Feeling of Fall

I am enjoying the cooler weather we are experiencing here in TX. (when I say cooler weather I mean 85 sometimes 90) not too cool. Jeremy on the other hand LOVES this hot/dreadful weather, I think he's nuts! This is not the type of fall we are used to. We are used to cooler temps of 50, 60 and occasionally 70, rainy days, playing in the leaves and gorgeous fall colors.

 Sometimes I feel like I get homesick from the weather in WV but I just keep reminding myself that we won't be here forever so enjoy it here while we can I guess. I also pray for God to keep my heart here and not longing to be somewhere else because here is my life right now and I wouldn't want to be anywhere Jeremy isn't. God has us here for a reason, why? Who knows, we may never know. I do know that we love all of the friends we have here and they would do anything for us in the drop of a hat. We have an awesome church and want to get very involved there!

I think A LOT about our future. I wonder where the Army will have in the next couple years? Will we still be here? Will I ever be done with school? Will we have children? I think about living on the east coast closer to out families. I have this dream of when we do have kids that they experience the closeness of family that Jeremy and I did when we were kids, we grew up with our grandparents. I think about having our first and last house...

I have always wanted to build my own home so it can be exactly what I want. I can see my dream house now....A southern style home with a big rap-around porch with big white rockers, and spacious foyer with a home office on the left, a dinning room on the right and a beautiful stair case right in front of you when you walk in. After you walk through the foyer and down a little hallway to the back of the house I want all of that to be open, a big family/entertaining room, a huge kitchen for me to cook all day in and off the kitchen I want a big laundry room that is very organized and a mud room off the two car garage! Upstairs I want 5 bedrooms. Master bedroom, kids rooms, a craft room for me and a guest room. In the basement (we will have a basement because we will live on the east coast where there are basements) will be Jeremy's man cave where all of his UNC Tarheel memorabilia will be showcased and he will have the ping pong table he has always wanted! Out back I want a huge fenced in yard, a practice green for the hubbs, entertaining space and huge outdoor kitchen!

 Okay I know I have a huge dream here and I might sound a little greedy but a girl can dream right? Maybe one day we will have a home like that!
I truly believe a home is what you make and love holds up the walls so love is really you need!

Wait how did I get there? Oh I was talking about when I think about our future. I think about all the many years Jeremy and I have to look forward to and all the memories we're going to make. I have all kinds of family traditions I can't wait to start. We have some of our own now but some have to wait til we start a family!

Let me finish today by saying I am so thankful for everything and everyone God has given me! Jeremy and I are so blessed!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
The Morris'

Getting back to what we call a normal life...

Hi friends! So here we are, I'm blogging now! You can now keep up with our day to day life on here! Although I keep everyone posted on whats up on facebook I though this would be more in depth and therapeutic!

Now to the title of my blog..."Getting back to what we call a normal life." Shew, easier said than done. Jeremy has been home for 3 months now and adjusting to being together again I have to admit has been rough and I think he would agree. It's really hard to understand where I'm coming from when I say we have to adjust to be together again if you haven't been away from your spouse that long. Yes we longed to be together and wanted our life together back but once you hit the 4th month of being apart knowing you have 6 or 7 months left without him you just learn to become independent and adjust to life alone. I did have one thing on my side I moved back to WV to live with my parents. Like most military spouses I didn't have our house to keep up and we don't have kids yet so it was just me and two of our fur babies. I guess some would think I had pretty easy but I would have to disagree. Yes in WV I had support from the people I loved and an awesome church family who walked with Jeremy and I the whole way but I left everything that Jeremy and I had made for ourselves and that was hard. I had to adjust to living with my mom and dad again, being limited to one room and just not having our things. I tried to make my bedroom feel as much like our home as I could but in one room you're limited with decorating space haha! I had his things all over so anywhere I looked it felt like he was there. It felt like forever til I would get to see him again until R&R passed then the next 4 months we had left flew by!

God was with us the entire year. From the moment Jeremy stepped on the bus and left my sight to the moment I saw him run into the homecoming tent with 300 other soldiers. God is still with us! I used our time apart to strength my relationship with the Lord and that I did! He put me to sleep all those nights I laid there wide awake thinking about Jeremy, he wiped my tears when I broke down and thought how am I going to make it one more day without my husband, he surrounded me with good friends and family who supported and encouraged us, he kept me busy so time would pass by fast, he kept me focused on school and allowed me to get two busy semesters under my belt and most importantly he kept Jeremy safe and focused on his mission and brought him home to me!

I feel like we have done nothing but go, go, go since the day he got home and I just want life to slow down. I feel like there's not enough time in the day to focus on my marriage, keep my house up, be a good nanny and do my school work. We must slow down. I don't want anymore than 3 plans a week on the calendar. Jeremy and I need to focus on us and spend more time together. I think we are finally letting each other back in. We got so used to doing things on our own and we're just now realizing that we have each other there to help again and all we need to do is just ask for help.

Something that is really hard for us is focusing on our relationship with God together as a couple and not just for each other. We want to bring the relationships we both have with God together as one. It shouldn't be hard but it is. It shouldn't be hard to simply pray together but it is. So our goal right now is to talk to God together. We both know how strong we both believe and we live everyday for the Lord but not together, if that makes any sense. I am ready for my husband to step up and lead me. I am totally not saying he is not a good husband. He loves me very much and supports me. He puts food on the table, gas in my car and clothes on my back. What I am saying is I'm ready for him to lead me by the example of God and be the Godly man I have longed for him to be. I love Jeremy with every piece of my heart and can't imagine life without him. I thought God was in our marriage. In a way he is because are both believers and live by example but really he's not because we aren't serving him together. I know as we begin to know God together soon we will see each other in a totally different light and we will love each other even more than we do today.
We are anxious for you to step into our marriage and take over Lord, you are going change things for us forever!