Sarah's Mei Mei

My Mom = Blogging Slacker :-)

2009-04-25T22:42:00.003-05:00

Well since mom hasn't posted a good post in a while, I thought I would update everyone with the going-ons of Maddy.

First things first, that girl can talk up a storm!!! All she does is talk now and we can't get her to stop. I feel like I have a mini-me in the talking arena. We are all really enjoying the outdoors lately since the weather is finally starting to heat up. I can't wait for the pool to be warm enough to get in.

Mom updated me on some news last night that now not only has Maddy's bookbag been taken from "school" so has her pillowcase? Who steals from a 3 year old?.... seriously people, get a life.

Maddy LOVES to take pictures. I think this might be an understatement. Mom and Marty first got her a real digital camera (what was Marty thinking?), but she can't really work it very well so they got her a Dor*a the E*xplorer camera instead. It's more like the Fish*er Pr*ice cameras for little kids. She takes pictures of everything and anything. She really focuses on the dogs though from what I've seen.

Maddy loves her flip flops, but the poor girl trips herself all over the place trying to wear them. However, I find this entertaining and love watching her try to wear my favorite type of shoe.... she's my little sister, she'll get it.

So Maddy made a "gonkey"/donkey in church a few weeks ago.... and mom threw it away. Lol. However, we love asking her to tell us what animal it is because she promptly replies "it's a gonkey!" like we should know that already.

Maddy thinks she's saying words correctly, but she really isn't. We figured this out because Marty likes to repeat things back to her how she says them, for instance strawberlly juice, and she says "no Daddy, say it right!" and so we say Strawberry and she says "yeah". Also, when you try to correct something she says she tells you that she did say it right no matter how many times you try to tell her she didn't. That girl has some tenacity.

On the home front, Mom had some of her bloggy friends over today for Margaritas and some guac. (ewwwww) while Marty and I went to Ohio State's Spring Game. 95,000+ people turned out for the very entertaining game. The grey team won. However, Marty's truck got towed from my own parking lot. What made me so upset is that there were only two other cars in the lot and the lot holds 10 cars. The company that towed him is the same company that refused to tow the extra car from our lot in December forcing me to park 2-3 blocks away and walk home at 12:30 pm by myself, in the snow. To put the icing on the cake, when leaving the parking lot of this tow truck company, somehow I managed to get a flat tire :-(

Well, I'll leave you with some pictures and try to keep everyone updated.

Sarah

Maddy taking pictures of Brinkley

Maddy and Daddy driving

THE oval on a sunny day

Marty and I at Spring Game

Buckeye's Spring Game 2009, 95,000+ in attendance

Firecracker Bows

2008-06-04T13:19:00.002-05:00

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1st Love You goes to MEEEE!!!

2008-03-31T11:37:00.002-05:00

You can tell my itter bitter sister loves me... because she tells me so!!! i was the proud recipient of the first unprompted "love you" from my miss maddy last night :-) YAY ME! She and I got to spend quality time together eating my "sgetti" which was mostly eaten by the TWO YEAR OLD! little piggy! i asked her if she was full and she goes "yup".... then "dite!" aka bite about two seconds later. that girl loves her sgetti... i barely got half of it and it was the first thing i had really eaten all day! hehe thats why i love her and why shes my miss new booty... speaking of she was walking around without pants on (of course) and she has a butt!!! WOO HOOO!!! i'm so excited! haha only i would love something like that

on the school front, everything is going well. just started biochem 511, micro 581, and spanish 104 :-(. I start my kaplan courses for my DAT on thursday too. full courseload this quarter i'll tell you. and it doesn't help that berkley and i haven't been feeling the best. on the boyfriend front, still no one i deem good enough to date me right now. Ryan, aka love of my life, broke up with his "whatever" as his mom calls her. This whatever happens to be one of my former best friends from high school. I was way way way excited to hear this news and Ryan and I hung out a couple of days after they broke up. He broke up with her by the way. However, I hadn't heard from him since then and it was a bit awkward so i was waiting to see what happened. It turns out, theyre thinking of getting back together..... booo her. So i guess ill just have to wait for them to break up again unless anyone has some great ideas on how to keep them apart :-) ????? I'm evil i know

XOXO
Sarah

Final Paper

2008-03-11T09:39:00.003-05:00

Okay here it is.. its not amazing and im sorry if i interpreted/ took liberty with anything you said! i didnt really mean it lol. thanks for all the help! yall are amazing

