because i get to meet special people every single session.
shiloh…it made my day to meet your sweet girl.
thank you for trusting me.
i hope applebees was a great reward for all the smiles we got.
she is fabulous!
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Pretty indeed! Your pictures are great, they produce emotions and this is what it counts! Love them! oh those textures! While I agree that every other photo you posted is amazing, . . . . OooooOOOOoo I think you need to enter some of these into our photo challenge this month (the two categories are ‘seasons’ and ‘love’ and need to be emailed to me by tomoz) I love the pumpkin! And I love all the old textures in this old country! Australia is so young in comparison – especially perth where I am from… beautiful Meg! LOVE!!! You make the “mundane” come alive!! beautiful photos! i’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…i just love chipped paint! Hey Meg – I’m giving away a bag… Just found you, and boy am I glad I did, because, OMGoodness it is Fan-crazy-tastic, and your pics are Wonder-rific-ful I LOVE it all….and shoot me to the moon, for not finding you sooner, because I can’t even wait to see more, or find out what is next, or stop thinking that I wish I was you, I mean, not that I want to stop being me, cause I like me, and I like the life God has given me, I mean I love it, but I want to be more you like, with like the colors, and the textures, and the beauty, anyway, thankyou, for showing the world from a little different perspective, and sharing it, and making it all so super yummy anyway,thanks! You are awesomness personified! phenomenal photos… totally capture fall.. i love them! what kind of camera do you have? It takes GREAT pictures! Fantastic shots! Love the autumn feeling. GREAT shots! Beautiful shots, you have a great eye! I would never have taken one of those red beetles… but it was really cool! Thanks for the eye-candy! so pretty and festive!! you are so talented. i love clicking over every day for a little dose of happy color. ๐ Very pretty! and that is why fall us my favorite! To echo everyone else’s thoughts… what great colors and textures. I just love fall! This reminds me that I need to get outside TODAY. Thanks. we live in Florida and it’s still humid and hot here…these help. Thanks =) Just wish I could smell the fall too… with these, almost…Have a blessed day Loving the fall feel. What lens are you using? Gorgeous pictures!! I love the amazing way you see things. You have a gift to help others see the beauty in them as well. I thank God for finding your blog. ๐ Great pictures! I really like the rusty… handle thingy. ๐ What is that? I love your photos!! Thanks. makes my heart sing ๐ VERY pretty!!! LOVE THESE!!! BOY DO WE THINK ALIKE!!! What beautiful eye candy this morning! I love how you see such “ordinary” objects as a work of art. Fall is always a strong reminder of what an awesome God we serve! love these! Fall is *such* a good model =D What a lovely look at Fall (which is my favorite season!). Beautiful! They would make a great wall display! Thank you for giving me my Fall fix! Great pictures. You always see things in such a creative way. Very pretty. I agree 100% … Pretty indeed!!! Pretty Amazing!!! Love it!!! Love the textures and colours. Yes. I want to thank you for posting these. I miss Indiana so much this time of year with all it’s colors and smells. It’s just not the same living in Arizona. I’ve been here for 20 years now (hard to believe) and I almost forgot how beautiful they can be. So thank you, thank you. Meg. Great Pics. What camera did you use and what lens? I am thinking of getting a new camera for xmas. Many Thanks, Susan. I love texture and patina! Very pretty indeed! My sister sometimes takes texture pictures, like those pics of bark. 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My turn! My turn! what an adorable post. Love that waffle was in one of Annies photos ๐ what an adorable post. Love that waffle was in one of Annies photos ๐ I tweeted about your lovely giveaway at http://twitter.com/HollyCBS I tweeted about your lovely giveaway at http://twitter.com/HollyCBS When did you start running ads? With 5 kids of our own, our youngest is 6 and still has handmedowns over new. It would be a real treat to win! So adorable!! i couldn’t get the terms and conditions to work? can people outside the US enter? I did! ๐ they are ALL cute on miss annie! Isn’t there a GAP model calling going on? You should send in these pictures! Woohoo!! GAP!! I better win:)….. I like how you do your giveaways not on your main page of your blog. The way you set up your blog is cool. Kelly Such awesome pictures!!! She is so photogenic. Cutest kid ever!!! She should be a GAP model! this weekend was full of fall goodness. the three youngest carved pumpkins with me while craig and the older two were gone.
