* We had our first Uganda fundraiser garage sale a couple of weekends ago. We made over $500!! I was so surprised! We still have tons of stuff left, and three more people have told me they have things to donate, so we'll be having another one in the next few weeks. I am so not looking forward to that. Garage sales are so. much. work. But I am SO very thankful for everyone who has made donations - what a huge blessing!
* Speaking of Uganda, can you believe it's only 2 1/2 months until I leave? Exactly 80 days. Oh my goodness. Kari, my team leader, told me it would get easier as we got closer to the trip. I'm thinking I don't agree. I'm getting more and more nervous the closer it gets. Like, knots in my stomach nervous. A friend asked me just yesterday if I'm excited. And after so many years of longing to go, of praying and wishing and dreaming....I was shocked when I heard myself say "no".
Oh, I do want to go. It has been my dream for almost 8 years. But really, I'm a home-body. Actually, not so much a home-body as a family-body. I like to travel, but I like to do it with my family. Twelve days away is a long time. And I'm not even sure how much contact we'll be able to have while I'm gone. It's not like going to another state where you can call every day. I don't know what cell or internet service will be like there. It's certainly going to be an interesting two weeks!
* Last Wednesday I took our sweet Annie in to have her eye surgery. About an hour after I dropped her off, the vet called to tell me that Annie's liver enzymes were off the chart, and we would have to postpone the surgery because she wouldn't live through it. The vet wanted to do an ultrasound and a biopsy - which would cost over $500 - to rule out a tumor. I just broke down in tears right there in my office. This is SO hard! I don't feel like it's fair to Annie for us to just do nothing, but on the other hand she is 14 1/2 years old. How do you know what is right? *sigh * I asked the vet if there were any other options, and she said we could try medication for 30 days to see if that would heal Annie's liver and make her well enough to endure surgery. So that's what we're doing. If the medication doesn't work, that will most likely mean she has a tumor and, well, I don't know what we'll do then.
* The kids are out of school for spring break this week. I'm so sad that we won't be going anywhere this year, since I'm trying to save both money and vacation days for Uganda. We're thinking about just taking a little one-day trip to somewhere close by, just so the kids can get out of town and don't have to spend their entire break stuck at home. I hate that they're out of school for a whole week and will have to spend every day with the babysitter since The Mister and I will both be working the whole time. Hate it.
* Kloe was nominated to participate in the Lone Star Leadership Academy this summer! It's a week-long camp-type thing in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We're so excited for her to have this opportunity! She doesn't really want to go (seems we're all kind of family-bodies around here - I think it comes from The Mister being gone so much for work) but we're making her. ;) I think it's going to be such a great time.
* I signed up for another year of
Wow, I just realized what a downer of a post this is. Sorry about that. Guess I have been leaning a bit toward the melancholy lately. Just the ups and downs of life, I suppose. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with all we've got going on - feeling like a single mom with the Mister out of town so much, Uganda on the horizon, mounds of fundraising yet to do, Kloe gearing up for middle school, Annie's health issues.... I'm a "shut down" kind of person, rather than the "charge forward" type when life gets overwhelming. Not good when there's so much to do!
That is enough to put any of us in a melancholy state of mind for a while! I always think it helps to blog things out - hope you did too! Will lift up prayers for you today, friend.
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