La Roux

Have I mentioned before? I truly have the most wonderful husband there is and he just happens to be the most wonderful daddy there is as well. I know, as a wife, you're suppose to say things like that about your husband, but I don't say it out of obligation, I simply say it because it's true. Because there is no man I respect more.

He is so thoughtful with our children. Thoughtful in his love and thoughtful in his discipline. It's so neat to see him become the father he always knew he wanted to be. I see something of Tim in Fount...a daddy in his soul...I wonder if the same was in Tim as a two year old boy. Before we had children, we would talk hours and hours about how we were going to raise them- the dos and the don'ts, if you will. I love seeing those specifics play out in our day to day life as a family.

This weekend, Tim received the most interesting of interesting emails from what seemed to be a confused stranger, but what ended up not being a stranger at all, but a distant relative with a wealth of family information, dating back to the Revolutionary War and well before. We now have papers, documents, and physical landmarks showing the Ruse line, not only in Russia, but Rouen, France, where our name, originally, La Roux, later Americanized to Ruse (tell me I'm crazy, but I'd love to change it back- ha!). The line has also been traced all the way to Virginia- our home, which feels weird- grounding, I must say. We have so much to do and see now, with this information. Physical landmarks. A farm. A courthouse. A business, titled "Ruse and Thompson" (crazy!) An estate. Family graves. All right here. I'm trying to talk Tim into taking a trip to France, simply for family tree purposes, of course.

When you look back on your family history and hear stories of how you came to be, it all seems so fragile, almost by chance that you're here, but in reality, God had every detail of you in mind from the very beginning. Tim's family had to make it through the Revolutionary War, WWII, being a Prisoner of War, Odessa, TX...The events go on and on! All to produce Tim. My kids. My family. It's amazing to me! When I read the research, I am overcome with gratefulness to the La Roux/Ruse line. I know they would be proud.