Oh my! It's 2014. A brand new year, over a year since I started this blog. I started it with the intention to keep it up but life happened and I forgot all about it. Not what I meant to do!
Here's an update from the last year:
J and I have been married over a year. We celebrated our one year anniversary by staying home I think, maybe we had a dinner date. I can't remember because I was so tired from staying up all night, every night, with our newborn.
Oh yes, we had a baby! We were pleasantly surprised in February or maybe the end of January I think it was when I felt this weird urge to buy a pregnancy test. Just three weeks prior I had surrendered the idea of having a baby and put it in God's hands. I had no idea if I could even get pregnant but we were happily blessed!
I had horrible, terrible, lay you out flat morning sickness. So-in our first 6 months, my poor sweet husband went from being a single man, to being a step father of two girls, we lived in a basement of a sweet lady
but her son was battling some issues of his own, the septic tank had some MAJOR issues so we were without a toilet downstairs but also had a horrible mess in our living area, our families were trying to adjust to not having us be available whenever they wanted, we moved to a new place in April-that is an amazing story in itself, I was pregnant and sick so unable to really even care for the girls so he had to take over the role from just step parent to being pretty much the only parent, his dad is bipolar and went into a hyper mania and threw everyone for a huge gigantic loop-it was pretty scary for quite some time, he and I had to learn to live with each other as well-we both have strong personalities but I have to say-he is by far the most gentle of the two of us. One big reason why I love him so much and just one of a many reasons why he is so wonderful for me.
So-in our first year we have had so much life happen. Up and down and upside down and all around. It really left us reeling many days. I really feel that first year really helped us build a stronger foundation for us. It was nothing short of GRACE that we survived it together. God really can do so much!
So much life happened, so much stress, and just so much happened in a short year. He and I have both grown so very much. I think it is noticeable in both of us. Some people in our lives have had to grow as well. Some people have chosen not too. Some people struggle with us growing and changing and just want us to be who we used to be before God turned our lives around.
This year we are focusing on growing in Christ as a family and individually. We both still have areas to grow in-but that is a constant thing. I am doing two wonderful bible studies. I'll post links below. :) J is working on his own personal struggles. We are learning to parent TOGETHER. Which is so very hard for me. Once you learn how to do everything for yourself it is so hard to learn to share it.
So, Happy New year to you. I hope it's a year of blessings and joy for you. And if you're a woman, check out the blogs with the bible studies I am doing.
http://unveiledwife.com/wife-after-god/
http://walkingredeemed.org/category/recapturing-your-beautiful-fitness-challenge/
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