Family is a word we are all familiar with. When someone says the word “family”, I am sure most of us picture the most valued and loved ones in our life. When I hear the word family, I immediately think of my awesome husband and our beautiful daughter (and our handsome little man who is currently still baking!)
God has blessed me more than I deserve, there is no doubt! I was a 16 year old high school student the first time I ever saw my husband. We worked together so running in to each other in the break room or in the back of the store wasn’t unusual. We worked together for some time and talked a few times before we started dating. It wasn’t long before I new that he was probably going to be the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. Being, at that time, a 17 year old high school student, that should have terrified me! It didn’t. I always felt at peace about that. I guess I just felt blessed to have met that “one” person so young, and I was so sure of it. I knew this was the person God had planned for me. We dated for almost 2 years when we got married.
Our wedding day was amazing! Our pastor had us write each other a letter a few days before the wedding. We had to give the letters to our pastor in a sealed envelope, and about 15 minutes before I was to walk down the aisle toward him he gave us our letters from one another. What a great idea that was! I still go back and read our letters to each other, what we thought our lives would be like and how excited we both were to be married. That is one of my most favorite memories about that day!
Then, life happened. We had jobs, bought a house, sold a house moved out of state, moved apartments, moved out of state again, worked full time jobs, bought a new house and then finally started planning for the future and a family of our own. When we moved to Springfield we had been married for almost 5 years.. and what a BUSY 5 years that was! We were living life and loving it! We were in Springfield for a couple of years before our daughter was born, the day our lives changed forever! After 7 years of marriage and 9 years of being together… we finally had our family that we always talked about!
Since then life has still been busy but in a very, very good way! My super hard working husband works full time, has been remodeling our house for the last 4 months, goes to school full time and is the best daddy to our daughter! I am incredibly blessed to work 2 jobs from home that I love, while raising our daughter and running our household. (Although sometimes I feel like our household runs me!) We get up early to start our day and stay up late to finish projects. We are living the life that God has so graciously blessed us with and we are loving it! We still plan for the future and our family… it’s just now some of the unknowns aren’t such a guess anymore. Instead of dreaming of when we will have kids, if they will be boys or girls, how many we should have and what will we name then…… we now make plans on when to take our kids to Disney World, family vacations in a pop up camper we hope to buy, and our next house we hope to build. I pray that God never allows me to take for granted what he has given me. And what he has given me is a family that makes this game of life a lot more fun to play!
