big room 

living room 

when it hits the fan

i suppose we should have seen this coming. our first house, and the sewage pipes go bust. josh and I would agree that we are fortunate. we have good friends and family. we have nice things. we eat well and drink clean water. we even go to movies and have many winter coats. however, sometimes, enough "difficult" things happen in a short amount of time to make you question things. things like, are we crazy? were we supposed to move here? Our first weekend here, a tree fell down in our driveway, blocking our cars..of course, the night before my first day of work. drama. then our sewage goes bust. then, we for some reason are not getting our paychecks in the mail...and then when the sewage is "fixed"...water starts coming out of the toilet overflowing onto our beautful hardwood floors. so here I am, sitting on my recently soiled floors, waiting on a plumber to fix what he just supposedly fixed three hours ago. did I mention he ripped down our neighbors tree in the process...the big one that shades his nice front porch. Oh dear....this is our little life these days.

And I am not dealing well with this. I am irritated(your house smelling like poo can do this to you). We also just had to cancel our fancy dinner reservations with my dad that were for 6....that's one minute from now.

this will all be funny one day...but now, not so much.

talk to you soon....

"I've had better days" Brooksie:)

mad, hot ballroom

the strangest thing.....four summers ago, I went to NYC and worked at a summer day camp in Washington Heights. I helped tutor these kids, played in the fountains with them, and taught them a dance class...the cotton eyed joe was the dance du jour. I laughed my head off as these kids, who were from the Dominican Republic, danced a little jig with me. I had a favorite, her name was jatna....well, josh and I went to see a documentary yesterday (see poster)...and ALL those kids I was with in NYC were in this documentary...and jatna, she's the little girl on the poster. Can you believe that? I cried the entire film. so the documentary is about public schools in NYC who are doing this ball room dancing program. it is just hilarious and adorable, moving, etc.... they documented only three of the schools, one of which was Wahington Heights. It was so great to see these little kids have their moment of glory..so many of them come from such difficult circumstances. So many times we do things, like a short term mission trip, and wonder what good we did or we wonder what ever happens to these precious people. well, sometimes they become famous little ball room dancers!.....mad, hot ballroom, go see these wonderful kids!