June is a busy month for us. Tomorrow we will celebrate Father’s day, a special day in our house 🙂 My children and I are blessed that their dad is such an amazing dad! They would all agree. Recently they told someone they had just met that he was cool 😉 They like him, they really like him! He is great at having fun, loving them, making them feel special. He gets what they are about individually. He knows what their love languages are, he knows what motivates them, how they think. He is a student of his children. Oftentimes, way more insightful than me. They share a closeness and bond that will only grow deeper and more meaningful through the years. What a blessing to have that kind of foundation in life. I wish more fathers and children shared that kind of relationship. What a different place our world could be if father’s loved their children unconditionally, and worked as hard at being a good dad as they do at their jobs. Thank you Bill for being such an example of God’s love for us through your love for our babies 🙂
And then we have our anniversary-17 years tomorrow! I love that this year is 17 years on the 17th 🙂 (I’m a little nerdy that way, but he loves me still.) It doesn’t seem like it could be 17 years already. I remember being newly married and thinking people who had been married that long were old! Guess what that makes me now
When I look at our children and how fast they are growing up, 17 years has flown by! And my how we’ve changed. Almost all for the better, I wish I still wore the same size dress I did then, but I’m working on that! 😉 I can honestly say I love him more now than I did the day I stood before him, late for the ceremony, but completely oblivious to anything else happening, happy to be pledging my love to him. (and just for the record it was the photographer and limo drivers fault I was late!)
17 years of life-we’ve lost family members and gained new ones. Built and sold houses. Taught babies to walk and talk, and now are teaching them to drive! We’ve laughed and cried, fought and made up, and through it all remembering God brought us together and He will keep us together. I couldn’t imagine my life without him. Only the Lord knows what our future holds, but I know that there is no one else I’d rather spend it with. I am so thankful God gave me my husband.
Let’s not forget birthdays! Tuesday is my hubby’s birthday. An odd number this year. His first birthday we won’t all be together as a family. Our oldest two will be leaving for camp Monday. (yes, you can pray for us!) Birthdays are a big deal usually in our home. Lots of celebrating, a day dedicated to the birthday person’s favorite things. We will celebrate two times this year. Once with our younger girls and then again when the big kids get home next weekend. I didn’t want to squeeze another thing into this weekend! He is already sharing Father’s day with our anniversary 😉
Then the following week is our babies birthday! She is no longer a baby though, and would not enjoy hearing me say that. This is the last year before double digits! Again this makes me feel old! People who have all teens and preteens are older Or so I used to think. Amazing how naive we are in our 20’s!
Lots of celebrating here this month! As I count my blessings I am feeling quite content. I couldn’t ask for more than what I have in my family. I am so thankful for each of them. I do not take this for granted.
This is a song that sums up how I feel about my family 🙂
This is us, always looking forward to the next adventure 🙂
Good month to be have a wedding…. can’t wait for my 17th anny
God bless you more and more…
9 more years, they will fly by! God is so good to us, can’t wait to see what he has in store for you guys! 🙂
This made me cry, not so much in a sad way. Just I feel/felt just like you with Jim. So blessed and I still do.