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The Marriage Blog Week in Review for Dec 23-29

Whew! What a week! We started with the roll into Christmas and we’re ending it counting down to the New Year. Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve and we’ll be officially counting down the last few hours until 2007 is born. So let’s take a look at our last week of 2006 here in the marriage blog and the articles that we wrote to share with you. If you missed anything this week with the holidays, this is your chance to catch up on all of that. Saturday, December 23 We marked the approach of the end of the year with … Continue reading →

The Meaning of Marriage – Your Individual Needs

I know a lot of couples that expect that marriage means you don’t do anything unless you are doing it with your spouse. They believe that marriage means that you do everything together and your individual pursuits evaporate because you are married. The truth is, when you marry someone, you create an identity that is larger than both of you. Because it is larger than both of you that means you both maintain a certain degree of your individual lives and pursuits. After all, you had those before you were married and you were both attracted to the items you … Continue reading →

The EYES Have It: How Eye Contact Can Transform Your Child

in your eyes– the light the heat– in your eyes– I am complete– in your eyes– I see the doorway to a thousand churches– in your eyes– the resolution of all the fruitless searches– in your eyes — Peter Gabriel The Power of Eye Contact There is a dramatic, powerful human connection that takes place when two people gaze into each other’s eyes. Its effect has marveled people throughout time. Eye-to-eye gaze between two individuals can send the subconscious message, “I see you. I want to understand you; I want you to understand me. I care about you.” In the … Continue reading →

Planning Special Moments

In the past two weeks I’ve looked at planning romantic moments for your spouse, making them feel special, and how to cope with missing your spouse even when he or she is more or less around. How do all of these things come together? In me trying to plan special things for my husband. Now that Jon has completed grad school I want to do something special for him. Parties he hast to host are too draining for him, so that’s out. I thought of the perfect idea: I’d bake him a cake. Not just any cake, but a black … Continue reading →

Suggested New Year’s Resolutions for Adoptive Parents

I’m not going to look at my last year’s New Year’s Resolutions blog before I write this one. I’m just going to go with what’s on my mind now. So what is on my mind now? Too much, that’s what. I want to have more meaningful family conversations at the dinner hour. I want to find a book that the whole family can enjoy reading by the fireside in the evenings—and keep reading age-appropriate books with each child individually too. I want to do all my physical therapy exercises and see if I can finally quit re-injuring myself. I want … Continue reading →

Who Is “Keeper At Home”?

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Some of you might be thinking, “KeeperAtHome, that’s an odd handle…” When I was debating about what name I wanted to represent me as I write for Families, the Lord laid Titus 2:5 on my heart. It exhorts young women to be, “…discreet, chaste, keepers at home…” Also, in Titus 5:14 the Bible says, “I will therefore that the younger women…guide the house…” From before I was married until my son was nine months old I worked in the professional world. I had a supervisory position in a health care facility for individuals with developmental disabilities. I found my job … Continue reading →

Christmas Cards – Don’t Forget the Beauty of Them

We send Christmas cards to friends and family around the country and the world to show them how much we care – but I think sometimes that we take Christmas cards for granted and we pick out the one with the pretty picture and we rush through them signing our names and sticking them in an envelope and we forget how truly personal we can make a Christmas card and that the real meaning of the card is an I Love You and I am thinking of you – and isn’t that the real meaning of Christmas? Choose Your Cards … Continue reading →

Do You Feel Loved?

I’m feeling a bit soppy today. I’ve had a cold all week and I tend to get introspective when I am on cold medicine and poor sleep quality. We’ve talked about showing love to others and how we can say we love you in a variety of ways, but I think it’s equally important to answer the question of do you feel loved? How Do You Feel Loved? To answer the question of do you feel loved requires understanding how do you feel loved. Now before I confuse anyone, what I mean is that much of what we believe or … Continue reading →

When Two Faiths Marry

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When it comes to marriage, we often refer to the ceremony as the bonds of holy matrimony. For many people, every part of that phrase has meaning – specifically the holy part. So what can you do when you and your fiancé are of two different faiths? What options do you have? Religion and politics are considered the two most divisive topics in the world when it comes to relationships. There are some faiths that counsel against marrying outside the faith in order to promote and preserve harmony in the relationship. However, it’s up to you who you marry and … Continue reading →