Power of Music

As someone who always appreciates music and its ability to communicate and express so much, I still find myself floored at how some lyrics really hit home and touch me deeply. I heard this on the radio today:

"Before she knows it
She's a brand new bride
In her one bedroom apartment
And her daddy stops by
He tells her its nice place
She says it'll do for now
Starts talking about babies and buying a house
Daddy shakes his head and says, baby just slow down

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this"

Truly fantastic lyrics and an awesome story in a song.

Yay for music and its impact on people!

By the way, today marks seven months of marriage. Where does the time go? :)

Time flies!

Hello, wonderful people who read this blog! :)

I have officially survived my first 18 weeks of teaching! I am now free for 8 days from teaching... it would be a lie to say that I was free from school. I know I will be going back next week to clean up and organize my classroom to better prepare myself for January.

Chris and I are super excited about our first Christmas together. We have gone all out with our decorations, way more than some of our other newly-married friends. We have a real tree (normal sized) decorated. It is seriously the prettiest tree I think I have ever had. It will be even prettier 10 years from now when it is full of hand made ornaments from future little Edwards. :) We have stockings hung, greenery out, lights outside, matching towels and potholders in our kitchen, and a mini tree in the bay window area of our kitchen. My Willow Tree Nativity set is sitting pretty on a side table. We decorated early... the first week of December to be exact! I wish it could always stay like this... mainly because I am dreading trying to store everything in our serious lack of closet space.

We are off to Virginia this weekend, but we will be back on Christmas Eve to celebrate Christmas in GA with each other and with my family. I'm hoping to go to my old church's Christmas Eve service and eat dinner with my family on Christmas.

We went to an awesome Christmas party last night where we made our own gingerbread houses. Chris and I were quite the team, and we were doing really well! After a few hours later with roof pieces that would not stay, we started to give up. We shalacked it and tried to take it home, but a gingerbread house cannot handle driving through downtown Atlanta without collapsing. We now have icing in the back seat of my car. I am leaving there in loving memory of it.

Life has been busy, but we are expecting it to slow down come the New Year. Isn't that how it always goes?? :) I will be more dedicated to this journal soon enough. I will even get some pictures of our house all decorated for Christmas and post them. It looks really good, if I do say so. :)

I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas. Remember the reason for the season! God loves us SO MUCH. :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas comes early...

This is specifically for the benefit of my oldest sister Jenn and her husband Joe. We know you guys would be here if you could.

We love y'all!!!

-Chris

P.S. Everyone else is welcome to look at the pictures, too. It's just that if I didn't get these up, that previously mentioned sister of mine would hurt me :-/