My Heart Is Full/First Married Christmas

I am sitting here with a smile on my face, and joy in my heart. I know, I know.... some of you are rolling your eyes thinking about how innocent newlyweds are. It's okay, it doesn't hurt my feelings. I am sitting here with my very first own Christmas tree, lit and decorated. Decorations around the living room. Netflix on the television, and amazing husband sitting beside me on our couch. My heart is full.

This is our first Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. It's been crazy. It's been busy and I have no doubt that it will get busier as the week goes on, but I am loving every bit of it. I love having twice the family to spend the season with. I love figuring out our own traditions. I love coming home and making cookies, watching Christmas movies, listening to Christmas music.... Some of you are still rolling your eyes but we are still having firsts as husband and wife.

I am excited. I know that it's not much different than Thanksgiving but I am excited to sit with my husband at family dinners. I am excited to show up with him and come home with him.

Some of you are gagging. You don't have to read this ya know... you can stop anytime....

Anyway, my heart is full. I get to spend every day with my best friend. I come home and he is here (also, sometimes I come home to him washing dishes. BONUS!!!) Ladies, if you didn't already know, a man who washes dishes is quite attractive;)

I get to go to sleep at night with the person I love most beside me and wake up every morning to him still there. There is never a dull moment in this apartment. Something interesting is always going on. Something crazy is always going on. Memories.... Memories are always being made.... And so my heart is full. We are making memories as husband and wife. This man... that I love more than anyone else.... I get to share life with him. I get to make memories with this man every day.... So my heart is full:)

I know.... you are so done with this post.... That's okay because I am basically just rambling. This is my shouting from the rooftops. Don't get me wrong. Our lives our FAR from perfect. We have struggles and tough times, that while you think you know all about and you think that they are nothing.... you don't know.... we have real problems but we deal with them together.

I am blessed to call this man mine. I am blessed to get to be his wife. And even though we have cried, even though we have had tough times and will no doubt have more in our life together.... There is no one I would rather do life with.... and so.... My heart is full. Okay.... I'll stop now...

One more thing before I go (and yes, my husband approved of me posting this lol). As I was writing this post, he basically slapped the wall with his face.... I am dying lol. He was closer than he thought so when he turned his head really fast, the wall met his face just as fast. Through gasps of trying to breathe, I made sure he was okay, but than I fell onto him laughing. And no, I am not a terrible wife, he was pretty cracked up too lol. 😂😂😂 Like I said, never a dull moment lol.

Enjoying Newlywed Life,
Kelcy J.

Daycare Adventures: Here We Go Again

So I started working at the daycare again this week and all I can think is.... perfect timing. It is getting cold and three days in to my new job two of my kids are already out sick. I haven't been here in two years which means I am going to have to go through all of that immune system build up crap again.... I am not at all looking forward to that.

So I am now religiously using germ-x and if you are one of those people that says that stuff doesn't work, leave me alone. Sickness is I'm sure like 50% mind over matter so just let me believe it's working and maybe it will. I just know this is going to be oh so interesting.

With all of that being said, I am so excited to be working with kids again. Not only that but I don't have such a long drive like I did before and there are so many different things going on now then the last time I was working here. I know that it's not going to be easy, it never is and I can already tell you that I am dead tired after I get off work every day and today is only my fourth day but my heart is full. I get to love on 9 kiddos every day. Now I will say that daycare, as I'm sure everyone knows, is the BEST birth control ever. I love kids, even these kids that are not mine but you can be sure it reminds me of the reasons I want to have some time with just me and my husband before we jump into parenthood.

Another thing I am excited about is that while my husband and I both would like me to have the opportunity to be a stay-at-home mom when we have kids. I am so very happy that I get to help out with bills again. It is such a great feeling to be able to take some of that burden off of my husband. I hope that I will have more to post soon but until then I am going to go and spend the next few hours loving on my daycare kiddos and then head home to cook dinner for my sweet husband before we crash HARD for the night:)

Until next time,
-Kelcy J.

P.S. I love my life....

BOO!!!

I bet you didn't expect to hear from me:) Long time no see! Oh! I almost forgot, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know that in just a few short hours it will no longer be Halloween and we will have entered into the month of November but I thought I'd throw it in there anyway.

