MIA/Sharing

Hello everyone. I am so sorry that I went MIA. Thankfully we are all well out here in the mountains. It has been an INCREDIBLE experience. I wish I could say it's been all good. The Lord brought us out here for a reason, and He is definitely accomplishing in us what we needed. Maybe not what we wanted, but what we needed. lol ;) Our characters are being put through the fire and refined. It has definitely drawn us closer together as a husband and wife, and more importantly it has drawn us closer together to Him. The Lord has shown us some areas in our lives that we needed to deal with. I have never felt so close to my beloved as I do now. I always thought we had an incredible marriage, to the point that I needed to check myself and make sure it wasn't a source of pride.
My beloved and I have been doing something every evening for the last couple of weeks. We haven't figured out a name for it yet, but for lack of a better phrase, it has been dubbed "talk time" Every evening once the children are in bed we cuddle up on the sofa and go through our entire day. We take turns going first. We literally share everything with each other. We go through our feelings when such and such happened, or our thoughts when this or that happened. There is to be no judging, just pure sharing from the heart. We share things that have happened in the past, as far back at 15 years ago, or as close as things that happened right before we left Florida. I think the no criticizing or judging part helps us to really dig down deep and share our innermost thoughts. We normally pray right before or right after. We just ask the Lord to bring to memory anything he wants us to share. I will say that this has helped me to see what areas of my beloved's life I need to pray for, and vice versa. I now know specific things he needs prayer for, as opposed to a general, "Lord, help him to be a good leader in the home," type things. I won't share my beloved's current "works in progress" but I will share mine. I don't think I know how to forgive properly. I forgive, but I don't know how to forget. ;0) I grew up in home that if you did something wrong, they wouldn't speak to you for weeks. There was no forgetting. The Lord is now definitely showing me and teaching me how to properly forgive. I wouldn't want to go through it with anyone else other than my beloved!!
Another thing that has kept me busy is that I took Britney to a new neurodevelopmentalist up here. So we had a new set of activities to work on and perfect.
I have a boat load of pictures to share. It's already dropping to the 30's and 20's up here, but it's definitely a different cold than when we lived in NY. Even in the 30's we go on 4 1/2 mile nature hikes/walks as a family.
Anyway, I better get off for now. My beloved is in Florida, and should be on his way to the airport as I type. We hope that that was his last trip to Florida, and we can finally put Florida behind us now.