Adopting a New World
Throughout this quarter, we have read many books describing the immigrant experience of women from Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. However, I chose to interview women from the Netherlands, Australia, and the New Zealand to gather their perspective on being an immigrant in the United States. The results could not have differed more from the stories that we read in class, but they were the same as well.
The general perspective of America, it seems, from all countries is that everyone has money, is perfect, and as Sandra from the Netherlands stated, “that everything was big.” As with the immigrants in the books we read, the majority of the perceptions comes from television shows and gives these people a false hope of a better life with “roads… paved with gold.” Unlike the Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants such as Jane in Jasmine, all of these people came to the United States legally. One thing that these people had in common with many of our guest speakers was that they came over for their husbands or stayed in the United States because they met their husbands here.
One common theme I saw in the interviews I conducted was that many of the people were not satisfied with our public transportation systems or our public health systems. This differed from some of the books we read where health care was not even available in the countries. One example of this was with Farah and how she had to be transported to Germany to have her leg fixed when it was blown up by a land mine. She then had to have a wooden foot glued onto her prosthetic because she could not afford a new lightweight one. However, when she came to America she was given free health care and she was able to get a new prosthetic leg, although she had to wait months to receive it. The general consensus from my interviews was that our country has a “lack of health care” as stated by Hayley. In the book Polite Lies, the main character was shocked to learn that in Japan, her home country, that the doctors would withhold information about things such as cancer. This is viewed as a way to let the patient live a full life. However, as an American, and it seems the author agreed, that having the information disclosed was an advantage to possibly beating the cancer at hand.
As we learned in class, it takes a long time to get a green card, no matter what country you are from. It took thirteen years for Sandra from the Netherlands to obtain her green card and Fliss and Hayley are not hopeful of obtaining their green cards at all. However, their children will have dual citizenship, even their adopted daughters from China.
Discrimination is more prevalent for “different looking” immigrants from places like Afghanistan and China, especially with the recent terrorist attacks in the past years. The only discrimination that the women I interviewed experienced is based on their physical appearance in weight. As Hayley replied to the question “have you been subject to any discrimination in America,” “Hell yes… more than you would ever have imagined. I am a ‘larger’ lady and I had NEVER experienced discrimination because of my weight before… “This is a discrimination that people even American born have to deal with on a daily basis, but the general consensus was that other countries are more laid back about appearances. This can be seen with America’s amount of plastic surgery compared to other countries. In addition, these women are not discriminated upon by dress or appearance alone because they appear to be American from the outside. In every story that we read, the character had some type of discrimination against them. The most memorable one was in Funny in Farsi, where the main character was asked to calm another lost child down since they looked the same. However, they were not from the same country and did not speak the same language.
As immigrants, I thought it would be interesting to hear the women’s opinions on immigration into America. In general, it seems that they all had about the same opinion. That they were okay with it as long as it was done legally. This differs from the promoted idea that immigration into America should be stopped since Americans view that they are losing their jobs and land to “foreigners.” This idea strikes me as funny since everyone in this country started off as immigrants as well. I also found this interesting as the last story we read, Jasmine, the main character came over to America illegally on a boat although she originally planned to immigrate legally. I also found it interesting that with our guest speakers, that the visas had to be obtained on the basis of returning to the original country. In addition, most of the characters and guest speakers like Carmen that moved here illegally, did it to support their family or because they felt like they had no other choice, versus the legal immigrants who mostly came over either for school or they stayed here because of their husbands.
One of the interesting things I found that was common among the books, guest speakers, and the interviews was how the people changed once they moved to America. The most prevalent answer was that the immigrants had to become more independent. In the books, this was shown mostly by the children having to communicate for their parents, translate, pay bills, etc. We could also see this with the younger immigrants and first generation Americans, such as Olivia, that were our guest speakers as well. Since the women I interviewed were older, most of their family has stayed in their home countries, so they did not have this issue to deal with, just being independent for themselves.
Another common theme among these women is that, as Hayley states, they have become “more neurotic” and care more about their appearance. Many of the immigrant women from places that traditionally wear head coverings stopped following this tradition once they moved to our country. Also, they start to become more about promoting the singular person and not the community. This was prevalent in Polite Lies where the character had trouble speaking in Japanese because she did not want to offend anyone by speaking her opinion. She also did not want to sign the papers allowing her father’s estate to go to her stepmother, giving up anything she would inherit.
With the unrealistic views foreign-born people have of America, it does not surprise me that they have some culture shock when they arrive. Most have seen television shows with either beautiful people and places or pamphlets of the same. When they come here, they seem surprised that we have “ghettos” as well and that we are not clean. Fliss was shocked “that it was dirty on the highways” and that she would see people “walking and throwing garbage (trash) on the ground etc and not think twice about it.” When Farah and her mother moved to America, they were expecting a large apartment with many utilities, utensils, and commodities at their disposal. However, they were shocked that they just had a small apartment. Jasmine was shocked as well at the dirty hotel half-face took her to when they arrived in America.
I asked the women that I interviewed if they were judged differently because they were adopting from another country besides America, since they are from another country as well. However, all three of the women had the same response that they have not had any additional issues with the adoption process, at least none that differ from what my family has gone through. The main issue most people have is that there are so many children needing families in the United States, why adopt from another country. I feel that these women may also have a bit of feeling that is similar to Jasmine’s feelings towards her adopted son from Vietnam, that they might have someone to relate to in the family. Just like in the town where Jasmine was living as Jane, most of the international families have not had any issues as to discrimination.
The most interesting differences that I found were the overall opinion of America once the immigrants arrived. I feel that this has to do with the development of the country that the immigrants were coming from. New Zealand, Australia, and the Netherlands are all mostly equal to the United States economy wise. With these immigrants, they were not awed by America and their living situation here. This is in contrast to the immigrants that we had speak from places like Mexico, Japan, China and the books that we read about these countries as well as Middle Eastern countries as well. These immigrants were coming from less economically developed countries, where the everyday person does not equal to what we consider middle class. To people like Farah and Jasmine, simple things like glass windows and bathrooms seem elegant and a huge step up from where they were in their lives.
The most common thing I noticed between all of these women is a split between being American and being their original nationality. All of the women miss certain things about their home countries and have certain dislikes about America, the most common being our health system and how self-absorbed people are.
Through my interviews, listening to the guest speakers, and reading the books in this class, it amazes me that most Americans just assume the immigrant experience is the same for each person. If we interviewed men from the same countries, same age, and the same experiences, we would have a different perspective on the immigrant experience as well. The only thing that I believe that these immigrants would have in common is the hyphenated life of being Japanese-American or Chinese-American. An immigrant experience can not be assumed by knowing the person’s nationality alone, it fully depends on their life stories and the experiences they have gone through.

three words

2008-03-04T16:40:00.002-05:00

My three words to describe my week are : I MISS YOU!!!

Batch Culture

2008-03-04T16:37:00.003-05:00

Mom did this thing where you have to reach to the closest book, turn to page 123, find the 5th sentence and post the next three. Well my closest book was Microbiology. Yay! Not!! well, here it is.

Because no fresh medium is provided during incubation, nutrient concentrations decline and concentrations of wastes increase. the growth of the microorganism reproducing by binary fission can be plotted as a the logarithm of the number of viable cells versus the incubation time. the resulting curve has four distinct phrases.

OMG my little man is growing up!

2008-02-12T12:30:00.000-05:00

So i was looking at pictures from november. WOW how maddy and berkley have changed!!! Maddy's hair has gotten so long and she has become so independent (to the point she is driving mom insane!!!). And my little man has gotten so big... well not big but big for him!!! He was so ittttty bitttty when he was a baby! So on a sad note... momma and maddy are sick!!! Awww . I feel so bad that they dont feel well... Well back to studying. i have three exams, two projects, and a book to read this week!!! AHHH!!! and i have to find a dress for formal on saturday!

XOXO

Sarah

maddy around thanksgiving time... i was harry potter brainwashing her

berkley at thanksgiving

berkley now

HAPPY CNY

2008-02-07T12:18:00.000-05:00

well lets just say im psyched that i dont have to clean my apartment... like i ever do! lol. So school has been really busy, I just scheduled last night and i got the three classes i wanted. I'm done by 1130 on tuesday, thursday, and friday and 430 on monday and wedn. I got to meet my little sister Katie last night. and the girl lives in the GHETTTO!!!! i was scared for my life! lol. Shes very nice though as is her mom. i'm so excited to be part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters association offically! I hope i'm a good match for her, her last two matches ditched the family and just stopped calling and they couldn't reach them. I fully intend on being a great big sister. i hope everyone is having a great chinese new years and i'm breaking my lent (no soda, no eating out) to get some chinese tonight. i'm a bit late i know, but its the best i can do. I hope you all have a great day!

