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About Me

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I’m Janell.  I am blessed to be a wife to a really great guy since 2004.   I’m not the perfect wife, even when I try I know I come up short.  But I am thankful every day for my husbands patience and grace with me as we go through life together and learn together.  Marriage is hard work and I(we) have to constantly work at it. I’m not going to lie, the first couple years of my marriage were the hardest, no one prepared me for the challenges that come after you get married.  I know people said, that “marriage isn’t easy”, “it takes work”,  blah, blah, blah….but when you are young and in love those things go in one ear and right out the other.  Who wants to be told your marriage will be full of challenges and you will have to compromise all the time and you will have to  be selfless and there will be a lot of fights and tears? What bride would want to hear that before her wedding day?  Not me.  In fact if I had I probably would not have gotten married, because it’s hard to be selfless and put others first when society tells you the opposite.    I Corinthians 13 says “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”  I can guarantee you I fail daily at one(if not all) of these.   But by God’s grace, and with the help of my husband, we do this together and with God first in our marriage we have survived, and we have learned a lot of hard lessons.  But I will tell you, our marriage is all the better because of it.

I am also blessed to have 3 children, Trenton, Ava, and Sadie.   Parenting 3 kids with 3 very different personalities is hard work. It’s hard to be consistent everyday and it really is a roller coaster of ups and downs.  Each day is exhausting, and trying, and I try really hard each day to not yell so much; but each day is also rewarding and wonderful.  To see my kids learn new things and explore the world around them makes parenting worth it every minute. I have to remember that sometimes our greatest blessings are our greatest challenges.   I am constantly reminded of the verse in Isaiah 40:11 “He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young“.  God loves us Mothers so much he put that verse in there just for us.  He knows it’s hard, but He promises to lead us, and to lead us gently. God did not promise us a life without struggles, but He did promise us strength for each new day.

We live our crazy life in Madison, WI where I keep myself busy by running an at home daycare full time while raising my own babies.

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