then we got busy with the dirty work. i love it…. and i love seeing them all lit up. fall is my favorite. I have a post coming on Oct 29th showing grown-up children carving pumpkins. Hopefullly, the tradition will live on and on for your little ones as well. I hate pumpkin guts, but I do love the roasted seeds! This year I found Mr. Potato Head-esque accessories for my pumpkin, so I don’t have to carve it. He’s a pirate. ๐ I love that your little one still has a chocolate and cream mustache while she’s cleaning out the pumpkin. i just adore your life ! fall is my fave TOO! Love this time of year too! We are carving this weekend, or maybe I am carving, lol…with only one teen left in the house we’ll see how that turns out ๐ Oh such fun to carve pumpkins. Looks like it was very fun! Fall rules. Best season ever. Oh I remember those days with my four little ones carving scooping! Now I’m lucky to get one little one from the four! I have to agree with you… Fall is my favorite too and not just because I am an October baby. I just think it smells better and it makes me want to be outside and it is orange and beautiful and I am starting to realize that I really need to live somewhere that actually gets a Fall! For now I will enjoy Fall through your posts so keep it coming. the squirrels got to 2 out of the 3 pumpkins…totally devoured!! Looks like you all had loads of fun!! Fall is my favorite time of year too. We are going to carve pumpkins tomorrow night! We are so excited. I enjoy your blog so much. Looks like fun! We usually wait until the weekend of Halloween otherwise, the deer come up to the front porch and eat them. At least I think its deer! Now I’m SCARED! I LOVE that last picture! I can’t believe I have never carved pumpkins with my kids!! I think this year I need to change that!! I did a cute pumpkin craft today with my toddlers. Take note they ARE 1 and 3…so it’s not glamorous..BUT they had a lot of fun ๐ Older kids could probably do some really cool things with the idea. so fun! i can’t wait to carve ours. we have to wait until the day of though otherwise ours get all nasty from the az heat. have a happy day!! Love seeing the photos of your beautiful family enjoying an autumn tradition together. Your sunflower craft (below) looks awesome, and the chalkboard/chore chart/inspirational quote is so cheerful! We’ve got a pumpkin waiting to be carved with the help of the husband. I love the classic Jack-O-Lantern! I love this time of the year too. I can’t wait to carve our pumpkins. Looks like the kids loved it too. So happy to see you and many others are keeping that tradition going. We are empty-nesters too, but we’ve also still carved pumpkins. Partly for me, but all those little trick or treaters who show up at the door too. I LOVE carving pumpkins. We didn’t do it this year which makes me really sad. They die in about 2 days here, which makes me even sadder. I can’t wait to see your kids’ costumes!! a little FYI to make your carving a little easier…we bought the ‘my safe cutter’ knives from pampered chef. they are $3.50 and by far the best knives we have EVER used to carve pumpkins. we take them to our carving gatherings and have to fight everyone to use our own knives! with these knives the kids can carve their own and i don’t have to worry about them hurting themselves. it’s fabulous! Fall is so beautiful. The colors are amazing, aren’t they?! I love Fall too! I just wish here in FL we actually HAD Fall. I still have my air conditioner running. Supposed to be about 85 today!! YUCK! Fall is my favourite too; I love your post! Whipped cream? Legit. Can I come to your house? I want some of that hot chocolate! ๐ I always envy those who celebrate halloween in warmer climates. We have had our first snowfall already, although it has melted, so I’m fairly certain trick or treating will be in winter coats and winter boots… in the dark. Our pumpkins were carved yesterday too, but we did it indoors : ) Cute Pumpkins! Looks like fun. When we went to buy a pumpkin to carve, Kate insisted on getting a watermelon instead. She’s so stubborn. We’ll see how watermelon carving goes ๐ I make my husband clean out the guts. I shouldn’t say “make”, but he nicely volunteers to clean out the guts because he doesn’t want to watch me dry heave for half an hour. we were supposed to carve yesterday We carved our’s two weeks ago bc I just couldn’t wait any longer….they have rotted completely now ;( I’m just not up for cleaning two more out again ๐ Sooooo, we are just going to paint and bedazzle two more ๐ I agree….Fall is the best….football and pumpkins and hot chocolate…DOESN’T get any better than that ๐ Well, except when the Sooners lose to Missouri ;( boooohoooo! But at least I’m not a Longhorn ๐ Pooooooooooor Texas! Our nest is empty but this is making me want to carve one….hmmm, something really different…easy but different. Hope your week is grand! Great pumpkins. This reminds me of when our girls used to do the pumpkins. My husband was the helper with that tradition. I always took them to the apple orchard with my Mom and we got the pumpkins. Then hubby was the carver while I prepared the seeds for roasting. Miss those days! Guess I will wait for grandchildren! This is my favorite time of the year! I just love those funny toothless grins! Love it!! Yummy hot chocolates and carving pumpkins…great stuff!!! How very cute! I wish we had that tradition Mine too. i have a big file of crafts i think my kids would like but today i found this craft and we did it. well….first we tried a pumpkin craft that did not go well. so i said “what about this one?” ย and pointed to the photo on my computer. we changed gears and started again.
