A-Dub’s Thoughts
Thoughts of a wife and mother

I just recently turned 30.  For most people that is the end of their youth or their party years.  If you ask Xavier, I am now an adult.  If I am now an adult how come I have been paying a mortgage for seven years, have medical bills up to my eye balls, and have an eight year old?

I am looking forward to seeing what I am going to find in my 30′s…perhaps they will find a way to make my nerves communicate with my brain properly.  Perhaps my son will become neat and clean ( a mother can dream), or maybe I will drop my past and realize that the future can be bright.  I have so much I would love to do if I am healthy enough, travel to Europe, see Uganda, meet the people that I regularly help serve in my missions work in Haiti and Mexico.

I don’t know what my 30′s hold but I can tell you one thing if they are anything like my 20′s they will not be boring.

I woke up from my nap and Aaron told me we had a problem….He said that Arya really liked my printer.

Xavier on "The Beast"

On Saturday morning we took some whole bean coffee from Thousand Hills to the Buckeye Fire Department.  I wanted to thank them for taking me to the hospital in October.  I wasn’t grateful for being in the hospital, but I was very thankful that they were there to take me there and at least start the ball rolling in trying to figure out what is wrong with me now.

When we got to the fire house they were in return grateful for the coffee and asked if X wanted to see any of the trucks.  So he wanted to see “The Beast.”  James, the firefighter, let him get in the cab and start her up, play with the radio and all the buttons.  Then James turned the generator on the back so X could use the hose.  X was really excited that he got to water a very dry desert bush.

Last night Josh, a friend of ours, called us outside to witness an amazing event.  About 10 small bats were fluttering around our backyard and tress, feasting on the plentiful buffet of insects.  We were able to stand there and watch them get just out of arm’s reach for about 15 minutes.

I have to say that I am so glad that I was able to be apart of this.  I have been in a lot of pain in the last two weeks and so in need of a spirit’s lifter and this really was it.  God really knows how to wrap His arms around His children and let them know that there is hope.

I received an Epson Artisan 800 photo printer from my in-laws for Christmas last year.  The problem was that it wouldn’t print properly.  I called Epson, and they exchanged the printer.  I was yet again excited, but alas it would not print either.  Yet another call to Epson and another printer.  Yay!?!  It came with the wrong ink cartridges.

I now have the right cartridges and my printer is printing.  Who knew Christmas was in August.