Celebrations...

Well has certainly been a weekend to remember the Dugas family, and a weekend we have looked very much forward to for weeks now!

Friday night was our big gender reveal party!!  Everything didn't pan out quite how we had hoped to plan it originally, but what ever does!  We wanted to have a big party where my whole family and Josh's whole family could come to find out our baby's gender.  When we started working out dates and weekends, life got a little in the way!  We couldn't even get our gender scan until I was officially 15 weeks which happened this past Monday...that left this weekend for the perfect time for a gender reveal party.  Then we remembered our good friends were getting married that following Saturday, and it wouldn't work to have my whole family in if we just had to leave them for the majority of the day for wedding festivities.  So we looked at next weekend, but I am on call.  Then the next weekend, but we had other plans...and so on and so forth.  It got to the point that the gender reveal would have to be so far away that we knew we couldn't stand it.  So we opted for this weekend, decided to make it low key, and anyone who couldn't be here we would send them their own special gender announcement.

Friday seemed like it was the busiest day of our lives.  We have been so strapped down with school papers, projects, and studying...then add to that work...and then add to that trying to keep up a household, that everything that had to be done before Friday got done ON Friday.  Crazy!!  Not to mention I had a class to attend from 8 to 3:30 Friday before I could even start my part of what had to be done!  It was hectic, but it all worked out in the end!

Josh and his daddy started boiling crawfish around 5:30.  We ended up with a crowd of about 12 close friends and family that live in the area.  Kyle and Krisha were coming in from Mississippi for the weekend, but by 7 o'clock we couldn't wait any longer for the big reveal and they had only made half their journey.

So...

That's right!  It's a BOY!!  We are all over the moon!  You can't see my expression since I am holding the camera (I would rather be the filmer than the filmee), but you can obviously see how incredibly excited the daddy and grandpa to be are!!  We are all ecstatic beyond words!!  Josh is envisioning fishing and hunting with his little boy.  I can see dirt, tractors, and football practices.  We can't wait!!  And now that we finally know that he is a he we can start really planning the nursery and getting everything ready for our baby boy's arrival.

Friday night brought in another surprise...

Josh's daddy handmade Baby D a beautiful bassinet.  We cannot wait to have him home and put him in it.  It will be a family heirloom that can be passed down throughout the generations.  We love it and can't imagine how much Baby D will love his Paw Paw.

Saturday was a busy, fun day!  Kevin and Dawn got married!! Josh and I were there for the actual nuptials.  We went home and picked up Kyle and Krisha after, and after a little shopping around, we all went to help set up and get the wedding reception underway!  Fun reception with great friends from here and from back home!!  We love seeing Kevin and Dawn so happy and know they will have a fabulous life together!! After the wedding was all said and done, we settled into a nice, quiet Saturday night at home...which consisted of me and Krisha sleeping on our separate couches within ten minutes of sitting down!

Today was also a nice, relaxing day.  Kyle and Krisha had to get on the road to head home, and Josh and I have been taking it easy and doing a little school/housework.

The second most exciting news of the weekend (after, of course, finding out that we are having a baby boy) was that I FINALLY got a new DISHWASHER!!!  Hallelujah!!  It has been about 8 months since mine kicked the bucket.  Josh thought I would appreciate it more if I washed dishes by hand for awhile (I really do think that was a joke though).  I, for some strange reason, insisted I didn't need a dishwasher because I could easily wash our dishes by hand.  How wrong I was.  Most days I came home from work to a sink full of dishes...only to wash them, cook supper, and have another sink full of dishes.  Ahhhh!!!  Thursday night we were at Lowe's and found the perfect dishwasher and it was on sale.  Josh insisted we get it...I still tried to resist it (not sure why)...and I am now in love!!!  I have washed two loads already..just because.  It is fabulous!!  And now I can see my sink bottom!!!  Oh dishwasher, I have missed you!!

Now on to finishing out my weekend celebrating my baby boy and enjoying my wonderful dishwasher!!

Life these days

So much has been going on since the last time I blogged!! Time to do things (like blog) is scarce now...tomorrow morning when the alarm goes off I will probably regret staying up to write this instead of stealing a few extras winks, but sometimes I guess you just have to live a little!

Life these days...busy, non-stop, chaotic, but great and wonderful at the same time!