all smiles.
i was kind of bummed i didn’t get to make one.
This blog is really very nice. I love this art and also love the sunflowers and love the chalk board. It looking so impressive. I just love you Meg. That chalkboard is homeschool dream!! Where did you get it? Great raft, great colors. I made some Bible lapbooks and file folder games you might like. You can download at OMG! I love that chalk board! Do you change your verse each week? OVER THE TOP CHALK BOARD LOVE GOING ON RIGHT HERE!!! sensational sunflowers yall! Today I needed to see the verse on the chalkboard. Thanks. LOVE that giant chalk board. I’m so making one of those. The sun flowers turned out way cute! Oh, these are great! BTW ~ I really love the ‘chore list’. I need to get that done. It would make evenings go so much smoother around our house… How much fun these look. Also, the chalk board is so cool. Love the chore list. What wonderful fun you have with your children! That chalk board is great! We made the eye sees you from the Family Fun website over the weekend. the kids could have done them all day! Brian even made more than one. We used tea lights but Braeden said he overheard one of the parents in charge of the fall party say they were going to hang them on Christmas lights. So much FUN! I love your giant chalk board!!! Love Love Love!!! I haven’t seen your big chalkboard before. I’m so glad you showed it as I’ve been wanting to do almost a whole wall and I wasn’t sure if it would work. The craft was great too : ) Very cute! Cute craft! Kinda keeps summer around a tad longer ๐ I SO want a giant chalkboard just like that in my house!! Or even a chalkboard wall like you have in your craft room/studio. SO COOL! Love the sunflowers and love the chalk board! You’re a great mom, Meg! Your kids are blessed! My boys are in their 20’s and 30’s and i still have all the craft stuff that they made.Do you keep yours and where? Thanks so much for the kind words and link love for The Crafty Crow! I *love* how your sunflowers came out and I’m so happy you were able to find a project to fit the day ๐ Love! Definitely going to do this with my girls! Got a question, though…Did you do fun stuff like this with Lauren when she was little? I know I had some, ummm, “issues” I was working through when mine were little. And that makes me sad that I missed out, ya know? Wait. Was this more of a private email question? Probably. I’ll stop now. Happy crafting! ๐ they look so fun on your ginormous chalkboard, which i am completely coveting by the way! it’s fantastic. Very nice! I always love your craft thursday’s… I have loved looking at all your crafts over the summer! What do you end up doing with them all? I also LOVE the giant chalkboard. Wish I had room for one! Such a great craft! And I had to LOL completely at the “there’s no crying in crafts” – HA! :o) Love that craft! We have paper plates on hand, now to find a fabulous giant chalk board! ๐ You are a treasure. I Wantaa do these! Great sunflowers! I love your chore chart and verse. Somehow the chores don’t look like work so much as fun when they are put up there! Maybe the kids feel differently though ๐ I know scissors are a skill that is encouraged, but if you’re the one relegated to doing all the cutting out, may I suggest my favorite tool? A Cricut would make really quick work of cutting all of those leaves! I just used mine this week to cut stencils for a couple of cute folk-y signs for my home. Those are so great. I am wondering what you do with all of these crafts, where you put them, for how long and then what? Love it…colorful and sunflowery. What could be better. And no tears. That’s a very good thing:) Very cute! I need to store this idea away for this winter when we need sunshine and flowers! I Love The Rainbow Colors! Lovely!!! Absolutely delightful! I really love reading your blog. I love looking at the pictures, and reading about your wonderful (yet real) family. I even used one of your Craft Thursday crafts for my daughter’s birthday party. And listed a few more at my mom’s group yesterday when they were asking for fun ideas for kids. They are wonderful sunflowers! I have to admit I love “craftycrow”, too, and my kids are 23, 20 and 16. Your craft Thursdays remind me of the club my two older daughters had with a group of their friends. They would all come to our house on Mondays after school. We would do crafts, have a snack and then they would all play for a bit till their parents came to pick them up. Once they were a little older we started taking field trips and having camp outs. It was much like Girls Scouts, without having to sell cookies! ๐ A great bunch of girls. Just last week I ran into one of the older girls and she gave me a hug and said, “Can we have sunshine club!!” Great memories. Very cute craft! This is a great idea! I think both my girls will love it. My almost three year old