Why Do Women Cry?

I just read this in a Facebook group that I am in… and I LOVE it and wanted to share:

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?"

"Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said.

His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

“All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God.

When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said:

"When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her strength to carry her man through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good man never hurts his woman, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart -the place where love resides."

Don’t you LOVE this?!?

See why I had to share?

Relationships: What Happened to True Love?

Can someone answer a question for me?

What has happened to all the good relationships in the world today?
What has happened to TRUE LOVE?
What has happened to relationships with the deepest respect and the mushy kind of love?
Why are husbands and wives not IN LOVE anymore?
They claim that they “love” each other, but they clearly do not.
I think they are “comfortable” in their situation and they consider this “love”.

(Okay, so that was more than just one question, sorry!)

What Are We Doing With That Gift He Gave Us?

I’m horrible.

I have been in a rut. If any of you know me… you can probably tell that I am in a rut by my facebook posts. I go through these stages where I am a good mom/wife/housekeeper – bad – good  – bad.

And by ‘bad’ – I mean lazy. Out of control. My household has been full of chaos lately & I don’t know how to calm things down.  I don’t know how I get in these lazy/chaotic ruts.

God speaks to me & tells me,

“GET UP and stop being lazy!”

“Get organized!”

He NEEDS to YELL at me though, haha.

He is telling me,

“These children are a gift I gave you! I gave you your husband! You have a roof over your head & food on the table! What are you doing with these blessings I gave you?”

Am I the only one that God needs to yell at & scold? I sure feel like it!

So there is a lot on my mind as a sahm. As I go to look up verses for different reasons, somehow God keeps making me stumble upon verses like these below… and even when I see these verses for husbands/fathers -  I am feeling like this is God speaking to ME, not men. Really all these verses apply to me too.

I really have some shaping up to do!

Psalm 127:3
Children are a gift from the Lord; babies are a reward.

Psalm 113:9
He gives children to the woman who has none and makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord!

Proverbs 13:24
If you do not punish your children, you don't love them, but if you love your children, you will correct them.

Proverbs 20:11
Even children are known by their behavior; their actions show if they are innocent and good.

Proverbs 22:6
Train children to live the right way, and when they are old, they will not stray from it.

Proverbs 23:13
Don't fail to punish children. If you spank them, they won't die.

Proverbs 29:15
Correction and punishment make children wise, but those left alone will disgrace their mother.

Proverbs 29:17
Correct your children, and you will be proud; they will give you satisfaction.

Proverbs 31:28
Her children speak well of her. Her husband also praises her,

Ephesians 6:1  Children, obey your parents as the Lord wants, because this is the right thing to do.

Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, do not make your children angry, but raise them with the training and teaching of the Lord.

Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things, because this pleases the Lord.

Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not nag your children. If you are too hard to please, they may want to stop trying

1 Timothy 3:4
He must be a good family leader, having children who cooperate with full respect.

1 Timothy 3:12
Deacons must have only one wife and be good leaders of their children and their own families.

1 Timothy 5:10
She must be known for her good works—works such as raising her children, welcoming strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping those in trouble, and giving her life to do all kinds of good deeds.

Titus 1:6
An elder must not be guilty of doing wrong, must have only one wife, and must have believing children. They must not be known as children who are wild and do not cooperate

Titus 2:4
Then they can teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Proverbs 12:4
A good wife is like a crown for her husband, but a disgraceful wife is like a disease in his bones.

Proverbs 19:14
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a wise wife is a gift from the Lord.

Proverbs 31:10
It is hard to find a good wife, because she is worth more than rubies.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the wife you love. Enjoy all the useless days of this useless life God has given you here on earth, because it is all you have. So enjoy the work you do here on earth.

1 Corinthians 7:3
The husband should give his wife all that he owes her as his wife. And the wife should give her husband all that she owes him as her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife does not have full rights over her own body; her husband shares them. And the husband does not have full rights over his own body; his wife shares them.

Ephesians 5:23
because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And he is the Savior of the body, which is the church.

Ephesians 5:28
In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.

I just hope I am not totally displeasing the Lord in every single way. I hope He sees  my desire to please Him… and I hope I am able to climb out of my rut!!

I want to be a better wife & mother.

I hope I can get better control of my household.

I want things to calm down & the chaos to end & I want order back.

I want to run my home in a way that pleases HIM.

Rambling Questions. Sorry.

This post is in no order what-so-ever, so forgive me. I am ALL OVER on this one. My brain is in chaos right now.

This morning as I was just taking a shower & getting ready to bust out my front door like superman for the day – I was going over & over all that I have heard in the last few weeks from women I know.

Of course this will be mostly the “wives side” of the story. Maybe I could talk my hubby into a “guest post” on the husbands side of this story?

And this will be a post full of questions considering I have absolutely NO ANSWERS at all for ANY of my questions.

I have been disgusted lately with the husband/wife relationship in today’s day. I am saddened about why things are not working as they should. I am SICK to my stomach when I hear of how wives & husbands treat each other.

I am strictly speaking of relationship with each other. How one treats the other,  how we value marriage/relationship and how we value the other person... and I am also talking about LOVE.

What happened?

Where did the love go?

Where did the respect go?

Why are husbands cheating & wives don’t seem to think it’s a big deal? Even when it’s happened over & over? It just seems to be the norm.

The men are lazy these days. This also seems to be the norm. They don’t lift a finger around the house or with the babies or kids. Why? Why are the women doing all of the work around the house & all of the baby/child stuff and not thinking twice about the lazy bum sitting on his hind end on the couch playing the game system? Why are we letting the man get away with this?

