I am so proud of him. And what an honor.
Not a single person disagreed.

Last night the church board, staff, deacon body, and financial committee unanimously agreed that my husband’s title as of June 29 will be:

Assistant Pastor.

With that honor comes a full-time position with paid vacation, fantastic benefits, and the parsonage.

That’s right… we’re moving from a one bedroom apartment to a four bedroom house with fenced in backyard and two car garage.

Isn’t God amazing?!

Just think of it…

Over the past few months Matt and I have gone from a dead car, 12-13 hour per day exhausting job (mine), overwhelming schooling (Matt’s), and general “I miss you cause I can’t see you EVER” feelings to a reliable new-to-us car (that’s family size), new job (mine) that allows me to see my husband, increased salary (both), almost completed bachelor’s schooling (Matt), new home, a baby on the way, and seminary on the horizon!

It just floors me how the Lord has provided.

Lord, this is Yours… truly!

“NO!!!”
running away
being caught
screeching
kicking in the shins
*inappropriate words*
“Got off me you stupid, idiot!”
scratching
biting
screeching
flailing

… repeat for 20 minutes until child’s bus arrives…

I must admit, I am not sold by this green kick. But some ideas actually do make what would be a pain-in-the-butt concept a bit more user friendly. I was just thinking of our options in the wide world of…

Welp, I set my first baby doctor visit for Friday, May 23 at 3pm. Yeah!
And Matt can go.. double Yeah!

I know… I get way too excited about the little things.

But I guess it’s just the thought of moving forward in the process that’s neat, especially since the nauseousness seems to be a bit intense today. And I’d kind of like further proof and reassurance that I’m not doing all this for nothing. hehe.

No, in all reality, I do look forward to meeting the Dr. and introducing myself as the one with the extra hormones.

Also found this kinda cool site online. For those of you who either have too much time on their hands or are actually genuinely interested.

Thank you to those of you who were really excited and maybe even still are really excited for Matt and I. I came across a “less than excited” non-family first response to the news the day after I found out and it was quite disheartening to explain to a co-worker that this child is not an abomination to my “life-plans.” So I really do appreciate those of you who gave such encouraging words during this exciting, yet quite honestly scarily new phase of life. Your words carry more than you know….

so thanks.

Thought this was interesting…

De Tocqueville contrasted the American understanding of women, with European sentiments:

“There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make man and woman into beings not only equal but alike. They could give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things — their occupations, their pleasures, their business. It may readily be conceived that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded, and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women.”

What do you think?