should even be able to do it with a little help. Thank you!! Love your blog!! Thanks for saying you yelled. It’s supposed to be fun! Why are you not having fun? Why are you fighting with your brother THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN! Sometimes I yell too, good to know I’m not the only one! Beautiful sunflowers! Super cute craft! It’s fun to see the differences in your kids’ personalities being expressed through what they are making! You have a beautiful family, and I just adore your blog ๐ Those are stunning!!! But what’s not to love via the Crafty Crow!!! I also feel let down when I don’t get to play and do their craft along side them!!! I really consider it to me my play time too!!! I love that Sean has such firm ideas about how his crafts should look and how everything is ‘just so’. He totally reminds me of my oldest little boy.
this guy never even opened his eyes for entire photo session. best job ever. *********************************************************************************************************************************** i have very unexciting plans today that include running….laundry….and cleaning out pumpkin guts. hope your day is AWESOME! Love the fabric choice, so precious!!! oh! a week old? i love them when they’re like that! also, who makes the bike fabric? This is just the cutest picture Ever! TFS. That picture made my heart ache a little! The newborn stage is so special and goes so quickly. (sigh) I love how they curl up in a ball as if they were still in utero! I love my kids at each of their current ages, but man, do I miss holding a brand new baby. ๐ i HAD to come back and look at this picture again! he’s sooooo new!!! love his newborn hair! Love the pic!! The colors of the fabrics are amazing. I got to do laundry & clean out pumpkin guts today too! It was the first pumpkin I’ve ever carved, so it was fun for me & my son to have a “first” together! I am so glad I took today off work to spend with him during his fall break…..I need every Friday off! Hope you had a great day! LOVE BABIES! swaddled babies are the best!! that’s it will i EVER stop wanting another baby? this made me happy all over again that i have a little one in my belly:). thank you, thank you! I love those bicycles!! Any chance on finding out if this is material that was purchased at a fabric shop?! Great picture! I’m taking a two week old on Monday – freaked out! I’m not good at newborns! ohsocute ๐ Too sweet! I hope you have a wonderful day too! sweeeet! OOOOHHHH the smell….I remember that…..I miss that. Have a great day too!!!! About the pumpkin guts, just a question, does anyone elses hands get irritated from the innards? Inquiring minds would like to know? So sorry about the laundry Megan, my condolences are with you. oh.my.gosh oh.my.goodness. what a cutie!!! I can’t believe I’ll have one of those in less than 8 mos ๐ Oh Meg, he is DREAMY! I love the blanket!!!!! Where did she get it I need one for my next baby. I love your blog sometimes it helps me through my day……… Precious! While I think this child is the cutest EVER….I kinda am focused on the cute polka dot blanket. he is a doll…what a wonderful photo! He is so cute Meg so ya how many times did you kiss that baby? Soooooo Cute Ahh the new baby smell…how many times did you kiss that sweet little forehead? Hi Meg!! Lovely!!!! That bike material made my heart skip. Ohhhh just precious. i can almost smell him. happy chore day:) i have had several people ask me how craig and i stay "connected". so…..i will give you my answers but please be sure to know that i am not saying we are perfect. but this is what is working for us: 1. we make time to be together. 2. we treat each other with respect.….we are thoughtful, kind, loving, encouraging & patient. 3. we are on the same team with our parenting. 4. we laugh together A LOT. 5. we have trusted our marriage to God. ************************************************************************************************ that is what works for us….right now….in this season of life. it's not always easy but it is always worth it. good books on marriage: For Women Only by Shaunti Feldman if you have other book suggestions please feel free to share a favorite book in the comments. Love this post. “For Women Only” is a wee little book that completely changed my understanding of my husband. It is a powerful one. Thanks for being honest-it means a lot to read about the real deal. There is a beautiful book called A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Van Aucken. It talks about building a hedge between your marriage and the rest of the world… true story… tragic… amazing… beautiful. I loved all the books mentioned. How is that? Love this post…I say yes and AMEN to all of it! Thanks for this post! I love your blog! I wanted to chime in on book suggestions and say that “Creative Counterpart” by Linda