Presents!

Yesterday Chad and I were out and about doing a bit of shopping and he bought me a couple of presents! We laughed a little just cause apparently I am really easy to please. My gifts? A new (good quality) cutting board and a new broom and dustpan! :) Exciting and romantic right? Well, for someone who is a full time homemaker it actually is! Not just because I really needed new ones but more because it meant alot that Chad wanted to make me happy. I would never complain if he brought me flowers or bought me jewelry but what made yesterday great was just that we were together. Not doing anything special per se but just wandering around enjoying each other's company with no deadlines or stress, just being us. We don't do that very often. I also know that in his way Chad was trying to bless me and spoil me and I love him for it! Some people may see him buying me things like that as, oh I don't know, almost chauvinistic, but I sure didn't. It is the little things that count, the little things that can brighten our days and bring joy to our hearts and make us feel loved. I am looking forward to using the cutting board in making our meals and to using the broom to sweep up all the grass that makes it's way into our house on little puppy feet. I am blessed and I am loved and my hubby really does a good job of reminding me of both just in the way he treats me and all the little and big things he does for me and with me. What a blessed girl I am!

In His Time

I have been doing some thinking over the last few days of the twists and turns my life has taken. Those who have known me for a long time know that it was always my heart's desire to be married by the time I was 21 and then have lots of kids. Well, I got married at 33 and thus far we haven't been able to have children. So not how I had planned it! You know what though? I am so thankful! I love my life. I am so thankful for all of the blessings and all of the twists and turns and for where I am today. I am so thankful for the love that Chad and I share. I used to imagine what it would be like to be married and to love and be loved but never was I able to imagine someone like my Chad or to imagine a love like ours. Yes, I had to wait a long time for him and at times I would grow discouraged and wonder if God had forgotten about me, but I always chose to put my trust in God and believe that He knew best and would bring it about all in His time. 


I wouldn't change a thing about how and when everything has come about in my life. Even the tears and hurt and heartbreaks. They are all part of what has brought me to today, made me the person I am, making me the person I am supposed to be. I have learned and grown and been challenged and I know that as time goes on I will continue to learn and be challenged but I am finding that it isn't taking me quite as long to learn. I am finding that I am so much more willing to let God be God and to trust that His timing is perfect. It is so much easier to go through life knowing that God is taking care of me, of my husband, of our families and home and puppy. I keep seeing Him in little things, and the more I acknowledge Him in the little things the easier it is to trust Him in the big things. May I just keep growing and trusting and learning!


For years I had a song picked out that I wanted sung at our wedding. When our wedding day finally came around it fit even more perfectly than I ever thought it would and it has become the theme song of my life...


In His time, in His time
He makes all things beautiful, in His time.
Lord, please show me every day, 
As You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say,
In Your time


God would have us know, time makes all things grow
He will make it so in His time
And by His great hand, all our life is planned,
We will understand,
In His time


In Your time, in Your time
You make all things beautiful, in Your time
Lord, my life to You I bring,
May each song I have to sing,
Be to You a lovely thing,
In Your time


He truly does make all things beautiful in His time, and His timing is always perfect, even when we think He has forgotten. He makes of our lives a beautiful melody, when we allow Him to.

Ramblings

Not much is new and exciting with us but I thought I would ramble on for a little while anyways.


I have been busy. Just with life really. My parents were in Hawaii for 3 weeks (lucky them!) and so a couple of times a week I was driving out to their place to check on it and get the mail. Plus with them gone I also was going to see my Gramma a little more often and calling her to make sure she was okay. Of course I was working my usual shifts as well and going to church and small group and just doing all of my usual daily chores. So yeah, nothing exciting but at least I have been busy!


I think spring cleaning is going to begin for me next week. I really need to write a list of what I need to do and when I am going to do it. Always feels so good to check things off of a list like that! If I don't have a list and make a plan I will either do way too much in one day and be exhausted and sore or I will keep putting it off. Can't do that though cause it has to be done!


Nothing new on the adoption front although we did get a call from one of the social workers at the head office. She just wanted to let us know that she had taken a look at our profile and she thought it was excellent. She said it hadn't been shown yet but that didn't surprise me because they had only had it for a week! I am trying to think of it as if I am pregnant and there will be no baby for 9 months. That way if it happens earlier it will be a joyful surprise. Of course if it takes longer I will have to come up with a new plan so that I don't get all stressed out!


Yeah, not much to say but thought I should post something anyways.


Chad is on his way home from his sisters place which means I need to get supper going soon. What are we having? Salt and pepper chicken wings and veggie sticks. Yum!