Real Hope for Haiti

Please make time to watch this today.

This has made my morning :)

Blogging Bullies

I have read on many of your blogs that there are people who lurk around the blog world and post anonymous comments that are mean/cruel/hateful. Well, I got my first taste of it. Although, the ones from you all that I have heard about seem to be adults, mine seems to be from a middle school girl.

I wanted to share the comment with you…b/c I think it is funny. Mean, but funny.

” you have the biggest ugliest nose i have ever seen wow miss piggy much”

Eh, my nose is big. But it helps me to breath better. And actually, when I was in middle school, I did have some people call me piglet. But that was an endearing nick name. Not like the above.

What about you? Do you have Blogging Bullies visit you?

Question of the day…

When you have a friend who always seems to need you to invest in them, instead of wanting to invest in you every once and awhile, what do you do? How do you handle that? Do you realize that not everything is about you and just let it be? Do you say something? How do you handle it? Should it be a big deal?

Please know that this comes from someone who has experienced friends who are like this, all the while also being a very demanding friend. So, I think I am allowed to ask this

The big move

We moved two weekends ago. I hate moving. Is there anyone who likes to move? Seriously, I have never heard anyone say, “I love to move”. I have heard of TONS of people who love to travel, but not move. Anyway, we moved. Only 40 minutes from where we were living, but it is MUCH closer to everything we are involved in. Like, 15 minutes away from everything. Love it (said in a musical tone).

The place we were living in was a one bedroom apartment. It was small, but we were fine. I would get claustrophobic every once and awhile, but I think that was only because we had only three windows, all along one wall. We learned how much crap we owned that we didn’t need (still learning that one). We probably got rid of half our stuff. Also, do you remember too that we live with two dogs in that small apartment? Well, they were fine too. They mostly hung out in the living room and our bed room. They adjusted, as did we. Now though, we are in a two bedroom, two story apartment. Much like a town home, only not. Much roomier. But it is like those dang dogs only remember the perimeter (is that the right word) of the other apartment. They have so much more space, but are so clingy! They have to be around us all of the time. Dang it!

We also moved two doors down from some of Tim’s best friends. They have been married for not even a year, and are about to have a baby (SURPRISE!). I am excited b/c Tim is excited to help out w/ the baby. I think his whole way of thinking is more of a, “I want to help them out” type of thing, but we are going to have a baby in our house often. Yay! (This is all coming from the whole, my husband says we have to wait 5 years after getting married to have a baby). So, hopefully this will help my goal of hanging out with little ones to tie me over until I actually do have babies. I despised this rule when he first made it. But now I am SO thankful for it. Really. There are so many situations in my life where it is just easier to not have a child. We are able to live on one income, both of us are able to be back in school, we can travel more, we can work on our marriage more, and I am sure there is a lot more. Anyway, I will LOVE having kids, biological and adopted, it’s just not the right time right now. So, other people’s kids will do (did that sound bad?).

It is really funny how often we hang out with them. We both have front and back doors, so each of us are constantly (ok, maybe not constantly) walking around back or front. The poor guy (not really, he seems like a jerk) between us will hate us pretty soon. I keep saying that we are going to accidentally walk into the wrong apartment one day.

Funny story: Our friends two doors down are Tracey & Philip. One day we had been hanging out at their place, and Tim and I came back to our’s. We had to go some where and were walking out the door. I had my head turned the other way when walking out when I heard this huge burp. I immediately thought it was Philip (b/c I apparently was oblivious to the fact that other people do in fact live in this building). While turning my head towards the sound, I said very loudly, “WHOA!!”. It was not Philip. It was the guy who lives between us, or his friend, but NOT Philip. Well, at the same time, apparently Tracey thought it was Tim. She yells out her window, “I HEARD THAT!!” I was SO embarrassed. I ducked my head and ran to the car (no exaggeration). I was blushing like crazy. Tracey was already inside her apartment so she didn’t even know what happened until hours later. Oh man, everyone is going to hate us. Well, at least the guy living between us will.

we’re going to Africa…

My husband and I get to go to Ethiopia this June for 2 weeks. We are so excited about this opportunity! But this month is crunch time! We need to raise a little over $5,000 for our trip cost. We have four fundraisers for this month, AND I am in a wedding. I am going to be so exhausted when we travel!

The first fundraiser is this weekend. We will be doing a yard sale. I am not sure how well it will go because we have mostly clothes going into it. But we’ll see.

The next is a luncheon after church. We will also have an auction where people can bid on each of us to do chores for them. Hey, you can help me out here. If you could have someone come to your house to do a chore you hate to do, what would it be?

The third event will be a parents’ night out the Friday before Mother’s Day. I think this might be our biggest event. I hope so! It will be a lot of fun!

The last event we will have is a Pancake Breakfast at a local restaurant. I think that will be a lot of fun too. We just have to work really hard on getting people there!

I’ll be sure to try to post updates when we go on the trip. I could really use your prayers for the trip. We will be sharing the name of Christ and His gospel to some of the people in the village. I am pretty nervous about this! I’ll also try to post some pictures on here.

Also, I am excited because I have been really interested in working with some sort of orphanage/missions/adoption opportunities. My husband really hasn’t gotten into it because he has a hard time getting excited about things that are not here and now. But he keeps saying that he is excited that we are going together (our first mission trip together) because he feels like we may develop a shared passion. So, I am excited that he is even talking about that (does any of that make sense?).

We will be going to Shashamene, Ethiopia. We leave June 7 and come back June 20. We will also have a 14 hour layover in London some where in there, so that will be fabulous! Please keep us in your prayers.

Christ on the Cross

Did you have a good Easter? I did. God is SO good. I get to teach three year olds on Sunday mornings. This Sunday was a little different than I expected, but it was still so good. I love that I get to be in a room with 3 year olds while they dance around and yell, “Jesus is alive!” & “Hallelujah!”. The blessings we receive…

Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for us, while we were still sinners. That means, while we were still choosing to go against HIM, HE chose to die (a very agonizing death, not just because of the pain, but because HE could have stopped it at any time, and HE chose not to) to cover all of our wrong doings against HIM. Hallelujah!

I think it is really easy to think about Jesus on the cross and miss what all was really going on there. Here is a video that gives a medical perspective of what Christ went through on the cross.

*Side Note: Praise God that we have people in the medical profession who serve HIM! I love it!

Are we really worshipping God, or ourselves?

Read this over here today. I thought it was pretty profound, and hits home.

“We have created a God that looks, thinks, and acts like us. So, when we come to worship and raise our hands… it is possible that we are actually worshipping ourselves.”

What do you think?

which one?

For the last several years I have gone back and forth with which length I want my hair to be. I will cut it short, then want it long. Then grow it to a medium length, get tired of it, and cut it all off again. Just to wish I had long hair again. I have my hair back to a medium length again, and want to cut it off. So, before I do anything drastic, I wanted to ask what you think.

Medium/Long length:

Or Short (I am obviously the one on the left):

Ok, your thoughts?

I would flip out!!