Baby D is growing nicely!  We finally got to see him/her about three weeks ago.  It was the most amazing thing ever.  He or she is really in there...bouncing and flipping all around...the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!  We actually got to see him/her again today as well!  Today we went to an ultrasound tech's shop for an early gender ultrasound...sorry the big reveal is Friday!  Needless to  say, we cannot wait!  Heart rate was 150 three weeks ago and about 145 today.  The baby looks great, and that's all that matters to us!!

Pregnancy has been fabulous to me so far!  Now that I am safely in my second trimester, even the tiredness is starting to slowly wane away.  The sickness has stayed at bay since that first week or two, and everything has been going smoothly.  My husband may tell you to beware of my mood swings, but I can assure you that I would never have anything of the sort! ;)  Cravings come and go.  For a couple of weeks I became almost vegetarian, then all I could stomach was Wing Stop, Icees were a big hit for awhile, now I will eat almost anything and everything that you put in front of me...sadly!

We are having a great time planning and dreaming for our baby.  We can picture him or her.  We try to envision different sports teams or dance recitals we may be attending.  We are having a blast just picturing our "down the road".

Life at home is a little on the hectic side.  Josh is doing amazing in school.  He is excelling in every course; although, for some reason he hates his computer course with a passion.  We study together a lot of nights, and we take turns calling out questions to each other.  I sometimes get a little frustrated with the quizzing process.  He, on the other hand, has nothing but patience as he is quizzing me on cardiac drugs and having to give me more hints than I am willing to admit.  He is a wonderful study partner and encourager. (And I need to remember this for when our child enters school and needs someone to help with homework...Josh will be much better at that than me!)

My school is very demanding..which I expected.  It took me a couple weeks to really figure out how to manage my work schedule and home schedule and incorporate quality study time in there, but now I think I may have it down pat (knock on wood).

All-in-all it is going great!  We are trying to jump a couple hurdles around the house.  The bathroom needs a lot of attention...like a major renovation.  Josh, his daddy, and Kevin are starting to think in that direction.  I am directing all my spare time (ha! SPARE time??) to cleaning out the nursery.  This is no easy task!  We will get it all!  Thankfully we have another 5-6 months.  And when typed out, that seems way sooner than I thought!

Life in the Dugas household is going great!  It is crazy.  We are busy and exhausted most days, but in the end it will all be worth it.  Josh has the backyard looking so amazing...we love to spend all of our (non-existent) free time back there!  I am so proud of him for everything he is doing going back to school and doing so amazingly well at school.  He continues to encourage me through all my school processes and pumps me back up on those days when I feel overly hormonal and stressed.  He is definitely the rock of this family.  An amazing man and a soon-to-be wonderful Daddy...Baby D is a very lucky Baby already...and I am a lucky wife and mommy-to-be!

Sweet child of mine

Well it's official...we're EXPECTING!!!

We are unbelievably excited and thankful!!  While this may not be the exact time that we had planned on extending our family, we realize that God has bigger and better plans for us and His timing is always perfect.  We understand that things will probably get pretty tough for us with us both in school full time, working full-time, and a newborn in our house...but we also understand and appreciate how great and wonderful this blessing is that we have been given, and we wouldn't change it for anything in the world!  The going may get tough for awhile...but the THREE of us will get through it all..with lots and lots of help from our family and friends of course!!

So, my sweet baby, in seven short months you will be here, and I can promise you that it will be the best day of our lives.  We are already dreaming about that day...planning it out in our heads...visualizing our future with you as we watch you grow.  (If we are being perfectly honest here I really do dream about you most every night...and I promise you that when really do get here I will know how to feed you and I won't feed you jello on your second day home like I do in my dreams!!)

I want you to have more than I ever did.  I want to afford you every possible opportunity in life.  Sometimes there is a fine line that has to be tread tenderly in giving you the very best in life and keeping you grounded and appreciative at the same time.  We are going to try to tread it.  I want to teach you to love life, to love yourself, and to love everyone and everything around you.  My hope for you is that you are successful and happy and find your greatest joys to be in your family.  I want you to grow up to be so accepting and understanding of everyone and their faults because we all have faults.  I want to teach you to not be judgemental of others and to know that everybody was dealt a different hand in life...nobody is perfect, nobody's life is perfect.  I want you to know that already your daddy and I love you more than anything in this world.  Already we talk about you, plan for you, and dream for you.  I want you to know that our lives will change dramatically the day you come into it, but that is something that we wouldn't change for anything in the world.

