I finally got a laptop! I’ve been wanting one for FOREVER!!! YAY!!! HURAY!!! I think I might just hyperventilate… YAY!!! I spelled hyperventilate right the first time… now I really will…. good…night…
Well, sorry about that. That was… well, embarassing. Um… right. This is how I got it:
I’ve been wanting one for a very, very, long time, and then someone posted a message on Swiss saying that they are selling a Dell for $75! I had more than that, because I had been saving for a loong time. So, I bought it. And THEN, Dad’s boss said that he got a lot of free laptops, and if he got one better than that, he’d give it to me! And he did! Now I have a really nice Intel, and we gave the other one to some friends that didn’t have a computer. So, it all turned out GREAT!! And I’ve got a wonderful story idea that I would like to start now. Well, good-bye all ye peeps!
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Every step feels like a mile,
Every minute like a year.
Struggling through my pain, hurt, and trails,
The End is far from near.
I stumble over mountains,
And trudge through the vast valleys below.
My feet are bloody, cut, and sore;
Rocks have gnawed them to the bone.
The Path seems never-ending,
The Road goes on and on.
And just then, when all hope seems but gone,
I see a man standing in the Road,
Bright as the sun; ferocious as a lion;
Yet as kind and gentle as a friendly dandelion.
Then I, covered in dirt and blood,
Fell on my knees, feeling like I should.
“My son, look at all your bruises, cuts, and sores!
Your life has been full of hurt;
You do not need anymore.
I stood up, frail, shaking, and filled with fear.
“S-Sir? Who are you and what are you doing here?”
“The mountains are high because of my making;
The valleys are soft because of my hand;
The rain falls when I tell it to.
The thunder claps on my command.
“You could call me the Maker.
You could call me Creator.
But I am your Father, and you are my son.
I am here to walk with you till your Journey is done.
Well, come along. There is so much to do.”
“But–sir? Am I safe with you?”
He smiled and laughed.
“You’re safe with me.
Come, take my hand. There is so much to see.”
Weak and afraid, I took his hand.
The tears on my face were from bliss,
Not from pain.
My wounds were mended,
Never to be seen again.
So I went on with my Journey,
Climbing mountains, swimming seas.
But now I had a friend to guide me along.
To point me towards right, and help me shun wrong.
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Posted on 23 December '09 by nina, under Poems. 3 Comments.
Anyway, I’ll finish what I started last night. Dad is now a night-guard at our church, Fellowship Bible Dallas. He works Monday through Saturday. He doesn’t work all night, thank goodness. He works from 5-10 p.m. I shouldn’t be scared, but I kind of am. I mean, what are the chances that some criminal will come in with a gun and shoot him, and rob… what? The few dollars that are in the offering box? I don’t know. I shouldn’t be afraid. Anyway, that’s all I really had to say. And I’ve gotta cookie on the table waiting for me… yum! 
Bye!
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Posted on 3 December '09 by nina, under Going on's. No Comments.
Okay, I’ve got a lot to say… well, here goes!
Usually every year we get a lot of scholarships, narrowing the tuition down to about $500 or $1000. But this year, we applied for the scholarships a day to late, and they said that they had run out of funding. And if we didn’t pay at least some of our tuition before Dec. 3rd, Dad would have to drop his classes and we’d get kicked out of Swiss! A week later… nothing. Another week, and still nothing. Eight days to go…
Finally, Wednesday, Nov. the 25th, a scholarship came in. The same day, another came. Two days later, yet another came in. And they kept coming, and now, Dec. 2nd, we only have $1000 left to pay. Now that we’ve paid most of it, Dad can still take his classes, and I know God will provide the rest.
Also, rent is due today (but we still have to Dec. 5th before we have to pay any late fees), and just today we got a letter under our door saying, ‘We are planning to give you $700.00 – you will receive it Thursday afternoon. With love.’ It was anonymous. So both our tuition and rent have been paid!
And, dad got a new job, he– oh, gotta go to A.W.A.N.A.! I’ll post about that when I get back.
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Posted on 2 December '09 by nina, under God Stories, Going on's. No Comments.
I said I’d try to post more, but I haven’t been. I’ve been trying for a long time. I sit at the computer, staring at the blank page for hours, and just give up. Nothing is really happening, but there is a bunch of stuff that’s about to happen. It seems as if it is always that way. It seems as though I’m always bored, staring at the calendar waiting for something to happen. And plenty of times, I’m interrupted by a friend coming up to play, or something else fun like that. And normally, I’d have a lot of fun with them. But because I am looking forward to the day on the calendar when something big happens, I hardly notice that I am actually having fun. And the funny thing is, when that day on the calendar finally arrives, I am still blind to the fun that I am having there, because some other bigger more exciting event is distracting me once more. I wish that I were more laid back so I could take the time to enjoy all the friends and family and fun that are staring me in the face. I wish I were more thankful for today instead of longing for tomorrow.
