Valentines Day

Usually we don't do much for Valentines Day, Shelden makes the big bucks at Olive Garden on Valentines Day, serving everyone else on a date. This Valentines Shelden thought it would be cool to make cupcakes for his co-workers. Lately we have talked about how to be Jesus to our co-workers, and what better way than to bake them a little treat. So we baked up a little storm in the kitchen before we went to work that day...I think from now on we are going to dedicate Valentines Day to other people. It's nice being all lovie-dovie with each other for Valentines but we are usually good at being nice to each other all the rest of the days of the year. Celebrating our marriage comes easy for us so far...thank God for that. People who have been married for a while tell us that you will pass the honeymoon stage and get into "real life" and that's when marriage gets hard. And I definitely agree that marriage is hard, and there are struggles but why can't "real life" always be the honeymoon stage. I mean, maybe I just don't know quite yet because we have only been married for a year and a half but I feel like we are just breaking into the next level of our honeymoon phase. We are more in love than we were when we got married! Life is great...I was sitting in church last Sunday thinking, wow! we are so blessed, God has us in a good spot. We have moved in with my parents, and it's not a last resort thing, it all worked out with the situation that we were in before and now we are able to save more money for the baby and for a house. God has us in an amazing church that has invested in our lives and in return we have invested in it, Church for Life is like our second home. To those people who have the marriage that is in a "real life" mode, I think it's all perspective. If you believe you are blessed you will live like you are blessed just like if you believe you are capable of living in a honeymoon phase you WILL live in a honeymoon phase.
all in all....valentines day should be about someone else...just like marriage...its about your spouse. :)

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