Sacrifice. What exactly is that? I have a job. My wife has a job. My kids are healthy. I'm able to write this on a nice laptop with high-speed wireless connection inside a nice home in a quiet sub-division. Do I really know what sacrifice is?
As a family, we sponsor a little girl in Ethiopia. We started sponsoring her in 2008 and she has become a big part of our family even though we haven't even met her. We "sacrifice" our fifty dollars a month to help her and her family. The average family in Ethiopia lives on a little more than seventeen dollars a month.
I'm sure that everyone knows someone that has lost a job, house, or family member recently. I think that I'm sacrificing so much by working fifty hours a week and taking three classes, but I 'm willing to bet that someone who is fighting cancer in a hospital bed right now would gladly trade places with me. So do I really know what sacrifice is?
Friday, February 24, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Anniversary Trip
My wife Heather and I are thinking about taking a second honeymoon for our tenth anniversary. This trip will be in 2013, but we are the type of people that plan way ahead. We are going Monday evening to speak with travel agent about our plans. For our honeymoon we went to Rome and Venice, Italy. It was such an amazing trip that we still talk about today.
What I want to ask everyone is where should we go this time? We talked about a return to Italy. We also have talked about the Caribbean and doing one of the all-inclusive resorts. I'm not the type to just sit on a beach and take in the sun, but as long as we are together, that is all that matters.
My plan is to try and sway my wife to make a trip to London, England. I would love to take in a football game (soccer to us Americans) and sit in a pub eating fish and chips and drinking some great English beer. We talked about many different places, but I'm pushing for Europe. Please tell me where you think we should go!
What I want to ask everyone is where should we go this time? We talked about a return to Italy. We also have talked about the Caribbean and doing one of the all-inclusive resorts. I'm not the type to just sit on a beach and take in the sun, but as long as we are together, that is all that matters.
My plan is to try and sway my wife to make a trip to London, England. I would love to take in a football game (soccer to us Americans) and sit in a pub eating fish and chips and drinking some great English beer. We talked about many different places, but I'm pushing for Europe. Please tell me where you think we should go!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
I really enjoy spending time with my family. We are often in the kitchen cooking or eating. Last weekend we spent the day preparing for the Super Bowl.
My wife and I planned a whole menu right out of the Bon Appetit magazine. We needed some items for our menu, so my wife, her mom and our kids made a trip to the store. By the time she returned, there was a Guinness reduction sauce boiled over onto the stove, flour all over the kitchen counter, and a sink full of dishes.
I love to cook, and I think I'm pretty good at it, but I know that I'm better at making a mess in the kitchen! My lovely wife, Heather, puts up with it because I make excellent roasted chicken, amazing homemade pasta, and a mean brownie with Guinness beer as its star ingredient. Heather has told me that if the food wasn't so good, she would have kicked me out of the kitchen a long time ago!
My wife and I planned a whole menu right out of the Bon Appetit magazine. We needed some items for our menu, so my wife, her mom and our kids made a trip to the store. By the time she returned, there was a Guinness reduction sauce boiled over onto the stove, flour all over the kitchen counter, and a sink full of dishes.
I love to cook, and I think I'm pretty good at it, but I know that I'm better at making a mess in the kitchen! My lovely wife, Heather, puts up with it because I make excellent roasted chicken, amazing homemade pasta, and a mean brownie with Guinness beer as its star ingredient. Heather has told me that if the food wasn't so good, she would have kicked me out of the kitchen a long time ago!
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