Life is Beautiful

Motherhood, Sewing, Family

distance makes the heart grow FONDER~

~ Etc.

It’s pretty crazy how 5942 miles of land and sea can make you realize how happy one person makes you, how important they are to your sanity, how much you take for granted just picking up your mobile and calling them to see what they’re doing, and how much more meaningful life is when they’re right by your side. yah yah mushy tushy get over it.
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Sarah’s flight delayed and it is going to make traveling with two lil babies that much longer, that much more exhausting and that much more stressful. I do find comfort in knowing that if someone can handle it its her. But I know that this is really going to be a L O N G is flight back to the US of A from her crazy north Korean neighbors.
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I’m thankful to all the peeps that brought me food or had me over for dinner while Sarah was gone. Before she left I thought of all the things I was goina do distraction and obligation free. Go watch countless movies by myself in the theatre and at home, play halo all nite and just be a lazy piece…SHESH that didn’t happen- so here’s what I did:
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-Move ALL 3 tons of Sarah’s clothes from the basement closet to our now finished upstairs walk in closet and fold, hang, and organize every single article of clothing that she owns.
-Missed Sarah
-Finished up the lighting in the upstairs bath and closet
-Missed Adalie
-Put up the back splash to the upstairs bath and lined the mirror with tile
-Missed Ariana
-Gave the fireplace a fashion makeover
-Missed all three girls
-Deep cleaned the whole house
-Put in about 60 hrs transforming the backyard from OW to WOW so my daughter can go outside. (thats really how she says every single word!)
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My body is so sore and I know that I am def gettin old…hey my 10 yr HS reunion is this weekend! IMUA4life! 99′ boys! …that’s for u Sarah and Ginny and Colby!
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I’m so happy Sarah’s coming home. I miss being able to just talk to her whenever I want. That Korea +15 hour thing really sucked! I’m so happy I can talk to her face to face without a web cam and happy that I wont feel so helpless when she’s having a bad day. I miss her cooking. I really think I lost about 10 lbs and this is the lightest I’ve been in who knows how long! whoop whoop! I miss playing with my two girls and cuddling with them and even waking up at nite to take care of them. I feel like I take Sarah for granted and sometimes when your thrown into things like we were, its a bumpier road then most and you don’t devote and sacrifice as much as you should. I miss her jokes, I miss her laugh…yah basically I’m just pathetic without her. I’m so lucky to have someone like Sarah who’s stuck it out with me through seriously some crazy times…I’m so happy she’s coming home today and I hate the airlines for delaying her flight!
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Despite all that it was nice to play a lot of basketball, it was nice watchin every single NBA finals game uninterrupted… GO LAKERS!!!
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I also played a TON of paintball and got a really cool haircut by caitlyn that my mom didn’t like but really its the same as always…just a tad shorter 😉 So here’s some pics of my paintball team: ONE LOVE where we represent where ever we r, took home some ca$h money, took home a couple 1st and 2nd place trophy’s and left welts on countless unfortante souls .
One Love waitin for the 10 second count to start the 1st game
Standing behind the center 50 with Goldie
Checkin out the bunker to see who’s goina get paint in their face

Run-n-Gun

I think I killed two peeps off this side run
Makin a break to snake gettin ready to dive low
Checkin out my options, thats my bandana in the back, not my hair!
Me and my boy Jim surveying and talkin our next move

We both push center 50 and hold down our sides…Jim didn’t hold up his end and left me holdin it down!

I’m coming home!

~ Etc.

Koreans are very blunt and speak their minds. Not to mention they get in your business. When the weather was a slight cooler than usual or a little windy and my children didn’t have a long sleeve shirt, long pants, socks and a jacket, I would hear from every past and present mothers, “Aren’t they cold?” I don’t know what is up with them and covering their kids from head to toe!
There are good things though about it for Adalie heard from countless people how pretty she was and how she had the prettiest eyes because her double eyelids are so prominent for they LOVE the double eye lids.
But After hearing from every single person and I mean EVERY SINGLE person whether it was a complete stranger I met at a grocery store, bus stop, pharmacy, salon, my parents’ friends, relatives, church frends, WHOMEVER these following things;

“Oh my gosh a BABY had a BABY!”

“WHAT? You’re married? WHAT? You just gave birth 2 months ago? WHAT? She’s not your first? WHAT? You have TWO KIDS??? I thought you were in High School!”

I think I’m ready to come home. Oh wait…everyone still thinks the same in the US! Crap!

