Day 7 Happy Valentines Day

Ok well its Day 7 but I am still on pause, Today is Valentines Day and Chase’s birthday! I can’t believe he is already 4! Where has the time gone? Any way I have been repeating the first 4 dares every day just shifting them around so Ash doesn’t know which one is which! The over all objective is that you don’t just do the Dare for that day and not do it all the rest of the time, you are supposed to practice everything you learn throughout the rest of your time. Which is defiantly going to be hard at times, but if it wasn’t worth it, it would be easy right?! Which brings me to this next part; I am very afraid that we both with reach a comfort level and get complacent (we have in the past) and I defiantly don’t want that to happen. I have told Ashleigh the same thing and she agrees, but I also don’t want anything to diminish. Yesterday was really hectic around here, both of us were running every which way to get ready for today. It was either I was going somewhere or Ash was. We really didn’t take time for one another, which is going to happen from time to time I know that! But since us both are freshly cut, when that happens right now it hurts a little. And when times like that happen, for myself I need to recognize what’s going on and just say “you know what? I haven’t stopped to tell you how much you mean to me today!” just little things like that. Or “hey why don’t you take a break and let me do that for a bit?” It is going to be a long journey with hiccups here and there but at the end it will all be worth it. Ashleigh mad up for it today though! Today didn’t start off as well as we had planned. I had set my alarm for 5:00am and woke up to an email on my phone at 6:37 which wouldn’t have been a problem any other day but today we had planned on going to Wild berry’s for breakfast before Church. We were going to go to Church at 9:00 so that would have worked out perfectly, up that early gives us time to get the kids up and ready and out the door to Wild Berry’s by 7:00. Nope not the case this morning, instead we were up at 6:37 and out the door by 7:00 a new Jansen Family record up kids dressed and on the road in 23 minuets. We get there and order our food; Chase wasn’t acting like his normal self. He was laying his head on the table and when his Breakfast got there (chocolate chip pancakes) he had a couple of bites and wanted to lie down in the booth. If you know my son then you know that this is not normal behavior of him! I was thinking that he might just be tired still; we did wake him up and shoved him in the car to get here. Nope that wasn’t it either; he sat back up leaned against the back of the booth for a little bit then out of no where (if you have a weak stomach stop reading now!!!!!!!) Projectile Vomit all over himself, both the kids coats, my paint leg and shoes. Poor little guy! All I could do is sit there and pat his back and watch as it continued to come out. After which he was completely fine, back to his normal persistent self. I still didn’t feel comfortable taking him to Church with the suspicion of possible doing it again so we didn’t go. We instead came home and got the kids cleaned up and washed everything that was an innocent bystander in act of war. Both Ash and I also debated on if we should cancel his birthday party, I knew how much that would destroy him and to be honest didn’t want to hear about it all day. So I said lets just keep and eye on him for a couple hours. Ash then sent out the mass wide email of what happen and if people still wanted to they could come, Just a warning at that point then. His party went off without a hitch and he was fine the whole time. He was the happiest I have seen him in a while! Which made me feel great I might add! Any way I’m getting to the part that Ash made up for yesterday. Our good friend’s Amber and Jason had their baby today! Since all of us couldn’t load up and go visit them Ashleigh went to pay our respects. Before she left I was cleaning up from the madness of Chase’s party, she stopped me dead in my tracks. Grabbed me and said “I know it has been crazy today, but I just wanted you to know how great you are” Can you say brownie points for Momma?!?!?!?!?!?! And I thought Chase being that happy made me feel great. I was like Tony the Tiger after hearing that! It just goes to show that the Lord is working with us and does know that we are going to have our busy days, and he wanted me to know that in light of everything that has happen to Ashleigh and I she is here to stay! So I’m going to end it there and head upstairs for some cuddle time with that beautiful woman of mine. Good night all and Happy Valentines Day!

-Justin


“Blessed, indeed, is the man who hears many gentle voices call him daddy!”