up to doing anything, sleeping a lot and no energy at all..  it was good to be able to clean.  Hubby and I went into town after that and picked up a couple of groceries that I needed. 

Moses came for dinner and we watched hockey. Cristie was going to come over after dinner but she wasn't able to make it, she has been working a lot and needed to rest. 

Sunday:

It was our assistant pastors last sunday with us, our full time pastor is leaving on June 14th, 

I don't do well with good byes at all, but they are staying close to the area so I may see them again sometime soon. 

I had my pastors kids over for the afternoon, we had fun, went to Mcdonalds for a ice cream before the PM service. 

These kids are gonna be missed so much, but I am looking forward to creating new relationships with our new Pastor and his wife.
Cristie came over for nachos and we took selfies

Just look how beautiful my best friend is

Have a great week friends

7 GROUND RULES FOR ARGUING WITH YOUR SPOUSE...

I know we all will fight and argue in marriage or any relationship, but we need some rules in place if we are going to argue

1. Respect your spouse. 

2. Never threaten divorce. NEVER! 

3. Don't bring up your spouse's past mistakes. Forgive & move on. 

4. Listen more than you talk. 

5. Don't lose your temper. It never helps anything.

6. Don't try and "win" the argument. You're on the same team. 

7. Seek first to understand ... and then to be understood.