Dear friends and family,
First let me apologize for waiting as long as I have to update you on the inner workings of the Heselton household! It has been a chaotic and insane couple of weeks. (No exaggerations there!) Between family visiting, unpacking, and travels of our own, we have had narry a moment to breath. My immune system has been complaining rather loudly at the lack of rest it has recieved and as a result I have developed cold after cold after cold this year! YUCK! Not a pleasent way to end the year!
After my last post we had a short visit from Frank and Brenda. It was a lovely visit, but much too short! They drove down on Saturday and stayed for just over 24 hours! During this trip they brought both boys their birthday presents (Matt's birthday was the 20th and David's is January 6th) and Christmas for all three of us. David and I could hardly stand the Christmas presents under the tree taunting us!!
We also had the funny misfortune of dealing with a Super Glue incident on the day his mother and father were to arrive. I decided that this would be the opprotune time to fix the shower hooks that had the decorative metal buttons fall off. As I was hanging up the first shower hook, the button shifted and the end result was a super glued eye!! Though I know my in-laws would not have cared if the decorative buttons were on our shower hooks, to me it seemed to be a big deal! Oh if only I had known the incedent would occure! The glue burned like nothing I have ever felt!! We successfully were able to remove the glue from my eye by placing my head under warm running watter and letting it run over the eye for an hour. Lesson learned though! Make sure super glue is 100% dry before you raise it above your head!! :-D
We also headed up north to visit my family for the holiday as of last week. My grandmother did not have a clue we were coming and it felt great to surprise her on Christmas evening! The look on her face was well worth the travel time!!! :-) Thanks to my mom and dad we had a place to stay for free (My Grandma Wlodarski's) and we enjoyed our time visiting with them! David and I also spent some time with my little cousins and we had an enjoyable time watching the little girls beat the snot out of Jacob in Wii bowling! :-P Oh fun times!!
My only regret for this Christmas season was not actually making it up to my family in Virgina. I know David greatly misses home and his mom and dad! We do plan on making a trip up there later this winter, but it still is not the same as making it home for Christmas! :-( We have also agreed that in years to come we are going to spend time with our family on a rotating schedule until we have children. Once kids come along, we are not 100% sure how we will handle that challenge. The great news is that my parents and his parents live close together, so potentially we could have Christmas on the same day with BOTH families!! :-D God sure did know what he was doing when he moved mom and dad close to Frank and Brenda!! :-D Certainly makes balanceing our two families a lot easier! :-D
As with every post I would like to ask for a few prayer requests! It is the end of the year and I am asking that you all think about the year and what you have to be thankful for! 2009 was a very productive year for many of us, but lets see what 2010 will bring us!! :-D I also ask that you continue to pray for my grandmother. She had a PET scan this week and we have not heard the news on that test yet. I also ask that you keep my littlest cousin Crista in your prayers. She is have some trouble with her leg and is getting ready to be taken through a ton of tests to find out what is wrong. She had an x-ray done on the 21st and she has a dark spot on her bone. Please pray that this is nothing serious and that the shadow is nothing to be concerned about! 2009 has been a rough year health wise for my family, and we are asking that 2010 will be a lot easier and not as difficult!
Sending you all lots of love!!
Sarah and David
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The Chaos that ensues....
Hey guys (and gals)!!!!
Well as you all know by now, David and I have moved!! A HUGE blessing this Christmas season, but a pain in my hind quarters at points! David and I began a housing search at the beginning of October that we kept quiet from most people. We felt the need to move from the place we were living into something better suited for our needs. We notified a few people that we were going to be moving and that we were very uncertain about the time frame due to finances and the typical lack of housing in Knoxville. After all, this is a college town, and the likely hood of finding someplace to move into quickly and CHEAPLY was very small. Needless to say God proved faithful and proved to us that if we trust him to handle things, our life is simply made richer. We chose to stay in West Knoxville due mostly in part to this is where we live out our day to day lives. I work right across the street and David works about a ten minute drive away. Our church is about five minutes away, and every activity imaginable is located within a fifteen minute drive from our apartment! What couldn't be more perfect about these living arrangements?!
We packed rather quickly and with the help of some friends we had most of our belongings moved within a matter of hours!! How cool is that?! Of course life has been rather chaotic since the move, but we are slowly settling in and enjoying our new home! (Pictures will follow once we are all unpacked!)
Of course life has been hectic in other ways for us too. David is almost done with school for the semester and that makes for a busy time for both of us! I, of course, work in retail and can not even BEGIN to tell you how hectic that is!! There are days I come home from work and shut off simply because that is all I can do. I am ever so grateful that my spouse understands this and does not pressure me to talk about it to death. Of course he is always there to listen when I need to vent, and for that I am grateful too! We a blessing my husband truly is!!
As with every closing of each post, we are asking for prayer! My dad had gallbladder surgery yesterday and we ask for quick healing! Dad has had a rough month physically so we are also praying that we can get these few bumps in the road out now so that next year will be smooth for him!! :-) We also ask for prayer with grandma! She returns to the doctor at the end of the month for a follow up visit concerning her surgery. Please pray that everything goes smoothly with that!! And finaly we ask for prayer concerning David's last few weeks at JBC as a full time student! This is a bittersweet time in his life and also a very hectic one! Pray for a smooth transistion into what God brings for us next!! :-)
Well as you all know by now, David and I have moved!! A HUGE blessing this Christmas season, but a pain in my hind quarters at points! David and I began a housing search at the beginning of October that we kept quiet from most people. We felt the need to move from the place we were living into something better suited for our needs. We notified a few people that we were going to be moving and that we were very uncertain about the time frame due to finances and the typical lack of housing in Knoxville. After all, this is a college town, and the likely hood of finding someplace to move into quickly and CHEAPLY was very small. Needless to say God proved faithful and proved to us that if we trust him to handle things, our life is simply made richer. We chose to stay in West Knoxville due mostly in part to this is where we live out our day to day lives. I work right across the street and David works about a ten minute drive away. Our church is about five minutes away, and every activity imaginable is located within a fifteen minute drive from our apartment! What couldn't be more perfect about these living arrangements?!
We packed rather quickly and with the help of some friends we had most of our belongings moved within a matter of hours!! How cool is that?! Of course life has been rather chaotic since the move, but we are slowly settling in and enjoying our new home! (Pictures will follow once we are all unpacked!)
Of course life has been hectic in other ways for us too. David is almost done with school for the semester and that makes for a busy time for both of us! I, of course, work in retail and can not even BEGIN to tell you how hectic that is!! There are days I come home from work and shut off simply because that is all I can do. I am ever so grateful that my spouse understands this and does not pressure me to talk about it to death. Of course he is always there to listen when I need to vent, and for that I am grateful too! We a blessing my husband truly is!!
As with every closing of each post, we are asking for prayer! My dad had gallbladder surgery yesterday and we ask for quick healing! Dad has had a rough month physically so we are also praying that we can get these few bumps in the road out now so that next year will be smooth for him!! :-) We also ask for prayer with grandma! She returns to the doctor at the end of the month for a follow up visit concerning her surgery. Please pray that everything goes smoothly with that!! And finaly we ask for prayer concerning David's last few weeks at JBC as a full time student! This is a bittersweet time in his life and also a very hectic one! Pray for a smooth transistion into what God brings for us next!! :-)
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