If you're a bird, I'm a bird

On my way to school this morning I noticed a decal on the car's window in front of me. It caught my attention. I like arrows.  There is pallet art hanging in our hallway bathroom. We were recently given some arrow art from Joseph's friends, David and Stephen. Joseph and I both have arrow tattoos on our arms. Joseph got his arrows first after he told me what he wanted and the backstory behind them.  His arrows are identical in design, but one arrow is drawn further down his forearm than the other.   For my 37th birthday (2016), I made an appointment to get a tattoo after I took off a half day. I didn't even tell Joseph about it. I showed him when we went to bed that night. There were so many arrow images I liked so I chose two different ones- one masculine and one feminine.  “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Bl...

Readers, I just ordered three books from Amazon. So recently that they haven't even been shipped yet. Happy Women Live Better by Valerie Burton Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption  by Edward Hallowell, MD The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline that REALLY Works! by John Rosemond I used to be BIG on self-help. That was all I read for a while. Then I moved away from it and started reading stories, love stories, fiction. I used it to escape; get away; take a vacation. I have a couple fiction books on my bookcase waiting to read now. The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks and Love Letters by Debbie Macomber. Joe and I were talking about doing some studies together in the evenings and I could see us doing any of these. Burton and Rosemond had segments on the 91.9 HIS Radio. One book is about overall happiness and well-being, one is about improving marriage, and the last one is focused on parenting. We could b...