Twelve

YIKES! Twelve people in one family is a lot of people! Yes, I do have twelve people that are in my family now. Before today there were only eleven and now there are twelve. You see, I have four biological sisters, two foster siblings(a brother and a sister), one adopted sister (all of them would be adopted if it were possible) , one brother in law, two parents, and now a newborn baby girl who we will hopefully adopt as well. So that is the newest thing in my life. It is exciting and a little bit frightening at the same time, newborns and toddlars make for a busy life. I am excited to see how much more God will work in my family. He has done so much to shape and mold my family into something more than anyone could have ever imagined. Well, I just felt the need to share that bit of information with my blog viewers, which there arent very many. goodnight, or whatever the time, I hope it is grand.

Shopping?

Oh my! I have not written since October and it is December. That is ridiculous !
So I embarked on a trip to Albertsville, Minnisota along with a bunch of my Aunties and female cousins. It was a shopping trip and our goal...well the point of the trip was to find as many deals as possible and also to spend time with eachother. So I went and thought it would be a grand old time to hang out with my reletives..and it was..I quiete enjoyed the company that I was in. Now the thing that troubled me when I got there was that I was in basically the temples of materialism. You see, Albersville is an outlet mall town and we went during thanksgiving weekend..so it was incredibly busy. This last year escpecially, I have been feeling really convicted about the issue of matirialism and the over-consumption that North America partakes in. So I felt a little disgusted actually at the fact that their were long line-ups into a "Choach" store at twelve o'clock at night. (Coach is a major brandname store with purses and shoes and stuff that is incredibly expensive...even in the thousands of dollars). So yah...the whole scene just urked me a bit. It also urked me that I was in that and I was shopping. In the end I did end up buying stuff and spending lots of money but I wasn't being ridiculous about it...most of the stuff I bought I needed and a lot of it was Christmas presents. Dont get me wrong...I dont think it is wrong to buy things. God has blessed me with wealth and has placed me in this culture not another for a reason... I have the capability of being well fed, healthy and clothed and educated. I think it is wrong to over consume. I think that God wants us to live simply and care for the poor and be consientious about the poor. Now on the other hand God chooses to make some people very rich. It is entirely possible that there are very God loving millionaires out there. So it is a very complex issue and I am personally haveing trouble explaining how I feel and where I stand on it. Any thoughts?
*sorry about the poor grammer and spelling**

YUCK!!

Some would say this is a funny storey...and perhaps some day I will laugh at it but I still think it is gross. My mom just recently baked some pumkin pies and they were sitting on the counter when I got home from school yesterday so I took a tiny slice. It was delicious! So I took another tiny slice, it was also delicious. So I took another tiny little slice...they were really only slivers...now this slice was also quite enjoyable....until..I felt my teeth crunch on something hard. So I took that hard thing out of my mouth and while rushing out the door so that I wouldn't be late to where I was going, I realized what it was. IT WAS A TOOTH!!! GROSSSSSS!! What an unpleasant experiance. So you see, my little sibling is at the tooth-loosing age and I guess one of her teeth found its way into my tiny slice of pie, how does that happen? I guess I will never know. Certainly I must not be the only one who runs into these odd experiances. Doesn't everyone?