Any-who, how are you? How have you been since the last time I posted? How about your day today? How did today go, hmm? Were you prepared for trick-or-treaters, or were you one of the many last minute candy shoppers? Don't worry, I went to Walmart at around 6PM and I can personally guarantee you that you were most certainly NOT the only last minute candy shopper.

Tonight was our first Halloween together as Mr. and Mrs. and it was quite boring in a since of we didn't have any little trick-or-treaters. We watched a "scary" movie, ate some snacks and enjoyed the evening together.

Now, let me talk to you just a second about my very hypocritical pet peev. Today I was informed by a friend that the city we live in had put up the snowflakes on the light poles around the city. I just could not believe that they did such an insane thing on the DAY OF Halloween!!! Isn't that just one of the most absurd things you've ever heard? Christmas lights up on the day of Halloween. So I reasoned... Maybe they were just putting them up in preparation for the upcoming months.... no big... calm down... However, as mentioned earlier, Charles and I made a trip to Walmart and I couldn't believe it..... ALL of the snowflakes.... WERE LIT!!!!! =O I know you're probably just as baffled as I am.... it's okay... I'll give you a minute....

Okay, now that we've calmed down.... do you remember me calling this a very hypocritical pet peev (rant)? Well you see, maybe it's the snowflakes.... I really don't know.... I am sitting here, listening to Christmas music as I type!!!!!

EVERYONE JUST CALM DOWN!!!! THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC!!!! WE ALL KNOW THAT I HAVE A SERIOUS CHRISTMAS PROBLEM!!!!! JUST CHILL!!!! <---- hehe, see what I did there.... chill.... I know, I know.... it wasn't that funny....

So anyway.... at the risk of being hunted down by a mob of people that know and understand we should only have one holiday at a time, the same people of which who really don't like people that are as overly obsessed with Christmas as I am..... (I should seriously get a break this year since it is my first year as a wife.... just saying...)..... Who is looking forward to the Thanksgiving/Christmas festivities? 

Umm... yeah, that would be me right here. You can betcha I'm ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I finally have my own place to decorate, a husband to spend the holidays with and a whole new way to enjoy this season. It will definitely be different, but I know it will be a good different. 

So are there any of you out there reading this, that are celebrating your Thanksgiving/Christmas in a new way? How about a story about your first Thanksgiving/Christmas out own your own in the world? Did you carry on traditions, start new ones, or a little bit of both? I would absolutely love to hear from you all! Shoot me an email or comment below this post:) Looking forward to the stories flooding in =D 

-Kelcy J.

One Heck of a Second Week

Wow... So two weeks ago, I got to marry my best friend. That's right! FINALLY!!! We had an absolutely beautiful wedding surrounded by most everyone we loved. Afterwards we got to head off to our honeymoon and then a week later, we came home and God decided to give us a crash course in the whole "in sickness" part of marriage.

Charles has been horribly sick this entire week. Fevers reaching to 104, throwing up, coughing, the whole nine yards, and so I got a crash course in taking care of him. I learned (and so did he) that he likes tomato soup. SCORE 1 FOR CAMPBELL'S!!! There have been a lot of prayers and frustration but thank God, his fever hasn't been above 100 today. In fact, he has seemed more like himself than ever today but one problem remains prominent.

Charles has pain in his chest right where his sternum is when he swallows food or drink. It doesn't get stuck or anything like that but the pain is severe. Because of it, he actually hasn't really eaten in two days. He has been pretty good about keeping up with drinking water though.

So here is what I would like to ask of everyone who reads this (and I realize that some of you are on my Facebook and already know what has been going on) but will you all please take some time to pray for him. Pray that God would heal what ever is causing the pain when he swallows so that he can eat.

I have never had to take care of someone like this when they were sick. Watching him hurt the way he is and watching him being so miserable breaks my heart in a hundred different ways. I want him to get better so we can go back to enjoying our new life together as husband and wife. I want him to get well enough to eat again (specifically hot dogs because that's what he has been wanting lol).

So please, as you go throughout your day for the next several days, will you pray for Charles? Will you ask God to take away that pain so he can eat again? We would both be very appreciative.