Dillow has been a very helpful book for me. It has lots of advice on how to be the wife God intends for us to be to our husbands. I love it’s practicality. Created to be his Help Meet. I’ll admit the author made me mad at first. And I still can’t agree with everything she writes. But overall, a great read. Changed my attitude. Thanks for sharing this. Simple and straightforward. My husband and I have been married for eight years, and I’d like to think some of the same things you listed are what have helped us have a good marriage. You know, after eight years of marriage he’s still the person I want to hang out with the most. We have fun together and genuinely like each other. Of course, we love each other, but I think he’s a really cool person, too. The last line is my favorite. God gave us a guide on how to be a husband and wife…the Bible. Amen!!! Men Are Like Waffles; Women Are Like Spaghetti. Great book! One couple (who you know well) say it saved their marriage – not sure if they were joking or not, but we have used it with our different young marrieds groups. Meg, you are a highlight of my day! Your family is beautiful and ALIVE! ๐ Happy belated 35th – 35 was a hard one for me for some odd reason but that lasted like 2 seconds and then I forged on! I love your relationship with your babes – love your sense of style etc etc etc (I could really gush forever). On this post about how you keep things alive – and this is a bit personal, but how do you keep thins ALIVE, if you know what I mean – sometimes I feel so spent at the end of the day and harried that that being ALIVE (;-)) is the last thing I want (I work full-time for attorneys (love/hate relationship with them but it is my profession) and have a 9 year old and 3 teen step children that are very much a part of our lives. I just feel like I’m letting my husband down. Heck, I’m letting me down – I want a sliver back of our days gone by. ๐ Oh, and if you wouldn’t mind posting some of your favorite holiday crafts. I so want to get that started with my kids. Thanks! ok..i thought it was about time I stop stalking your blog and leave a comment. I just adore your blog and its in my top 3 favorites. I dont know what I love the best…your passion for Christ..your passion for your family..or your passion for color and decorating. i just adore your blog…i wish you would post like 3 a day..haha. Be blessed my friend This is a great list. My husband and I are like that. We still laugh together (after 19 yrs.) We enjoy being together, I greet him at the door each night, and we are just kind to each other. We like each other and I think that that is very important. Love and Respect is an amazing book. The Proper Care And Feeding Of Marriage…..life changing. This is SO beautiful! Better than any kind of lovey dovey thing I’ve ever read…it’s real and honest, and totally RIGHT. This is a great post, thanks…for realz ๐ Okay, I totally printed out what you wrote to show my husband AND to hang it on my chalkboard in my kitchen…I think I need a daily reminder! Thanks for the great advice…stuff we all know but don’t always live by… Such a nice, encouraging post. Thanks for sharing that, I’d also say the book Sacred Marriage is fantastic. I borrowed it from the library, but I think I NEED to own it. Yay Meg! God is so good. Thanks for the testimony, I’d reccommend Love and Respect as well! lose this post…thank you for sharing! i’m married to my best friend and he is truly wonderful…but we’re both human and fall short. we’ve been married for 2 amazing years and have many many years ahead of us. but in the 2 years we have endured much pain. lost 2 babies – one ectopic and the most recent when i was 6 months pregnant. i lost my job when recession hit and we’ve also moved (to a beautiful new house which we love) but moving is still stressors! through all this…we come together, pray together and remind one another that we’re on the same team. we’re currently reading ‘How We Love’ discovering your love style by Yerkovich! It’s much like 5 love languages but goes deeper to what is rooted in us from our childhood. How my past hurts work with his…it’s good and I’d suggest it to anybody! Thanks again for your post! Love your blog… Meg, I’ve been together with my husband for 10 years this Dec. and married for 5 years this past May. We have 3 kids. 12 year old Ready-Made from my husbands previous relationship, a 3 year old and a 17 month old. I love how you said “you put each other first- above the kids-” For a lot of couples I know they think this is horrible- How could you put your kids second? Ghastly! But it’s so true! Without the love, support, connection from each other- we wouldn’t be the best for our family. Laughter, and a partner in crime are essential to a lasting relationship. I LOVE it, and I say DITTO… On Nov 10th my hubby and I will be married {20} TWENTY years… We married the day