HE is ENOUGH

well i WAS on a roll with this blogging thing. oh well. a lot has happened in the past two weeks. i'll do my best to do a recap...

i went to field day at east end which was a blast. pretty sure it was the best way to spend my last day with those kiddies. the boys were way more competitive in all the events, it was adorable. we had a tug of war competition for all of first grade and i am proud to say we hold the runner up trophy. they pulled with all their might and came up short of the winners trophy, BUT i was proud of them. :] the first couple of pictures were my attempts to capture the fun moments. that afternoon was their "blast off into reading" party. each student was presented with a certificate for the amount of books they read during the "blast off", and the student with the most got a trophy. of course, my girl Sasha won reading 100 books. :]

after that came training for camp. there will be no pictures attached because it was obviously not something i wanted to remember forever. HA. i have taken on a new position this year, camp site director. it is a lot more than i bargained for. this is the same summer camp i worked at last summer, only then i was a mere counselor. there were a handful of days i had to be "director" to fill in for my boss, but i did not have to do all the behind the scenes stuff. needless to say, i felt like i had taken on too big of a role. but once i began to get a few things organized i realized that this job will be a great experience for me. i was informed i have 100+ kids that will be attending this day camp, and less than 10 counselors for the first week. i have a plan and have organized the first day, so BRING ON SUMMER 2009! i am going into the first day without knowing a few things, but i am praying parents won't begin to freak out leaving their kid with an inexperienced site director. we all have to start somewhere, right? i'll do my best to post about the first week. i know that will be one crazy fun blog for you readers out there. :]

a weekend of hanging with my sis and bro in law was nice and relaxing before it was time to head back to the 'burg for one last week.

on monday, my "old college roomie" and best friend, paige drove up to visit so we could cross "trip to spartanburg" off our list. i got to show her the beautiful sights and sounds of spartanburg, which took all of 15 min. we had dinner at wade's the first night with kim day [she paid because she loves us poor college grads] and then paige insisted kd give her a tour of downtown spartanburg because it was apparent that i was not "up to date" with things around 'burg. :] for the rest of her visit we swam, ate chick-fil-a, watched home videos, played games [sucaAHHHN & phase 10], learned how to cut watermelon, ate at the beacon [because "everyone has to experience it"] and best of all laughed until our sides and cheeks hurt. one night after an intense game of phase 10 somehow we got into the discussion of lost (the tv show) and from there it's history-i am officially hooked. i convinced paige to stay one more night and was really trying to extend it, but i failed. least i got her to go to lunch TWICE in a tee and jeans :) it's a shame i didn't capture those moments, but that's typical of us. our picture taking is always awkward, therefore we never take any. during spring break this past spring we went to the beach and got MAYBE three pictures out of it? the picture attached is the best one we have, and it was from forever ago. regardless of our lack of pictures, it was fun to spend time with "P". hard to say goodbye, but we have plenty of other things to cross off our "list" before China beckons.

after paige left, i had a desert date with a handful of swu friends in downtown greenville. we met at coffee underground to share various deserts and catch up. it was great getting to relax and visit with these five kids: mel, chen, adam, rome, and mark. chen taught us a few words in Chinese, as i struggled to pronounce them trying to learn the native tongue. after cu we decided to go to the park to throw the frisbee around. it was obvious the boys were better at the frisbee throwing than the girls, but it was still a fun time to share together. while there i bumped into another fellow alumni from swu and enjoyed being able to catch up with her and her boyfriend. once it got dark we walked the bridge at falls park and eventually found ourselves sitting on the patio of a little cottage style restaurant. we had a bit of a "round-table discussion" which lasted all of 5 minutes before a waiter began to move the tables. we noticed he was just moving them to another part of the patio, so instead of leaving we got up to help him move the iron tables and chairs. he seemed so incredibly grateful to us. [he not only kept saying thank you he was drenched in sweat, so we knew he was appreciative] once we helped him it took not even 10 minutes to get everything moved, and he told us we could sit and stay as long as we wanted. so, another round table discussion began. but not before the gentleman came out with free sweet tea for us! of course everyone else got tea, but i had to be the "yankee" and ask for water. :] i will say i tried the tea, but like all the other tea i have tried...it was gross. as we ended our eventful evening, i couldn't help but thank my Father for these friends. i am not sure when i will see them again since they will be heading off to travel for ministry teams and i will head to rock hill before departing for China. saying goodbye was hard, but i pushed through it and grabbed each of them in a big hug.

as the week rounded out, i found out my thumb drive died. (if that can even really happen) meaning i lost my entire list of people i sent a support letter to. i had to start all over again from scratch because the intelligent student teacher of the year i am never saves anything in two places. i lost my first support letter, all my student teaching stuff, the organizing i had done for camp, all of it. despite the momentary panic, i gave it all to my Father. it was exhausting to start all over again, but He gave me the strength to get through it.

the past couple of days have been hard. maybe because more change is right around the corner. but whatever it is, i am learning to REALLY know what it means to give EVERYTHING to my Father. to let it sink DEEP in my heart that HE is ENOUGH. period. the things of this world are only temporary, but He is FOREVER. i have not been putting my Father first lately and because of that i have felt empty and useless. since my highest love language is physical touch, i seem to "do best" when there is a physical person here to hang out with. i struggle sometimes with spending time with my Father because there is no PHYSICAL touch involved. i am learning that He knows exactly what i need and sometimes when i feel i need that physical touch, it's only because my Faith is weak. and it's in those times when i just cry out to Him, begging Him to just be enough for me. because all that matters is who we are when we stand before Him.

ps-first of all, i am not sure "ps's" really exist in the blogging world. if not, oh well--maybe i've started a new trend. :) anyway, i apologize for the two different fonts. for some reason it just changed in the middle of my post and i am not able to get it all to be one font. it's pretty frustrating. anyway, if you noticed i'm sorry. if you didn't then...well now you probably do. :]