May the Lord bless you all! Thank you in advanced for your prayers:)

-Kelcy J.

 

Wedding Update!

I can't even believe as I am typing this but... 8 AND 1/2 DAYS TILL THE WEDDING!!!!!! It doesn't even feel real that in a little over a week I will be getting married to my best friend! WOW!

It has been really crazy just getting everything ready these last few months, wrapping up so plans and getting ready to start our lives together. Now here we are, 8 1/2 days out and I'm struggling to find a good time to pack for the honeymoon!

Some of ya'll stopped and though well maybe I should stop blogging and pack but the things is, I actually need Charles for that so that his stuff gets packed too and he is at work. The excitement is explosive with the two of us as we get ready to say "I do" surrounded by our friends and family.

The anticipation is growing with every passing day, and I just can't wait! I know this is a short post, but I thought I would share my excitement with you all:)

Hopefully, after we get settled into our new lives together I will start back up on writing devotionals for Great News. I am very excited to see what the Lord has in store there as well.

May the Lord bless you all richly with a wonderful day in Christ!
-Kelcy =D

Quick Post About the Thunderstorm

If you've been reading this blog long enough or if you know me well enough, then you probably know how much I love thunderstorms. In fact, if you are in one of the previously mentioned categories you are actually probably sick of hearing (or reading) about my love of thunderstorms and it's okay. I get it. I know I mention it a good bit.

Tonight, I wasn't expecting a thunderstorm and ended up in Yogurt Mountain for a good while waiting out what I think was probably the worst of it. Now, as I get ready to go to bed, I listen to the sounds of thunder roll across the skies. I watch as my window lights up over and over with the magnificent flashes of lightning and I am at peace.

As I said in the title, this is a quick post, because I mentioned above I am going to bed. However, I wanted to be sure to share a verse that I've shared before out of Job. Well... more like a passage.

"My heart pounds as I think of this. It trembles within me. Listen carefully to the thunder of God's voice as it rolls from his mouth. It rolls across the heavens, and his lightning flashes in every direction. Then comes the roaring of the thunder--the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain it when he speaks. God's voice is glorious in the thunder. We can't even imagine the greatness of his power." - Job 37:1-5 (NLT)

I know I am among many that sleep peacefully during thunderstorms but I pray tonight that everyone, whether you usually sleep peacefully during thunderstorms or not, would rest easy with this verse on their hearts. May the Lord bless you richly. Goodnight:)

Right Where I Don't Belong

I have a song on my phone called Where I Don't Belong. As I listen to this song on repeat tonight I am caught up in this moment, where God has once again met me where I don't belong, just like He has so many times before. The words in this song say that He meets me where I don't belong, asks no questions and embraces me as His own.

When I hear this specific part, I think about the prodigal son and how when he came home, the father didn't ask him questions about where he was or what he had been doing. He simply embraced his son enthusiastically and welcomed him back as his own.

So tonight I am listening to this song on repeat, as God does some serious open heart surgery. As He works on my heart that has recently been so filled with doubt, uncertainty, confusion, and lies that I have sat down and let the enemy pour in. I have been lazy in my faith and I am paying the price in the distance I feel between me and God right now.

Don't get me wrong. I know that God has not put the distance there I have, I know that God has not put the wall up, or stepped away... I have. No, God has continued to chase and purse, and call. I have just been too wrapped up in doubt to listen. I have sat down on the sidelines of the race, watching everyone else as they run.... I've been sitting there with the enemy sitting right beside me filling my head and heart with lies that dug deep into my heart. Allowing him to pull me away without even putting up so much as a fight and becoming too tired to try.

I don't belong on the sidelines. No Christian does. They belong in the race. The race that Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians. I have been where I don't belong for too long. So now I sit here with my heart open before God, His hands deep at work within.

Why am I posting this? Because I know I'm not alone. There are other believers out there who have sat down somewhere they don't belong. There are other believers who have become so tired that they've stopped running and they are now listening to the lies of the enemy as their hearts fill with darkness and the distance between them and the Lord grows. With each lie their bodies are growing weaker, their eyes are getting heavier, and their breath is getting more shallow.

