Treasured time un-plugged...

Wow! Whenever I come back from times of rest, re-connection and being un-plugged, I feel like I can tackle anything. But that is why we do it right?

We can learn things from generations before us...things that are non-negotiable to bring into our marriage and things that are not patterns we want to repeat. According to Heath, a non-negotiable for me to bring in are some particular products in the home. I didn't realize how much of an attachment I had to my mom's products she bought growing up until he kindly pointed it out during one of our first years of marriage. :) One thing we have both learned from marriages that have come before us (through seeing it modeled, or the lack there of) is taking time away from kids, work, cell phones, tvs...pretty much anything but each other.


Heath and I had the opportunity (thanks to the willing grandparents that cared for Brevin) to do just this. Un-plug. We were supposed to go away to our home away from home, the north shore of Lake Superior, but due to pregnancy stuff (see post below), we thought we would play it safe and stick closer to home. We didn't really have a plan which I have learned (I know, big surprise huh, that I can enjoy something without a plan?) is truly the best way to go. We have so much ruling our lives, work schedules, kid schedules, laundry, garbage days etc that having some spontaneous fun is usually just what we needed. We also have grown confident in our abilities over the last few years to take advantage of what is right in front of us here in the metro, there is SO much right there in front of us that we drive and live by daily. We didn't do anything crazy or fancy by any means, but it didn't matter. It is amazing how fun the little things like trekking through REI for an hour without a single intrupption, but our conversation regarding dreams and future adventures we desire can be. We slept until WE wanted to. We ate when and where we wanted to. We cried together. We laughed together. We spent an afternoon at Panera reflecting on those closest to us in our life and how God has given us some freaking awesome relationships.


Brevin is missed through this time for sure. It is hard sometimes to shake the feeling of a little one being at your feet and get used to each other, just us, all over again. But Brevin is surviving (Trust me...a weekend at both sets of the grandparents houses...he is doing more than surviving)...our family will be all the better for times like this that Heath and I get to spend together. We are ready to tackle birthday parties, our busy month of February and most of all preparing for Rowan William to join our family in April.


We encourage you, take time, go away, tell people you are going away and un-plug...get it on the books NOW, make it happen NOW...you will not regret it, GUARANTEED!!