Puppies For Sale

About eight weeks ago nine little puppies were born to my lovely dog, Abbey. However, only six of them lived past the first week. But that is alright because that is how it works with puppies sometimes. So I now have eight gorgeous, fun, friendly, wonderfull puppies but I am at a little bit of a tough spot with them. You see, they are right at the age that they need to be trained and I am unable to train six little puppies all at once, well actually only five because one of them already is in a new home. So my puppies are quite expensive to feed and I am not exactly raking in the cash, hence I am trying to sell. However, it would be my preference to just give them away but I have to somehow pay for the food that they have been eating. It is to bad. Everyone who wants a dog seems to be set on having a purebred dog...why? My dogs are fantastic dogs and they are very well tempered, plus, they look nice and they dont cost tons. Oh well. Oh yah...back to my need to sell my pups. So I made some of those signs that have the rip off phone numbers and put a couple of them up in my neighborhood but I only got one phone call. I also put one of those handy signs up in my school. The funny thing is, is that all the little phone number stubs have been ripped off but no one has called me....yeeshkers...at least call me if you are going to destroy my sign!!! I still would really like to randomely give my puppies away so maybe I will try to strike a bargain that makes that possible. We will see. A neat idea that my boyfriend suggested was to give them out in Osborn Village, possibly to street kids. That sounds like a good plan to me. Well we will see what happens. I would put a picture on here to show you what my puppies look like but I dont really have a way to do that. So I will just tell their genious names.
Ok, there is Layla (she is white with freckles on her tummy and some beige spots), Philip ( probly the sweetest dog you will ever meet. He is a little bit shy. He is black with brown eyebrows), Then there is Theo ( Which is short for Theodore. He is beige and very, very cute. He will probly look like his mama someday.), then there is Phoebe ( she is an incredibly cute puppy, she is a little bit more fluffy than the rest and is blond) Then, lastly, there is Toby (which is short for Tobasko (isn't that cool) He is incredibly friendly and he is brown and has really cool eyes) So those are my puppies. Yay! If you want to buy one, let me know.

AID

Well hello there reader, is that completely nerdy to adress the reader that way? Oh well, then I am indeed, a nerd. So, I went to "Third Floor" today and it went great. In this last while I have been finding myself amazed at God's way of preparing us to do things. For instance, today, I had to be a little bit administrative; you know, stern and all that. One of my club girls needed some of that. Now you see, I really dislike that part of leadership in children's ministry. Normally I would struggle with it and I still do struggle with it. However, today God helped me through being all stern and it didn't really even stress me out. How does this relate to God's preparation in my life? Well this past summer I worked as a councelor (in training) at a Bible camp and I was working with kids all summer. I was doing a similar thing to what I am doing with clubs. So, that is just a little, and I mean little, taste of how God prepares me. It really is a very amazing thing to know that He knows what He is doing and He knows how he is going to form me and and grow me into a strong woman after His own heart. It excites me. I would say more but I need sleep. Oh, you probly want to know what "Third Floor" is. Well, it is a program with inner-city kids that happens once a week. It is a Christian, Children's clubs program. I along with another young lass lead a club. Anyhow, gotta jet.

Me:)

Alas...A New Corner For Me

Wow! I feel like I should tell you that I actually have never had a blog before. This is exciting! Welcome to my blog by the way. So today is a Sunday. I love Sundays. It seems that the busier I get in life, the more I need a break at the end of each week. Sunday is my break day. So....I had a two hour nap (no I am not a grandma...I just had a long week). It was lovely, except for my mom decided to wake me up by storming into my peacefull room and yelling, "Wake Up! Wake Up! There is a fire!!!!" Then she told me she was joking but by that point I was completely awake... with a speeding heart and almost out of bed. I suppose it was humorous.

So today...since I can never seem to find the time to do so, I decided to practise my musical skills. So I practiced piano, violin and accordian...I am teaching myself accordian. Isn't that exciting. The best part was that my little two-year-old brother loves all sorts of music so I let him try to play the violin. He is just a little nugget of a boy so it was quite big on him but none the less, he was still pretty good for never even holding one before. It was cute.

Lately I have been realizing that I love to create things, moreso I am realizing that I dont do it often enough. So I decided that I was going to attempt to start creating more stuff. So I bought some matirial for a skirt that I am planning to design and I have been collecting fabric and buttons. I love buttons. Hey, guess what I did yesterday. Well, I got some new buttons and I made two of them into a pair of earrings. It was exciting. The best part is, is that no one will ever have the same ones...thus making me unique. I am hoping to buy some more buttons of similar style and make some more because, unfortunately (did I spell that right?) the colour of the buttons is kind of interesting against my complexion but I will still wear them.

On the topic of sewing and making your own stuff, I am beginning to dislike big brandnames. I sometimes feel like everyone dresses the same. I guess if you think about it from one perspective, a group of people can wear clothes from the same store but still look different because they all have different items of clothing from that store, but it still seems a little silly. The more I think about it... the more I think that it is best to buy clothes just because you like them. Who cares what store they are from...if you like them, then buy them...you might be the only one who will wear something like it, but at least you are reflecting a peice of your character by what you are wearing.

Anyhow, I think that is all that I am going to ramble on about. So long. *