XOXO

Sarah

my ouchy toe... its all bruised and black and blue and fun colors on the bottom

Berkley man trying to get the camera

hes metro not gay!!! he does love the pink curtains though

here he is cuddlign with them again

up close and personal with the cutest little man on the planet!!!

chinese new years festival

2008-02-02T18:57:00.000-05:00

So i'm the only one in our family not at chinese new years today :-(. IF I HAD KNOWN, i would have taken the day off work to go but no one told me until yesterday. I just hope maddy is having fun (she sounded like she was) and i can't wait to see pictures of her in her party dress. Mom says it fits perfectly. Granted that girl has spunk so she looks cute in anything you put her in :-). Well im off to go fix my grey's anatomy withdrawl. And just let me say, I HATE THE WRITERS STRIKE!!! I hope everything is going well for everyone else.

XOXO
Sarah

Punishments

2008-01-29T11:39:00.000-05:00

So my friends and i were talking about the worst punishments we had ever recieved from the parentals. Everyone else's revolved around being grounded from something or another but mine was a little different. The worst punishment i ever recieved is when my mom didnt speak to me for a week. A week i tell you. I was MISERABLE. Since I talk to mom at least once a day, I was completley aside myself for a week. The worst week ever. I'm not going to confess what i did, but i still dont think it was bad enough for her not to talk to me for a week :-). Just wanted to say love you mom! and don't give your kids the cold shoulder! its not fun :-(

Im Still Alive!

2008-01-27T13:43:00.000-05:00

Lol, I've been so busy lately that i haven't really had time to blog at all. With all these boys on my heels what am i supposed to do? Lol. there's Jason in LA that wants to date me, Derek (the ex) that wants me back, and Adam a guy I used to work with that wants to date me. Ugh! Now if only i were really interested in any of them. isn't that how it always works?

On the school front, ive been busy as well. I had a test in my spanish class on Thurs, and two midterms, one in each of my Micro classes, on Friday. It has been a busy busy week.

On the Maddy front, i swear she gets cuter and cuter every day! I love how she is always saying my name and Berkleys. She just loves it when berkley and i go home to visit. I get very loud screams when I walk in the door. We also love to play "tackle" where she runs up and jumps on me when im sitting on the floor and "knocks" me down which ends up with me tickling her. Its a very fun game and we both love it. However, she does not like when Berkley tries to drink out of her sippy cups. He thinks her juice is just delicious and since she always leaves the drinks on the floor, hes always licking the tops and trying to drink the juices. Hehe, I think its halarious. Both of the "kids" love grapes though. and i know i know, grapes are bad for puppies. But berkley just gobbles them right up!!!! Well i hope everybody's winters are going well :-)

XOXO

Sarah

Berkley sleeping through the party in Boomer's house

Can't really see it, but i gave berkley a mohawk

Future roomies! Well we are already rooomies, but we're living together next year too :-)

Tucker and Berkley, Berkley was the life of the party. Everyone loved him :-)

Maddy's Empathetic Day

2008-01-10T23:15:00.000-05:00

Well, I think last night was the sweetest, most adorable thing ever. We were giving the dogs their clippings (i bought clippers so we could do it at home since Berkley needs done almost every week and a half), and Maddy was just crying and telling us "no no no" every time the dogs would cry. She seemed scared for them and was in a fit of hysterics. It was the saddest thing ever!!! But so cute at the same time that she wanted to protect the doggies. I wish i would have had a picture of her little face with her eyes full of tears from last night, it was the most heart breaking thing i've ever seen!
Other than that, and the HORRIBLE game that will from now on not be mentioned on this blog, everything has been going well. I LOVE LOVE LOVE micro lab of course. I'm very interested to get into my immunobiology lab. We get to work with dangerous strands of things this quarter in both classes. Like samonila. :-) of course I'm the weird person that LOVES working with this type of stuff. Welp, just thought i would update a little bit and tell everyone hi and let them know im still alive, but i need to get back to cleaning my room!! By the way, berkley is very smart, he found my medicine for me that ive been looking for :-D

XOXO
Sarah

Wrecked car.

2008-01-03T12:54:00.001-05:00

thought i would post some pictures for all of you to see how pretty i made my poor little convertible. I miss it so much already!

side of car... you cant really see the dents

the gap shows how much i tweaked the frame

exhaust touching the ground

the first spot that hit

rear wheel is bent under the car

side view of the damage

this is with my tires facing "straight"

XOXO
Sarah

Memories of 2007

2008-01-01T18:35:00.000-05:00

While 2007 was eventful, obviously not all of it was memories i wish to keep. Keeping in my memory always will be Nick Napier a friend i lost to suicide and a woman that i have known my entire life, Nona Alfred, who was a mentor and adopted grandmother to me who i lost to a 9 year battle with cancer. I hope that both of them have escaped their suffering and are with God now.
Other memories
Getting miss maddy!!!
Getting berkley
Getting my first apartment
Growing up and realizing groceries aren't cheap!
My brother had his first kid
Becoming more thankful for the extra things my parents have provided me over the years, aka home cooked meals
Two buckeye national championships and losing them both
Quitting my sorority
Its ironic to think how much things can change in one year. I think this year that I realized to not take things for granted. I've grown up a lot and realized what is important to me, such as my family and my grades!! Lol. Dental school is getting closer and closer and the more i think about it, the more i get a little scared to be honest. I have no idea where i will be in a year and a half, hopefully in a dental school, but im not sure in what state or where im going to live, etc. At the same time, I am excited to finally get into something i am really interested in. Other than a few classes, im now into my major courses which should prove to be both difficult and exciting. I wish everyone luck and i hope that 2008 is great ;-)

XOXO
Sarah

My favorite christmas story

2007-12-27T00:24:00.000-05:00

Though I have heard this story many times, when our new (yay!! go craig!!!) senior minister told this story on christmas eve, it touched me more than anything. It didn't help that Maddy was sitting in my lap. I almost got all teary eyed (which is amazing for me) and i dont know.. i guess i felt something special about this... so here the story is...

