The Heart of the Home
The Heart of the Home seeks to equip women as they study God's Word
and encourage them to treasure God with all of their heart
(Matt 6:19-21), and guard their heart (Prov. 4:23),
by recognizing that they are the heart of the home.
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11:25 PM, Dec. 11, 2007
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Wow. It has been already one whole month since DH left and it has flown. My Mom has come twice and helped me finally finish this house. I know. It is truly pathetic that we moved here in June and I still hadn't finished. 3 moves in less than 3 years was more fun than I cared to have. And it showed. DH will come home to a nicer looking, more put together home. No more pictures lining the walls. Curtains are hung. Corners and closets cleaned out. Nice.
DS and I have been busy to say the least. All good, but busy. I decided to do Christmas baking for the first time in more years than I care to admit. Use your imagination. We have moved 2 out of the last 5 years during the holidays and now twice DH has been gone during the holidays. Don't even talk to me about Christmas cards. What's that you say? I can't hear you! lol! But I am prepared for January. Usually about 6 weeks (give or take), into a deployment life can slow to a crawl, the daily grind gets...well, to be a grind. Put that with it being winter and cold and probably yucky and we will needing some creativity to get the days moving along again. DS should be thrilled when he learns I am adding a couple of extra things to our school schedule (note the sarcasm). I am still fairly relaxed but feel the need to start moving him along to get ready for 3rd grade.
DH is doing well all things considered. Pray for his unit. Always pray for all our military and their families, but please pray for his unit and for his ministry to them.
Well I had great plans to write more but most days I sit and read all your blogs and my little mind goes blank. I hope to write more words of encouragement but perhaps those will get blogged when I can think them out into some kind of sense. But in the mean time.....Welcome one of my dear friends to the blogging world at HSB. I wish I could explain how we met but suffice it to say the Lord was all over it. Through her we found our incredible church family and home. Her DH is the pastor. How cool is that?! She is always so encouraging and supportive and funny. Plus she is a fellow animal lover so that puts her up high in my book.  In just a short amount of time we have grown to be good friends and I count her as one of my few sisters that always keep my eyes pointed to my Lord.
Okie dokie. If I don't get back to sit down and do more than peruse your blogs before...Merry CHRISTmas!
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Hooray for getting things settled and unpacked and hung up! It's amazing how much better you feel when all those little things that you've been meaning to do finally get done. It has been 6 months since we've had this house and we are still working on. But we should have window sills, baseboards and door trim up by midweek. You don't realize how much you miss that kind of stuff until you don't have it.
Uhhh... Christmas cards? What are those? I haven't sent out a Christmas card in at least 5 years. With the birth of my second child, it became a stressful chore. I stressed out the first year I didn't send any and you know what? Not a single person missed it. I prefer to send out family pics and a note later in the year. Besides, then mine won't get tossed into a pile with everyone else's!
I am praying for your husband and his unit. We have several young men from our church that are in their second and third deployments right now-- so please know that our entire church is praying!
I'll be praying for you too. I know I struggle with the grind when my husband works a lot... He has been gone the past 8 out of 10 days and the daily grind is really getting to me (especially bedtime and breakfast). So I can only imagine what it must be like for you. Just because you've been through it before doesn't mean you like it!
Okay, I'm going to end my novel now. This is what happens when dh is working a lot... I blog. :-) Have a fabulous Sunday and stay warm!
Love,
Marsha
Posted by drewsfamilytx on Dec. 16, 2007 at 7:11 AM
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Tears came to my eyes seeing your son hug his daddy doll... how sweet.
Posted by quietcajun on Dec. 28, 2007 at 11:27 PM
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