holiday happenings

well we had thanksgiving and my birthday w/ my family this year. it went well. as i was about to go to bed the evening of my birthday i found out my dog has died. please be in prayer for my parents for he was their company and he was such a good and very well loved dog.
r.i.p. bear

on another note this guy that used to participate in the men's basketball league's that i was a part of as rec. dir. shot his ex. gf and himself thursday evening. so pray for those families as well.

childhood photos

(just for reference scott made the title)

so scott's home and tall enough to reach the family photos box on the top shelf of his closet. so guess who's looking through boy-hood photos of her fiance...

i hope our babies turn out equally as cute and that i can restrain myself from coo'ing excessively so over them.

on another note, my birthday is saturday...i'm getting old. i'm well on my way to 30 now. (all of you who read my blog that are over 30 i'm sorry.) it's not that i'm old but at least when you're like 21 or 22 you're still considered 'young', now i'm considered an 'adult'.

i love my kids

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i'm blessed. i just finished a weekend retreat w/ my senior high youth. granted i know they are not my biological children i love them so dearly.
they finally got to meet adam and adam got to meet them. on the way home adam told me 'you know you have some good kids'...i tilted my very drowsy head towards him, smiled and said 'i know'.

i love my job.

sex in the city

so i went to visit my friend taylor saturday, who is now an army wife and is going to be deployed to korea in january. i met taylor my freshman year of college. we lived on the same floor in the community bathroom in our dorm.
i liked her slippers and we've been friends ever since. anyway i borrowed her complete series of sex in the city. we used to watch it together. apparently i've changed quite a bit since then b/c the more and more i watch this show the more and more i get upset at carrie and well the show in general.

i just finished watching the episode where Charlotte discovers that carrie is the other woman and is in fact sleeping w/ big still. here is carrie, with a man that loves her and treats her well and wants the best for and she's torn!!!!
torn?!! i feel like i've waited my entire life to not only find a man like adam, but to find a man that wonderful that would return the affection.

carrie likes to think of herself as a independent woman of power, but in reality she seems to just be a pathetic woman who feels like all she has to offer a man is sex and isn't content unless sex is all a man wants from her.

dumb woman.

so, now then i present a separate question all together. what exactly qualifies as love, longing and devotion?
how does this differ from independence or obsession with your significant other?

a special breed

not to say we're anything special...but i really think grad school people are of a special breed. not to be biased and say us seminary students are but it's insane.

here i am procrastinating on my paper, planning a retreat, planning an agape feast/celebration/ending to our 'to save a life' bible study...and i'm talking to my fellow class mates.
most of us are wrapping up one of the 3 papers...but not both. mind you they are due 10 a.m. on friday. we have a formation practicum that was sent to us this morning that's due w/ reflection on thursday which is 2 days from now and one of my buddies preached sunday on top of all of us (memphis ppl) taking our kids to a concert....

we're all insane. and why do we do it?.....love. b/c we love it. we love our jobs, we love our kids, we love our creator.
sure we complain about it all the time...but we love it.
....maybe

non - wedding planning

maybe i should be more excited about planning my wedding, but i'm more apathetic. maybe it has to do w/ the excessive amount of weddings adam and i have attended the last 2-3 years. we'll be getting married in 2012, which apparently everyone thinks that's the end of time....(no play on words here in relation to the world ending...people think 2 yrs to be engaged is too long) i just want to do it right and the way i want to.
i mean i've always said i wanted to elope, but adam's such a romantic. i will admit i am excited for him to see me in that dress. i look hot. (not trying to sound vain).

and i've found nothing more annoying than people asking me about when the wedding is and commenting on how far away it is....how miserable that must be.
well considering adam and i are both working on our master's degrees and working....it's not like we have a ton of time for planning or each other either.
i wish people would just stop judging me and asking me about the wedding. i mean i'm sure it's some high or thrill for some people to be the star of the day but i personally don't like that much attention.

on another note, i'm taking my students on a retreat this weekend. it should be fun.



on another note...i should be writing 3 12 page papers...so i'm gonna have to sign off now. i just needed a break.
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