A beautiful day with thoughts of my Manly Man!

May 06, 2008 in Julene's Journal

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Today has been a lovely day! One of those days when there aren’t a ton of expectations of what needs to be done, so I get done what I want done. I got to clean and pretty my house (rotated some décor) and that always makes me happy. A friend stopped by and we had a nice visit (oh, did I mention she gave me a necklace tooJ My son has been happy to play in his room quietly and my refrigerator is FULL of food. AAAHHHH, what peaceJ Of course my perfect peace is in Jesus Himself, and when I crank up the worship music (like today) I get to sing His praises! I know a certain amount of chaos is just around the corner, my husband and daughters will be home in an hour, but until then I am at AAAAHHHHH.

Here is a thought, some time back in our many home renovations (we live in a 60yr old fixer upper) I considered writing a book about my husband. Now you should know that even though you are reading this because I wrote it, I am actually not a writer. But there are some things about my husband that are just too good not to share! I believe the title I had decided on was “The many catastrophes of a Manly Man!”

Do you have one of these!? A Manly Man? Webster defines Manly as: Having qualities traditionally attributed to a man. HHMMM? What is that?:) I know what it looks like in my husband – It’s a Get-R-Done (registered trademark of the US Marines, so my dad says), outdoorsy kind of guy! OH, the stories. I am grinning ear to ear just thinking of them. I wonder if my son will be the same. Are you like me, I love to hear stories, and funny or adventurous are the BEST.

OK here is one. My husband, we will call him Mike (Hee Hee), was doing some work outside several years ago. He was probably fixing a fence or something, I don’t know, details are fuzzy. Well it had started to rain a bit but that was NOT going to stop him! However, Mike was concerned about some of his tools getting wet so he did his best to shelter them. He had his VERY powerful cordless drill and was walking to his work site with it sort of tucked under his rain poncho. No problem, till it slipped out of his hand and he had to grab it vigorously to keep it from falling to the ground.

I must stop here and explain what was at the end of this drill. It was a hole saw, used to cut a whole about two inches in diameter. It is round and has VERY sharp teeth! Yes, you should cringe!

Well, when Mike grabbed the drill, it had gotten caught up in the poncho and he accidently grabbed it in such a way that it engaged the trigger while being up close to his body, the front of his sweat pants to be exact! From here I will only say that God had a plan for a 3^rd child to come into our lives and thus saved Mike from a very scary hospital trip. Because it was a cordless drill it did not have the power to continue cutting once it got tangled up with all the cloth of the sweats and therefore stopped.

I can’t remember if he continued working after that, but knowing him as I do, I think he took a quick break to “check his pants” and then finished the project!

Isn’t he cute!

Julene Saunders, Christian work from home mom and happy Uri International Independent Distributor. Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Want to fire your boss and work from home? Check out our opportunity here: http://www.urilife.com/bearingfruit

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