Parenting Actions, leading by example - good stuff!

Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.


Stole this from another blog, but had to repost and share it. I think these people have huge insight into what is important. I enjoy so much learning from those who have been there and done that, and are willing to share with us YOUNG people =)

10 Actions Children Should Observe in their Parents Marriage

1. Affection: Cathy & I are very affectionate and I like having my kids see me holding their mom’s hand, hugging, kissing, cuddling, etc… as often as I can.

2. Saying “I’m sorry”, "I was wrong" : I want to be quick to use these phrases and I want my kids to hear me say them.

3. Affirmation: this is my primary love language so it’s easy for me to dish out encouraging words. My kids get a lot of verbal affirmation, but they also hear me directing it toward my wife (which is really easy).

4. Attraction: I think Cathy is hot… and, I make it known around our family. I’ll regularly say, “Isn’t your mom beautiful?”

5. Time: our kids know that we like to spend time together. When they see us steal time away to sit in the backyard and talk, or go in the hot tub, or go on a date night, or sneak away for the weekend…that’s a good message I want them to see.

6. Laughter: we laugh a lot in our house and my wife’s cute sense of humor cracks me up. I like having my kids see that my wife makes me laugh.

7. Respect: opening the door for Cathy, saying “thank you” and “please” and showing her simple signs of respect.

8. Faith conversations: we’re not always praying in front of our kids, but they hear and see our faith conversations and know that we’re always talking about Jesus and what it means to be a follower.

9. The value of friends: our house is well worn from the traffic of friends in/out of our house. We love having people over and the Fields’ house is a regular hangout for some incredible friends.

10. Servanthood: I know my kids have had a better example in Cathy than with me because she’s the ultimate servant. Always asking, “How can I help? What do you need to make life better?” Serving one another is seen in the daily, little things and there’s many opportunities to serve.

Kids are always watching their parent’s marriage and yet too many marriages underestimate the power of modeling! Children are taking daily recordings of what a marriage looks like and those recordings are definitely influencing and shaping their view of marriage.

These are really good things to take heart of and lead by example in our own households. 

a new chapter

It's hard to START a blog, at least for me. I feel I need to give so much background information, before I can go forward....but here is the readers digest version(as my friend Lyndsay would say).  


God has blessed me with a Christian husband whom I grow closer to everyday, because we are learning to love God, and by loving God more, we learn to love each other more. 

March 14, 2009

God has blessed us with a beautiful daughter, Emmalyn, born 10 weeks early in July 2010. We spent 36 days in the NICU at Abilene Regional Hospital, she is healthy, 20 months old....you would never know she was born at 3lbs. She keeps us busy, and our hearts so full of happiness.

July 18, 2010

    

GOD IS SO GOOD!

I have always been a teacher/coach, it is my passion, my ministry, however after this year I will be a stay at home mom. This was a difficult decision to make, but I feel it is exactly what God want's us to do at this point, so with faith and obedience we are obeying his will.


Jeremiah has been in banking for a while here in Snyder and currently is working in the financial aid office at Western Texas College. He has taken on the responsibility of being the sole income provider for our family and I am thankful for his job everyday!


Today is a big day, I remember telling my mom that I will never drive a minivan. Today I am eating those words...I am headed to Lubbock today to pick up our 2005 Dodge Caravan. We are trading in our 2011 Hyundai Sonota, and getting rid of our car payment. whew! I am excited because we are one step closer to me being home with my beautiful daughter! 


I know life is going to get very interesting, but I am excited about what God has in store for us! I have always loved to journal, but have not done much due to time, I think I might have a little more time now, and will try to keep this blog updated. I hope that I can spread the word of God and show his love by the good and bad, ups and downs, and blessing God gives us, by sharing with you! 

^{Romans 8:28-39}

²⁸ And we know that ^[k]God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; ³⁰ and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
 ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; ³⁴ who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was ^[l]raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. ³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of ^[m]Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Just as it is written,

   “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

 ³⁷ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.