unexpected deaths

When someone young dies it grips your heart. A woman close to my age is left with small kids just a bit older than my own, due to a fatal work accident her husband experienced today.

Mind racing, yet somewhat speechless.

This young man loved Jesus, his family and his community. He did not pass from life to death, he passed from life to life - eternal life, in heaven, with His Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

My heart is so sad for his family. To know he is in a better place and yet to have to go on without him here.

Hug your kids, embrace your family, choose not to fight, love with all you have because you never know when your last moments will come and go.

Peace and comfort to my friend's family and to all who suffer these tragedies on this earth!

Introduction

I always love reading other people's blogs, so hey, why not give it a shot?!

I'm Sarah, currently 31 years old, married for 5 1/2 years to my wonderful husband, Mike. We have two boys, Mikey who just turned 3 in October, and Zach who turned 1 in August.  We also have two "angel babies" from two prior pregnancies.

We love God and do our best to live our lives in a way that will be pleasing to Him.  Often, people disagree with us, but we are not here to please men, but to please our Creator!

Who knows where my thoughts and writings will lead from day to day or week to week, but I will do my best to make posts about my life experience and hope they will be a blessing to anyone who may read them!

My interests include: God/Bible, my family (and family in general), raising boys, homeschooling, crafts, being a wife, being a mommy, window shopping, daydreaming, christian ministry, christian fellowship, having fun, eating, cooking, baking, walking, fresh air, facebook - keeping up with friends, driving aimlessly (actually being a passenger while my husband drives us aimlessly), breastfeeding, new moms, cloth diapers (though I have never actually used them), saving money, thrifty ideas, good conversations, God's creation, chocolate...etc.

I'm a really imperfect person with a lot of quirks, but I love God and love life and hope to share my life with you!

~Sarah <3

our betta fish

mikey turned 3 october 25th. he loves animals and wants a dog so bad - he'd probably want a cat too, but mike and i are NOT cat people.  since we're living with my parents right now, dogs are not an option.  i had a brilliant idea! let's get him a fish, his first pet, that way he can feed it and work on learning the responsibility of caring for a living thing.

so the saturday after his birthday we took the kids to the pet store and asked some questions.  the girl suggested betta fish, and also informed us that you can't put two betta fish together in one tank because they will fight.  (i had also done some reading about fish and knew a little about this.) mikey chose his fish, a female betta, which is much smaller and less flowy fins than the look of the male betta.  we selected a tank that had a divider specifically so that you could keep two betta in the same tank! how fun! so mike picked out a second fish (for zach), he chose a male with big flowy fins.

we got our accessories and asked some questions and took them home to set up the tank.  there are various opinions about sticking the fish right in the tank or letting the water sit 24 hours, so we chose to let the water sit.  (we also had trouble with the first tank being scratched so it wasn't even until sunday that we had the new tank - so this process was a few days coming). so, we finally got them into the tank on oct 29th.

oct 30th mikey was saying good morning to the fish and told me he did not see the boy.  there's a submarine accessory in the tank so i figured he was inside it, but i also did not see him.  i looked down and it turned out he had jumped out of a tiny hole in the back of the tank! we thought he was dead but luckily he was still alive and i was able to get him into the small cup he was in at the pet store! later mike put him back in his side of the tank and covered the back part with some plastic wrap (not tightly, but in a way that we didn't think he would be able to jump out again).

nov 2nd as i came into the kitchen to give the kids breakfast, i realized that the boy fish was in the girl's side of the tank!!! he swam around tormenting her for a while and then i finally got brave enough to get him out (we have a net, but i was afraid of him jumping at me when i opened the cover lol).  he has been in his cup since then.  

today i noticed the female looks awfully plump around the mid-section!!! i will be doing some serious research during nap time today!!! 

who knew getting two little betta fish for my 3 year old could be so exciting! and crazy! the pollie family's first pets! <3