{"id":12023,"date":"2014-02-04T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=12023"},"modified":"2014-02-03T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:50:54","slug":"recap-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2014\/20140204-12023.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recap (January 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Articles Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philippians314.squarespace.com\/journal\/2014\/1\/25\/dont-give-my-husband-romance-lessons-thank-you.html\">Don&#8217;t Give My Husband Romance Lessons<\/a><br \/>\nI enjoyed reading this little piece complaining (sort of) about others telling men what romantic means&#8211;especially because it came on the heels of a question a man asked in our Sunday School class &#8220;Is it okay for me to <i>ask<\/i> my wife what she thinks is romantic?&#8221; The answer was, of course, an unequivocal &#8220;YES!&#8221; The truth is, I like flowers and chocolates and furbelows as much as the next woman, but I&#8217;m too frugal and practical for Daniel giving me those things to be romantic. If he were to start bringing me home bouquets and candy, I&#8217;d probably think &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s sweet, he&#8217;s trying to show me he cares&#8221; and then start worrying about which budget line that was coming out of and where I could cut something else to make it fit and&#8230; Thankfully, Daniel and I have discussed this and he knows how to romance me without spending money. Remember, men, you don&#8217;t need to know how to romance <i>women<\/i>, just how to romance <i>your wife<\/i>&#8211;so ask <i>her<\/i>, study <i>her<\/i> to figure out how to do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Books added to TBR List:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/girlsinwhitedressesblog.com\/2014\/01\/28\/book-chat-59\/\">Lisa Writes&#8217; Best of 2013 List<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Presidents Club<\/i> by Nancy Briggs<\/li>\n<li><i>Call the Midwife<\/i> by Jennifer Worth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><i>The Giver<\/i> by Lois Lowry (reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/girlsinwhitedressesblog.com\/2014\/01\/28\/book-chat-59\/\">Susan of Girls in White Dresses<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>From <a href=\"http:\/\/seth.heasley.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/my-year-in-reading-2013\/\">Seth Heasley&#8217;s Year of Reading<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Rocks Don&#8217;t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah&#8217;s Flood<\/i> by David R. Montgomery<\/li>\n<li><i>Evolving in Monkey Town<\/i> by Rachel Held Evans<\/li>\n<li><i>Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All<\/i> by Paul A. Offit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><i>Ratio<\/i> by Michael Ruhlman (reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/seth.heasley.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/book-review-ratio-by-michael-ruhlman\/\">Seth of Collateral Bloggage<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><i>Churchill and the King<\/i> by Kenneth Weisbrode (reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/books.5minutesformom.com\/34406\/churchill-and-the-king\/\">Elizabeth of 5M4B<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><i>Golden Boy<\/i> by Tara Sullivan (Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopeisthewordblog.com\/2013\/12\/22\/golden-boy-by-tara-sullivan\/\">Amy of Hope is the Word<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>2014 Goal Game: 128 points<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<th>Tier 1<\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>This month<\/th>\n<tr>\n<td>Establish a Church home<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>17 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cope with Depression<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td> 17 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Be a good wife <\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>9 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Unnamed goal <\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>1 point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><\/tr>\n<th>Tier 2<\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>This month<\/th>\n<tr>\n<td>Get House in Order<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>13 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Be a good employee<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>3 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Be more social<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>38 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><\/tr>\n<th>Tier 3<\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>This month<\/th>\n<tr>\n<td>Take Time for Hobbies<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>22 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cook through &#8220;One Pot&#8221; cookbook<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>8 points<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles Read: Don&#8217;t Give My Husband Romance Lessons I enjoyed reading this little piece complaining (sort of) about others telling men what romantic means&#8211;especially because it came on the heels of a question a man asked in our Sunday School class &#8220;Is it okay for me to ask my wife what she thinks is romantic?&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"Recap (January 2014)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2014\/20140204-12023.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recap (January 2014)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12023"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12128,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12023\/revisions\/12128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}