We can't wait until you get here, Baby D.  Boy or girl...we cannot wait to meet you!  We haven't even gotten to see you or hear you through the ultrasound yet, and I can promise you it's killing us!  (My doctor doesn't do that until you have been growing for 12 weeks.)  In a couple weeks, though, we will be able to get our first glimpse at you.  We cannot wait.  Everything about you excites us.  While I am still a little nervous, I know once you finally arrive everything will be ok.  We will work it all out and everything will fall into place.  For now, our sweet little love, you don't worry about a thing.  You just grow and develop and try to become as healthy and strong as you can.

In seven short months we will get to meet you, but for now sweet dreams our sweet baby!  We love you with all our hearts!

2012 in Review

Well, 2011 ended with a bang...

It was such a fabulous year that I was kind of sad to see it go.  Yet come and go it did, and it made way for 2012.  A year that brought many changes and happy memories to the Dugas household!

True to Dugas style, 2012 had its fill of days consumed by fishing and hunting.  We have logged many hours on the boat and days spent happily on the water.  We found refuge in the serenity of sunrise on the water and relished in the calm that came with a day spent on the boat together and with friends.

Of course Josh and Kyle made many fishing trips as often as Josh could get to Mississippi.  The end result in all of those trips could pretty much be summed up by this... ;)

Our annual river trip was something that we did not miss in 2012.  We missed those regulars that could not make it and enjoyed the company of the new ones added to the floating trip mix.  This is the year that I was surprised by Meagen and Jaymie's arrival.  They were able to make it at the last minute, and I was over-joyed to see them when they drove up!

Aside from living our outdoors life, we had lots of exciting news between our family and friends.  Two of our best friends announced they were getting married in 2013...a wedding that we can't wait to see and be a part of!  On that same note, Jef blessed our family by marrying Eighmey and adding her to our crazy mix.  Their wedding was fabulous!  We all had a great time visiting with family and watching a young couple join as one!

Josh and I spent our first anniversary in West Palm Beach, Florida celebrating Bubba and Shell's nuptials!  It was another one of the amazing weddings we were able to be a part of, and the settings of it all were just out of this world.  We had the greatest time and were blessed to be able to spend quite a few days there with them!

My mom turned the big 5-0 in June, so of course we had to throw a surprise party....because you just don't turn 50 every day ya know!  It was fabulous!  We all had a great time, and I think she really was blown away by the surprise.

Over the course of this past year our backyard has gotten a much needed make-over.  While some of it is still in the works, it already looks like a new place.  We are now the proud owners of a brand new cedar fence that Josh built by hand.  He did an amazing job and worked so hard on it every day until it was done.  Now he is on to phase two...screening in our patio.  It is coming along slowly, but it already looks great!!  How lucky am I to have such a talented man?!

Josh started school this summer.  It has changed our lives dramatically to have to come home from work and worry about studying and papers, but we wouldn't have it any other way.  Josh is doing better in school than I could have ever imagined.  He is so dedicated, understands his material, and does amazingly well on all his tests and assignments.  Starting in January, he will be going full time to straight school and actually beginning his drafting and design courses.  I cannot wait to watch him grow on this path.  I know he will be as incredibly good at this framework as he has been over the past two semesters.  Some late night homework settings got tough, but we always had amazing friends to fall back on who would pause their meal to text us some hints when we really hit a rough spot!

In January, Josh won't be the only one in our household in school.  I found out a couple of weeks ago that I was accepted in to Nicholls State University's Masters of Science in Nursing (AKA nurse practitioner) program.  We are both over the moon with our excitement over this.  I know it will be hard with us both being in school together, but I have no doubt that God will not give us more than we can handle!  My schoolwork will actually be online for the first two years, so I will be able to maintain my full time job while I work through the program...that is a big blessing in itself!

So between weddings, school, and maintaining our outdoorsy lifestyle, 2012 has been a pretty busy year.  Thankfully we were able to spend the little down time we had getting closer to our friends and family...those who live right down the road and those who live miles and miles away.  We were shown who we could really rely on and have been able to build a very solid stronghold of friends many of whom are now closer than family.

Josh has been amazing...surprising me almost daily.  His hard-work and dedication with juggling work and school is something that I cannot even fathom.  His amazingly calm nature, forgiving demeanor, and playful attitude remind me every day how lucky I am to have him in my life.  He is my rock, my best friend, the one I always run to.

