A Song for the Mama

I posted a blog about how fantabulous my day had started and now I want to WOW you with how great it is coming to an end. My daughter, Tess, wrote a song for me. Anytime someone writes a song about me/for me, you can bet it is going to make the blog.
Here is how it goes. I had her write it down for me so I could keep it FOREVER.

She's Good (clap, clap)
She's Great (clap, clap)
She's my best friend mom.

She's Good (clap,clap)
She's Great (clap,clap)
She deserves the opposite of hate....which is LOVE!

Joyfully,
Sarah

I wish volunteer work paid better!

I spent the morning doing one of my favorite things--Volunteering! Once a month I go to the Matthew 25 clinic in the basement of the Good Samaritan Center in Excelsior Springs. It is a free medical clinic that a church member, who is also an ER doctor, started. I am also proud to call him a friend. Here is the kicker....I go to do this "good deed for others" and end up enriching my life each time. The time I spend there flies by, I get to sit and visit with people and just learn. It is a long running joke in my house that I have a sign on my forehead that says "enough about me...let's talk about YOU!" because I am forever getting more than I bargain for when I say "Hi! How are you?"

What I am learning is that people are having a tough go of it. The economy is bad, jobs are scarce, and there is more uninsured people than I want to mention. (And I am selfish enough to get down when my credit card bill comes and I forgot how much I had just charged on my last shopping spree. Time for AA.....Attitude Adjustment!) So, I listen, I smile, and then I tell them what a good job they are doing with the lousy luck they've got. I spoil the children (with hugs and tickles, coloring books, gratuitious praise for their drawings, endless games of hide and seek, asking about their favorite things to do at school, and I never, ever tell them that they can't spin in the office chairs.) and I spoil the adults (by just sitting there and listening.) I swear, I would volunteer full-time if it paid the bills!

By the way, we do medical stuff there too. :) Today we did a school physical for a new 7th grader who is going to play football....and I bet he excels, because his eyes lit UP when he told me about it. We helped a person with raging poison ivy, a mother who had an abcessed tooth get antibiotics and a referral for free dental care, and gave reassurance to a woman who found a lump in her breast and got her a referral for GYN care. Because, get this, she had been to her Dr. 3 years ago, then lost her insurance. Now she needs to go back, but because of the 3 year time frame she is considered a new patient and THEY ARE NOT ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS! Soooo she has a lump in her breast and an IUD(sorry for the TMI) that needs removed and can't see anyone without self pay $ upfront. This health care reform better get figured out and fast. People are getting mentally and physically beat down by the current system.


As I step down from my soap box I will sign off. This day started off fantabulous, and now I am off to "lead" the teenagers through the book of Daniel. Wish me luck. Better yet, Pray for me.

Sarah
PS. Find somewhere to volunteer. You will get so much JOY from it!

Let's DO this!

Ever have such a great idea that you are pretty sure it is the best one you've ever had? It starts out as Yes! Alright! Let's DO this...and the next day it's WHEW HOO! I am going to DO this!... and by the third day it is, Whew, I wish this would get done already? Thus is my new found life as a blogger.

This week Tess started the second grade. Time flies...because I am pretty sure that I am no where near old enough to have a child that age! :) She loves school, and thankfully, school loves her right back. Kate starts preschool on the 4th and you can bet your bippy I will have a blog and a half about that day.

Wednesday was my first night as a Bible Study leader for 10th-12th graders at church. Mind you, I use the title of "leader" very loosely. The conversations were random, the teens were spastic, and I spent a lot of time thinking "Oh my goodness. Is it wrong to want a drink while I am in the middle of a Bible Study?" I lead groups of schizophrenics that stay on topic better than those kids! :) This is another step out of my comfort zone, and I hope that it blesses me as much as my career choice has. I am no longer a sheltered white girl from the suburbs....Thank You Jesus!

I wanted to amaze you. I wanted to inspire you. And I want to make you laugh, possibly until you snort. So, I'm sorry this blog was a bit underwhelming. I swear I have fantastic ideas for blogs when I am no where near my computer.

Happy Weekend.

Sarah

Just FYI..... Scott, the bachelor friend who I'm sure will accept full responsibility for my Facebook page fiasco, did great in the ACS auction, and has a date with a "cute little blonde"(in the words of his mama)

So yeah, I'm a blogger

Holy crap. I'm a blogger now! I have been reading my dear seester-in-law's blog for a while and think it is such fun to read. So today is the day I join the real world of technology and start a blog. Bear with me, I have no idea what I am doing to set this up...I really hope it is simple.

I have motivation for doing this today, of all days....it's a funny story, really. I accidently started a facebook page, and now I can't get people to stop requesting me as their friend! Seriously! I have a friend who was chosen to be auctioned at the American Cancer Society's "Bachelor Auction." He sent the link to see his profile, and just to view it I had to answer some "questions".......and bada bing bada boom...I have a freakin' facebook page! (no offense to anyone who requested me as a friend..tee hee)

So this is my first blog. Funny, I don't feel any different....yet.

Talk to you soon, Baboon!

(that's Kate's new good-bye)

Sarah