This Is Kristin

“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.”
~Aristotle

I haven’t made cookies from scratch in a long time. This is what happened.

Too much butter? To little flour, or baking soda? I don’t know, I followed the directions on the back of the generic chocolate chips. Oh well, they still tasted good!

It isn’t as bad as the time my brother and I made cinnamon muffins, and accidentally put in cumin instead of cinnamon.

*What is your worst cooking disaster story?

*Wordless Wednesday

We started going to our home group through our church last night. The focus of this week, in the “Live like you were dying,” series is “Speak Sweeter.” One of the questions we answered, was, “What is one thing that someone has said to you in your life, that encouraged, or affirmed you in significant way?”

I am going to answer that question for Positive Post Tuesday, and want to hear your answers as well!

A person that has profound impact on my life in a verbal way, is my mother in law. She encourages me with words, any time that I need encouragement. She makes me feel like anything is possible with God, any obstacle can be overcome, and she makes me feel good, by always telling me, “You are doing good.”

That simple statement stretches far for me. I watch her believe in people around her. Really and truly believing her children, her grandchildren, her husband and her friends are the most wonderful people. She loves deeply from her heart, and it pours out of her mouth. I truly appreciate her, and her sweet words, as I am sure the many people in her life do also. She is not afraid to “speak sweetly,” to anyone, and I find that inspiring!

I’m drying bundles of my lavender, to make sachets to throw in the dryer, and drawers. I love everything about lavender. I love the way it looks while it’s growing, and cutting it, tying it up, and then smelling it later. I love lavender!

…. I don’t like doing chores that don’t ever get done. Chores like dishes and laundry. The second I think I’ve done the last dish, or the last t shirt, there’s something else in the sink, or something else in the hamper. Give me gardening, or organizing something any day.

~What is the chore you love to avoid?

Brody showed me this and it cracked me up. This guy is very funny, and has great music too.

You’ve gotta watch this video of Dave Barnes and his new single, “Only you.”

My cat has radar for “I don’t like cats” kind of people. She sits on them, or right next to them when they come to visit. I realized that there are cat people, and non cat people. There aren’t people that are indifferent to cats. They either like them or they don’t. I like cats, I just don’t like litter boxes.

Which one are you?

I borrowed this book from a friend, because I was curious about it. It has gotten great reviews.

I’ve basically finished it, and it has really been eye opening. It is mostly about communication, and the different ways we communicate love to one another. The frustration that many couples have stems from having different love languages, and communicating love differently to each other. Love is there, it’s just being spoken in different ways. The point is to figure out what your spouses “love language” is, communicate in that way to them, to ensure their “love tank” is full.

~Those different love languages are grouped like this:

*Words of affirmation
*Quality Time
*Receiving Gifts
*Acts of Service
*Physical Touch

For me, I was surprised by what my own love language seemed to be. I had initially read that list, and decided I was probably one of those and Brody another, and then the more I read the book the more I realized it was different than I had initially determined.

One piece of marital advice, that Brody and I have hung onto all these years, (don’t always do this, but return to this piece of advice) was given to us by our pastor, and that is, “You both need to be giving 100 percent of sacrifice, service and love to one another, then you both will be satisfied.”

Have you read this book? What is your love language? What is your spouse’s? How do you communicate that to each other? (if you feel comfortable answering)

*Wordless Wednesday.