We are excited to see what 2013 has in store for us.  While we know that it may not be easy trying to juggle two school schedules and re-learning how to live as a one income household, we have faith that God will be with us guiding us through this next phase of our lives.  We trust in His guidance and His timing and know that He only gives us what we can handle.  

Here's to 2013...may it be our best year yet!!

Goodbye to twenty-five

Another year come and gone.  Twenty-Six.  I feel as old as the hills.  Really.

I do have hope though.  I am pretty sure that 25 may have been my best year yet.  I guess I have no reason not to hope that 26 could get even better!

In this past year, I have gained some real insight on myself and forced down a lot of walls that I didn't realize I still had up.  I feel completely blessed to not only have been graced with a wonderful family, I also have surrounded myself with truly amazing friends that I do not think I could live without.

My little brother, my oldest friend, my inspiration was able to find his true counterpart in life and celebrate through a beautiful wedding and reception.  This year they have really begun their lives together, and I cannot wait to watch them grow.

This year, I have found myself in activities that never interested me before.  I have become an avid outdoorsman.  I found my peace of mind through the tranquility of those early Mississippi mornings in the woods and those late Louisiana evenings on the water.

This man has shown me more about myself than I ever thought possible.  It never ceases to amaze me when I look back and see how much I have truly grown...in places that I didn't even know I was lacking.

I have found meaning through music.  I have learned that what I really need after a trying day is an escape.  I need to be able to get away from the stressors, and it took me until this year to really figure out what I need to calm myself and get back my sanity.  Work will always be crazy regardless of who you are or what you do.  There is a lot to be said for being able to reign yourself back in without sacrificing your family through hostility and wrongly directed anger.

Music is my escape.  Music that lets nothing else into my mind.  The beat overtakes me, the volume controls my thoughts, I can't think or stress about anything else.  I can feel the anxieties of the day melting away the louder it gets.

Riding around and going nowhere in particular with good for the soul music blaring is another part of that.  Running with the music beating in my ears so loudly that I can't think of anything but controlling my breathing and moving my legs is another escape.

This past weekend I found another mind saving escape that I didn't know my body craved.  Four wheeler riding.  That is what I wanted to do for my birthday.  Go to a four wheeler track, get lost in the trails, be absolutely covered in mud, not have a single care in the world.  It is what we did.  An entire weekend of breathing the Mississippi air, surrounded by dirt roads, music, and the companionship of my husband.  It did more for me than I could have ever imagined.  It was the best weekend by far.  I relished in the fact that I was with my other half, the man who some days has the ability to absolutely annoy every fiber of my being yet completes my soul all at the same time.
I loved that this was all I could see ahead of me...

And if I wanted to look behind this is the exciting scene I would find...

Twenty-five years of living.  Twenty-five years of growing.  Twenty-six is no longer on the horizon...it is here.  I am trying to block out all thoughts on the fact that I am only four short years from thirty.  That really is a moot point right now, right?

For now we will just concentrate on enjoying life, living for the moment, and building our relationship and lives stronger every day.  

Birthdays come and go.  Here's to twenty-six...may you be as good, if not better than twenty-five!

Confessions...

I guess I have a few confessions to make.  A lot has been going on around here...

Grass cutting 101:
We had issues, ok...multiple issues in fact.  It probably started a couple months ago.  Actually, let me back up a little more than that...Josh and I decided not long after we were married that our lives would run a lot smoother and we would both be a lot happier if we took on "traditional" (if you will) household roles.  I get home from work earlier, so it just makes sense that I cook supper, clean the house, etc.  He has specific ways he wants the yard done plus he can work the equipment better, so those roles became his.  However, we got to a point a couple months ago where I was home a lot more often than he was because of his work/school schedule.  I felt bad and volunteered to help out around the yard and cut the grass.  Now enter non-stop rain for two weeks straight...seriously, every single day...non-stop.  The grass was thick to say the least.  So off I go attempting to cut the grass.  Josh lectured me...cut in a straight line, go slow, yada yada yada...I know all that!  I cut the front yard like a champ...had my ear buds in and went to town...jamming out and cutting grass.  In fact I had so much fun that I started just riding in circles in the front yard.  Problem with that was that I forgot to disengage the blades, sooooo I actually cut big circles in the front yard.  Ooops!  On to the back yard...

