I'm glad we got home when we did yesterday, cause a dust and wind storm came, so we quickly got everything out of the car, then basically took two breaths inside and started unloading the groceries when the kitchen roof skylight/vent flew off! Hubby went outside and found it and went up on the roof to put it back, and I secured it with a hanger, but only on one side as that's the only place that had something to secure it to. Then the wind picked up again and started lifting the other side, and as I grabbed at it, it still somehow managed to put itself free from the hanger and flew back down, this time cracking it, so hubby went up on the roof again and put something else over the hole with a couple or pavers on top of it to weigh it down so the wind couldn't toss that too! We'd considered leaving for a week earlier that day, but I'm glad we stayed home cause it rained a little last night, and that would have gone straight inside had hubby not covered the hole! And who knows how much other stuff could have gotten in if we were gone for over a week!

Gas station observation: One car starts honking a lot and the car pulling out stopped and a guy turns and the two men communicate, then the guy in the leaving car gets out and picks up his phone from the roof of his car! Sometimes honking is very appreciated!!! 😅🤗 that could have been very bad! And sad!

In case you didn't know. If you take someone on a first date, and for any reason don't want to go on a second date, you don't need to give them a reason. Simply thank them for their time and let them know that you're not interested in going out again. It doesn't matter if it's a petty reason like they wore the wrong kind of orange nailpolish, as in not the Bitcoin Orange, or if it's serious like their stance on the Clancey trial. There's more than enough people out there, and the faster you sort, the faster you'll meet someone whom you actually wanna keep dating for the rest of your life! If you want to know how to intentionally date, check out "How to Prepare Yourself for Marriage" at

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I've been letting our son help me with Duolingo for about a month now. He was walking away when he heard a duo sound so he turned around and came back. It was his dad doing it instead of me this time. Earlier today I did it, and there's one exercise that has 4 pictures showing and it makes the sound as well as has the word I'm looking for written out. Our son clicked on the correct picture before pressing the next button! I was shocked and impressed and a little suspicious, like, did he just press something or did he know?? Then he did it correctly again! Then I got it a 3rd time, and he started by pointing his finger and poking at the screen on the correct one, but it didn't quite take and then his finger migrated to the right and when it did select it, it was the wrong one, and then he turned his head and managed to press next with his forehead 🤣 Now I wanna keep testing him! Maybe with English words instead of Korean 😅🤣🤣🤣

Lumen just wrote a post for our website, where he answered the question "How do you overcome the fear of commitment?" by pulling quotes from our book, "How to Prepare Yourself for Marriage", and I'm really impressed! He did a really good job answering the question! If you wanna read the post, here's a link to it on our website! 🤗 https://fikatimebooks.wpcomstaging.com/category/answered-needs/

What are some cultural differences you noticed between yourself and your spouse after you got married? Family culture can also be a cultural difference.

Is it naptime yet?

There's "poop explotions", and then there's "The diaper came off and then he pooped, and we had no idea, and then, a while later, he comes over with poop all over the place". We didn't want that couch anyways... 😬😅🤣🤣🤣 But hey, he got that bath he already needed but I'd been procrastinating giving him 🤣🤣🤣😅

If you want to save yourself for marriage (new commitment or original) doing so just because you're told it's a good idea isn't enough. You need to figure out your own reason as to WHY you don't want to cross that boundary, and then also create boundaries leading up to that line that help you stay away from it. For example, if you're okay with snuggling and kissing a lady who's not even your official girlfriend yet, your chance of the wedding day without crossing the line is very low. If you set boundaries with women in all the different stages of relationship, maybe even no snuggling with your fiance, only single pecks rather than fully on kissing or making out, or even no mouth kissing at all, your chances of making it go way up. Dating long distance with video calls and not breaching the topic is another way that seriously reduces the risk. Either way, you do need to know your WHY, and set into place the necessary boundaries to protect your why until you are married. It may not be easy, but it is totally worth it! This is also why dating intentionally helps, cause you don't need to wait 2 years if you get through the big possible deal breakers and deal makers quickly! Marriage is awesome and totally worth it! It's why I invited my husband to write How to Prepare Yourself for Marriage with me, because I and we want to help people figure out how to date intentionally so they don't need to drag things out because they have to figure everything out while it's happening!

Sometimes I really struggle to say No! I mean to actually use the word No, instead of giving reasons why I don't want to say yes... 😔 I'm working on it, but it seriously hearts my heart, especially if the other person seems excited about something. 😥

So, I'm guessing all y'all 100 pushups to 100k have stopped exercising. It's the only explanation as to why we're not already back at 100k, right? I mean, cause and effect! The 58k gang seem to finally have given up, so the tuggawar between them and the 100k gang of should be over, hence my conclusion of lack of exercising 🤔🤗