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| Okay, I don't know whether anyone still reads this, but I have a majorly important prayer request which I would like for anyone who reads this to please pray about...even just a quick prayer...but PLEASE PLEASE do believe me that this is serious. As I have previously mentioned, my older sister has Multiple Sclerosis. She is in India for the summer with her children, spending some time with her husband's family. The climate in India has severely affected her. She is doing pretty badly right now to the point that she is only out of bed for a few minutes at a time because she is so weak. PLEASE PLEASE pray for her, I love my sister very much and knowing she is sick halfway around the world where there is nothing we can do to help is really scary....and it is really hard on her kids. My sister is Sheila and her kids are Abigail, Hannah, Isaiah, Phillip, Rachel and Silas. Please please keep them in your prayers. Thank You! | | |
| So I was glancing back at former blog entries and saw that I had posted about my uncle being diagnosed with ALS back in mid-January. At the time I said that the doctors had given him a year or less. It turned out to be the latter. He passed away on Monday morning, the funeral is at 11am today. Sara and I aren't able to attend because this weekend Sara is graduating from Grace. Our parents are driving to Omaha today after the funeral and are supposed to be getting here sometime this evening. Not being able to attend his funeral feels really odd to me. He was my dad's older brother and it just feels like I should be there. Also, since there were always relatively long time periods between when we would see him, I am not sure it is going to seem final to me without seeing the casket, etc. The last time I saw him was at his wife's funeral back in July of last year, so yeah its kind of weird, and going to take awhile to fully sink in. It hit me that never in anyone's wildest dreams would they have imagined that my dad would outlive his older brother. Dad's health has always been sort of messed up and every milestone in our lives that he is here for seems like a miracle to us. Now he is the oldest living member of his family, its crazy! | | |
| I wish to warn anyone who hasn't already heard about it to check their peanut butter before consuming any of it. There is a salmonella outbreak associated with contaminated PB. If you have Peter Pan or Great Value brand peanut butter with the number 2111 at the beginning of the product code DON'T EAT IT!!! Throw the peanut butter away and send the lid to : ConAgra Foods, PO Box 3768, Omaha, NE 68103 along with your name and mailing address to get a refund. Seriously. In a slight change of subject, I am coming down with a sinus infection which may or may not actually be a strep infection in the back of my mouth. Yay! If I am not feeling better by Monday I have to have a strep test run. I hate being sick! | | |
|  Happy S.A.D.!!!
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| So all my life I have heard the term "inner child." Most people use it in a context like being childlike in some sense, like playing with kids or doing something that is fun but maybe consider below the dignity of an adult or something like that. I have discovered my inner child has nothing to do with any of that. My inner child is that whiny, tantrum throwing, emotionally, unstable part of me that comes out to play when I haven't gotten enough sleep and I am just way too tired. I then regress to age 3. I want what I want when I want it, I don't want anyone to do anything I don't like, I want to go to sleep NOW (no matter where I am or what I am doing), I will cry if someone looks at me wrong, and I WANT MY MOMMY! These are the signs that Emily needs to go to sleep. Right now inner Emily is having a field day. | | |
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