love at home

    Hello! I feel like every time I start my blog I always say the same thing, maybe I need to find a new intro. But really I hope everyone had a great week! Can you guys believe that it is already JULY?!?!?! That blows my mind! I feel like this spring semester of school for me is flying bye, but also at some points it is just dragging!
    Today is actually an exciting day! I am flying to see my fiance, who I haven't seen in over a month! Last week I talked about how we are in the middle of doing long distance, but this week in class I got to be thinking a lot about our future family together.

    There is a hymn that kept popping into my head this week during class and it is the hymn, " Love at Home". The words of this song are so sweet. The phrase, " love at home", is stated more than 15 times. Now think about that. Why would they state that phrase that many times if it is not something super important? I thought about that question a lot. The importance of having love in the home to me is extremely important. In the hymn it says, "making life a bliss complete, when there is love at home." When you hear/read the word bliss what do you think about? I think about joy, happiness, delightful, heaven and paradise. These all have the same meaning. These are all the things you want to have in your home, correct? I don't know about anyone on this earth that does not want any of these feelings in there home. 

    My fiance and I always have this conversation, and its about how we want our future home to be, how we want to run it, and so on. These are such fun conversations because they all started out as hypothetical situation but now they are reality. One major thing we agree about is how we want to be our kids best friends. We want our house to be a safe zone. We want them to come home and feel safe and loved. We want them to be able to turn to us and not feel judged about what they are saying. We also want our house to be the house that all our kids bring their friends too. Growing up for me I had this house and it was so nice. I love my family but I also loved having that " home away from home". This provided a way for me to get out of my own head and to still receive that love. I want to be that house for my kids friends.
    Now I know that life is not going to be all rainbows and butterflies. I know that, because getting to this point in my life has not been an easy journey. I know for a fact when my fiance and I start to have kids, yes that is a joyous things, but this also causes a lot of stress. If you remember I talked about stress in a couple blogs ago, but stress is not something we can escape. But it is how you go about life with your spouse and family.
    One thing that is super important to me in unity. I seek and long for that in my future one. I want my spouse and I to be one and I want my kids to be able to see that. Once we all come together as a family there will be love and happiness in the home. 
     I hope you all have an amazing week!!!!!