Just a little note, my husband was never a JW or ever expressed any interest in becoming one. He just quietly and patiently waited for me to come to my senses.
On Thanksgiving my little family celebrated our first Thanksgiving.This day also happened to be my 11th wedding anniversary. I cooked a large dinner for my little family and made sure to have everyone's favorite foods on the table. My girls helped me the best they could and my son hung out with his dad. At dinner the kids presented my husband and me with anniversary cards they had made themselves. Then I got the best present ever.
Before we began to eat my husband said we need to say a prayer. I said ok, expecting him to ask me to say the prayer or one of the kids like usual. Instead he said he was going to say it! I was so elated, this was the first time my husband has ever led us in prayer. And the prayer was so beautiful, I think, cause it was all from his heart and revealed so much to me as to how God is working on my husband's heart.
We, as a family, are definitely becoming stronger spiritually. God and Jesus have become a part of our day to day conversation. Where as before God was a hushed word I would whisper but now my husband and I (and the children) freely talk about God in our lives. We can now say things like how blessed we are, outwardly thank the Lord, or turn to each other in times of stress and relate how we must lean and trust in God. It's just so refreshing.
Just thought I share my joy. I'm still excited about that day.