Be Mine, Valentine!

The kids were excited to make their Valentine's craft this year.  Boys and robots and candy.  This is the only time I get:  Mom, you're the best mom in the world. Hey, I'll take it when I can get it.

This craft is for Patrick.

Not like other past Valentines, I am not stressed out how we're going to celebrate it.  That's new for me.  Although it may seem silly, in our effort to raise three young boys, we don't often stop enough to celebrate love, so when these opportunities come around, it's important to me to be intentional and make these celebrations count.

Oddly this year, we're not doing anything.  (Well, we're doing the box above, but instead of carry-out, we're having hot pot fondue with fresh steamed veggies and jumbo shrimp.  Yippee!)  But the difference is... it's not the doing that is the celebration, it's just in the joy of being this year.   Maybe our marriage has improved, or maybe I'm learning contentment---but I celebrate this Valentines because--- wow, I get to be with Patrick.  I know many folks roll their eye balls at me or stick their hands in their mouth (mocking a gag reaction) when I say this--but I don't care---I'm not here to please men, I'm here to please God and He calls me to be the best wife I can be to my husband.  I want my husband to be the most LOVED man in the world. 

Not necessarily because he deserves it, but because I am called to be that wife.   Fortunately, I am married to the most bravest, honest, and God-seeking man.  I get to wake up every morning to the best man in the world.   I wish everyone could have this kind of marriage, truly I do.  I tell you what though, God knows what He is talking about in the law of sowing and reaping.  We reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7) Patrick and I have been working on and sowing, and sowing, into our marriage and we are really reaping a harvest of righteousness.  Just feel so grateful that he is mine.