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Slice of Life
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This is my first entry for IHeartFaces. Its one of the first pics I’ve taken with my first ever DSLR the Nikon D3100. I have a long way to go, but its becoming fun.
In this picture, my son was escorted by his stepdad to the 4H Fishing Derby.
Celebrating a Year of Love
Please be advised that this is not a post for the faint of heart, and especially for those under the age of 18. Links in this post will take you away from this page, and to an Adult’s only store. If I were you, I’d make sure that there were no kids around!
This Sunday marks our 1st Wedding Anniversary. I can’t believe it has been a very exciting year! A growing and learning experience like no other.
In the past year we have had many, many trials. The fact that we have made it this far and still haven’t really had a fight is amazing. Its very amazing that I found a man that loves me so much that he chooses not to fight about petty things. We do disagree on things, and yes we both get in our moods where we will snap at each other, but we try to be quick to make things right.
Learning how to live together has been interesting! We are both, for the lack of a better term, slobs. In a way its great that neither of us want to keep things perfect and fight about what needs to be done. But it makes things interesting to say the least. In fact, I just threw something in the trash a few days ago that he left while he was home for Christmas. Part of that is because I do like the reminder that this is still his home, and I wanted something to annoy me that he left behind! lol
In the past year there have been more hospital visits than I care to mention, at least 3 months of pain or pain medication, Over 6 months of being separated because of work, and a lot of that other time there was bouts of depression and lack of income.
We made it through everything! We are stronger because of all of the trials that came our way.
Scott will be home on Friday. Out of 6 months, he’s only been home 8 nights (that’s if I’m counting correctly). 5 of those nights he was home because of an emergency with his mother and the other 3 were over the Christmas holidays. I did travel to stay about 12 nights with him. So if you are doing the math here, there were about 20 nights that we have been together in the last 6 months.
Have you ever heard of that old statistic where the average American married couple has sexual intercourse 3 nights a week? Normally that would be 2 nights on the weekend, and one during the week. Yeah, that didn’t happen here over the course of our marriage so far.
So if we are going to try to have another kiddo, somethings gotta change! Well of course that’s not the only reason, a big reason is because we want our marriage to grow stronger, and a healthy sex life is the way to go.
On Sunday we will get all dressed up in our wedding attire and finally get to finish our wedding pictures! YAY! Afterwards, we will have some family portraits done and then its off to a nice dinner for the two of us and a night spent at the beach. Our first real date was at the beach, and we’d like to do something similar this year for our anniversary.
So I’d like to start including my readers in how we are going to start spicing our sex life up a bit, I know that you are dying to know.
With the help from a fabulous company I’m working with, I will be bringing you a few of our more intimate “secrets” to our journey to make our marriage stronger. I will try to keep things a bit toned down, so don’t expect me to go from 0-60 in my next few posts about the subject. What I will be doing is showing you thing that we are trying for a more intimate relationship.
Our first challenge in our relationship starts the minute that my husband arrives home. We have agreed to kiss every day. I don’t mean a friendly kiss hello or goodbye. It must last at least 20 seconds, and hopefully that won’t be just standing mouth to mouth if you know what I mean! lol I will update you on how this little challenge goes in my next post.
In the meantime, check out this company and see if you can find anything that may spice up your relationship with your spouse.
I am being compensated for this post by EdenFantasys with gift cards. All opinions however are my own.Tragedy
This morning the first call that I received was from my husband. He was telling me first about the Tsunami that was to hit Hawaii in 25 minutes, then the earthquake. Just last week he found out that many of his co-workers were in Maui on a job. I could tell that he was worried sick. One lady in particular was in his thoughts.
The next thing that I really remember is getting a call from my friend, saying that her husband was killed in a tragic accident at work this morning. I can’t begin to tell you how this has affected my husband and myself.
Amber and I met years ago, online. Since then we call ourselves Best Internet Friends Forever (BIFF) Her husband traveled for his job as a millwright, and coincidentally my husband does the same thing.
Recieving a call like this is very hard, because there are no words to express your sympathy. Cards and flowers don’t either. In essence, I’m many, many miles away and just want to wrap my friend in my arms and take everything away.
This hits so close to home. I have spent many hours today with tears running down my face. The crying resulted in a migraine even. But yet, my heart breaks even more for the tragedy that has entered my friends home and heart.
Right now I feel guilty for being able to call my husband on the phone, look at his newest status update on Facebook, or to think about his homecoming in only 8 days.
For a wife who’s husband has traveled for work for half of their marriage, its hard. For Amber, her husband has traveled for nearly all of their (almost) 10 years of marriage. She’s one tough cookie that has dealt with things that most women would cringe at the thought of dealing with without their husband by their side. I know that I have.
Right now there is a woman across the country from me, who is being as strong as she can be for her daughter and 3 step daughters. With all that is going on in the world today, earthquakes, tsunami, war and rumors of war, this woman stands alone in her own storm.
I will be praying continually for my closest and dearest BIFF, and hope that you will join me. also please remember all of the folks across the world that are weathering their own storms today.
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