I've recently dropped the blog "ball." After stating that I would blog more....I haven't in almost a month, and for this, I am sorry.
January was a wild ride of ups and downs and back up again. Every life has its' season of craziness, I believe I am in the midst of my own- with no end in the near future. But that is blessing.
January was filled with wedding showers, snow, classes, crazy work schedules, 1 year anniversaries (YAY!), wedding stuff and scrap-booking..aka the project that I will NEVER finish. Needless to say, life is good.
I have been more blessed than I could of ever imagined this time last year and I Praise God, for every good and perfect gift surely does come from Him.
Currently, I should be working on the massive amount of homework I have (which I also fear I will never finish), but I decided to put it aside for the hour or so it will take me to redesign my blog for the Valentine's Season and write this quick little post. I do, oh-so-love to redesign my blog, and if not for every season, then just because I want to. But just like a house, I believe a blog should just as well be decorated in the according season's decor. -I get that from my mama.
Recently, I have been reading the Pioneer Woman blog- LOVE IT, and in older posts I have even declared myself a "Pioneer Woman in Training."-the same still rings true today and not just because of her fabulous recipes (which are indeed, quite fabulous), but also because she has impeccable design and photography taste! And she home schools her kids which I think is totally cool! I have yet to poke around in her gardening section but I'm sure that as soon as I begin "nesting" with my man I'll be soaking in every gardening tip she has to offer!
Speaking of my man, I CANNOT WAIT TO MARRY HIM!!!! WHOOOOO!!!!! Just had to throw that in there, I seriously cannot contain my excitement sometimes! I so want to be a good wife to my man, because he deserves it!!! (and it honors the Lord). Three people I am taking extensive notes from on how to be a good wife are: Jesus, the Pioneer Woman, and my mom.
Jesus is teaching me how to selflessly love and when and how to put others needs before my own. I have a long ways to go and I know He will be teaching me this for the rest of my life.- man I think I desire to just sit at Jesus' feet all day sometimes- His unconditional love and patience with me is seriously throwing me for a loop. I've experienced it daily-but there is something about this busy time where I have to fight for even just a few minutes of quiet a day to spend with Him without falling asleep sometimes that almost brings me to tears. There is so much more I can say about Jesus- but I just dont have the time to write it all down. Praise Him for hearing our prayers and speaking to us daily- and praise Him for opening my ears, my eyes and my heart to hear what He is trying to tell me.
The Pioneer Woman for obvious reasons: food- they say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach....well I want to make the way to my man's heart and well-worn path ;)
My mom has been teaching me- perhaps all my life- to keep my priorities straight. To keep the important things, important. My mom surely is a busy lady- but she has never missed an important thing in my life. I was/am important to her, and she lets nothing stand in the way of that, nothing. Thats a priceless gift of a lesson to learn. It has helped me stay grounded through this wedding planning thing. THE most important thing on our wedding day is that my man is at the opposite end of that aisle, smiling back at me. I care about nothing else.......except for maybe my dress and looking-hopefully- beautiful for him =). But my mom has surely taught me to never get caught up in the things in this life that dont matter, Jesus matters, family matters-people matter- and thats about it.
Finally, there are two things I have yet to learn from her and hopefully will before I get married! One I would like to learn sooner rather than later. The first is how to do taxes- that woman (my mama) can do taxes like nobody else can, step aside people Super Tax Mama is coming through! But that can wait to be learned in a few months to a year- whew! *Finger's crossed I learned that trait from her* but after my three battle with an accounting class in college, that I dropped, I'm afraid a I didnt....
The more pressing issue at hand relates back to food. I know I know- the Pioneer woman can cook, but if I was a betting woman, I would bet you all the tea in China that my mama can fry up chicken legs BETTER than that Pioneer woman. Now I know some you reading this might of just gasped, but I dont make jokes about the Pioneer Woman and I dont make jokes about fried-chicken.- I also dont make jokes about my mama, SO for real here people- Mama's fried chicken recipe comes straight from the heart of "small town Southern USA" and quite frankly-it doesnt get any better than that! Therefore, in order to keep my Southern sanity, i have requested per this blog, that my mom teach me to make her fried chicken. As she has said in the past- "frying chicken is a dying art form," (spoken like a true Southern woman). Well as I live and breathe-that sacred art-form will not die out with me!
With ALL that being said-thats about all I've got for today. My homework is practically taunting me from the table where its laying. Ugh, school.
But also staying true to my afore mentioned blog statement- I will leave you with this final picture:
These are the roses my man left on my doorstep around 5:30AM the day of our one year anniversary! He wanted me to have them the whole day! Its one of the sweetest and most caring things he or anyone has ever done for me! One of my love languages is definitely acts of service! =) And that act certainly did not go unnoticed, and was taken quite to heart! :)
PS. later that night, to celebrate our anniversary even more, he took me to a VERY fancy restaurant! :)
I surely do love my man with all of my heart!
Kate
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