| | I have been to 28 states (including DC). This surprises me. I had no idea it was that many states. It's because of all of the traveling I have been doing for onething. I'm currently in the process of trying to persuade my boss to let me and Stacey travel cross country again, this time to Phoenix, then to LA, then back here. It would be... awesome!! I miss being on the road.
BUT there's a possibility of road tripping with my sister back to VA for two weeks in late August. Not sure if it's going to happen, probably won't know until right before the trip, but I can't decide if I want it to happen or not. It'd be fun to be on the road with my sister and the girls, but it is also kind of hard to be on the road with the girls. And I have mixed feelings about Virginia right now. I love it, don't get me wrong, but KC is home now, and going back is sometimes hard. And two weeks is a long time. And we'd all be staying with my parents, so who knows what the sleeping arrangements would be like. I don't know, in the end it would definitely be worth it.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the past six months and at once I feel like the growth I have experienced is slow and creeping, but at the same time I see huge leaps that my heart has made. It's kind of strange. I can definitely look at my life and see that God is working motherhood and marriage into my heart. But while it seems like my heart is making leaps and bounds in this area, it also feels like a really slow process. I guess I am kind of grateful for that, in a way. The Lord knows that I'm skittish if things move too quickly, and since He made my heart, and understands me better than I understand myself, He takes things slowly with me.
When I moved out to Kansas City I had no intentions or thoughts of working on this part of my heart. But looking back, I can see that even then He had better plans for me. Even starting with my first roommate out here - she was engaged and planning her wedding while we were roommates. Now, two of my closest and greatest friends out here are married and I hang out with them and their husbands all the time. Also, I currently live with my sister, who is married, with two girls. It's done a lot of good things in my heart and started awakening a lot of stuff in there as well. The Lord knows what He is doing - of this I am absolutely sure.
I'm contemplating (kicking around the idea) of starting a small group based on one of the many books I've been reading recently. The one I'm most leaning towards is Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye?. It's a fantastic book by Carolyn McCulley. She's a 40 year old woman who has never been married, and I really felt like she had a lot of awesome things to say about marriage and women. One of my favorite things she talked about was the term single woman. We always put the adjective single first, as if that's the most important thing about us, the thing that truly defines us. Actually, it should be woman that comes first, since this is the essence of who we are.
Carolyn also talked about how when you aren't married by a certain age people start asking if maybe you have the 'gift of singleness'. I laughed to myself because I've definitely heard this, and I'm only 25. She made a really good point though - we ALL have the gift of singleness at some point in our lives. And, while most people do receive the gift of marriage, that's what it is, a gift. I'm not doing this particular topic justice, but it was really profound when I read it.
All of that is not to say that I'm dissatisfied with my current marital status. I'm quite fine with it, actually, and am really enjoying it. I just wanted to share what I've been reading recently.
I will leave off with some little known (I think), fun facts about me:
1) Whenever I enter the bathroom, 99% of the time, I start out by making faces at myself in the mirror.
2) I love to go to bookstores and just browse. And sometimes just sit and read. My own book. That I brought with me to the bookstore. Specifically to read. :)
3) I like going to the movies by myself. But part of me wonders if maybe I don't just like the idea of this more than the actual doing. I say this because I have actually only done this once or twice. But it was quite fun.
4) I've been making a list of things I would like to do before I die. It's been quite fun.
5) Included on the above list is taking a bath in a claw foot tub.
6) I LOVE to laugh. And nothing makes me laugh more than wit - I love witty jokes. I think the highest thing on my list of husband qualities (right below Christian) is wit. Wit seriously gets me everytime.
7) I am not competitive.
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