St. John's

We have a huge hole in the ceiling of our roof of our garage at St. John's. Huge. It was rotting so Michael pulled it back a little and then realized that a lot of it had to come down, so he is taking it down right now. It's probably about 10 feet by 20 feet wide. I think Michael is going to come home really dirty. Tomorrow we go to Home Depot to buy new wood for the roof and put it up. I always say that I want to build my own house, so this is just showing me what that is really like. I still want to build my own house although I am really grateful that we don't live at St. John's. I love our nice, pretty house.

There's nothing much going on

I've thought about what to post but lately there just isn't much going on. Michael and I spend a lot of time just doing the everyday things together. We like to be together almost every second that we are not at work, so in the evenings we walk, do our devotion, eat dinner together, hang out, and just talk about day.

Tonight is Wednesday which is the night we usually go shopping, so we went to Home Depot (bought a lawn mower), then to Safeway (where we had dinner) bought groceries and then make a stop at Costco for a gas fill up and some large ticket times- cat food, chicken to freeze, pizza, etc.

Tonight I was working in my office while listening to the fish. Michael W. Smith's love song to his wife came on. That was Michael and I's wedding song, so I took the stereo downstairs and played it outside of Michael's office. He heard it and came out and danced with me! I love moments like that. It was great.

Windex

I use windex on everything to clean my house. I always have. Michael and I were joking one night how something common in American households is probably causing cancer, something like windex. But I started to think about it and that kinda freaked me out. So, I then used a lot less windex. I didn't take it to the extreme and stop using it completely, I just used a lot less. And then we got ants in the kitchen and now I use windex again and no more ants.

Quick Summer Movie Update

Last night Michael and I went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. I loved it. I grew up watching the original 3 movies over and over and over again. I knew them all perfectly line by line so it was really fun to go see a new one as an adult.

Tonight Carrie and Christy and I are going to see Sex and the City. I can't wait! Although we have tickets for the 7:30 showing at Pioneer Place and it's Rose Festival with the night parade tonight, it'll be crazy, but I can't wait. Carrie and I use to watch Sex and the City all the time and it'll be fun to see where the story plot goes now that the girls, well most of them, are married and getting married.

Michael and I also have a date for the new Angelina movie- Wanted. It looks like the Matrix meets the Fast and the Furious meets Joe versus the Volcano. Pretty typical plot but with cool gun scenes and crazy car scenes. Can't wait.

Slavery Still Exists

Last night Michael and Sarah and I went to see Holly- a movie about a 12 year old girl stuck in the world of sex trafficking in Cambodia. I have known about sex trafficking for a while now but this movie really put it in a new light. The movie itself wasn't that dramatic and there weren't any heros, it was just raw and real and really gave you the impression that sex trafficking is hotter than ever and there doesn't look like there is really any solution to it other than taking the demand away. The girl, Holly, was eventually bought out of the brothels by a humanitarian and placed in a home for girls trying to escape the brothels. Since she was only 12 years old, and had been raped and then prostituting herself (she was forced to this) several hundred times a day the new safe home scared her and she ran around from it. The movie ends with her still on the streets, unknown as to what will happen next.

What are we going to do about this issue? Children are being sold by their parents and smuggled into the brothels to be sold for sex, mainly with wealthy business men. I feel like we've got to stop this but I just have no idea how to stop it and it seems like a lot of the leaders who are trying to stop it don't really know how to stop it either except to just bring awareness to it.

Children

I’ve never given much thought to having children. I’ve been so preoccupied (over 30 years) with whether or not I’d ever get married that I didn’t put much thought into anything else. Now that I am married to my best friend (especially after our late night talk last night), I think about children a lot.

 

I have come full circle in my thoughts on children. I knew I always wanted children but have been scared at having them and scared of all the other things that come with them, things like the cost of them, my ability (or inability) to be a good parent, how messy they are etc. etc. I think differently now. About a year ago I started watching shows on TV about large families. I was amazed at families like John and Kate + 8 and the Duggar family. Watching those shows has really taught me what joy a child and children can be.

 

Michael and I got married on September 15, 2007. We used natural birth control for about 2 months and as I started thinking about it, the more and more concerned I became with the reasoning of why we considered ourselves not ready for children. Not only that, but I realized how much I wanted them. We started talking about it a lot and decided that we didn’t want to prevent a pregnancy if that so happened.  It’s been about 6 months now and we’re not pregnant.

 

Lately, I’ve been giving more and more thought to adoption. I could see us adopting at some point, even if/when we have our biological children. Also, I feel really comfortable with not having our own children (if that so happens) and then we would definitely adopt. There are children who need a home. Our home is in need of children. Anyway, I really think about children a lot now.

Family at the Beach

For my 30th Birthday party I went to the beach with family and friends. We'd stayed in a cabin for the weekend and had a really good time. It was raining most of the weekend so we watch a lot of TV (especially since the Indiana Jones Marathon was on). We walked on the beach and cooked marshmallows in the microwave for our smores. For Saturday lunch we had 11 people around the table! I loved it!! It was a blast.