Our Garden This Year!!!!!!

Well I FINALLY took pictures!!! I am so happy with how our garden is doing this year! We have had drought weather but it is still do amazing. I have not watered THAT much. MULCH is so wonderful for holding the moisture in the ground. My dh got me SO much hay for our garden this year!!
My sweet ds built me that AMAZING fence and trellies in front of my garden! Isn't it EXCELLENT?!!! I have morning glories,flowering beans and some other stuff growing up it.

You can see that I still do have SOME weeds! lol

The veggies in the last picture with my 7yo we picked ALL tonight! 100 lbs of veggies!

If you click on the pictures they will enlarge and you can see much better!

My tomatoes are SO amazing.That huge patch right to the LEFT of the trellies as you walk under it is ALL tomatoes and NO they are not weedy!! They are just doing amazing!!

Well,that's it! Enjoy!







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow! What happened?

lol

I guess I am done with this.I didn't get the full 8 weeks done but I all of the sudden became swamped around here! I am not even going to TRY to catch up.I liked going through all of this marriage stuff with you all! Keep on doing your best to be the wife the Lord designed you to be! I will be doing the same!

Does *HE* feel that you follow him anywhere?

How would he feel if he had to come home and tell you that something came up and you had to move out of the country?

Would he be afraid that you would refuse to come?

Would he be afraid that you would come but that you could not handle it emotionally?

Or would he be confident that even if you didn't want to,you would follow him anywhere and support him in whatever he decided was best for the family? (Need I put a disclaimer here that I don't mean you should support him if he wanted to murder someone or rob a bank?)

Does he KNOW that you are committed to being his Help-meet?

That you would never DREAM of not following him?

For the record,I would h.a.t.e to move out of the country.I love where I live,I have no desire to move and well,I could give you a million reasons why lol.My husband gets my opinion on just about any decision he makes.He is looking at tractors right now,he loves for me to look at them with him and let him know which ones I like/dislike.It would seriously sway his decision if I didn't like a certain tractor.I love that :).

Anyhow.....:) (Brandy,I smile and think of you every time I say "anyhow".)

Anyhow, all that to say that if my dh DID for some reason make a huge decision like that without consulting me, I would trust that it was what he thought was BEST.He KNOWS that he could not shake me if he WANTED to lol.After serving the Lord,(and serving my husband is part of this),there is NOTHING more important to me in THIS life than being his help meet.I would follow him to the end of the earth!!

I hope that you feel the same about your husband and that he KNOWS it!!!

Are You His Support........

Or his stumbling block?

Are you someone who helps him overcome his trials or are you one of his trials?

Does he thank God for you or does he pray for God to help him put up with you?

Are you someone who builds him up or do you tear him down with your criticism?

If someone asked your husband if he was reverenced/respected by his wife what would he say?

Are you his HELP-meet or are you expecting him to be yours?

Friday!! Thankful list!

Adding to my list.........:):):) (Happily) (I copied everything from the past 6 weeks here because I didn't want to keep repeating myself lol......The underlined and bold stuff is from this week......:) )


1.I love that he loves to talk to me and calls me several times a day.


2.I love that he worries about us when we are out grocery shopping or ANYWHERE away from home.

3.I love that he is such a good worker that everyone wants him.Sometimes that takes him away from me but I have learned to be thankful for that.I have a man who takes providing for us very seriously.

4.I love the way he takes care of the evening chore routine.He makes sure everything is done correctly and just takes care of the whole situation.It is such a huge help to me.One thing I don't have to worry about.It is so nice to go down to the childrens rooms and see them so clean lol.They know Daddy won't accept any excuses! :):):)

5.I love how his little boys melt him.I love how he loves on them all the time and how much THEY love him!

6.I love that the other day he told me on the phone that he was talking to the most beautiful,wonderful,sweetest lady in the world.


7.I love that when I answer the phone and say "Hello!" He says "Lover....." lol

8.I love how he is really trying to make a point for us to take more showers together because we love it.(But have gotten out of the habit)

9.I love that he loves to have me near him whenever he can and NEVER gets tired of me or needs time away from me.

10.I love that he would never refer to me as his "old lady" or anything else like that.He hates those disrespectful labels.

