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Archives for October 2018

Adoption Update!

Hey y’all!  It’s been a while since I’ve done an adoption update and we’ve had a bunch of people ask us where we are in the process, so that’s what I’m doing today!

Last night we had our bbq plate fundraiser, and we met our goal of selling 200 plates!  Over half of the people who bought plates from us showed up within the first 30 minutes, so needless to say, the first 30 minutes were crazy–but fun!

We’re taking a break on fundraising right now until the end of November/early December.  Then we’ve got an advent market we’re part of and we have a gorgeous quilt my aunts made that we’re going to raffle off then, too.  As always, our paypal account is still open for any donations
Our goal is to take out a loan for the least amount of money we possibly can, and we’re so incredibly grateful for those of y’all (some of y’all are blog readers that I’ve never met!!) who have been so kind to us and donated.  Every little bit has truly helped.

Last night at the bbq plate fundraiser!

So where are we now in the process?

We’re still waiting to be matched.  
We’re seeing cases throughout the week but not all of those cases meet our criteria….like budget.  A lot have been over our budget, so we’ve had to say no to being presented, and some within our budget didn’t meet criteria in another area.

I was so excited to get to this point and finally see these cases, but I wasn’t prepared for how difficult it would be.  It’s difficult in that I can’t say yes to every case we see.  If budget weren’t an issue, we’d say yes to a lot more cases!  It’s also difficult in that when you finally do say yes and then you hear that the birth mom has chosen someone else, you wonder what it was about you that she didn’t like–or at least that’s how I felt the first few times we were told no.  Now I understand and know that it’s because that baby wasn’t in God’s plan for our lives, but when emotions are high, it’s easy to blame yourself on why you weren’t picked.

Please keep praying for us during this process!  
-Please pray as we wait and that we can glorify God in the waiting (instead of complaining like I default to sometimes!)
 -Pray for discernment as we receive cases weekly 
-Pray for the birth mom who will choose us in that she has a peace over her decision and that we’re able to share Christ with her if she isn’t a Believer
-Pray for our future baby

Friday Faves!

Happy Friday, y’all!  Princess Eugenie got married this morning and they showed the wedding live on TLC.  Anyone else get up to watch it?!  I didn’t get up at 3:25 am when it started but I did wake up to see parts of the ceremony.  TLC is replaying it this morning for those of you who want to watch it (and look for Meghan ha!).

I have a few FAVORITES to share with y’all today!

-I’ve had lots of people ask me about how I curl my hair.  I use this wand and I definitely use the glove that comes with it because it gets extremely hot.  I think the really hot temp keeps my hair curled for days.
-I use this hairspray after I curl my hair on the first day.  Then on following days when I only have to touch up a few pieces, I don’t use any or much hairspray.
-With my birthday coming up, I’ve been thinking about what I want.  I need some new sweaters and I basically love every sweater this brand puts out.


 I was off work Monday and Tuesday for fall break (hallelujah!) and since my sister works from home now, we were able to hang out Monday and Tuesday.  We went to an early morning appointment together and she brought her laptop to work on editing pictures while we waited.


 My mom was in Michigan because my uncle passed away, so she facetimed us while I drove us home.  Rachel told Mom to smile and she either didn’t hear us or was too busy putting on her makeup to be in our picture haha!


 Tuesday I got to play photographer and take pictures of Rachel to celebrate her birthday on Wednesday.  I enjoyed us having the same schedule so we could hang out together.


Wednesday night we celebrated Rachel’s 27th birthday, and that means that my birthday is about two weeks away!  

I know this whole post centers around my sister but I saw her every day this week and that’s been a big FAVORITE because we have such a close relationship!

I haven’t done a favorite song in a while, but since I went to see A Star Is Born last weekend, I have thought so much about the soundtrack.  I ended up buying this song and have listened to it all week!

Sense of Sarah: What I Eat in a Day

I really enjoy posts that allow a peek into a blogger’s life.  I find these things so fascinating (as do most of y’all), so I decided to document a day in the life of my meals.  But…

I almost didn’t post this today.  This was my third attempt at documenting what I eat in a day.  The first two were school days and I did great for my breakfast and snack, but then once lunch came, I totally forgot to take pictures.  And then when I decided to document yesterday since I was off of school, it was the least normal day eating-wise.  Totally not planned this way, but for the sake of showing you real life, here’s what I ate yesterday!

 I wake up every morning and have a Spark drink, and yesterday I slept in until 7.  I do this no matter what time I wake up–if it’s 5AM or 7AM.  When the morning become cold, I’ll start drinking coffee or hot tea, but right now when we still have summer weather, Spark it is!  I love that it’s light and refreshing and also gives me energy.


And then here’s where my day went wrong in the eating department haha.  I normally wait a few hours before eating breakfast every morning.  It’s extremely rare for me to wake up hungry.  Since yesterday was still part of my fall break, I went and took pictures of my sister and we had decided to treat ourselves to a cookie at one of our favorite cookie places.  And then we both felt extremely sick.  I had forgotten that when I’m eating healthy and then I eat something that isn’t healthy, it messes with my stomach.
 This cookie was good until it wasn’t 😂  I ate this at 10:30.

I felt so nauseous after eating that cookie that I went home and took a nap (I also didn’t feel good yesterday either).


 I woke up from my nap at 2:30 and take a hardboiled egg since I was hungry but it was past lunch time.


 Then at 3 I was still hungry so I decided to pop myself some popcorn.  I love flavoring my popcorn with the different salts and yesterday I chose the ranch.



 Dinner was at 6 and I made Shay’s Pumpkin-Sausage Pasta.  Dustin and I love eating this in the fall.  I change her recipe a bit when I make this and I do add a whole can of pumpkin instead of just a cup, and I use turkey breakfast sausage.



I had Dustin pick up a cold buster drink from Starbucks on his way home from work since I was still feeling terrible and had a sore throat.  I drank it after supper, and I don’t know what it is about that drink, but my throat felt so much better!


Okay, so you can see that this is not a typical day for me.  When it’s a school day, I eat breakfast, a small snack, lunch, another snack, and then supper.  I will try to do this again maybe next month and make sure that it’s going to be a normal day!