The 5 Love Languages

The 5 Love Languages

by: Gary Chapman

Description:
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse’s primary love language; quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. More than five million sold!

My Review: I think by now almost everyone has heard of the 5 Love Languages, but most of us still need to implement these simple concepts into our own homes and marriages. I had previously read The 5 Love Languages for Children, but had not applied those concepts to understand how to show love to my husband. I could easily tell you what love languages my children have, but it's not as simple with John.

This book is well written. It is easily read in a short amount of time. I appreciated the Personal Profile at the back of the book too, although that is also available online. I believe that this book is essential in keeping our marriage strong. After all marriages do take hard work, men and women are so very different from each other. John and I are so different from each other. If we can better understand how to relate to each other, and how we each show/receive love differently, our marriage will be better because of it. I enjoyed reading about the many true stories of saved marriages because one or both of them decided to make a change before it was too late. This book is definitely worth a read!

***Available now at your favorite bookseller***

Neat Freak

You know you have it good when...

Your oldest daughter wakes up, sees the messy horrors of her little sister's room, and she cleans up the ENTIRE room by herself.

Not her own room.

Her sister's room!

After I recovered from the shock of it, I asked Brie why she decided to clean up Ella's room

"Because it was VERY VERY messy!"

Isn't she absolutely wonderful?

She is obviously a bit of a neat freak (and I mean "freak"...seriously who cleans up their little sibling's room without anyone making them do it?!?), but Ella's room did need a lot of help.

The problem with Ella is her room will always look like a bomb went off in there. You walk next door to Brie's room and it's almost completely spotless.

Where did she come from?

I LOVE that girl!

Come Together Now

What an emotional collaboration of talented artists!

Michael W Smith is actually coming to Saskatoon in May and I already have plans to volunteer at the Compassion booth that will be set up there.

He was recently in Haiti to witness the devastation firsthand, and he is already an advocate for Compassion, along with other wonderful charity organizations. I pray that God will help many more to see the need for child sponsorship through this event.

Compassion was in Haiti before the earthquake. They are still there now. They will continue to be there to help repair and restore broken souls, not just broken buildings.

There are 3 basic but essential points to understand about Compassion:

• Christ Centered
• Child Focused
• Church Based

There is also a great new website called OurCompassion, which is like facebook, in order to connect with other sponsors and to share about your own sponsored children. Check it out!

Mabel's Blogger

Seriously, how cool would THIS be?

Write a post on your blog in response to the following hypothetical situation: Electrical storms are going to wipe out the Internet (perhaps forever). You have one day left to write about your passions: what do you want to say to the blogosphere in 300 words or less?

I will have to give that some serious thought....

Cool Peace

I'm in the middle of studying right now, but taking a short break to share something.

1 hour ago I felt completely overwhelmed by the amount of information I did not know for my exam tonight. I was resigned to failing or getting a barely passable mark.

You see for the last several days I was very sick. Down for an entire day last Wednesday with a horrible migraine.

Then on Thursday, which just so happened to be my birthday, I had a terrible head cold. Did not feel like celebrating at all, or doing anything for that matter.

The cold continued for several days and I could barely keep it together, never mind studying the detailed science of the body: nerves, brain, eyes, etc.

So I could not physically study (and retain that information) until yesterday.

Needless to say I am kinda stressed.

But then in the last hour of studying, my brain is RETAINING more information than I would have expected.

I had just complained at lunch to John that I would never be able to learn the sequence of steps for a particular subject.

And now?

I have it memorized!

I'm not a memorizer, but my brain is remembering it for me anyways.

Definitely a God thing.

Cool, isn't it?

GO Canada Photo Contest

In true Canadian olympic spirit, Please Mum and Mabel's Labels have a great contest going on right now.

If you have pictures of your kids wearing Please Mum clothing, submit them online to be entered.

Prizes are 1 of 2 Please Mum gift certificates worth $150 AND $300 worth of Mabel's Labels for your entire family! (and we all know how much I love Mabel's!)

You have until March 7th to enter, but make sure you only enter each child once!

Patriotic Pride

Never has our country been so filled with pride!

It is amazing to witness the enthusiasm that has been building in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics.

From the Red Mitts, to the Torch Relay (one of the runners I personally know!), we have been showing each other, and the world that Canada is a wonderful country to be a part of.

I love listening to the wild cheering in Vancouver as one of our own competes in their sport. Seeing all the red in the crowds is just fantastic.

Hearing the news broadcasters talking about this new pride we are taking in our country is awesome.

Watching my girls become inspired in these athletes as they wholeheartedly cheer them on from our couch is absolutely priceless!

GO CANADA GO!