remember when these decisions were civil…? before facebook??

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1789446

you’re welcome 😉

here is a fun, easy blog post to get the ball rolling again in the New Year 😀
everyone do it!

1. Where is your cell phone? in the catch-all @home, in the cup-holder in the car, and in my purse any other time. off after 9.
2. Your hair? long. long. lovely long.
3. Your mother? best friend, brilliant, funny, awesome inspiration, has a book hiding up her sleeve just waiting to be born
4. Your father? incredibly smart, wonderful role model, probly the reason i’m a christian, tender lionhearted hero
5. Your fave food? anything italian or mexican
6. Your dream last night? i dream just about every night. last night it was about getting a hair cut and making georgia laugh (what if you could tickle dogs and they could laugh uncontrollably? )
7. Your fave drink? 1/2 and 1/2: coke and diet coke! so good.
8. Your dream/goal? be a loving wife and mother. teaching @ the academic level would be awesome, too, maybe.
9. What room are you in? our den (watching weeds… don’t tell grant!)
10. Your hobby? dance, arts and crafts, remembering birthdays and anniversaries, camping
11. Your fear? idk.
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? working toward a PhD? and mother of… 2?
13. Where were you last night? driving back from huntsville by way of bass pro shop 😉
14. Something that you aren’t? drug dealer (watching weeds… again)
15. Muffins? LOVE muffins. much better than bagels
16. Wish List Item? nice camera
17. Where did you grow up? hunts-vegas
18. Last thing you did? watched tv and read a book
19. What are you wearing? sweats, wool socks, thrift store tshirt, a homemade sweater gma made me
20. Your TV? no cable, just dvds 😉
21. Your Pets? georgia is my little bunny girl–she is beautiful and perfect
22. Friends? freaking awesome.
23. Your Life? is in transition: very exciting time. may move, may involve more schooling, may involve change. God is good.
24. Your Mood? terrible. period + late rent fee + talking to automated voice response = feels like i’ll never get this day right
25. Missing Someone? family
26. Vehicle? mercury mariner. love it.
27. Something your not wearing? earrings
28. Your fave store? forever 21/ sam’s/ target
29. Your fave color? brown (so deliciously warm)
30. Last time you laughed? this morning with grant
31. Last time you cried? earlier today after dealing with difficult bank person #467
32. Your best friend? grant
33. One place that I go to over and over? the lake. such a place of wonderful peace.
34. One person who emails regularly? mama and daddy; small group
35. Fave place to eat? cooking here @ home
36. Facebook? on and off again; it comes in spurts
37. Who do you owe an apology? mama and a customer service rep (I said a cuss word.)
38. Favorite TV show? Dexter. love it for life 😉
39. Favorite time of the day? Twilight (not just because of the series) because that dusky darkness is met best with a good book and a cup of coffee
40. When is your next birthday? may 3rd

because georgia loves to sleep in warmth, she is currently sleeping in the sunlight streaming through the window, in front of a space heater. she could die of a heat stroke any minute now… and i wouldn’t know it because she sleeps like the dead. she sure is cute, though! later.

my loves sleeping

up close and personal: what they do best 😉

quick update:

christmas with my fam here in atl was AWESOME.

christmas with grant’s fam in aug was GREAT.

i got to see HANNAH on her BIRTHDAY!! it was AMAZING to see her and aswan!

grant is fishing with zach in habersham today. he has the whole week off, so we’re headed to the huntsville area for the rest of the week–yay!–we hope to see ashley and mason sometime in the next few days (…new years???)

our friends just got a CUTE great dane puppy–so cute! we’re going to love it to pieces. and grant got me “weeds” for christmas–seasons 1-3… so i’m watching that in bed right now… i’ll write more later. we’ll be back sunday.

we went to married life live tonight, which was AWESOME!, with some of our small group and it got me thinking…

picture your spouse–your beloved.
picture exactly in specific detail what s/he deserves, wants, desires, needs—-how s/he should be treated, be served, be spoken to, be helped, be forgiven, be loved.
picture what you would do to someone who wronged him/her. imagine what you’d do and to what lengths you would go to defend your love and be sure that his/her wants, desires, and needs were met.
picture what that incredible person you’ve married deserves each and every day.
…
are you that person they deserve most?
not “are you the spouse you can be?” because that allows you to limit yourself to your own hang-ups, your own baggage, your own expectations, your own definition of “can” and “cannot;” it also allows it to be all to easy to justify your short comings and failures in loving and serving your beloved.

are you the person your spouse deserves most?
and if not, why on earth not? what changes should be made that you can learn to become that person? I say “learn” because it often requires a conscious decision made repetitively until it becomes a discipline that then becomes a habit that then becomes a lifestyle.

correcting the incorrigible
There’s a half-way decent book and an even less decent movie from the ’60s called “Love Story.” The tag line for the movie is: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” Not only is it cheesy, but it’s just plain wrong. Love means having to say you’re sorry every single day–multiple times, usually–and forgiving quickly and sincerely, as well. Anything less is a manipulation of reality.

Just thinking about life and love and marriage and family–my favorite things–and how it should be vs. what the world tells us it might be or is; choosing biblical definitions over pop-culture; and fighting for the switch in my own life from thought to action, from ideology to reality, from words to lifestyle. xoxo