life and ice cream.

life can be a lot like ice cream from Farr's.  more than you bargained for.  although it is absolutely delish, we might need to take it a little bit at a time.

(this was officially, the biggest serving of ice cream i have ever been dished)

so, life.  a little bit at a time.

i've missed blogging regularly.  i've missed thinking of the daily apples and as a result, doing them on purpose.

i do apples accidentally quite often (as i'm sure you do), and on purpose, not as much.  as i'm sure all of you can attest, marriage and home is a happier place when we serve and love on purpose.

so, here are some things i've done on purpose lately and some things i will be doing.

*visit Zach at work

*made him a yummy lunch with love

*asked him about stuff and didn't talk the whole time.  i actually listened most of the time.

*scratched his back before he got out of bed

*prayed ever so earnestly for him and our marriage. (inspired by President Uchtdorf's talk from conference.  i needed to be reminded that no one is immune to challenges and to pray for the strength i, and those i love will need to face them when they come.)

*had a date...out of our house...had a babysitter and everything.

i am absolutely positive that small and simple things bring about great things.  i am so sure of this.  lets remember that they are small and simple.  lets take these things a little bit at a time and day by day.  although our spouse would surely think we rock if we did every nice thing we could think of in one day, they might also want you to let them breath a little. ;)

our ten year anniversary is coming up and some of the apples i am conjuring, are slightly larger in scale.  although these are bigger apples, i find them so healthy to look forward to!

*a few nights away from our kiddos.  just Zach and i.

*a thoughtful gift (that if i wrote what it was here, he would be in on the secret)

what are some apples you've been doing? or are you planning on doing?  have you had a big anniversary lately?  what did you do?

...and weren't there some great marriage talks in conference?!  oh, i love conference!

until next post.  enjoy life and the ice cream.


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