Well, I suppose I’ll just tell you about my day. We woke up at about 8:00, ate breakfast, and left for S.W.I.N.G. (Seminary Wives In Nurturing Groups), which is every other Tuesday. The moms did a bible study there, and us kids did some of our school, had snack, and played on the playground. It was basically like a mini school, except for it was for homeschooling kids and it only lasted about two hours. Usually afterward, our S.W.I.N.G. group would go to a park and have a picnic together, but we didn’t this time, because it was to cold. So instead, we all went to the Bults (one of the families in the group). After that, we came home and just hung out (clean, practice piano, read, play on computer, call friends, watch Monk, invite the Harrison’s up). We ‘hung out’ till about 4:00, then Mom and Dad went on a walk while we stayed home. I worked on one of my books and Emma and Anja played superheroes (they play that a lot, and it’s pretty cool. It’s more like wizards than it is superheroes. I’m actually working on a book based on their game). After that we cleaned up and Emma and Anja went to bed, and I am sitting here at 10:04 p.m. typing this. Wait– 10:04?! Oh, sorry, I gotta go to bed!
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Posted on 1 December '09 by nina, under Going on's. 1 Comment.
Yesterday was Emma’s 10th birthday! First, right when we woke up, Emma opened our presents. I gave her a necklace that she’d been wanting for a long time from the bookstore. Anja gave her a 2010 calendar, peppermint body-lotion, berry incense, and sour icebreakers. Everything that Anja got her cost $1.(”I was going to get you a snow-globe,” Anja said, “but it costed $2.”)
Then we all hopped in the car to go to Waffle House(a family tradition). But the car wouldn’t start! It’s battery was completely dead. It was because we had lent our car to someone the night before, and they had accidentally left the dome lights on, which drained the battery. So, we waited and waited until finally some nice man came and jumped our car. That was the tragedy for the day.
After a delicious, filling breakfast from Waffle House, we went to pick up Kaylee(the baby we watch, now a year old), then went straight to PetLand. PetLand is a pet store with ferrets, rats, guinea-pigs, rabbits, hamsters, dogs, parrots, chickadees, cockatiels, finches, doves, hedgehogs, and basically any domestic animal imaginable. But strangely, there were not any cats. Well, anyway, you could hold every single animal there. And, being a family that loves and is accustomed to having animals(and lives in an apartment where no animals except for birds and fish are allowed), we like to go to PetLand to get our ‘animal fix’.
After PetLand, we went home and put Kaylee down for a nap. While she slept, Emma opened Mom and Dad’s present. They gave her rollerblades. She was thrilled; she’s been wanting some for years. After that, our friends, the Harrison’s, came up to play. When they left, we went down to the fireside room and ate sushi for dinner(yum!). Then Kaylee’s mom came and picked her up, and we went upstairs again. We were going to go to a really cool astronomy place where we could look through telescopes and be given a tour. But I don’t know why we didn’t, I think because it was to cloudy or some dumb reason like that. I was really looking forward to it. Oh, well. Instead of that, we watched part of a show called Sara Jane, but Emma got to scared so we didn’t finish it. Then we just went to bed, and I stayed up late writing in my journal.
Emma thinks that the best part of turning 10 is that she’s going into double digits. I think that the best part of her turning 10 is she’s old enough to take out the trash and do laundery. I’ve been looking forward to that day for a very long time.
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Posted on 20 November '09 by nina, under Going on's. 2 Comments.
Posted on 19 November '09 by nina, under Drawings. No Comments.
I haven’t written in FOREVER!! I just got on and noticed that my last post was on Independence Day! So sorry, if there are any of you still reading this blog. I will try to post more regularly. Well, first, let me tell you why this post is called W-O-W. You might think that me posting on this blog after–-what? Four, maybe five months?–-is W-O-W enough, but nope, I’ve got a story that will wow you even more.
On Friday, November the 13th, some of our good friends came to visit from Tyler. Well, that night, the moms were putting the kids to bed when Mom saw something slip under a door. She went to pick it up and found that it was a very thick envelope. So she brought it to Dad who was sitting in his office, talking to me (I wasn’t in trouble or anything… you know me. I never get into trouble ). Anyway, she brought it to us and I begged to open it. So I did, and inside was $500!! There were twenty-five twenty dollar bills! Oh, and earlier, Dad had earned $150 for taking pictures for some friends. But that’s not it… two days later, on our way to church, our car broke down. We brought it to our dealership, Rusty Wallis Honda. They were very friendly and took, like, 20% off of the original price. And guess what the price was then? $584. So, God gave us the exact amount of money and some extra two days before we needed it!
I just wanted to share that with you, and I promise I will try to post more often. Well, gotta go!
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Posted on 18 November '09 by nina, under God Stories. 4 Comments.
Sorry this is late. Well, anyway, this is what we did for the fourth.
There was a severe heat warning for our area, and it said that it was probably best not to go see fireworks. So, instead we rented ‘Inkheart’, and Mom made some delicious homemade sushi. And we did get to see two or three distant fireworks out of our apartment window. It was very fun. Again, sorry this is late.
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Posted on 13 July '09 by nina, under Going on's. 2 Comments.
BANG! BOOM!
Across the Navy sky they zoom.
BOOM! POW!
Sparks flying–Ow!
POW! CRASH!
Across the Navy sky they dash.
Red, orange, yellow!
Blue, red, white!
Green, yellow, orange!
Wow, It’s quite a night!
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Posted on 4 July '09 by nina, under Poems. 1 Comment.
