We had a great family gathering last night!
We did some swimming

ate a few smores (and cake and cookies)
Got to just hang out!

the ball from the lacross set got stuck about 3 stories high in a pine tree. After getting several sticks and a 10 ft piece of lumber ALSO stuck in the tree, Victoria came to the rescue and even posed for a few pictures

Daniel got out, then decided he wasn't quite finished!

Mothers Morning, summer edition

We had a wonderful time at Susans house this week! Charity and I showed up, and altogether the 3 of us had 11 children running amok.







Daniel and Syd

Snack Time!

Cat gets it done!

After less than two weeks in London, one of which Paul was in Germany, the Schwartz family has a London home! They'll be able to move in within 2 weeks. Go Cat!



I think it's adorable, it was my first pick out of the ones Cat sent to me. Each home has it's own style of fence and gate.

The reception room (living room)

The VERY cute kitchen

and dining area




it even has my favorite recessed sink lol







the rest of the pics are at this site

whew

Turns out someone just guessed my password on WoW and all is well.

Cat was actually online and we chit chatted a few minutes about the CRAZY EXPENSIVE HOUSING in London. It turns out an APARTMENT in London is $6400 a MONTH that's right kids. $6400.00 for ONE MONTH. for an apartment. not a house. an apartment.
I was able to get me, Cat and Mona in a chat room together for a few minutes on yahoo. It was good to get "together" :)

crappity crap crap crap.

apparently my WoW account got hacked or SOMETHING because I got an email today that it was under suspension! I've hardly been on in the past couple months. The email said:
"Details: Character(s) on this account were found to be used for intended exploitation of the World of Warcraft economy." Anyone know what that means? me either. grrrr

I never knew...

I never knew what a slow healing wound grief is. I've had other people close to me pass away, both my mothers parents passed in 2002, but lets face it, they were OLD! They died of natural causes with resolved lives. Having someone so young taken so violently and so UNnaturally just cuts to the core.
it's been one year and 3 months and it still brings me to tears to think of it but I can tell my wound is slowly closing.
Earlier in the month I had a birthday. While I was making my guest list and "eviting" people I went through and decided to tidy my contact list. When I came to Karens name, I felt it was time to take that tiny stitch out of my wound. I deleted her from my address book. I still can't believe it. It feels like I'm betraying her although I know if she were here she'd be saying "oh get OVER it" lol
That night I skipped the first part of worship team practice and sat in on the Grief Share group I used to attend. I couldn't even tell them what I had done, I just wrote it down in my journal.
Today I'm changing my Myspace name back to Laura Chin. I've been A Sister Mourns for a long time now! It's a big step for me and an even bigger one to write it down here.

yikes, ok i'm freaking out

ok, i totally didn't realize how Paul, Cat and Tate moving would make me feel!

I'm tracking their flight on Flight Stats, which is pretty interesting.

The problem is, I've been a bit teary all day about it, and the closer they get to leaving our continent, the more watery I get. They're so close to the North Atlantic, they'll be over it within the hour.

All I can say is thank God for email, webcams and IM's