after I turned 16 {he was 19} I have been with him since I was 14 years old and my parents believed my heart and LOVE for him and after MUCH prayer agreed to allow me to marry… We waited a few years before starting our family, after all I need to graduate from high school… hahaha, I am even more in love with him today… and “they” said it wouldn’t last… HA I second For Women Only ~ great book! #5 is the most important for us (we don’t do as well with the other 4), but we have always believed that the 3rd person in our relationship ~ Christ ~ was the glue to our marriage. Just had an interesting conversation with my sister about how we discover holiness through marriage ~ thus Holy Marriage. good post. good book ideas! Thank you for the reaffirmation of everything God intended marriage to be. I have been trying to live the Fruits of the Spirit as a wife and mother – not always successfully – but I’ve been trying. And you know what…..I see a change in me, in my marriage, in the way I parent my child. God has given us the compass, the direction manual in the Bible for all parts of our lives! That is so AMAZING to me. Thank you for this blog post today. I am getting married in May and I am currently reading the five love languages. We’ve only been together for three years, so obviously the love hasn’t lost its sparkle yet, but any relationship could always use a revival. This book has helped me to think about what he needs from me instead of what I need from him. It’s so awesome, our relationship has definitely matured. We have a long way to go, but I’m glad you mentioned those other books because I want to work as hard as I have to to beat the statistics of 50% of all marriages ending in divorce. You hit a good one… trusting your marriage to God. That’s all we can do is trust sometimes. I once talked to a lady at my church that had been married for years (to the same man I should add) and she told me that not every day will be sunshine and rainbows. Some days she looks at her husband and doesn’t know how they stayed married for so long, but more of the days she looks at him and knows that’s who she wants to be with for forever. wow Meg….that was like reading a page out of my marriage! Johnny and I have been married for 31 years and believe me, all 31 have been fantastic! And I credit that to the very same things you listed on your blog!! mmmm. good advice for a young married girl! my hubz and i joke about how we are just like rihanna and eminiem’s song where they describe their relationship as “a tornado meets a volcano”! ๐ we try to lessen it to “a strong wind meets a soft bubbling of lava” I haven’t read the 4th book. I will have to check that out. I agree with another post mentioning “Love and Respect”. thanks for sharing that meg. it seems at this age i’m noticing more and more friends calling it quits with their marriages. just little tips like this can really make someone stop and think…to try a little harder. we pretty much share the exact same philosophy with our marriage. Oh my gosh – I could have totally written this because I loved every single point you made! ๐ Great advice! I love what you said about spending time together.My hubby and I like coffee dates and “netflix” dates rock!!!!! Love and Rect by Eggreich (sp?). Very very helpful book! ๐ Thanks for touching on this subject. As a mom I am very focused on providing a solid beginning for my babies, and oftentimes my marriage to Shawn falls by the wayside. Thanks for sharing! My husband and I try to do these too. Respect and consideration are so important in marriage! A book that was really helpful in our marriage was Gary Chapman’s “Five Languages of Apology.” It actually really helps in any type of relationship! Fabulous post!!! I have had a similar one lurking in the back of my mind – but I would rather leave it up to the experts!!! We love Shaunti Feldman too… though I never thought I would, she was right on in everything!!! I love that you shared this…such a great reminder for all of us. Looking forward to my anniversary getaway this weekend, minus 4 kids! Woohoo! The best thing we can give our kids is the model of a loving marriage, after all, home is where their story begins. I would be lying if I said that after 20 years of marriage, hubby doesn’t get on my nerves ๐ Or that I have not failed many many times when I have not treated him with the respect he needs.. I can only do it with God’s help… which He always gives when I ask! LUV this. Amen. And bring on the no-kids weekend. you are right on with all of your advice. We have been married 27 years and everything you said is true. With a full heart, I have to say I LOVE YOU BOTH. No, I don’t know you IRL. Doesn’t matter. I love you guys. I love your honesty. You are refreshing, so truthful and wonderful and magnificent. Sounds like you have this marriage thing pretty figured out, it’s nice to