A Russian Christmas Story: "For Always"
by Will Fish

In 1994 two Americans answered an invitation from the Russian Department of Education to teach morals and ethics (based on biblical principles) in the public schools. They were invited to teach at prisons, businesses, the fire and police departments and a large orphanage. About 100 boys and girls who had been abandoned, abused, and left in the care of a government-run program were in the orphanage. They relate the following story in their own words:

It was nearing the holiday season, 1994, time for our orphans to hear for the first time the traditional story of Christmas. We told them about Mary and Joseph arriving in Bethlehem. Finding no room in the inn, the couple went to a stable, where the baby Jesus was born and placed in a manger. Throughout the story, the children and orphanage staff sat in amazement as they listened. Some sat on the edges of their stools, trying to grasp every word.

Completing the story, we gave the children three small pieces of cardboard to make a crude manger. Each child was given a small paper square cut from yellow napkins I had brought with me. No colored paper was available in the city.

Following instructions, the children tore the paper and carefully laid strips in the manger for straw. Small squares of flannel, cut from a worn-out nightgown an American lady was throwing away as she left Russia, were used for the baby's blanket. A doll-like baby was cut from tan felt we had brought from the United States.

The orphans were busy assembling their manger as I walked among them to see if they needed any help. All went well until I got to one table where little

Misha sat—he looked to be about six years old and had finished his project. As I looked at the little boy's manger, I was startled to see not one, but two babies in the manger.

Quickly I called for the translator to ask the lad why there were two babies in the manger. Crossing his arms in front of him and looking at his completed manger scene, the child began to repeat the story very seriously. For such a young boy who had only heard the Christmas story once, he related the happenings accurately—until he came to the part where Mary put the baby Jesus in the manger.

Then Misha started to ad lib. He made up his own ending to the story as he said, "And when Mary laid the baby in the manger, Jesus looked at me and asked me if I had a place to stay. I told him I have no mamma and I have no papa, so I don't have any place to stay. Then Jesus told me I could stay with him. But I told him I couldn't, because I didn't have a gift to give him like everybody else did. But I wanted to stay with Jesus so much so I thought maybe if I kept him warm that would be a good gift. So I asked Jesus, "If I keep you warm, will that be a good enough gift?" And Jesus told me, "If you keep me warm, that will be the best gift anybody ever gave me." So I got into the manger and then Jesus looked at me and told me I could stay with him—for always."

As little Misha finished his story, his eyes brimmed full of tears that splashed down his little cheeks. Putting his hand over his face, his head dropped to the table and his shoulders shook as he sobbed and sobbed. The little orphan had found someone who would never abandon nor abuse him, someone who would stay with him—for always.

XOXO
Sarah

Berkley, Maddy, and Christian's First Christmas.... yeah

2007-12-26T14:00:00.000-05:00

Lets just say i think i went a little overboard on miss priss. She got Pink cowgirl boots, disney princess light up shoes, a high chair for her baby, a skirt and a shirt. Just from me! she also got a stroller, a purse, lip chap, an outfit from bubby and logan, feast from the east, a play dough creativity center, and a whole bunch of other stuff that i can't even remember! LOL. It was so much fun having christmas with two little ones around though because it makes for more of a christmas spirit. I can't wait until they are old enough to be excited about santa and what not and not just getting presents. We went to church services on Christmas Eve and maddy and i sat on the stage and listened to the greatest story ever told. Well maddy actually sat there and crunched on mints. But she sat still and didn't cry. that was amazing in itself.
Now for me... obviously i got a puppy (kids all over the world are jealous i know i know) from mom, marty, dad, and lucy. From dad and lucy i got: a toaster which i actually haven't opened yet, a gps for my car because i get lost so often, a cinderella blanket, and some other random stuff. from mom and marty i got: a greys anatomy calendar,HSM2!!!, a $20 gift card to starbucks (yummmm!), lip gloss, candy, and some other small things.
From myself: A new camera :-), berkley, and a new hair straightner
from brooke: cinderella snow globe, automatic wine bottle opener, ssu t-shirt, placemat purse
Berkley got: a milkbone play kit from adam, toys and a sweater from aunt brooke, pupcorn from ikie boy, treats, a toy rope, and another toy from grandma and pop pop, a chew man, 1 1/2 lbs of treats, chucker, fetch me ball, bill jack treats, t-shirt, caraboo costume, scarf, vera bradley winsdor navy leash, and other small random items from mommy.

So all in all, i think we did pretty well :-)

XOXO
Sarah

Another future dentist in the family

2007-12-25T08:45:00.000-05:00

Merry Christmas! So it's 8:45 and since maddy doesn't understand Santa yet, shes still sleeping. As mom and marty say shes a teenager in training :-). I must have taught her well. Yesterday Maddy had her first taste of Mexican food at Mi Jalepeno's and she LOVED it. She seems to like all the same foods I do, except she is more into sweets than I am. You should see that girl and anything that has peanut butter. When mom gets out the peanut butter jar she just starts screaming and is so excited. Haha. I think its so funny. So i'm going to include a few pictures of miss maddy brushing her teeth, training to be a dentist, and eating her mexican food!!!

XOXO
Sarah

Brushing my teeth.

I think Sissy's teeth need cleaned too!

Two future dentists!

Eating my first taco

Yummmmmm! I love tacos!

ITS SNOWING ITS SNOWING... WAIT its raining?

2007-12-16T00:14:00.000-05:00

Haha so instead of this ice storm, us here in ohio end up with some snow and then it warms up enough to make it melt and we start getting rain.. what can i say? i love global warming :-) I know its bad and all but it does have its perks.

So today was christmas with Krystie, Andy, Tessa, and Laila. Our family has about twenty christmases just to let you know. I'm going to include some picture of that so you can see miss priss in action. oh yeah... I also have pictures from shopping the other day. Maddy is quiet the diva i'll tell you. Over all though, she is really well behaved compared to some other children ;-).

Berkley does not enjoy snow when he has to go potty, but LOVES to play in it. But when he's done, he wants in now and then all the poor thing does is shiver!!!

The best part about berkley right now is that he has like 4 bald spots where we were trying out my new clippers on him. The ones cut him a little too short. and thats where the bald spots came from. Thanks grandma robin. Berkley has also decided that he does not like his reindeer outfit that is WAY too big on him, but is an elf instead. And by elf i mean that he "helps" wrap christmas gifts by stealing the tape, scissors, and tearing the paper so that it is unusable. Just like a little kid. Well, I'm going to leave you with some pictures so that i can go do my own blogger stalking :-)

XOXO

Sarah

Maddy and I opening my crock pot

i DO NOT do boas

however, i am a princess

we look awesome in our footie pjs

berkley and maddy taking a bath

yeah i was in the snow... what of it?

getting all snowy so i can get mommy's floor wet

my outfit is too big :-( and i dont like being a caraboo

a little less snowy but snowy all the same, hey i can't be perfect all the time

UGH I HATE OLD PEOPLE!!

