Sunday, September 28, 2008
Patriotic Service
Posted by 4xblessed at 5:28 PM 2 comments
Kate's 8th Birthday
This last Friday night I had 8 little girls over for Kate's Birthday Party and woah was I exhausted when they left....We have always had a party for all our friends and family but our closest relatives live over 3 hours away now so we let Kate decide what she wanted. We had a spa party- we did nails , make-up, hair and all kinds of pampering stuff like hand wax treatments and foot bath massages. It was so funny to see them all dolled up. They had so much energy to just dance around and be silly with little or no worries on their little minds (which is how I think it should be). Those girls downed three pizzas, chips, cake and popcorn like they had an empty storage room in their little tummies... She had so much fun and when present time came she opened the High School Musical Wii game from her Dad and I and that was it. We ALL had to take turns playing that for the remainder of the party day. Those girls screamed and danced and sang their little hearts out for hours. When darkness begin to fall outside so did the noise as the girls parents begin to pick them up one by one and my little birthday princess crashed on the couch within minutes. This was a wonderful day and the joy it brought my daughter was worth it all. Happy Birthday Katiebug !
Posted by 4xblessed at 9:42 AM 0 comments
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I am the mother of four beautiful children and the wife of the most wonderful man. I taught school till I had our second child and then went to work for the Juvenile Court System. I have been a stay at home mommy now for the past year since I was pregnant with our twins and love every minute of it. I decided to keep our 4 year old home and not send him to preschool so that I would have the chance to spend some quality time with him before he starts school next year. Our oldest is in 2Nd grade and my twins are almost 9 months now. My husband and I have been in full time ministry for the past 8 1/2 years and are working towards finishing our masters degrees at this time. My husband has a year of seminary behind him and about 2 to go before he is ready to graduate. Due to me being pregnant my husband had to take some time off of school to work more to allow me to stay home during the remainder of my pregnancy. My husband was in the Marines when we married but we grew up together and attended school k-12 together. We have been through a lot over the past few years together which makes us stronger and our love for each other run deeper. We are working towards his commissioning in the Navy Chaplaincy and really excited to continue ministry together. I am working on finishing my Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Counciling and know this will be a great plus to help with my husband being a Chaplain. We really feel this is the direction and path that God has been preparing us for. The lessons we have learned, the joys and trials, were not in vain but tests to prune and make us who God needs us to be in order for him to get the glory. Tonight we got our heads full of information and it has been a lot all at once to take in. I really thought this would be a good place to talk with other women who are currently serving as soliders or spouses and understand what the road ahead for me looks like. I always wished that someone would have taken the time to explain how to make it through my first day of teaching school and taught me all the little tricks or ways to make things better or easier to understand. I pray that this blog will put me in touch with other women who understand and share my thoughts and fears that come as working in one of the largest missionary fields with my husband as a Military Chaplain's Wife.
Posted by 4xblessed at 9:43 PM 2 comments