My musings

Sooo, I'm starting to realize that my kids are all different. hahaha, yes...I know it has taken me this long to realize that they are different, but they are. :) I did just hear recently that kids have love languages. Like, kayla's love language would be affection...she loves to be held and paid attention to at ALL times. Guinness's love language would be.....maybe affection too. He loves to be cuddled and I love the cuddling by him as well. Edyn, well....she is too young to have one I think...she just likes to eat and smile. Maybe her's right now is to be smiled at. (I swear, she smiles soo much I think it makes her face hurt) hahaha, sooo cute.

All this to say that I don't think I know specifically what their love languages are and so there is where the disconnect is. Also, I have a 3.5, an almost 2 and a 5 month old. hahahaha, I think butting heads is in my future..say the next 20 years. AAHAHHH.

My shopping has halted. Everything on Anthro right now is .....more winter than spring. I am looking for spring things to speed up the thawing process of the 20+ inches of snow in my backyard. I think there is more snow to come this weekend, but who cares!! Throwing caution to the wind and looking for spring stuff. :) hahahaha.

I am reading 'A gentle thunder' by Max Lucado right now. I have read this before, but I remembered REALLY liking it. It's hearing God through the storm. Not that I am going through a major storm, but I think we all go through storms all the time. There is one part I read last night that I thought was really good. Pertains to my life right now:

"So where does that leave us? While Jesus is praying and we are in the storm, what are we to do? Simple. We do what the disciples did. We row. The disciples rowed most of the night. Mark says they "struggled hard" to row the boat. The word struggle is elsewhere translated as "tormented." Wasn't easy. Wasn't glamorous. Much of life is spent rowing. Getting out of bed. Fixing lunches. Turning in assignments. Changing diapers. Paying bills. routine. Regular. More struggle than strut. more wrestling than resting.........You thought marriage was going to be a lifelong date? You thought having kids was going to be like baby-sitting? You thought the company who hired you wanted to hear all the ideas you had in college? Then you learned otherwise. The honeymoon ended. The IRS called, and the boss wanted you to spend the week in Muleshoe, Texas. Much of life is spent rowing. Oh there are moments of glamour, days of celebration. We have our share of feasts, but we also have our share of baloney sandwiches. And to have the first we must endure the second. Denalyn and I had five wonderful years in ministry. And we learned that at the right time, God comes. In the right way, he appears. So don't bail out. Don't give up! Don't lay down the oars! He is too wise to forget you, too loving to hurt you. When you can't see him, trust him. He is praying a prayer that he himself will answer"

Isn't that awesome! Jesus prays for us...that is SUPER prayer! :)