hear. I am divorced, but I can still appreciate a good marriage, it gives me a little faith that there are happy couples out there…… Respect is a BIG one for us. And laughter. Great post, Meg. Hi Meg! ๐ Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. My husband and I can be fighting and I can be soooo mad and once I pick up this book and even read one page, I feel like all I want to do is love him. He does a good job of incorporating scripture in and really focusing his book on that. It’s VERY good. Thanks for being real. We have enjoyed some of the books mentioned and also When Sinners Say I Do by Dave Harvey (talks about mercy and grace). Also we have what we call “in dates”. We usually get take out and eat together when our little children are in bed…a good time to talk and connect! Great post! And I totally agree about the Five Love Languages being an awesome book to read. My husband and I read it and so many things became so obvious to us about how we needed to be treating each other, it completely changed our marriage and really helps us meet each others needs so much more effectively now. Thanks!! i love this, we do all these too. Wonderful advice. Sometimes I look at my husband and I love him so fiercely it hurts. Marriage is not always easy, we are so different. I try to learn his ways, appreciate his ways and he does the same for me. I love his familiar face, his familiar hand in mine. Love and Respect was another powerful book for our marriage. I am blanking on the author. Thanks for the tips, and the reminders. I think sometimes we get so caught up in “being parents ” that we lose sight of the fact that we are still a couple… We also dont have many options for sitters except to pay for one and that can be costly nowadays. Thanks again, this is something I will try to keep in mind! Aww…. I love these. Our kids are both almost 17 years old now so my husband and I are actually getting to start spending a lot more of our time together – which has been so nice for a change. We have always taken time for “us” such as every other year we would take a “us” vacation and the following year it would be a “family” vacation. It was really hard on us when the kids were young like yours because after the 2nd day we would both be missing them and wanting to get back home to them something terribly. Now, we really enjoy our “quiet” time. Thanks for the book suggestions, I am going to look into those! :o)xoxoxo Thanks for the timely reminder that my husband and I need to make more time to be together as a couple. Excellent tips. I agree, you need to spend time together… alone. My husbands work schedule is flexible, we go out for morning tea or lunch most days. We have always encouraged young couples with kids to put God first but then be the best “couple” you can be and you will then be the best parents for your kids. Some things are so simple…but do take that commitment to follow through. I love this post, thanks for sharing. “Sacred Marriage” by Gary Thomas is another great resource. Thanks for the tips on keeping a strong marriage. It’s so important especially in today’s society to make marriage a priority and WORK at it. You do have to make a conscience decision to keep your marriage together. Thanks Meg for keeping it real. |
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Shiloh - Thanks Meg for the great photo session! Tons of fun. ๐ You made my girl feel like she was on top of the world like I knew you would. What a special day!
Shauna - What a great shot! Also, it’s not too often I hear of someone with my name. ๐
Kate B. - You’re pretty awesome. ๐
Lee Anne - I love how that sweater just ‘pops’ against her fabulous hair color and the red brick behind.
Sarah@Clover Lane - What a beautiful girl. Wouldn’t it be great to have naturally highlighted hair like that? Shallow I know but I want it!
Heather - love her haircut and the life in her smile!!
Courtney Walsh - awww, you are lucky! ๐ I love the green in her shirt! So bright and fun! ๐
Dana@Bungalow'56 - Love the sparkle in her eyes… makes me wonder what you just said to get that reaction? : )
Dana
Lanny Stanard - What a doll…
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - so cute…and they are blessed to have YOU too! Geesh what I wouldn’t do to have you take OUR pics;)
KTG - sweet
Lisa - they say when you do a job you are passionate about you dont work a day in your life. Gorgeous pic.
Holly - Beautiful girl! You are truly blessed to love what you do!
Julie - You have a GREAT job! And you do it so well. Very cute girl ~ love the green!!
Gemma - So adorable!! You do a great job : )
If any of you get a chance please visit my blog…I’m getting a bit lonely over there!! : (
Thanks : )
Gemma x
ky - Fantastic photo! Fabulous smile!
Mary Beth - When that screen popped up on my computer I had a BIG smile on my face! Love the green sweater, too. So CUTE!!!!