Oh dear. Methinks I must have these.
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Bunny :)
A little doodling on a piece of scrap paper tonight...makes me wish I could go back to school!
Too Beautiful Not to Post
How gorgeous is this? I LOVE the colors, and of course the succulents. Succulents are my best friends- virtually indestructible, even for a novice gardener. I must try this in the summertime!
Mr. Darcy, the original McDreamy
Who doesn't want a proposal from Mr. Darcy? And now you can have one around your neck! :) I found these adorable scarves on Etsy.com.
Instantly in love! (unlike Elizabeth Bennet)
Celebrating the Season
Babies.
All around
are babies, babies and more babies. Babies running around, babies bundled up,
and babies still in the oven. All of our friends are either pregnant, on child
number two or three, or trying hard. Never before has it been such a struggle
not to define my worth by those around me. I see how their husbands look at
them and pay them attention. They have a purpose, a plan, a direction to follow,
and here I am—working my job each day, fixing dinner, grading papers and going
to sleep before my husband does. It’s hard. But it’s times like these that I
must learn to celebrate childlessness.
A voluntary
decision I must trust.
We have
decided to wait, or I should say, the world has made us wait. Money. Stress.
The Mortgage. The Master’s. One thing stacked on top of another. It is a voluntary
decision, and one that I hope we don’t regret later, but one that I have to
trust.
We’ve only
been married a year. Silly to feel useless already, I presume, but it’s still
something that women inherently struggle with. We want to please our husbands,
and if we aren’t married to a vocal man, it is easy to doubt. What is the
greatest way to please a man—we’ve been told to give him a child! But, are we
good wives without producing children? Only one verse in Proverbs 31 directly
says that the virtuous woman has children, but the verse after is what clinches
it, “As does her husband who praises her: ‘Many women have done wonderful things,’
he says, ‘but you surpass all of them!’” The world wants us to think that you
haven’t been truly fulfilled yet until you have children.
Finding
peace.
I find peace
in Ecclesiastes, which says that for everything there is a season.
All I can do
is enjoy the moment I am in, and look hopefully into the future, for soon my
season will change, and I will be looking back on this entry and laughing, and
wishing I had the peace and quiet I do now. . .
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day to my veteran and all the other veterans past and present. We celebrate and appreciate you not only one day a year, but every day that we enjoy our freedom.
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