2007-12-14T01:27:00.000-05:00

Okay, I dont really hate them, but they are horrible to talk to on the phone! They don't understand anything about technology and it drives me boinkers! I mean come on, if youre going to live in this age, figure it out already! A credit card isn't that hard to understand! UGGGH and just because you cant hear me doesn't mean i can't hear you and that you need to yell my ear off! LOL. And for any of you that think ordering from a call center two weeks before christmas is a good idea... well its not. We don't have anything that you want/"need" for christmas.

Haha.. So basically that has been my life all week. Well except that i went to the zoo last night for wild lights and then we went out to eat at a scottish pub or whatever. My chicken ceasar salad was very yummy besides the whole allergic reaction to the garlic part :-)...

On a happy note, I finally picked a christmas card picture of my little man and I. I'll post it for you guys so that you can see all the fun that we had. On my last post, I was trying to upload videos but i couldnt figure it out... I have some pretty funny stuff of miss maddy. Ill try to upload those this weekend though so you guys can take a peek.
So i have decided that i am more tired being out of school than when i am in school!!!! I stay up until about the same time, but im at work all day or constantly doing something that makes it imposible for me to take a nap. And i need a nap more than my two year old sister. Haha speaking of that, mom said that she was so tired yesterday that she fell asleep mid "chippie" aka mid eating of a chip, her most favorite food! I never thought i would live to hear of that day :-). Shes too funny. I guess she was tired??? I get that way sometimes too, but i like my food too much so i wait till im done eating. And i am in the process of teaching maddy how to swipe a credit card. She isn't too bad at it. I help her do it every time she and i go shopping and im buying something where i have to swipe my card. I thought i would start her early. i bet mom is going to love that trait. A girls best friend is her daddy's credit card after all ;-) Well i'm tired and have to run errands in the morning so i will leave you with some pics!

XOXO

Sarah

mr berkley with pink lips after giving mommy a kiss with her lipstick on

the final picture, un cropped

this would have been the best had it not been so bright and if i would have had my lipstick on :-)

Two year olds are exhausting!!!

2007-12-10T22:45:00.000-05:00

Lol. Like you guys didn't know this. You are all crazy!!!! Between Miss Maddy and Berkley Boy, I am about to fall over asleep! Maddy was pretty good today, she didn't get up till 9:00 am and then mom was home about fifteen minutes after that so we were still eating our peanut butter toast at that time. But now, shes so tired that she wont fall asleep. And mom and marty keep blaming it on my fur baby and his barking...Okay well maybe he is to blame but he's just a puppy!! Lol.

I am so glad that i dont have classes right now. I have been more exhausted lately than i am when I am in classes. Doesn't it always work like that? you try to fit too much into the day and then you're more exhausted than if you have a schedule?

On the exciting/fun side, mom and i painted christmas ornaments today. They turned out pretty cute. Mine were a bit sloppy, but then again, I'm not as good of a painter as mom is. We're going to make cookies with Ms. Maddy tomorrow and I'm going to make a lemon cake with lemon icing. I'm hoping it will taste like the girl scout cookies before they changed them. You know, the reduced fat ones that were lemon with a tart white powder on the outside? MMMMM sooo yummy. Well here are some pictures for you all to enjoy since thats why you really stop by :-)

XOXO

Sarah

Finally over!!!

2007-12-06T23:59:00.000-05:00

PTL! I made it through finals week. Lol. Ugh it was not fun. Not to mention the fact that i have been working everyday. So far I have two B's and a C+... go figure. Always have to have one to screw up my GPA. I get so frustrated though because its always a percentage point below a B. GRRRR!!!! i will just have to work even harder next quarter i guess. Not that school isn't already my life. Its been fun to be out of school, even if it has only been for two days. We had some friends over last night and we all just hung out and talked for a bit, which was nice because no one was stressed about finals.... well except for the few unfortunate people finishing up this morning.
Other than that, Berkley and I have been doing well. He is getting just a tad bigger all the time. One of these days he's going to be full grown!!! We got about 6 inches of snow the night before last and he had a blast playing in it, but he does not like to go potty on it. Lol. He's quiet a bitter though. i'm trying to work with him on it, but he loves to play and he's teething. But I mean ive got scratches on my hands from his teeth! Anyone have any suggestions? I'm very open to any way to get him to not bite all the time.
My christmas tree is up though :-). I'll tell ya, even though it was prelit... that was still an adventure. I've never had to put one together before and trying to decorate it and what not was interesting. Its a corner tree though so it only has branches on one side. it still looks pretty though.. Ill make sure to post pictures later when i get a chance to take some and up load them. Thanks to mom, i have decorations :-).
On the note of Maddy, I'm very excited because she says sissy... well her version of it, and berkley which comes out more like "gerky" which is sooo cute! She just loves little berkley and he loves her too. He lets her pick him up and carry him around, even though i don't. And mom said that if she sees a picture of him she says "gerky!!" I'm happy to know that they like each other.
I've almost got my christmas shopping done. All i have to do now is finish my best friends, get my stepsisters, my roommate magen's, and my dads present. My other roommate is Jewish so she opened her gift last night after lighting the menorah. I got her a Cleveland Brown's jersey so she could be what i call an "official" fan.
Okay well Berkley man and i are tired so we're going to head to bed!

XOXO
Sarah

Final stress

2007-12-01T15:27:00.001-05:00

Haha get it? Yeah finals are on monday and tuesday. Well, i have one on monday and two on tuesday. I already had my ochem lab exam and my micro lab final. Blah to both. lol. Now its on to study study study. So berkley went to the doctor today and had a booster shot. He did not like that too much. So he's been a bit sleepy today. He did really well with Dad's dogs and is doing pretty well here at moms house. Okay, well i have to go study.
XOXO
Sarah

