What a Great Week!

Well, even though Hubby had to go to Texas for training this week, the Little Lady and I had a great week! We played and relaxed at home.... It was Perfect!

"Daddy, I can come too, right?"

Here's some of the fun we got into! =)

 Ariah has really been into coloring this week and so we've had to work on what's appropriate surfaces and what aren't. Face, hands, legs... All fair game :) Even Mommy's!

Hehehe

I just love this face! Ariah decided that she and her doll (a doll my Great Grandma made for my sister one Christmas) needed to brush their teeth. So of course the doll had to join us! I have several pictures of her "brushing" her teeth, but, again, I love this face!

So, after sending this picture to the hubby, we decided it was well past time to buy a Kitchen Helper! :) I am really excited to see how it works and I'll post information and pictures on it when it arrives. We were making a chickpea salad that I found on ohsheglows.com. While I'm not a vegan, I am intrigued by how creative she gets and how yummy her recipes are. Anyway, Ariah was not a fan of the salad, but she likes humus...so into the food processor went the salad and here's my happy helper :) She ate nearly as much as I did!

Now, my newest project! I have been DROOLING over Queen B's work (on Facebook: Queen B's Boutique). She makes dresses and ruffled jeans (Super Cute....and I have my first dress in the mail right now! Eeek!) Anyway, I missed out on Valentine's day jeans mainly because I already had a shirt for Ariah and didn't see the need to buy another new outfit..... Until I went thrifting with my mom. I found this cute dress, but it is WAY too short for Ariah. Soooo.... I cut the ruffles off the bottom and sewed it on to jeans!

Before

After!

 I am REALLY happy with how they turned out :) I'm thinking of using the remaining fabric to do a decal on a shirt to complete the outfit.... but we'll see.

So, this week I got back to that 10 Minute Time Out for Moms that I mentioned in one of my first blog posts (check the Bible Study label). I forgot how much I loved her writing :) This week, on top of uplifting me spiritually, she renewed my enthusiasm for finding out WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT WOMEN! lol
I have started my study....in Genesis :) I know, that may be a strange place to start. I thought it was at least. However, there are several women who are not only mentioned in the Bible but directly spoke to God or His angels. In my opinion, that's worth a study ;)
I started with Eve.
"This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh." Genesis 2:24
Now this verse talks about becoming "one." This can mean the obvious physical oneness during intimacy, but I started thinking about truly becoming "one." If you are one with someone, then what hurts that person hurts you; what they rejoice in, you do as well. I will be looking for more verses to support this train of thought, but it strikes me that this verse also talks about the support and care one should show for another in a marriage. I'm not going to post any more thoughts on this right now because they're still milling and I don't have the verses to fully support my thoughts. Mill on this for now though and we'll come back to it in a later post :)

I found something really interesting in Genesis 6, but again I'm not quite ready to post on it yet. Instead we'll keep going to the next woman (and last for now), Noah's wife. Did you know that we aren't even given her name here? and yet....
We should all know the story of Noah. The world was so full of wicked men that the Lord sent a flood to destroy everyone...except Noah, his wife, and their three sons and their wives. In Genesis 6 and 7 we can read the conversation that ocurred between God and Noah, but Noah's wife was not, as far as we know, privy to this direct knowledge. All she knew was that her husband began building an ark because God told him to. Now, since she was saved from the flood, I think it's safe to assume that she was godly and had a certain amount of faith in God. Having faith that her husband actually talked to God and was given directions to build a giant ark is a different kind of faith though. I have faith that I am God's child and that He has saved me, but I don't always have faith that my husband is right. God is God and my husband is, well, human. Noah's wife had faith not only in her God but also in her husband and his faith. As Christian wives of Christian men, we need to show our husbands that support that comes with being "one" and have faith in THEIR faith. Reminding them to pray about decisions and praying ourselves FOR them is the first step, but after that we need to have faith.
(Quick cavaet, this next part is my own conviction. It is one of my own thoughts that I am hoping to find biblical advice on as I study. I will come back to edit if I find biblical evidence that I am wrong, but for now you can take it as a personal opinion and glimpse on how I work as a wife.)
By the way, I'm NOT saying that husbands and wives won't disagree nor that if, as a wife, you are feeling God's pull in a different dirrection you shouldn't talk to your husband. You should. In fact, I believe that if a husband and wife are being "pulled by God" in two different directions on a specific decision, it is a good sign that there should be more prayer before a decision is made.

I'm kind of surprised that a woman whose name is not even recorded could set such an example for Christian wives. There's definitely a reason all the stories are recorded in the Bible. They still have so much to teach us.

Alright! So, there's a thorough update ;) Have a great weekend!