The Dream Team

My husband's a hard core Marine, both at work and at home.  If you have been following my posts, you would already know I lovingly call him a prick. =)  He's as tough as they get, both inside and out.  But right when I KNOW I have figured him out...he throws me a curve ball.

So this week I had a sneak peek into a possible college dream.  Not sure if that dream is meant to come true, but it was very exciting to live it even for a day.  But what touched me the most about the whole ordeal was my husband's attitude towards the whole thing.


I had to go into NYC for an interview earlier this week.  I remember wanting a job in the city as a college student, and somewhere along the years the desire was suppressed due to other opportunities. My husband is the only person in my life that constantly encourages me to dream big, live life to the fullest, and to be all that I can be (be who God intended for me to be). So just the idea of taking a train into the city dressed in a suit had its own appeal that words cannot express. Even though I know my husband to be a sweetheart deep deep down...the icing on the cake (let's say a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate icing) this eventful day really was my man's support.  He woke up early so he could drop me off at the train station before work. He even stopped me to pose for a picture before I walked out the door. All the way to the station he told me how great I was going to be and how beautiful I looked. I did not have any butterflies in my tummy going into the interview because I knew my man believed in me. When I thanked him for being such a wonderful husband, he looked at me and said "if I dont support your dreams, then who would? And how would we be the dream team if we dont follow our dreams" (or something along those lines....I am just relaying to you what I heard him say. Ha!)

I truly am very blessed.  Moments like that...the simplicity, the support, the sincerity, the honesty, and the love in my Marine is what I need to remind myself when we disagree with each other, or when he's not around.    My Boo-Boo loves me unconditionally and more!
I am pretty sure most family members are still not convinced we are meant to be.  If they were a fly in our home for even a second they would see that this crazy marine wife is living a beautiful life.  We truly are a dream team.

I took a chance on love by falling in love with a Marine that I met over the internet.  I stepped out in faith convinced that God was pulling us together even when our families were pulling us apart.  And today I know no matter what life throws at me, I will be good to go because I have my God leading the way and my Marine watching my back. =)

Our dream team consists of three. And together we make our every dream come true!
Do you have a dream team?

Mrs. Sgt. P.

How to Deal...?

Imagine a world so perfect...where all the elements of life fuse together in harmony. Now imagine your life. How perfect is your world?  Even with all the heartaches, stress and uncertainties that surround us, we have learned to accept them and integrate them as part of our perfect world.

I know my world is perfect. By God's grace we both have jobs and live a fabulous life.  We have tons of pets at home (a tank of Angel fish, a tank of Gold fish, two Turtles, three Guinea Pigs, and one Hamster). We rent an apartment that we call home. We have a car and an SUV. We have just enough people in our lives to love us unconditionally.  We have each other! And most importantly we have our God right smack in the middle of all this keeping it all in tact.  So even with all the bills, work related stress, random mood swings etc...our world is simply perfect.  When we focus on the important things that we cherish, everything else becomes so minor and nonexistent.

Just like a good frame is necessary to build a perfect house,  we all have building blocks (things we value) to make ourselves a "perfect" world.  Yet, with all the uncertainties that surround us, it's amazing how we take so much for granted. How are we to deal when a wave of uncertainty comes crashing down on our building blocks?

I write this with the utmost humility and even a moment of vulnerability and weakness.  I am one of those that forget to count my blessings when my life is going as I desire.  A couple of weeks ago I was reminded the fact that my life, as I know it, had so many areas that were beyond my control.  I admit it was quite overwhelming! The thought of possibly losing a building block, meant that some of the other blocks might shake or maybe even fall!!!  It has forced me to reevaluate my priorities, and the amount of importance I give to my so called building blocks.  A few days of being distracted  and annoyed has helped me conclude that the only perfect thing in my life is God. That's the building block that will never be shaken even if the others are out of place.  Everything else will come and go.  We are to make the most of the time we have with our loved ones, including our pets, cherish the precious moments in our home,cars, and even at work because all those things can disappear one day as well.  And the various burden that constantly surround us are simply to balance the equilibrium in our life and keep us real.

Do you find yourself struggling to deal with the uncertainties of life?  Are your struggles so much that you have forgotten to identify the 'building blocks' that would make your world perfect?  I hope what I have come to realize this past month will be something that can benefit you.  Life is too short for us to be disheveled with the unpredictable nature of circumstances that come our way.

The simple answer to the mind boggling question "How are we to deal?" is this:
When life serves you lemons, we gotta make yummylicious lemonade.


Mrs. Sgt. P.