giving thanks

2007-11-22T22:45:00.000-05:00

Things im thankful for (besides the obvious)
My puppy
Jim Tressell
Buckeye football team
and even though its obv... MY MOMMY
other than that i was just updating to say that maddy and berkley got along great! she likes to pick him up by his arm pits and bring him to me... which is halarious. He also had his first snow day today! He loves it. I'm shocked because i hate it. And he keeps crying to go outside just so that he can play in the snow. also, Grandma Robin gave him a ball that is just his size. HE has been playing with it and his hippo all day since she gave it to him. We had a bit of a scare last night with an episode of hypoglycemia... Basically, he didn't have enough calories and went into a seizure. Grandma robin had to get up and help take care of him with his mommy. We got him some calories though with Nutri Stat which is a life saver im telling you. if you have a small dog, especially a toy or teacup, this stuff can be amazing if theyre not eating. Other wise you end up with the same thing i dealt with last night at 2:30 in the morning. Its funny how small he is ( 2 lbs, 2 oz) at 8 weeks because he fits underneath the funniest things! Like the chair in my moms living room. And the dog loves to type. More like attack my fingers and it looks like typing.He discovered himself in mom's full length mirror today and of course we had to document that as well. Here's some fun pictures of his big day today with maddy and all the kids. Oh yeah, hes doing much better today. Mom got him to eat 1/2 a scrambled egg, some kibble, and i got him to eat some cottage cheese and he LOVES turkey :-) Gobble gobble Happy thanksgiving!!!! XOXO Sarah

berkley discovering himself in the mirror

maddy carrying berkley...shes actually really good with him

trying to get berkley to take a drink of water...by dunking his face :-)

woo hoo this is cold!!!!

Sad Sad Horrible Day

2007-11-10T21:36:00.000-05:00

So today has to be the worst day ever! How could we lose??!?!?!?! I think im in shock. It was horrible to be at the game and watch that. Ugh! Jim Tressell needs to teach them boys how to play football between tomorrow and next saturday. Wow, I can't believe that we just lost. I feel like I broke up with a boyfriend, actually i am more sad now than when i did break up with my boyfriend!!!! From HIGH SCHOOL! Yeah thats where im at right now. Needless to say, I completley understand how people felt like they needed to flip cars and riot. I'm right there with them emotionally. :-\

On a happier note, Happy Birthday Little Sis! Maddy turned two today and I have a great present for her for tomorrows party. ok, well im going to go cry myself to... well not to sleep, but i guess ill just cry while watching other teams actually play some football...

xoxo
Sarah

SUFI!!!

2007-11-09T00:46:00.000-05:00

If you are a Dane Cook fan, then you understood that title :-). Yes, I got to go see Dane Cook in PERSON! He was halarious and his new material almost had me and my roommates in tears. OMG we are all going to go see him again next time he's somewhere near us. So anyways, its almost Maddy's birthday !!! I'm so excited to give her the gift my brother and his fiance and i got her. Its really cute, at least i hope so. I haven't seen it put together. I took my microbiology midterm on monday, well my second micro midterm, and i think it went okay. Probably could have gone a bit better, but the directions on one of the questions was very vague and lots of people had problems with it so he said he would normalize the score of the exam for us :-). Jezebelle and i are doing well here in columbus and shes getting a teensy bit bigger. She won't grow too much bigger which i guess is good since her house is so small.

So two days until HATE WEEK BEGINS!!!!!!!! For those of you that don't know the rules of hate week they go as follows
1. You must wear something that says ohio state or buckeyes or something of that sort everyday of the week
2. You can not say the team up north's name... at all. It must be refered to as muck fichigan, ttun, m word, or so on
3. Mirror Lake Jump In.... Thursday night, midnight, any weather goes. Make sure you have on something buckeye :-)
4. If you aren't fortunate enough to be at the game on saturday, you must and i repeat must be screaming as loud as you can at every "good" <---hahaha like the m word team has good, play or call for that other team :-)

Hate week is probably my most favorite week of the entire year. Its such a long time honored tradition and I fully respect all aspects. Even though i get sick every year from jumping in the lake. True, it is normally about 17 degrees in the water, but i have done it every other year and its so enjoyable :-). I know i know, you all think im crazy, unless you went to OSU and you know what im talking about.

I guess not much else is going on up here in the Bus. Just going to class, doing lots of homework, working, and sleeping as usual. I'll be in springfield this weekend though to celebrate the birthday with my pumpkin.

XOXO
Sarah

10 and 0

2007-11-03T18:17:00.000-05:00

GO BUCKEYES!!! We're 10 and 0.. I'm not going to lie though, I was a bit worried about what I was seeing today against Wisconsin, but of course, my Bucks pulled through :-). This is going to be a short post since I have a micro midterm on monday that i need to study for. Just thought i would post the pics of Keith Urban today. Oh yeah! I made some really good homemade mashed potatoes today using mom's recipe and I must say, a few more tries and ill be giving her a run for her money. hehe.

XOXO

Sarah

I'm ALIVE!!! oh and GO BUCKS!

2007-11-02T00:50:00.000-05:00

So apparently, I'm the biggest blogging slacker ever. There just wasn't a whole lot to write about for the longest time and then all the sudden there was too much :-). But guess what.... IIIIIIIII'mmmmm back!

So Maddy is the most adorable thing on the planet and i try to go home to see her as much as possible. Sometimes thats a little difficult with the BUCKEYES schedule (yeah we're amazing), but i get home at least once a week normally. Her nickname from me is pumpkin and I'm sissy which totally fits since i used to call my older brother bubby. I think my favorite thing is when she laughs... or tells the dogs no. It cracks me up. I can't help but smile when she does that. It does make me a little sad that she doesn't like to stay with me when i'm holding her, but thats understandable since shes supposed to be all mom and marty or whatever. I did break a rule apparently the other day because i was feeding her some of my chicken wings. Whoops. Lol. It's all good though, she ate a great lunch for me. And mom thought she wouldn't like S.O.S. but i'm tellin ya, pumpkin likes the same food as sissy does. :-) and who says we're not related. haha.

It's been a difficult couple of weeks though because i've had bacterial larengitis (that is so not spelled correctly) and the flu. Yeah that was fun. The worst part is, is that i haven't been able to work for two weeks. Thats gonna hurt here in about another week. On the upside, our Halloween Party was a success and my costume was amazing. My best friend dressed as batman and i was cinderella and it was very fun for us to be our favorite cartoon characters. Oh! I got to go to the Keith Urban concert tonight for 15 dollars thanks to our great student activities board. It was sooo good. I will be posting pictures later after i have them uploaded. I also get to see my favorite comedian, Dane Cook, next week on Wedn. We are reallly reallly reallly really excited for that one. Even mom likes Dane Cook.

Oh yeah! I also bought a hamster. Shes a dwarf hamster and shes really super cute. Her name is Jezebelle but we like to call her Kelly Kapowski from SBTB. My roommate's chinchilla's nickname is Zach Morris if that helps explain anything. Jeze is really tiny and has a 4" ball that she plays in every day. Her favorite snack is cheerios. She makes me happy since i miss having a furry pet of my own to play with and mom said no dogs till after i'm in dental school.