I'm posting this to tell them to GET UP! GET UP DEAR BELIEVER!!!! Don't let the enemy feed you lies anymore! Don't let him take your strength anymore! Don't let him sedate you! Don't let him steal your joy! Don't let him kill you! Don't you realize that is what he is doing??? He is killing you!

So STAND UP with me dear believer! We have been sitting on the sideline so long that we have gotten out of shape, it's not going to be easy to get back into the race but we have to. We have to start running again... but in order to do that we have to bring everything to God. He already knows, you aren't going to surprise Him with anything.... but you have to bring it ALL to Him. Don't withhold anything! It's time.... today is the day.... right now....

God may have to do some open heart surgery on you like He is having to do on me... it's not easy, and it's going to be painful but He is going to do so with love.

Remember, you're not alone.... I've been right where I don't belong and I can testify... God can pull you out... But you have to be willing....

This is the post about nothing

Hello. This is the post about nothing. This is literally a post I am writing out of sheer boredom. I am bored. Therefore this is a post about nothing. I guess it's actually a post about the random things coming into my head, so technically it's not a post about nothing it's a post about my random thought process... or rather the thoughts that are thought during my random thought process.

So hello.... this is the post about my random thoughts in my random thought process however that title is too long to put in the title box I think.... even if I did it probably wouldn't capture your interest as well.

I'm confused about why you are still reading anyway.... you must be bored too.... welcome to this post that I will no longer name because it's too long.... also welcome to the club of boredom.

I am thinking about cookies. I like cookies.... I really like Oreos.... Not without milk though... I don't care for them really without milk. Yummy, yummy ice cold milk....

Funny enough though I actually can't stand plain milk.... I can really down a glass of it after eating like three Oreos and becoming thirsty because of them though. But that's it... other than that I really love chocolate milk.

I guess that's all.... as I said I am bored.... therefore I am going to try and go entertain myself some other way rather than boring the heck out of whoever is reading this... but honestly....

WHO ARE YOU??? Have you made it this far.....??? Wow.... you are bored aren't you....

Goodbye.

-Kelcy

116 Days to Go!!!!

OH MY GOSH!!!!!! I'm getting married in 116 days!!!!! I can't believe it. In 116 days I will marry my best friend:)

For those of you that don't want to count it up but are still curious that is 3 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, and 19 hours until Charles and I say I do! I CAN'T WAIT!!!! Believe it or not, it actually just sink in the other day that I'm ACTUALLY getting married:) Then reality hit of how close the wedding is and I am now even more excited than ever before. We of course still have many things to do before the wedding gets here but I am so super excited!!! 

Wedding dressed was purchased not long after the proposal, wedding bands have been picked out and purchased, honeymoon booked, and now we are just taking care of some final planning things. I know I have already said this a lot but I will probably say it a lot more in this post and many others, I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED and I CAN'T WAIT!!!!


116 DAYS UNTIL #TOBEJAEGERED!!!!

Get ready. I am about to become the most annoying person for the next few months:) 


-Kelcy (soon to be Jaeger) =D

It's My Birthday!!!!!

That's right! I am officially an A-D-U-L-T! Look out world... can you tell I'm just the slightest bit bored?

Well, anyway... so today I hit adult age legally however after having already started the "adulting" portion of my life...  ya know, paying bills, cleaning the apartment, working....etc... I just wanted to make a public service announcement to every young person dying to become an adult....

SLOW DOWN!!! It's not all it's cracked up to be and your going to miss the time when you weren't the one paying for the power you used, the hot water you used, or the gas to fuel your transportation. When you buy that first grocery bill and read your total be sure you have someone you trust standing close so that they can catch you because it's going to be A LOT.

I'm not saying that being an adult is 100% miserable all of the time, but I am saying that it's a big time wake up call that your parents are trying so hard to prepare you for with all of that advice you keep ignoring...

So I repeat... SLOW DOWN. Spend every second you have enjoying your childhood and don't waste a minute of it. Listen to your parent. Learn responsibility, but right now... have fun. Don't run head first towards your adulthood because I promise you you'll wish you hadn't.

Am I happy? Absolutely!!! I am getting ready to marry my best friend! I am moving towards the "I do's" with each passing day.