The back yard was slightly thicker than the front yard.  No biggie...I got this!  So here I go, cutting away and once again jamming out...this time since I am in the back yard and no one can see me around the fence I am also singing at the top of my lungs.  All of the sudden, just as me and Jake Owen are harmonizing just right...thick black smoke starts bellowing out of the lawn mower.  I can't even think of what to do.  All I can think is that this lawn mower is about to blow up, so I do what any logically think person would do...rip out my ear buds, jump off the lawn mower, run inside and lock the door.  I text Josh but refuse to go outside until he gets home.
No worries...I just cut the thick grass a little too fast and got the blades jammed.  I learned that when that happens one should first disengage the blades before one jumps off said lawn mower and runs inside and locks oneself in the house.  Ok lesson learned...no harm done other than I did burn out the belt, so I had to go on a hunt to purchase a new one.  And after that excitement, Josh didn't even notice the big circles I had cut in the front yard...or if he did, he didn't mention it!

Three weeks later...I decide that I should cut the grass again.  This time though, I have it figured out.  I pick up every single thing out of the yard so that I can cut without fear of hitting anything.  The grass isn't nearly as thick, so I have no worries!  Put those earbuds back in and I am off.  This time I do not get far at all before that thick black smoke starts bellowing; however, this time it is coming out much heavier than before.  But being the swift learner that I am, I now know that I should disengage the blade before I jump and run.  I didn't run this time though...I decided to investigate.  A dang tomato trellis snuck up on me.  Since I had "picked up the yard so well" I decided I didn't really have to watch where I was going while I was cutting.  Was I ever wrong!  The edge of the tomato trellis THAT I MOVED was hanging just far enough off the patio that it was able to be sucked up by the mower and wrap itself around the blades.  This time I have really done it.  I text Josh a simple :(, and I get no response until he gets off work and calls me...uh oh.  This was a much bigger oopsie; although, by the time Josh can finally unwrap the wire from around the blade all we really need is another belt (yes, that same belt that I just purchased three weeks ago).  I know how and where to buy new belts though.  So I go to the old faithful store that helped me out last time.  Oh, I bought out all of your stock of Murray belts three weeks ago?  You never have anyone need them that close together?  Dangit!

Confession #1- I am no longer allowed to cut the grass.

Josh's school take 2:
Josh started back to school a couple weeks ago after about a month break.  This semester he is taking two maths and an english.  I am not a math person, so that does not interest me in the slightest...although, I do still pledge to sit up with him and watch him do his homework.  English though...that is my thing.  In all honesty I probably should have been an English teacher...I just love it (although I'm sure most English teachers frown upon my frequent use of (...). I'm addicted.  What can I say?).  When he came home from school that day I was so excited to read his syllabus from English to see what all he would be doing this semester.  Multiple papers he has to write, a novel he has to read, short stories...I am in hog heaven.  Josh is less than thrilled.

Confession #2- I downloaded the novel Josh has to read onto my Nook so that I can read it too, and I am only SLIGHTLY embarrassed to admit this completely geek fact.

Virgin storm riders:
Josh and I rode out our first hurricane.  I feel so tough now.  In all honesty, we were spared and we were lucky.  To say that I was a nervous wreck from Sunday when I found out it was headed our way until Tuesday night when it hit would be an understatement.  Poor Josh had to listen to me constantly calling him giving him a list of more things we needed to get done.  He had it rough, but he took it all in stride.  In the end, we had a blast riding it out.  The storm ended up sending minor (in hurricane standards) weather our way.  Tons of rain and very strong winds, but that was about it.  For three days Josh and I were held captive in our house.  Ok, that is not entirely true.  Tuesday, the afternoon before Issac hit, we were riding the RZR through the subdivision checking out all our neighbors preparations.  Wednesday we ventured out while the eye was passing over us and went to his daddy's and made a trip through town before we were strongly advised to go home (yes sir officer, we are headed home...no sir officer, we were not aware we were under curfew...sorry officer.).  Thursday (once the curfew was lifted) we headed to our friend's house for cards and supper.  But for the most part for those three days, we were at home.  We watched movies, played cards, I lost at played Monopoly, anything and everything we wanted.  We did lose power around 11 o'clock Tuesday night and did not get it back until late Thursday night, but we had a nice new generator that pushed our whole house so it wasn't bad.  Aside from not being able to work (although very thankful we were both allowed to stay home), getting off our schedule, and eating everything in sight because that's the rule during a hurricane...we had a blast riding out our first storm.  We were very blessed to have been for most part spared by this hurricane...all we lost were our bottle brush trees...Josh hated them anyway.