On the boyfriend front, Derek and I are broken up which i highly doubt anyone that has been talking to my mother is suprised. It was coming for a while and i knew it, but its not over over. He's working on some things while i'm opting to date other people (potentially). School is going well and I love being a Micro major. Amazingly so, my favorite class this quarter is my OChem Lab. It's really fun and I like being able to do things like make my own aspirin. Next quarter should be a doozy though since I'm taking two micro major classes, digital photography, spanish, and a Kaplan course for my D.A.T. .

Okay, well im sure you're all sick of reading by now so i'll add some pics and head to bed!!!

I promise i'll be better at this now that i have something to write about! :-D

XOXO

Sarah

Jezebelle!

Me at the football game

My pumpkin

batman and cinderella @ halloween party

Back at the good ol' OSU

2006-10-10T22:17:00.000-05:00

So i've been back at OSU for almost a month now. That means midterms... AHHH! My first one is tomorrow in Anatomy... my hardest class. Well that and Chem 123 is still proving to be a bit difficult but ive doing okay in it. I've gotten an A on both papers i've written for my english class :-). GO ME! So anyone that doesn't watch the buckeyes should know........... WERE 6-0!!!!WOO HOO GO BUCKS! Haha.
So the drama that is college... i've already gotten into it with my roomie a few times. We're quite the odd couple you could say. I've been really busy though so i havent been around too much. Oh and guess what? My computer crashed again. Go figure right? At least i had mom and marty's to use while mine was being retarded. I've already had to deal with my roommate breaking up with her long time boyfriend Tim and then getting back together with him (tonight actually). My other roommate, Amar, always stays at her boyfriends. I think she has seriously been here like two nights out of the whole time we've lived here. I'm the only one who is here enough to know what is going on. But i guess thats a good thing that they're not here because i get a lot of studying done without them around to distract me.
I'm kinda jealous of the other girls because it seems like i'm the only one who has to study like the majority of the time. One of my friends that was pre-dental dropped out of the program today and switched to fashion merchandising ...boo her. Idk. Everytime i see people walking into the dental school in their scrubs when im on my way to anatomy i just think "i cant wait until thats me...that will be me some day." And so far that has been motivation enough to study my butt of this year.
On the fun front: we aren't actually doing football block this year, but our first TG is this thursday. Its 80s theme but im not sure what im going to wear. :-\. I'm sure ill figure something out. And homecoming is coming up :-). We are paired with Kappa Sigma and some agriculture frat, but im not sure which one. It should be fun though. And of course after homecoming we have just a few weeks until.....you guessed it BEAT MICHIGAN WEEK!!! WOO HOOOOO!!!! I'm excited for that one! It should be a GREAT game this year.
On the dating front, not much is going on. I met one guy, Nick, but he fell off the face of the earth like most guys do after about two or three days :-\. Dustin and I are friends again though. He decided to be nice to me again after he broke up with his last girlfriend, Kristyn. I hate dating a friend and then the friendship falling apart (ahem Ryan ahem). Oh well though, you win some, you lose some :-)
Ok well i am going to go get some sleep so i can get up early and do some more studying before my exam!!!!! Night everyone and good luck with the adoptioness!
PS: we haven't heard anything yet, but we're hoping to get a referal for a special needs child or just be pushed through really quick (wouldn't that be awesome?)
Still waiting for my maddy,
Sarah

TAGGED

2006-09-04T23:40:00.000-05:00

I am…
a walking oxymoron... smart blonde...church going sorority girl...take your pick i have more
I wish…
brooke wasn't leaving in like 24 hrs to go back to school
I hate…
the sound of chewing
I miss…
high school purely for the fact that it was sooo much easier (class wise, not drama wise)
I hear…
my new sampler from itunes/facebook
I wonder…
how i will do in school and when i will actually go to bed
I regret…
nothing...everything ive done i wanted to do at some point, so how can i regret it
I am not always...
as bright as people think i am :-) i def. have my blonde moments
I dance…
all the time. i enjoy embarrassing mom in the store/docs office/anywhere public when i have my ipod on
I sing…
whenever i feel like it...mostly with the top down on the car where everyone can hear me
I cry…
when i get mad/frustrated
I make...
crafty little things that mom helps me with... im making dinner tonight (maybe)
I confuse…
myself all the time
I need…
to pack for school
I should…
exercise,start packing, go to bed, there are a bunch of things "i should"
I start...
anything distracting from my real task
I finish…
everything i actually have a desire to finish. then and only then will i finish it

BUCKEYES DOMINATED

2006-09-04T23:17:00.000-05:00

So, the birthday went well. The weekend, however, did not. Can we say mother-in-law syndrome with my own grandmother. I'll tell you this, she definitely likes my brother a whole lot more than me. LOL. Not that big of a deal though, just the normal her bashing on anyone with different views than her fight. It was WAY too cold to go out on the boat, nonetheless go to the waterpark, so I just hid inside most of the weekend. It was still fun though. Lucy scared the crap out of Brooke and I with her tardy cards... Lets just say, they were hitting a little close to home. HEHE. I got to get wings from HOOTERS and I bought a new t-shirt. Its really cute. I gave Brooke her presents: a crocheted blanket, letters spelling out her name for her room, photo coasters, a dvd slide show...That may be it, im not sure. LOL. Short term memory loss or just blonde hair? Who can tell. Anyways the buckeyes DOMINATED the field this weekend of course, and my boy, Teddy Ginn Jr. Looked amazing. SPEAKING of Teddy Ginn... I bought a new jersey. #7 of course, numbers stiched on, kids sized. Absolutely adorable. I also purchased a CARSON PALMER Bengals jersey. My first one :-). The boys are oh so proud.
On the adoption front, mom was looking at special needs children and found this one little girl that she liked, so she had me look at her. She has two extra toes, so not that big of a deal. I AM IN LOVE WITH HER AND I WANT HER NOW! I have already showed my best friend her picture, and Brooke loves her too. So it's settled. LOL. We asked for more information on her medical needs, but hopefully it will be a green light from here!
Ok, that's about it, I'll update more later!
9 days till move in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!

