His Promises Kept

I've been doing a devotional about being a better wife for Steve. There is always room for improvement in all areas of life, including our marriage and relationship with our husbands. Did you know that we were called to be a certain type of wife to our husbands? God created Eve to be a help-mate to Adam. He created her to walk beside him. Some of you might not like what I'm about to write, but God even called us to submit to our husbands. In 1 Peter 3 it says that we, wives, need to accept the authority of our husbands. In 1 Corinthians 11:3 it even says, "...The head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God." It also says in 1 Corinthians 11:9, "And man was not made for woman, but woman was made for man." Basically, husbands are the head of us, and we are to submit to their authority.  Woah, wait, what!? That might be a hard pill to swallow, but let's look at what the word "submit" really means

Being October means lots of different awarenesses month. We have breast cancer awareness, SIDs awareness, and pregnancy and infant loss awareness. This month is also national adoption month. More people than you might know or realize go through pregnancy and infant loss, and the month of October is time to make this taboo subject a bit more known.  My situation is a bit different I feel like. The 2 miscarriages that I had to deal with were very early on. The first miscarriage was at 5 weeks back in 2004. The second was around 6 weeks at the beginning of June of 2016. They both hurt and stung, and we did grieve, but I felt like I was able to overcome these losses a lot quicker than some other women who are/were much farther along than I was. According to Wikipedia, the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Movement began in the United States in 1987. On October 25, 1988, President Ronald Reagan designated the entire month of October 1988 as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness

I am not sure how many of you heard, but on 10/1/17 around 10pm PST, a very tragic event took place in Las Vegas. It is being deemed as the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, as around 59 people lost their lives that day and over 400 people were injured. These are innocent people enjoying an outside concert when the massacre took place from a near by hotel. People are saying that the person who committed this act is senseless, deranged, and even psychotic. However, only thing one thing crosses my brain when it comes to something like this - he is missing Jesus. The person responsible for the many lives lost is Stephen P. He is a multimillionaire and a major gambler. A lot of our brains cannot fathom the reasoning, as in reality, it should be hard for us to comprehend this. However, we need to stop and really think about this whole situation. We have a hole in our heart that can only be filled by God. We can try to cram all kinds of things into this void, but in reality we can

How many of you enjoy watching your husband play, talk, read, teach, and be silly to your kids? I enjoy every moment and sound that that moment produces. We have struggled for so many years, and longed for those moments and sounds that it just take my breath away now hearing them. Anna's laugh when she plays with her daddy, comes from her toes. Her eyes dance with a huge smile on her face. When her daddy comes home from her, she lights up and just yells "DADDY!" I know he loves to hear her say his name along with the shirks she produces from that little body as they play. He's basically a big kid at heart anyway, so I know he enjoys every minute of it.  When Anna gets up in the morning, she stands at the top of the stairs and says, "Daddy?" I usually have to tell her, "Awe, baby. I'm sorry, but daddy is at work. You'll see him a little later today though." She is a little sad sometimes when I say that, or sometimes she just repeats

How many of you laugh at the littlest things? Like, they might not be funny to other people, but you just crack up about it. I do that a lot with my 2 year old. She does the funniest things in my eyes, and then I go to tell others and they are like....aaaahhhh.....then I'm like, whatever, you're loss. There are so many things that Anna does that just makes my day. From the random way she decides she wants to walk, to the way she decides to make her voice. Well the other day I was taken back on what she did and said. I just got done nursing Olivia and was putting myself back together. I need to back up a minute. I have these inserts that I take out before I feed Olivia. Anna likes to play with them while I'm nursing from time to time. While I was putting myself back together and about to put the inserts in, Anna says, "No Anna's." I said "No honey, mommy needs these." She then lifts up her shirt and says, "My boob!". I laughed so hard! Lat

Well, it happened! Olivia was able to finally roll from her back to tummy officially yesterday. She has been working hard on this and would get stuck and then mad because she was stuck. It was that darn arm that got in the way when she would turn. She's been able to roll from tummy to back since around 2 months, but now she has both movements. Crazy how fast they grow. Makes me a bit sad too. Our dog, Bear, is not a fan of the kids when they are on the move. He's weird. We started joking that now that Olivia is rolling over, she's going to be chasing him before he knows it. Even my mom was like, "Watch out Bear!" It makes me laugh.       ******************************************************************************************** So I am going to switch gears a bit and talking about nursing. How many of you enjoy nursing? I know some people struggle with not producing enough. I also know the flip side of that where they produce way to much. But regardless