motivation

today, just not feeling it. not sure why and not really sure as to how to keep pushing forward. the desire for results is there, but the motivation to get to those results is not. maybe i just need to pick up the stupid phone and start making calls, or get off my rear-end and do something, anything.

then again maybe i need to laugh.

check out this site...http://despair.com/viewall.html.

read a few, laugh, be motivated, and get something done...anything. it'll make you feel better. trust me.



here is one i have not seen before...

why i like the tv show scrubs...

since we don't have cable and rabbit ears don't work in socal, we watch all tv shows on dvd via netflix. now i know that quite a few of you have seen this, but for those who have not, this is awesome.

hey it's good to be back home again...

yes, this is a direct reference to john denver, thanks for noticing :).

i am sitting here at 8:20am at the table with elijah on my left eating honey nut cheerios and sinclair on my right sitting in her booster seat playing with her stack em' cups. everyone else is still asleep; all in all very cool.

even though the transition back to pacific standard time has been somewhat tough on us all and i had to go back to work, it is really good to be home. i tell everyone that even though sinclair has been with us less than 2 weeks, it seems like she has been part of our family her whole ten months. that is something only God can work out and that has made this whole adoption really awesome.

so today we are off to dance class, buying cleats and a new baseball glove for brevin, house cleaning, paying some bills, and trying to fix the garbage disposal. i might even get a chance to see some college football on espn.com.

it is good to be home...

coming home...

well, tomorrow is the day that we are leaving china for home. part of me is excited and ready, although there is a large part of me that is somewhat sad to be leaving.

i'm not totally sure why. it could be that i like having someone else making all my meals and cleaning up after them, or having someone else do all my laundry and make my bed and clean my room and bathroom. or it could be that i have had one of the most exciting, wonderful, and eye-opening experiences in my short 35 years (oops, 36 now).

i am fairly certain that i could not capture all that i have seen, felt, or experienced in the short space that this blog allows, so i thought i would add some of the pictures that on some level capture what we have been blessed to experience.

enjoy...

me getting ready to leave lax for seoul, korea...

chinese people think we are so cool, i think...i hope...maybe we are more like a side show?

yup, that's a standard toilet for onesies and twosies...i looked for the sit down kind or waited till we got back to the hotel.

standard kitchen in the local nanchang village

good friends...now even better

food in china

yup, that says steamed chicken feet in soy sauce. yummy.

being dad

there really are no words to describe what it is like being a dad. hopefully this picture will capture some of what it is like.