Confession #3- We may never open our storm shutters again.  You don't know how well you can sleep until you don't have any light filter in through your windows attempting to wake you up at the crack of dawn.

Camp life:
We went camping this past weekend with our good friends, Kevin and Dawn (soon to be Mr. and Mrs.).  I am not ashamed to say that I did NOT want to go.  We only two days post hurricane, and we were heading into an area where flooding was happening all around us and dams were breaking left and right.  I got out voted, and now that we went and were safe I am so glad they forced me to go.  We had the best time riding on the golf cart, making new friends, swimming, cooking, and taking it easy.  I love camp living.  The camp ground even had a battle of the bands one day.  Even though my band of choice didn't win the contest, I still maintain that battle of the bands day was my favorite day by far.  Sadly, we had to return home yesterday.  Back to life as usual today.  Being an adult isn't nearly as fun as I thought it would be sometimes...dang bills!

Confession #4- Bud Light Lime-a-Rita. Hands down my new favorite drink.

Blog cheating:
I'm looking into another blog site.  I hate to say it, but this one will be private...password protected if I can find one.  I vow not to let that blog interfere with my ability to blog here.  I love blogging, and it was my choice to make this one public...and I still stand by that decision.  There are sometimes things that happen that I want to write about or say to get off my chest or so that I'll always remember, but some things aren't all appropriate for the public to see.  Some things I want to be able to say without fear of anyone else's eyes seeing or having to worry about what someone thinks.  Tossing this idea around, but I'm really thinking it will become a reality for me.

Confession #5- Sister blogs--looking into multiples.

Wordy, wordy today!  Lots to say I guess.  We are still doing really well around here.  Loving my sweet husband more and more every day.  Not a day goes by that he doesn't do something that amazes me.  This is sappy and I'm sorry (and yes I will try to leave this mushy stuff for the private blog for now on so you don't have to read it and gag because believe me I really do know the feeling), but I honestly don't know how I got so lucky with this man of mine.  I thank God for him every day.  I really don't know what I would do without him.

Confession #6- I love Josh Dugas to the moon and back times infinity.  Sorry!!!  Sometimes I can get sick to your stomach lovey...I try to contain myself, but I just can't help it. :)

Confessions...

Amen

Faith is a powerful thing.  Letting go of a situation or in my case a possibility that is eating at you and honestly 100% letting God have it and take total control is such an exhilarating and freeing feeling.  I can't help but to believe that this is the way that we are mean to live life every day.  In fact my best and wisest friend just told me last night that "we were put here to live abundantly even though we are put through many trials".  Truer words have not been spoken.

My problem is that it is sometimes hard to let go.  The things that worry you the most are the things that I can't help but to obsess over and analyze time and time again.  But these past few days I just gave up...dejectedly just could not fight it anymore.  Things happened, I had absolutely no control, and I knew I needed help.  Not for the first time ever (because I can distinctly remember doing this a few other times and having the same outcome), but for the first time in a while I completely let go of all fear and anxiety of the unknown and turned it all over to God.  The results of that trust were indescribable.

This is not to say that everything that has resulted from this situation will be permanently for the good.  This is also not say that the next time I have issues and worries that I will be able to completely turn them over to Him right away...even though I know with all my heart, especially now, that I should.  For me, relinquishing that control (even if its only false control because ultimately He is the only one with true control) is the scariest and hardest thing to do.  For me it is like I show my love and care for people by worrying about them or I show my sincerity to a situation by worrying about it.  I know that is not how I was meant to live, but a big part of me has a hard time letting go of that nature I have.

This blog is really just to remind myself in the future when I am facing tough times that if I can just let go and let Him handle it all at His will and on His time that things will really work out like they are suppose to.  You have to have trust.  Trust in God, trust in the unknown, trust in your faith.  I pray to be reminded of this lesson daily.  I pray to still have faith even with sometimes unfavorable outcomes.  I pray that I can be the person, wife, friend, daughter, and sister that I was meant to be...I pray that I am.

God's timing is always perfect.