Marriage Vows June 10th, 2013

We celebrated our 35th anniversary by asking the children how they plan to have a marriage that lasts for a long time and this is what we heard:

JERROL: Showing my wife that I love her through my actions. Taking care of the children when she is exhausted, giving her footie rubs, etc.

LAUREN: Understanding and controlling anger. I'm trying to 'get sad, not mad' when things don't go the way I want them to. I know anger is a secondary emotion and underneath is usually a feeling of hurt or disappointment. So I'm working on digging deeper into that frustration response to find out what's hurting and then sharing that with Jerrol instead of only venting my irritation, which really doesn't solve anything.

CHARIS: I realize that it's healthy to have interests (including ones that are different from each others, although I share his interest just not to the same level), and have encouraged dace to pursue his hobby and have his 'man cave' time with his fish tank.  Being supportive of him in this area affects our spending and budget so this is where our dave ramsey tools come into place to help us communicate regarding his expensive hobby.

DACE: For Charis and I we still utilize the '5 a's' which we learned in our pre-martial class. It helps with communication. Financially we are followers o9f Dave Ramsey which has helped us both be on the same page about money and staying on a budget. No money fights.

RACHEL: Learning to communicate with a more even temper as to help my husband feel comfortable sharing his feelings with me.

BRYANT: Learning to compromise and manage my time between work, school, my wife and my daughter. Not spending all my time indoors if my wife wants to go out.

Now let's keeping praying for these precious ones.

From the Other Krause Haus

Like mom said, Lauren celebrated 25 years on Friday (Oct. 3rd). Lots of eating out this weekend; J & L are kinda tired of restaurants for a while!

Jerrol is working hard on some freelance web work and the company he's contracted with for this job is thinking about hiring him. They are primarily a video production company, but get many requests from clients for websites. The owner is a Christian and does a lot of work with Christian organizations like Wycliffe. Jerrol feels this is where God is calling him and he is excited about the level of business strategy, web work and new ideas he gets to propose. It's not in the bag yet, so pray for wisdom and God's will to be done.

Lauren is getting into letterpress and enjoying restoring a couple of presses. Holler if you'd like some hand-printed cards!