i wish she was my baby.....

see this sweet little baby girl? i fell in love with this little one while in china. we were given the opportunity to visit a foster home that our church sponsors. click here for more info on this wonderful place.

when i saw this baby, she immediately stole my heart. i was informed by ale' (my sweet "lil sis") that she (that baby) had cried for two or three other people. so i was sure to be careful. i came up to her to say "ni hao" and to my shock, she didn't cry. i think that's what made me fall in love with her the most.

anyway, i have claimed her as mine. i even found her again and was able to hold her the second time we were there. i would have brought her home with me, but that would have been frowned upon by the chinese government. so now, i'm hoping and praying that i could possibly support this sweet little one.

DQ Ji (18 August 2011)">

this picture was taken august 18, over two weeks after we got home. she has already gotten bigger! don't you think so?

this blog post was inspired by my friend, Augusta's blog post. she fell in love with a sweet little face as well. hop over there and see. click on Augusta's name.

welllll......what had happened was....awkward and awesome

have you ever notice that the best stories always start with "what had happen was"?






no? well..........ok.







i am not going to go on and on about why i haven't posted in like three months. it would take up a great amount of posting time and i'm sure no one would really care one way or another. :)




seriously though, lots has been happening. good stuff. bad stuff. and everything in between.



and in particular: GRADUATION has come and gone! graduation week: the most stressful week i have faced yet, holy shamoley. but i'm done with HIGHSCHOOL.







oh-stinkin-yeah.







i feel quite accomplished, with having survived highschool, only making two C's this entire school year and what-not. now i'm getting read for a week long youth trip and a missions trip to CHINA. super excitement flowing over here! oh yeah-uh.








ANYHOOZAL.....



summer time is basically here! i live in Beaufort, South Carolina, you may have assumed that it already started. but that is the strange part. summer starts earlier HERE then other place.




summer in Beaufort can usually consist of:




1. beach days and/or pool days (something i have only had the privilege to do once)

2. large quantities of sweet tea, water, capri sun, and sometimes even iced coffee being consumed on a daily basis. (i may have been known to be a large consumer of the iced coffee........)

3. and then there are those days when you have been downtown, to bluffton or the beach more then anyone should. you are so bored that you say "let's hang out at wal-mart" and actually mean it. (that's what happens when you live in a town where the closest mall is an hour away.)




AND for those of us with curly/wavy/ get's-frizzy-as-soon-as-you-walk-outside- because-it's-so-damp-out- humidity is something you have to plan your day around.



it reminds me of what Jane Austen said about hot weather: "What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." (emphasis added)




amen sister. couldn't have said it better myself.











and while i'm posting, today , as other blogs have named it, it AWKWARD and AWESOME thursday:

i'll follow that lil trend today and share some awkward/awesome moments.

awkward.

1. going in to a swanky salon and med spa for a haircut (i used a coupon cuz i wouldn't have been there otherwise.) and having a MAN cut you're hair. that was an awkwardly intimate experience, having a strange man run his fingers through my hair. *shudders* i felt violated. (keep in mind though, HE DID AN AMAZING JOB ON MY HAIR. i was impressed)

2. changing probably a million diapers the weekend before a i got my hair did. in nursery at my church, watching lil chillins for a homeschool conference, and i am the only adult (as in old enough to change diapers) in the room, allowing me to be on diaper duty.

3. having some strange kid from one of the conference vendors continuously coming by the nursery.

awesome.

1. that haircut from the MAN. it is great, i'm not gonna lie.

2. the fact that i have finally completed highschool. i can't stress enough what an amazing feeling that is to be done with this part of my schooling. i could scream. but i'm not going to, because neighbors might hear me and then may call the police because they will have thought i have been murdered.

3. kid from conference mention earlier. while he was awkward, he was awesome in the sense that he would provide us with a constant source of laughter, because he was in fact, HYSTERICAL.

alrighty friends. that's all i got to say about that. have a sha weeet day, and maybe you'll here from me tomorrow. :)

i felt like a mom. just what i want to be.

tonight was an eventful evening.

a fun evening.

i was babysitting with some kids who are a real joy to babysit.

that's hard to get sometimes when babysitting.

alot of girls just do it because they need money,

even if its for an unpleasant family as a whole

or just an unpleasant child.

that would not be pleasant. at all.

i, on the other hand, am very lucky to be babysitting for some great families who, in turn, have great kids.

well, things were going smoothly.
i was playing doggie with two children.
one little girl was wondering around the living room playing with toys and another was in a little girls room playing in the play kitchen.
a baby was sitting, watching everything that was going on in her house, very relaxed.
while playing doggie, i would go check on whoever was playing in the kid's room, just to be sure no one was choking, bleeding, or crying for that matter.

as the night wore on, two little girls would ask for "mommy or daddy". i would inform them that they (mommy and daddy) were learning about Jesus (code for "at bible study") and would be back shortly. one little girl in particular was apparently exhausted,
because that excuse (which was legit)
for why mommy and daddy weren't there,
was not assuring her of anything.

the poor punkin was tired and wanted her parents. she got her self all worked up, crying and screaming, until she threw up. i promise, i tried to calm her down, but it was too late.

now i will let you in on a secret. i have never, in the six years that i have been babysitting (making me a trained pro....not. i am still learning.) not once, dealt with a child's puke.

i had always dreaded the day when, having been married with children, my child would be sick. i especially dreaded the "throw up" sick. i would tell myself that if my child threw up, i would probably, at the very least, get sick to my stomach if not want to throw up my self.

well tonight, IT happened. a child threw up, and i dealt with it. i dealt with it like a mom would. or at least how i would if i were a mom.

and i felt fine. i felt accomplished.

i felt like a mom. just what i want to be. one day. in the future. score. :)

anyone have any fun babysitting stories?