Preparing for a Future Valentine

Another rainy day. I have to admit, I have been annoying my siblings quite a bit lately by labeling the weather fronts. I am pretty sure we are receiving what the meteorologists would call a cold front, as the rain was more sudden and heavy with thunderstorms, and it will be colder after the rain than it was before the rain. I just learned this stuff recently(yes, after I graduated), and you could say I am very nerdy about it. Mom and I were just discussing the whole difference between being nerdy(obsessed with intellectual things such as maths or sciences), and being geeky(obsessed with something like literature or a television show). I also bugged my friends that were over the other day, as I explained how a trampoline creates its own sort of local winds because it heats up and cools down faster than the rest of the air and land around it. At least I thought I was annoying my friends, until I looked around and realized that many of them were listening intently as I explained

My mother and I had another conversation this morning. They seem to be happening more and more often lately. Often times, these discussions are about preparing for the future, and creating habits to help with that. My mother has been really, really, helpful to me in this area. She asked me many months ago what I wanted, as an adult woman but still her daughter, from our relationship. My answer after a few minutes of thought was that I wanted her to aid me in those areas that I have expressed a desire to change. One of those areas covered a large sin issue that I have been battling hard for the past few months, and another is this whole idea of preparing for a future valentine, husband, home, family, etc. And she has been very faithful. She has not baulked from informing me when she sees me headed down a path that I don't want to go down, or that hampers me from accomplishing these said goals. She has encouraged me when my battle with sin and the flesh has been hard, affirmed me

I have been very absent from my blog recently. My excuse or reasoning behind that has been that I am too busy, and life is too crazy. And in truth, I really am too busy too keep up a blog where I am teaching others. Since I first started blogging in December, I have set out to teach my readers. After a few months of this, I realized that I was neither experienced or qualified enough to do that, so I changed my format to sharing the wise words of more experienced and qualified women who had or were in the process of being a wife and mother. But I have a family that God has given me to serve, as well as friends, relatives, and a community. All of these things and more that God has privileged me with have hampered me from keeping up such a blog. And this was the discussion I had with my father a couple of days ago when he asked me about my blog. And he gave me a sage piece of advice. "Why not just write about your experiences in this area without setting out to teach anybody?&qu