Another update for you all :) This past weekend for Memorial day, Michael and I spent Saturday and Sunday running around picking up those essential items for living that we still needed: towels, pots and pans, etc. My husband is the most wonderful man on earth! Poor guy! He just really hates Bed, Bath, and Beyond at this point, but he stuck it out and we got what we needed :)
Yesterday we hung around our new little home as I continued to organize our kitchen while
Michael set up our tv and hung our curtains! After that we ate dinner, watched a new movie and made milk shakes with our "Magic Bullet" :)Today I woke up with Michael, made him breakfast before he left for work and then went back to bed for three hours. I am still SUPER tired after graduating and getting married and getting sick on our honeymoon (yes, I got the flu in the bahamas, I know, perfect timing) and then moving!
Thankfully, the "settled" status is becoming more of a reality as every day passes. I'm excited too because my "wedding run" is beginning. Next week I fly up to Colorado to be in the wedding of my dear friend and roommate, Laura! I can't wait. About a week after we get back from Colorado, I get to be in the wedding of my other sweet dear friends and roommates, Kaylee :)
My life is full but oh so sweet! Its so nice to do my own married laundry in my own married home, and cook for my own married husband :)
During all the time I've been spending washing dishes and doing laundry, the Lord has been teaching me something. Prayer is to be the soundtrack of our every moment. Jesus was always in perfect unity with his father, and this same oneness is what God desires for us to have with him also (John 14 and 15). I was reading in Acts 10 the other day about the
Italian officer, Cornelius, who feared God and worshiped Him. A phrase in verse 4 caught my attention. When the angel appeared to Cornelius he told him, "your prayers and offerings have ascended as a memorial before the Lord." How sweet. This man's faithful and regular prayers ascended before God and God remembered him. Prayer is our gift! We are able to communicate with our Father and Creator at any time! How gracious God is to us!This is just something God has been developing in me this week, and I wanted to pass it along.
More updates, and pictures to follow, I promise! For now here are a few :)
May the Grace of the LORD Jesus be with you all!
Michael and Katie
I am so glad you and Mr. Skeen are settling into your own lovely little home! It looks like Skeen did an awesome job with the curtains and that the unpacking is quite an adventure. :) I am so sorry you were sick on your honeymoon...that's just miserable. If any consolation, I was sick for part of mine too. I think the combination of stress after the insanity of graduation and a wedding, depletion of adrenaline, and pure comfortableness with the new husband is the perfect breeding ground for sickness.
ReplyDeleteI love your thoughts about prayer and how it's amazing that the times of the mundane can also be the times of the greatest intimacy with our Lord.