Beach: Life, Goals, Love

I don't know what it is about the beach that makes me want to pour myself into writing. I've always been that way though. In college I used to take a pen and my journal down to the beach on campus and sit and journal for hours in the sun. It was wonderfully refreshing. :) I remember my journals were always more like "prayer journals" than anything else and I look forward to showing them to my kids one day. I would write about whatever boy i was dating/kissing at that point in the week :oP or I'd write/pray for whatever test or friend i thought needed help. It cracks me up going back through them. When I left school, I remember there was a friend who was several years older/wiser than me and he always had the perfect thing to say. Actually he took me on my first date of college. D was SOOO nice and always looked out for me and the girls i was friends with (he lived across the hall from them). Anyway, one of our last encounters before I moved back home he was talking to me about my reasons for moving and wanted to make sure I didn't have expectations of some big life altering event where my prince charming would sweep me off my feet and carry me into the sunset. I told him that, where that would be lovely and I wouldn't be opposed to it, I was doing what I felt God was pushing me towards. I had no expectations and really didn't know my next move except to not waste more money on college courses that weren't doing me any good. The funny thing is that about 2 months after I moved home I had that life altering event (DiscipleNow) where my prince charming (E-train) rode in on his white horse (aka the Lexus), swept me off my feet, and we went off into the sunset happily ever after (last 4 years and still counting). My Bff, Chels kept me in line and helped me to not put the cart before the horse. She kept me steady and my head out of the clouds... which is a job i wouldn't wish on anyone!
I live the fairytale... its real! I have a prince charming who lives every day to make my daughter and I happy and he is our saving grace! The future he has planned for us is one i have no doubt in. He strives every day to be better for us, and i could not ask for more! (well except to have him home!!) I have been told that one day I'll be eating my words when he decides to cheat on me and find someone new and younger and that i need to have a back up plan for when this happens. someone also said that fairy tales don't exist and I'll be heartbroken one day if i don't wake up and realize this, and that he cant really be that wonderful. Well he is, and I know he'll never intentionally hurt me. We have rough times and the small squibble squabbles every couple does but we come out on top and learn from every tiff that comes between us. We grow from our challenges and always become closer and stronger because of them. I'm confident that nothing will separate us, not even death. We have an eternity together and our souls are bound as one. We live for each other and not ourselves (he is better at this than I am), and would give up anything for each other and our family. Even though the last five and a half months we have been apart we are closer than ever and have triumphed over the distance... this is not to say that I would have rather had him home... but taking the bad and making it good is something we have been able to do well. We are still constantly working together for the greater future ahead. One that will allow us to be free from Uncle Sam and free from 'The Man'. No 9 to 5 for us. We are striving for Independence, both financially and with our time. Our goals are to home school our children so we have the freedom to travel with them and take them places that most people will never see. Financial Independence is not a strive for wealth it is the desire to have the means to help the masses. We want to be able to help our family and friends when they need it without expecting anything in return, to clothe the naked and feed the hungry, take a man beaten by poverty and turn him into a successful business man who'll help another less fortunate than he. We're passionate about teaching our children how to make a difference with their actions, not just a prayer. Being love verses loving. We are still working on this in ourselves and I'm sure it will be constant growth throughout our lives but we are determined and when my husband is determined, the world better watch out! He will accomplish everything he sets out to do.
Gosh I love the beach!