11.I love that he loves people as much as I do.We both love having company/socializing.*Especially* with other christians.


12.I love that he is not bossy.I love that he doesn't tell me what to do 99% of the time.He is very easy to please in this area.He doesn't tell me how to cook,clean,decorate,garden etc.(He DOES tell me how to drive! roflol)

13.I love that he loves little ones so much.He is constantly pointing out darling things that the children do and talking about how cute they are.

14.I love that the other day he told me that he wouldn't give up these years with the children for any amount of money in the world.

15.I love that he is firm in his spiritual beliefs and firm about passing them down to his children.

16.I am thankful for all of the sweet thing my dh is insisting on doing for me lately like opening my doors etc.


17.I am thankful that he takes his job very seriously and that we have never NOT had our needs met.

18.I love how he calls me several times each day always telling me how much he loves me.

19.I love how he started a Bible Study for the older children so they can get into some deeper studies with us.

20.I love that he is really determined right now to spend more time with the children and I and it's not because I nag him about it!

21.I am thankful that my husband is just treating me EEEEEEXTRA special lately.He has written me a note,planned an evening for me,helped me with all sorts of things,said so many sweet things and the list goes on and on!!!! I am so blessed!

22.I am thankful that he likes me to be with him ALL the time and never gets tired of me!

23.I am thankful that it is important to him to instill an excellent work ethic in his boys (and girls).

24.I am thankful that he loves to bring me home chocolate even though that is the LAST thing I need lol.(He knows how much I love it.)

25.I am thankful that he never puts me down to other people.

Forgiveness

Hi ladies! How is everyone? I am doing just great here.......I just wanted to throw a couple thoughts out there for you to think about......

We all know that the negative things that our husbands do over and over and over again are the things that really get  to us.They tend to BUILD up and every time the offense occurs again,all of the past offenses come rushing back in too and it can REALLY get you mad if you are not careful.

How do we want the Lord to deal with *our* repeated sins though? We ALL have areas that we struggle with consistently.We need to make sure that we are giving our husbands the same mercy and forgiveness that we wish the Lord to give us.

The second thing.......Are you able to forgive your husband without an apology from him? It's a really good thing to practice.Sometimes he may not realize he is wrong.You can tell him how he makes you feel when he does this or says that but sometimes he won't SEE it or understand.It might take him YEARS to understand you in some areas and then again,you might find out down the road that YOU were the one in the wrong! That's happened to me *many* times.

Or he might KNOW that he's wrong but just be too hard headed to apologize.:) Can you still forgive him?

I can't help but look to the Lord again and be SO thankful for all of the times he has forgiven me and had mercy on me.Even when I was living in sin for years and didn't realize it.Or the times that I know I am wrong but am too lazy,careless or frustrated to truly repent to the Lord.

Lets be SURE to give the same forgiveness to our men (and others) that WE ourselves receive from the Lord!!

Matthew 18 is an amazing chapter on forgiveness.........It can really straighten up your wrong attitudes (something I need daily).

Practice Makes Perfect

Time for a little practice.........:)

Pick ONE thing that your dh does that you think is unwise,irresponsible,a bad influence,a waste of time etc.etc.

Think long and hard about this........Pick one of those things that bother you daily,or at least almost daily.

Do you have your thing? (Bet it wasn't too hard to think of something was it?) :):)

Now......

Write it down on a piece of paper, and look long and hard at it.

Finally............Crumple it up,throw it in the trash or even BURN it.

Let that thing go.Determine to STOP caring about that thing.

Let that chip fall off of your shoulder forever.

Don't EVER let it ruin another evening.......Not even another MOMENT.

Remember that you have NO idea what the Lord is doing in your husbands life OR yours.

Remember that the job the Lord gave YOU as your husbands help meet is to reverence,support,respect,love,encourage etc. etc.

Not to nag,complain,or criticize.

You will find it wanting to rest on your shoulder again but don't let it.Brush it off every.single.time.

Before you know it...........You will find that it never or atleast rarely,weighs you down anymore,AND I almost guarantee that your husband will notice it.Instead of doing that thing MORE.........

He just might do it less.

(But make sure you aren't DOING it to try to get him to do it less.Make sure you are making these changes because they are RIGHT,expecting nothing in return.)

You are practicing JOY.