Food, glorious food!

Wow!  It’s been a crazy week!  I’ve found it hard just to keep my head above water.  I’ve been doing a lot of grocery shopping this week, trying to stock up my pantry so I’m not running to the store every other day.  Correction:  So I’m not sending Harry to the store every other day.  Let’s be truthful now.  Anyway, this little project involves cleaning out the pantry and a closet and my kitchen cabinets, blah, blah, blah.  I am now working on my menu for the month of February, which I will be posting as soon as I get it done.  I have recently found that having a menu saves me a lot of time during the day because I don’t have to figure out what to cook.  This makes sense, since I spend ridiculous amounts of time preparing food, cooking food, serving food, and cleaning up food.  By the time I'm done cleaning up the food, it's time to start preparing food again!  But I digress.  I don’t make an exact menu, but I do make a general plan for the month, and then I post it on the refrigerator.  Now if only I were this organized with the homeschooling planning...  Ah well, one thing at a time I suppose.  Actually, brief side note, I won’t be blogging about homeschooling here, but if you want to read about that you can check out Walking with the Walls, our new family blog.  So, back to the subject.  I was thinking of doing a Mexican food theme for the month (which would translate to Mexican inspired dishes two to three times a week).  While I’m putting together my menu, does anyone have any fabulous recipe ideas to contribute?  Extra points if they are healthy!

Beautiful Ache

There are many things in my life that are beautiful.  They are uplifting, inspiring. I am blessed beyond belief--not because I'm overwhelmed with material blessing, but because I'm overwhelmed by a God who loves me.  And yet I find so often that this beauty is marred by heartache.  That nothing in my life is truly perfect or complete.  I feel this terrible longing for perfect beauty.  I want completeness.  But the reality of my life today is that I'm living in this imperfect world as an imperfect human being with an imperfect marriage and an imperfect family--yet, with a PERFECT God!  The beauty and the ache are overwhelming.  So I find that to share about myself I must share about the beautiful and about the heartache.  I originally wanted to name this blog Beautiful Ache, but I thought it might be too deep for the title of a blog.  So instead, it will be the theme behind my writings... I will be sharing about my ups and downs, bursts of creativity in my very domestic life, my spiritual walk, and everything in between. 

Before I sign off, I want to give special thanks to one of the most beautiful things in my life, my husband, Harry.  I am so grateful to him for giving me the push I needed to get this blog up, and for always encouraging me to be the best Eva.  I just hope I can live up to all the hype!   

Because My Husband Loves Me...

My wife really wanted to post on her blog tonight for the first time. She can't seem to make that happen so I, her ever-loving husband is starting off her blog with a guest post. Now, I won't take the time to bore you with the things that I write about in my own blog, I will just take the time to tell you how amazing my wife is and why you should follow this blog in the future.

This woman is quite amazing and has taken the position of mother and wife to a whole new level. The reason she is so tired right now is because she has been taking care of her bonehead husband who tried to break his shoulder by falling down Art Hill in Forest Park yesterday. She also has to take care of our 3 beautiful children who need a lot of attention. She gives them that attention sometimes to the point that no attention is given to her. So that is why I'm writing her first blog tonight.

Why should you read this blog in the future? Well, my wife is amazingly smart and has a lot of really great thoughts and things to say. I'm really excited about the fact that she is deciding to write a blog on her own. I believe that this is going to be helpful for her to share her heart and mind. You will want to read what she has to say. I guarantee it.