Now... to my original point of this post (hence the title of this post) IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

I have been alive for 21 years today. God brought me into the world screaming and crying knowing the plans He had for me. Knowing that I would one day meet Charles and be planning our wedding. Knowing that I would start Great News Ministries. Knowing that I would be writing to you all right now on this blog...

He knew all of the crap I would go through before coming to know Him as my Savior and Redeemer on April 4, 2012 and He knew that I would be spending today knowing that He has allowed me to be on this earth for 21 years and spend the last 4 years of those 21 in service to Him.

God continuously blesses me beyond anything and everything I could ever hope and imagine, and I pray that He will help me to serve Him with all I've got for as long as I've got:)

We Got the Apartment!

Okay, so somethings changed right after I posted and no one got to really know... THEY CALLED!!! WE GOT THE APARTMENT!!!!

Yes, we've done a happy dance. Yes, we are thrilled. Yes, God IS AMAZING! I can't wait to see what He has in store for us next! Thank you all for your prayers!! This is the shortest post ever but... that is all :)

-Kelcy

Crazy. Random. Nervous Post O_O

It always seems that my posts have more and more time in between them, but life is busy as I am sure most of you know all too well. There has been a lot going on since I last posted. School, wedding plans, trying to get a place to live so that we aren't homeless after the wedding... 

I am sitting here as I type awaiting a phone call that will tell me whether or not Charles and I have gotten an apartment. I don't think I have ever been so nervous for anything in my entire life. THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Don't get me wrong, I know that if it's in God's will and apart of His plan it will all work out... however, I can't help but be nervous and hope and pray that it is in His will and that this phone call would hurry up and come and be good news.

Can you see my stress yet? Can you almost see the gray hairs this has created on my almost 21 year old head? This has been an ongoing super stress since Thursday of this past week. I am sick to my stomach, and I feel like my head won't stop spinning until the phone rings... then again that might make it spin faster until they tell me yes or no... 

You know the nervous I'm talking about, right? That, crawling-out-of-your-skin kind of nervous. 

I just looked at the clock and it is 8:52AM.... Their offices open at 8.... I hope they don't wait all day.... 

You all think I am crazy right now for typing this all up in a blog, but let me tell you it's helping. This post may be all over the place but hopefully it will make me feel better. 

I know what you're thinking though... You're wondering if I am going to write this post until they call.... well, I would like to say yes because that would mean they were going to call in the next few minutes however my answer would be, of course not! That would be insane! 

I am actually about to stop writing now... however... while we already have a small army of people praying for this to work out, we would love for that army to be enlarged. So will you pray with us... please? Pray that God would allow this all to go well... 

Thank you for putting up with this crazy post (if you made it this far, that is). May God bless you all with a wonderfully awesome day! Will hopefully post again soon (prayerfully with good news!)

-Kelcy

Hello 2016!

What a year 2015 has been. Filled with love, laughter, heartache, and adventure. This past year God has brought things my way that I didn't understand. He has blessed me with a few new friends. He has opened and then shut doors in a way that I didn't always like but some how came to accept. He allowed me to experience new things, meet new people, and grow in new ways. He answered prayers in ways that blew my mind, showed me things only He could, and brought me deeper in my relationship with Him than I ever thought I would go, and I know that as we kick of this New Year the best is still yet to come. 

Last year I was blessed to bring in the New Year with my (then) new amazing boyfriend and this year I brought in the New Year engaged to that same amazing guy. This year will bring wedding plans, dress shopping, a new bible fellowship class, and I'm sure new adventures as we prepare to marry. I look forward to all this year holds for he and I and whatever the Lord has in store for us. 

I look forward to sharing with you all what the Lord is doing in my life and going through this journey of 2016 with you all. May the Lord bless you exceeding abundantly this year, and overflow your hearts:) I love you all!

-Kelcy
#tobeJaegered ;)

P.S. At the beginning of last year I mentioned how my college ministry was told we were having a change in leadership and how awesome that change has been. Just thought it would be an interesting thing to share, that our "nearly married" class will be taught by the teachers we had when we first met. Who are also, coincidentally, the same people who sat down with us early in our relationship and helped us make sure we were going about things the right way.  How fitting:) 2016 HERE WE COME!