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I went on my church's women's retreat this weekend. It was completely amazing. I didn't go there with any expectations. I just knew I wanted to spend the weekend in fellowship with some wonderful women. There had been something pressing on my mind and I prayed about it, but I didn't expect God to move in the way he did about it, probably because I didn't realize what I needed from him in the situation. Thankfully He did know what I needed. It's a long story, thus the vagueness, if you would like to hear it, call me and I'll probably tell you. In other delightful news, they always do a raffle at the retreat. Women put together these amazing baskets to be raffled and the money goes to support our missions efforts in Jamaica. I actually won a basket, it was a cooking themed one & it came with serving platters & a cookbook & a giftcard to my favorite grocery store. Hazaa! The funny thing is that even though winning it was very exciting, whe

Nothing can quite break your heart like saying goodbye to beautiful children you won't get to see again for 7 months. 7 months! In that time Jadyn will turn 2 and forget everything about this past week. Alaina will probably remember at least some things & more than likely immortalize them in song. My favorites being the "Aunt Azina" song which consists of repeating Aunt Azina over and over again to the tune of the alphabet song and the "my bum hurts" song which similarly repeats the same phrase over and over again but this time to Alaina's stock tune. I love those girls beyond words. (And just so you guys don't think I love you any less, it is sad to say goodbye to the rest of my family, but you guys won't change as much until I see you next and barring any head trauma are not very likely to forget me.) Jadyn & I really bonded this past week. She & I are truly kindred spirits. Every time my sister would make a comment about Jadyn

That's how I feel about the Gilmore Girls season finale. It's very sad. I'm not just saying that because I don't like how things played out. The writing was genuinely sub-par. Quite disappointing. In happier news, in 7 1/2 hours I will be leaving for Omaha. What fun! I should probably go pack now! Very slim chance of doing any of that sleeping type stuff tonight, but uh that makes it easier to sleep on the plane. Yeah, that's it. :)

Spend more than about 5 seconds in a conversation about relationships and it's bound to dissolve into, "boys suck" and/or "girls suck" depending on the genders represented in the discussion. Relationships are frustrating, not being in a relationship is frustrating, but I think, no I know that cutting each other down like that isn't going to help anything. Don't get me wrong, both genders do more than their fair share of annoying & idiotic things, and have remarkably similar complaints about one another, but what if we made a serious effort to build each other up & encourage each other? It's easy to play the blame game. "All the guys I know are idiots." "I just can't seem to meet a nice, single, Christian girl." (Let me introduce you to about 20 of them!) "Nice guys never ask me out." "The girls I know wouldn't be into me." What if we tried something different? I think most of us who are sin