Whew!

Time for a new blog post, lots going on these days.

Our Kenya trip leader said to be prepared for these days before the trip to be filled with difficulties and challenges. Tends to go that way. As far as we're concerned, he's right!

There was talk that our flight from London to Nairobi would be canceled because British Air staff was planning to strike. Luckily, turned out that a court blocked the strike (woo justice system!). Buuut, the ground staff apparently can still strike. Which means we're supposed to pack our carry on bag carefully, as the checked bag may not make it.

Also, we were $400 away from having Kenya things all paid up... then Dude got sick. Now we're scrambling a little. Dude started throwing up Wednesday, he spent all day at the vet Thursday. They said his red blood cell to serum ratio was off, and they had to inject a bunch of fluids under his skin. poor buddy. He was pretty sick, lots of dry heaving and shaking and the like. But, a few vet bills later, it's looking like he's starting to feel a bit better. That was some stress, for sure. And I know it doesn't even compare to similar issues in parenting. oh boy...

Getting ready to leave is proving to be a bit stressful. Loooong list of things to do. Being away from Aaron Plumbing for such a time is cause for a touch of anxiety, though I'm confident Tim and Missy and the team will have it under control. Probably should be doing some praying and meditating. No reason to be stressed. The AA serenity prayer comes to mind. “God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.” amen, yeah?

it's all going to work out. just trying to process it now. And what better way to process than to blog?

Happy weekend everyone, and Merry Christmas!!!!!

Quick Post

We're about the paint the bathroom! Went to home depot today... We're going with a yellow. Haha, for some reason, this keeps popping into my head:

"Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday. We're uh, gonna go to Home Depot, yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, and Beyond I don't know. I don't know if we'll have enough time." -Will Ferrell, Old School

lol. But we're having fun. Hopefully this time Dude will stay out of the paint. This has been a good weekend so far! Went to a new pizza place last night with Tim & Heather. All organic! We all agree- good find.

It's my birthday Monday, I'm excited. I really like birthdays. I worked extra hard Thursday and Friday (missed the first class I've ever missed in law school!) so that this weekend could be spent relaxing. Went to a dance class with Heather. We tried to go to a hot yoga class, but they told us we were too late. My fault. But there were no other students there... Heather was talking about the movie Heathers today... I haven't seen it, but it would be weird to see a movie called Saras. Or Sarahs. I wonder what that would be about.

So, now it's time to paint. Just hadn't posted in a while and wanted to write since I have some self-imposed free time :)

Grace and Peace!

Lots to catch up on!

Soooooo...
A dear and beloved friend of mine wrote:

"Your blog has been neglected. I wanted some fresh reading material at work (and not the tax update variety.)

So here we go, as requested, an update!!!

Lots has happened since the last post in February! Year 1 of law school is done, I'm currently doing summer school, but it's over in July and Aa and I have had much much much more time together, so that's good. Aaron Plumbing seems to be doing well, we've weathered the storm successfully so far. We'll keep praying and working hard.

And now, recent events...

Easter was a good time:


And we had a rainbow a while back


And we had a BUNCH of fun camping last weekend...




Dude had a blast!!! At night, we put a glow-in-the-dark necklace on him so we could find him. He was worn out by Sunday evening. Walking out to the camp, I attached his leash to my pack, and he pulled me the whoooole way. (kind of helped :)




In the next post, I'll put up pictures from when we went to a Braves game with T & Z, courtesy of Noritz Tankless Water Heaters :) And pictures from Julia's softball game! And maybe even a picture of successful bread from the (free) breadmaker we got!!!

Hopefully the next post will be up within the week.

But that's all for now! Love to all

Random Catch Up

Happy Belated Valentines Day!

It has been a while, hasn't it? Hm... I don't think you've missed too much. It has gotten warm here over the past few days (week)!! Look! Spring is coming:

We've been going to the park a lot...


dude met some ducks, and tried to jum p in!


Some other random pictures...



Timmy came over couple days ago, good start to a good weekend...


Okay... that's all for now.
Molly and Jake and Zoe are coming soon! (Molly and Zoe Friday, Jake Saturday)
There'll be lots of pictures soon!

My little wake up call

Okay, so, I've had a bit of a revelation this morning, and though I should be outlining for contracts, i just had to share...

Very recently (last few days or so) i've been feeling relatively unimpressed in a general sense. Unimpressed with myself mostly. Like I could have gotten better grades (even though I got good ones), I could have more friends, I could be more productive, could be a better wife, etc etc. And everyone around me seemed to have a better position in life than me. Essentially I had a bad case of "the grass is always greener".

So I've been selling books on half.com, just because it's easy and I get rewarded for clearing out clutter. Aa did a favor for me and mailed the most recent sales, but the amount they charged us for shipping pretty much cancelled out our profits. We're not talking a tons of money - maybe 20 bucks. Anyway, when i realized how much they charged us, I was so disappointed. I found myself saying, "$10 each to mail those books? That's insane!!". My internal level of discontent rose just a tad.

And then, on my walk to MARTA, it hit me. Or God hit me. Or something. Anyway, I started thinking about the people in Gaza right now. Politics aside, it sounds like hell on Earth. No water, no food, no medical care, homes destroyed with no such thing as reimbursement from an insurance company.

And I realized...losing profits on a half.com sale isn't insane. Standing in my warm & stable home, talking to my loving & supportive husband, getting ready to head to school with a full stomach and being upset about a stupid book sale is what's insane.

The discontent I had been carrying within myself dissolved immediately. I had been wanting to ditch that unhappiness for a while, but hadn't been successful. But when I stopped to think about how immeasurably blessed I am - everything felt better. Realizing how loved I am - it was so humbling and fulfilling. Now I feel so much better. It's so much easier to look upon other's fortune with happiness, instead of jealousy.

I know to others it's obvious how stupid it was of me to not be thankful - but it's always easier to see how other's lives are so good. We tend to think our problems are our own, and others have it easy. But it feels so much better to realize that that's not the case.
Anyway, I just wanted to share. I hope that I can keep this realization at the forefront of my mind every day. I wish we all would. Why is it so easy to take what we have for granted?

Much love,
Sara

So nice to have time to blog

So, as usual, it's been a while, but I'll start the catching up process... Aaron's asleep but I'm not quite ready. I just might do a little homework...but it is new years, not a day to be too motivated.

Here are pre-Christmas pictures. We eventually developed a pretty great Christmas tree. Dude was very intrigued. He tried to open a couple early.

He did get one gift early - a personalized food and water mat from his Aunt Molly! He is so in style now.

And here are some pictures from a recent trip to the park. I just learned how to make slideshows! Don't have any music on this computer, so I had to use the sample music. These'll get better in the future. (yes, i posted this on facebook too. yes, we are already recycling.)
This break has been great!!!

On the next post I'll show and tell about our trip to Indiana and New Years.

Love to all!