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About 365 days of marriage

I started this blog in April of 2011. At the time, Bret and I were wedding photographers and it was a way to share how marriage is more about the day to day and so much more than the wedding day itself. For about 5 years, I blogged about the joys and sorrows of the Christian walk, marriage, work, family and friends. I’ve blogged every day since a few weeks after I started. In May of 2015, we photographed our last wedding. Now, I have become passionate about simplicity, particularly in marriage, Christianity, business, travel and life. For a number of reasons, we have become minimalists. I’ve found that having simplicity makes life so much deeper, refreshing and joyful. I hope that this blog will help others see the benefits of living simply.

Day 2005 – Forget Inside Out PJs And Flushing Ice Cubes….

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On a whim, I got a movie from the library yesterday….I kind of knew about the snow forecast, but wasn’t thinking much of it. Well, I guess it worked, because Bret got a snow day! It’s been a wonderful day so far, including listening to a sermon together. I’m so thankful for the time with him! He has some running around to do, but when he gets back, you better believe we’re going to be doing some singing!

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Day 2003 – How $0.11 Made Me Cry – or – How $0.11 Showed Me How Much God Loves Me

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I had a few ideas for today’s post. Maybe I’d import the pictures from Bret’s attempt and put up some of my favorites. Maybe I’d put up that oft repeated picture of me sleeping or update it and take a new picture. Maybe I’d talk about our travel experiences back. I think I was set on pictures of Bret’s attempt, even if it was just a sneak of me carrying him.

I also had a few ideas for how I would handle my day. I have a long list of things that need to be done. Hundreds of emails to go through (really just filing or deleting, because I kept up with email remotely while away). Tasks to complete like unpacking, wash and cleaning up. My to-do list includes a ton of things – albums to start, tasks for clients. Things I couldn’t do while away for clients, etc. It’s going to be a busy week. But I’ve pretty much taken the attitude of whatever gets done today, gets done. That’s it. When we woke up around noon, I figured it wasn’t going to be the most productive day, and I’m ok with that.

Anyways, as I was sitting at my computer for the millionth time today, I started working on balancing our accounts. Again, I did what I needed to remotely, so it was just a matter of documenting and reconciling. It took me a little while to reconcile out checking account because we recently started a few auto withdraw payments, so I have to leave money in the account. Honestly, I hate doing this, because I love reconciling the account down to $1.00. The financial perfectionist in me loves seeing that $1.00. And random cents, oh man, drives me crazy. I like my accounts ending in zeros. So I’m figuring all this out, I make the transfer to pay my credit card and then I go to reconcile the checking account after the transfer….and I saw that after paying the credit card, I had $147.00 left in the account. An even number, no cents. I immediately teared up. I felt so much love from God. As I was feeling the weight of this, I almost started to sob. It was another reminder that God is real, that He loves me and that I am important to Him.

What I love about God is that He speaks to each of us in our language. He shows His love in ways that we understand. The big deals to us are a big deal to Him.

So what’s your 11 cents today?