And this has nothing to do with anything but I went to a salon a few days ago to get a hair cut, a hair dye and a magic straight perm. This magic straight perm really is magic. No more blow drying my hair and styling, it dries by itself perfectly straight without any fuzz. I’m so excited because I hate spending too much time on getting ready and now this will cut back on about 60% of ready time! And all for $50 bucks! This was my first time to a salon since my wedding day. Man isn’t Jay SO lucky to have such a low maintenance wife? 😀

Now if you’ll excuse me, I gotta go pack because I’m leaving tomorrow morning to go back home!!! I’m SOOOOOOO excited!!! Please pray for me that I’ll have a good, quiet flight back home because I sure will be praying for it.

two years, two kids, too happy

~ Etc.

Mayish 2007

So about 7+ years ago I was at my cousin jas’s house and sarah came over to hang out cause she knew I was there and that Kelis song just came out “Milkshake” and Sarah stood up and was singing it and dancing seductivly :O Sarah always gets mad at me because she says she remembers the very first time she met me yada yada yada…and I don’t. But I do know that when she sang that “milkshake” song and if I close my eyes, i can still see her and hear her singing and dancing “my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard…” I get complelty smitten all over again. It was probably around 11:30pmish when we left jas’s place and Sarah and I had parked right by eachother. I asked her what she was goina do now since I didn’t have the balls to ask her out, but really wanted to hang out with her more. She said something to the effect of “ah, I’ll probably just go home, u?” I told her I might go get something to eat, even though we had just eaten at jas’s in hopes that she would say “yah lets go get something” But she didnt and we said goodnite and goodbye.

Till this day, I regret asking her out. I was smitten and thought that all chances of ending up with Sarah were gone. But somehow, we eneded up together against all odds and celebrate two years together today. Or should I say, I’m celebrating our two years today while Sarah celebrated it yesterday in Korea. If I had asked her out that milkshake nite, maybe we’d be celebrating our 7 year anniversary instead of our 2 year. Regardless I wish she was with me today, I wish I could hug her, I wish I could kiss her, I wish I could tell her how much I love her face to face…and I wish I could hear her in person sing the “milkshake” song. Really…you should hear her sing it, she’s really good! 😛

It’s crazy to think we’ve been married 24 months and have an 18 month old and a 2 month old. But despite the crazy fast jump start in our family, despite the ups and the downs. I’m so happy to have Sarah in my life. I could go on and on about how happy and lucky I am to have her, but I don’t wanna make anyone throw up by reading my sweet nothings. Time sure flies. Here’s a pic of us the very first month we got married and then here’s a pic of us just a couple weeks ago before Sarah left to Korea. COME BACK ALREADY shesh…

Mayish 2009

12 more days

~ Etc.

So I have been counting down the days until I get to go to my home sweet home. I AM NEVER GOING ON A MONTH VACATION WITHOUT JAY EVER AGAIN!!! WHAT WAS I THINKIN’? I really don’t know how I thought I would be fine without seeing him that long.

The flight was horrible, terrible and ugly with me wanting to break down every hour. Adalie was fairly really good, Ariana was fussy and crying and didn’t sleep for 11 hrs. straight, they messed up my ticket so it took 3 hrs. to check in, I didn’t get my seat with the bassinet for Ariana, this man sitting next to me scolded me for having Adalie sit next to him with a sucker because the sucker accidentally touched his shirt and yes I’m a baby so I cried, I had to check in at every lay over for my ticket and stand there the whole time until we boarded, the whole flight/driving/lay over took a little over 25 hrs. and with not even a 10 minute snooze and only one break down, we arrived safely and sound in Korea!!! 😀

My mom’s back has been really bad so she can’t do much so I’ve been helping her instead plus watching two babies under 2 literally 24/7 and WOW. It has been so overwhelmingly hard. Ariana has colic, Adalie has been sick with a fever, I got Mastitis(only for 2 days thank goodness) and Thrush again at the same time, Ariana goes for 12 hrs. without sleep and then crashes. This will be such a good experience for me because the first month of giving birth to Ariana my mom came everyday and cooked me lunch, dinner, watched the kids, and when she stopped coming and I was all alone for 8 hrs. while Jay was at work I thought it was so hard but since being here, Jay’s not here to help me watch them and it’s me all alone 24/7, 7 days a week with no break whatsoever. So when I go home, I’ll think it’s a piece of cake compared to now!

A few days ago I was having a pity party with me, myself and I and was thinking how much this sucked and how I was so bored and tired of all this and overwhelmed but for the sake of myself, my kids and everybody around me, I decided to change my attitude and think that instead of coming here for myself, I came here to take care of mom and for my brother’s wedding. Then things seemed to be better. 🙂

And thinking that I’ll get to see Jay in 12 days always brightens me up. Who counts down to go home when they’re on their summer vacation? Apparently me.

My baby

~ Etc.

This is really short and really sweet. Adalie is saying, “My baby.” Awww. 🙂

Oh and I miss Jay. Terribly. 🙁