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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Wordless Wednesday - Date Night Link Up

Sunset Cruise on the Riverfront

Dinner downtown, almost like before the muppets.

It was an amazing recharging of our batteries.

Link up and give us a glimpse into your world. Happy Wednesday!

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Wordless Wednesday

From our 3rd of July fireworks last night...but no fireworks here. You can see yours tonight!

I'm trying Simply Linked to do a link up. I'd love to see everyone else's Wordless Wednesdays, they are my favorites, without having to search the web - if you're not on my list. Fingers crossed, we'll see if this works.

Link up!

I AM

Taken from "The Fireman's Wife" by Susan Farren

I am thank ful. This has not always been an easy walk for me.

I am disappointed. We have missed family gatherings, weddings, dinner engagements, birthday parties, and holidays because of shift schedules and overtime.

I am patient. There have been dinners spent at the firehouse waiting for Daddy to return from a call while the kids get cranky and the food gets cold.

I am nervous. I awake at 3:00 A.M. hearing creaks in the house and don't have the comfort of my husband beside me.

I am tired. The house is full of sick kids and there is no relief in site because Daddy is on a seventy-two-hour shift.

I am jealous. Jealous of all the women whose husbands came home at 5:00 P.M. to have dinner and hold them at the end of their day.

I am worried. I worry that he may not come home one day. This I try to tuck away.

I am content. We have decided to give up my career so I can stay home and raise our children. We no longer have an abundance of money or things. It is the greatest freedom I have ever known.

I am incompetent.There was a time when I considered myself moderately intelligent. I now struggle to remember where I left my car keys, the diaper bag, and, occasionally, the baby.

I am waiting. Knowing the phone may one day ring for me.

I am doubting. Doubting that God hears all my prayers. Doubting I am the kind of wife and mother He needs me to be.

I am trusting. Trusting that my husband will come home again.

I am confident, I am embarrassed, I am lonely, I am surprised, I am overworked, I am underpaid.

I am...The Fireman's Wife.