2006-08-31T14:18:00.000-05:00

So HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY TO ME! YAY! I finally made it! Now i can go do all the stuff i've been doing for years, like not wearing a seat belt in the back seat of the car, and its legal! At least i made it to this birthday without getting a speeding ticket or getting my license taken away. For my birthday so far, I've just recieved money, but thats great because i bought a 30 GB Video ipod. So I kinda need the money. LOL. We're going out to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory for my birthday tonight at The Greene, a new Easton-like mall. I've already bought an episode of Hannah Montana for my iPod and its so cool to watch it on something this small! (Can you tell i like it, and yes i love kids shows). Brooke, my best friend, and I are supposed to go to The Beach Waterpark tomorrow for our birthdays, hers is on Sunday, but its not looking too great. It's only supposed to be like 60 degrees tomorrow. I'm sure we'll figure something out. Last year we went and we had a blast. Granted, we always have fun when she and I get together. OH and for all of you people out there that think you're too old for temper tantrums and that you won't get what you want if you throw one??? I am proof that thats not true. I not only got my Cinderella cake, but i am having a Disney Princess party, complete with plates and a pink table cloth.

On the school front, I've been talking to my roomie, Becca, a lot lately since we had an almost crisis today. Apparently some girl wants to move into the house, but she didnt fill out the contract. This girl and I dont get along too well, and they want us to room with her. AHHH! Luckily, we found out that she is possibly not going to be moving in, and if she does, it won't be until at least winter quarter. I got the class I wanted, Intro to Stats, but i didn't get the other one, Med Term since it creates a scheduling conflict, and I have too many credit hours already (21 ) But I think it will work out alright. ONLY TWO WEEKS UNTIL I GO BACK!!!! The first Buckeyes football game is this weekend! O-H-I-O GO BUCKS!

As far as the adoption goes, mom and marty decided to go ahead and do the special needs application. I mean come on, with a kid like me i think they are kinda qualified dont you? :-). At least i can admit that my blonde hair makes me do stupid stuff. Haha. I'm still beyond excited for maddy to get here though so that i can take her shopping! I have already picked out WAY too much stuff for her, like the cutest Ralph Lauren Dress. I also can't wait to get the next secret buddy gift. I helped pick out the stuff we are sending our secret buddy :-x. Its all super cute. The wait is still rumored to be 18 months- 2 years until we get Maddy, so we've discussed going through another country, but Marty and I are both digging our heels because we think Maddy is in China, actually make that I know she is in China.

Ok well I have to go get ready to go out to eat! Yummy Cheesecake Factory
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE CUTEST BLONDE ON THE ENTIRE PLANET (haha j/k)! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

ITS BEEN A WHILE

2006-08-09T10:18:00.000-05:00

So yeah, its been a while and a lot has happened. But then again, maybe not :-)... So my mom joined a group that trades gifts every month for the adoption thing. Its part of her dossier to china group that she joined. And the best part is, its all a secret pal thing! We got a real China tea set and we also got a cute outfit from Baby Gap. We are all very excited for this adoption process. So far, my parents are considering taking a special needs child, depending on how bad the condition is. At first I was a little leery, but then when my mom told me the qualifications of a "special needs" child I was like, hey I could be a special needs child. HAHA. Multiple ways I guess :-) with the blonde hair and all. On the relationship front, the guy I was dating, Dustin, and I decided to call it quits and return to being friends. But so far that hasn't been working out the best. On to the good news..... I leave for school SOON!!! Well, I guess not that soon, but September 14. My really good friend, Becca, and I got a double in our sorority house, which is really good considering I'm not a junior and the rooms are given out according to rank and our point system. She and I are also in the same dormer (the rooms where we sleep) and I got a parking spot, another really surprising thing. We are assuming that I got the parking spot because I lived in the house last year which got me some major points. I am pretty sure I am going to switch my major from Biology to Health Management so I'm still on the waitlist for two classes I want to take this fall. I did get into the Chemistry class I needed though. YAY! Oh yeah, I was also in the hospital at the end of June with micoplasma pnemonae (walking pnemonia basically) and the flu. That was not the most fun thing I've ever done in my life, I will tell you that. And fair was just the last week of July, and for the first time in my life, I didn't go more than one day. The one day we did go, we only stayed long enough to see my ex-boyfriends little sister's goats and to get some good food :-).
For the adoption, it looks like the wait is still about 18 months...boo. At least it will give me time to crochet Maddy's blanket that I want to make her. I made one for Dustin and it only took about a month more or less to make it. And it was a queen sized one. But, by making this, I opened a can of worms, so to say, because now a bunch of people want me to make them blankets. My best friend included....
ONLY 22 days till my 18th birthday!!! YAY I can't wait!
Sarah

Happy Fathers Day!

2006-06-18T15:08:00.000-05:00

Happy Fathers Day! It seems like its been forever since I've written one of these things! Well, to update, I had my fifth knee surgery almost a week ago, but I'm doing great. Our Dossier to China was sent out on Friday :-) I'm quite excited about this! As of right now, I guess it will be about a year after we are logged in to get my mei-mei... Other than that, Springfield hasn't been that exciting, but then again all I've been doing is seeing old friends or I've been laid up in bed. This week starts the real test on how exciting this summer will be since I start babysitting on Wednsday and I'm going to start looking for a second job as a hostess or retail since I've had experience in both. I'm through with lifeguarding..... enough of that. hehe. For Fathers Day I got Marty a scarlet red dress shirt (Go BUCKS!) and my dad this game called Redneckopoly (i.e. monopoly with a redneck theme...it suits him). Hope everything is going well in your world of adoption!
Sarah

Finals week....AHHHHH!!!

2006-05-31T17:28:00.000-05:00

So its the week before finals.... lord help me please! Luckily all of our work has been going smoothly with the adoption so far and not too many bumps lately. So finals are freaking me out and my chem class is going to be the death of me....by my mother... no matter how hard i try in that class it doesn't seem like im getting anywhere. But its all good in the psychology field :-D of course the class i dont like is the class im good at. So im pretty excited that we are finally approved through immigration and are now sending in all of our papers to China?? I dont know about all of this.... i find it confusing. But mommy knows and says everything is going well :-D.... okay enough procrastinating back to studying

FOREVER AND TEN THOUSAND YEARS

2006-05-24T14:08:00.000-05:00

SOOO Im not too happy that it might take like three years at this rate to get a referral for my little sister.... this does not fit in my plans very well. I think I should call the Chinese goverment and complain. Maddy needs to get here now so that I can spoil her like she deserves to be treated. I DO NOT NEED THIS STRESS WITH FINALS COMING UP.... haha like it really has to do anything with finals but yeah w/e excuse i can get i will take :-D.
Still waiting for my Mei Mei