Randomness

I know I have been a slacker and a stranger to my blog. I haven't really blogged about anything it looks like since November. Although, I just posted a blog about a book I just read in my book club. But I don't think that really counts. So I guess I should blog about some things that are going on in our lives.

Jon is currenty attending the U of U to work on his bachelors. This semester he is taking two courses. Orginazation in Communications and Investments. He working on both his major and minor. His communications class is on Monday and Wednesday and he has the 5 starting players of the basketball team in his class. He say it makes class very interesting. His investment class is on Thursday nights and on those nights I find some friends to hang out with so I don't get too bored.

I have fallen in love with The Nook. I received it for Christmas and I love reading books on it. I have bought and downloaded quite a few books so I am slowly building my library. The one thing I love about it is that I can download samples of books to read before I decide I want to buy them. I have saved quite a bit of money with this little gadget.

We are ready for spring to start. We are so over the winter and snow. I have seem to be sick non-stop since Thanksgiving and I'm kind of tired of it now. We already have tulips, daffodils, and crocus's trying to come up. Our little flower garden will be so pretty this spring.

O.kay...that's about it for now. I will try to conjure up some more interesting stories to post because I know several of you have missed me. ;-)

Heart of the Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I truly enjoyed reading this book. I am very weary of books that discuss marriage and how to work out problems in a marriage. I feel like alot of marriage books can be a little too extreme and can vear you down a path that may not be the best path.



However, this book was very different. Gary Chapman discusses 5 Love Languages. Quality Time. Words of Affirmation. Physical Touch. Acts of Service. Gifts. He talks about how everyone has a different love language and in a marriage it's important to understand our partners love language and do our best to "speak" it. He also discusses that it isn't an easy task to do so. For example: My love language is receiving gifts whether they are thoughtful, homemade, tangible, or just doing something nice for me. My spouse isn't always good at doing this. However, we learned from the book that if you aren't speaking your partners love language then they start to feel unloved. So for me a gift can be doing the dishes, making the bed, taking me out to dinner ot a movie, buying me an unexpected gift, etc., etc.



It was very interesting to read and to learn that everyone wishes to be treated a different way in order to feel loved. I found it to be very inspiring.



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