Why are some of these men not LOVING? Where is the compassion? Where is the respect? They just expect us to make the household run perfectly (without their help) but don’t appreciate it at all.

Can someone please tell me why? 

Maybe a better question is… why are us women thinking this is an ok way to live? Why are women so weak today? They think they have to be stuck with what they have. They have low expectations & low standards. Don’t we think more of ourselves? Don’t we want more for ourselves? Don’t we deserve better than a bum on the couch doing nothing except donating his sperm and playing video games?

Now I am not complaining about my hubby here. Although I can if you want :)

I love him to death. He is a different kind of man than I have ever known. He is soooo compassionate, soooo loving. This man is head over heals in love with me. And that is what I love about him. HE LOVES ME and he shows it. HE RESPECTS ME and he shows it. He shows me the mushy kind of love. He tells me all day long how much he loves me. He goes on & on about when we first met. He’s that mushy.

He has never spoke disrespectfully to me. When we argue over something, we don’t cuss or name call – we just disagree. 

But…

I can find a few things to complain about:

He does not do things around the house that I wish he did. To this day, he does not wash clothes. I wish he did. He pulls the, “I don’t know how” trick more times than I can count.

It drives me crazy at 5 am when he says, “Do I have any jeans?”

“Well, I don’t know honey… did you wash any lately?”

Funny that for these last 6+ years he has told me he “doesn’t know how” to do laundry… but about 2 wks ago he washed a couple of his baseball hats. Interesting. He sure “learned” how to do laundry really quick that night.

And with the baby.

I would LOVE for him to take the initiative one night to actually get her ready for bed. Why do I have to be the one to bathe her & get her pj’s on and get her bottle ready? And I changer her diaper when we go to bed at about 11pm… why am I the one who has to do that? Why can’t HE ever do that diaper change? It is just expected of me to do it.

Of course I don’t say anything. I just do it. If I don’t… it probably won’t get done.

Now really these little things are little. Just little complaints. I am sure he has little complaints about me too. Although he shouldn’t, haha.

I just think it’s funny how we both work all day long, but he can come home & relax and I can’t. My night goes on & on. I don’t get any free time until 7 or 8 pm. And he wonders why I am not ready for bed at 10 or 11 like he is. WELL HELLO DEAR… I JUST GOT TO SIT DOWN!! Give me a few hours like you have just had!!

So there ya go, those are my complaints :) But if I take those & mix in his awesome qualities – I really have a great man. Austin has a great man to look up to. I hope he turns out to be just like Mike. I hope Austin grows up to have just as much respect for his wife as Mike has for me. And I hope he SHOWS his love the way Mike does. I hope he is mushy like Mike. My girls: I hope they don’t settle for anything less than what they see from me. I hope they only accept the man that shows them how much he loves them. I hope they only settle for a man that worships the air they breathe & the ground they walk on & loves them with his whole soul.  

I am asking all of these questions because I don’t understand why someone would stay with a man who cheats, drinks until all hours of the night, calls his wife names, belittles her, and just plainly does not care? Why? Why do these women not see that they are being disrespected? Why don’t these women see that they are NOT being loved? Why don’t they see these patterns are not changing either? And why don’t these women see that there is a man out there that WILL worship the air they breathe & the ground they walk on? There IS a man out there that will respect & love them with his whole soul.

I don’t know.

Sorry to ramble and babble & not make sense saying the same thing over & over.

It’s just that I have seen sooo many women lately who deserve sooo much better.

It is sad.

Stay Tuned… My Brain Is Going To Explode!!

I am super busy today, so I will write this post tonight.

But I have sooo much in my brain it is going to explode!

I have been disgusted lately with the husband/wife relationship in today’s day. I am furious with how much divorce is going on & why things are not working as they should. I am SICK to my stomach when I hear of how wives & husbands treat each other.

Sooo… as I was just taking a shower & getting ready to bust out my front door like superman for the day – I was going over & over all that I have heard in the last few weeks from women I know.

And NOW -

YOU ALL are going to hear MY OPINION!!

I Will “talk” to you all later :)

Later, when I get back from my day of running.

Later, when I put Gracie to bed for the night.

Later, when I get “ME Time”

Have a great Saturday everyone :)

Man Shower vs. Woman Shower

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN:

• Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks.
• Walk to bathroom wearing long robe. If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
• Look at your womanly physique in the mirror -- make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc.
• Get in the shower. Use wash cloth, long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone.
• Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins.
• Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean.
• Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner.
• Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red.
• Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash. Rinse conditioner off hair.
• Shave armpits and legs.
• Rinse off.
• Turn off shower
• Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower.
• Spray mold spots with Tilex. Get out of shower.
• Dry with towel the size of a small country.
• Wrap hair in super absorbent towel.
• Return to bedroom wearing long robe and towel on head.
• If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.

HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A MAN:

• Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile.
• Walk naked to the bathroom.
• If you see wife along the way, shake wiener at her making the woo-woo sound.
• Look at your manly physique in the mirror.
• Admire the size of your wiener and scratch your butt.
• Get in the shower. Wash your face.
• Wash your armpits.
• Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse them off.
• Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower.
• Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area.
• Wash your butt, leaving those coarse butt hairs stuck on the soap.
• Wash your hair.
• Make a Shampoo Mohawk.
• Pee.
• Rinse off and get out of shower.
• Partially dry off.
• Fail to notice the water on floor because curtain was hanging out of tub the whole time.
• Admire wiener size in mirror again.
• Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, and light and fan on.
• Return to bedroom with towel around waist.
• If you pass wife, pull off towel, shake wiener at her and make the woo-woo sound again.
• Throw wet towel on bed.

If there is anyone who did not laugh at the truth behind this,

there is something SO very wrong with you.