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| Menu perusing at a fab Lebanese restaurant in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday |
"Bye. See ya." - Always spoken together and at appropriate times. So cute.
"Shoes" - even when I say the word in Kiswahili, she replies with SHOOOZ!
"I choo woo" - Ok, it may not seem like a phrase, but she is actually saying it in place of "I love you" and it melts my heart. Hearing it after Tuesday's debacle makes my heart break.
"PUPPY" - clear as day when she sees a dob. Usually accompanied by a "rff, rff" sound.
"mmammmmamamma, nunununununu" = Mama No. This is usually when I have to put her down from holding her. She is so cuddly these days.
These blogposts of milestones really have no significance to anyone but me. However, seeing as my time with Happy may be coming to a close, I just need to "write down" everything before I forget.
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| Showing her "big girl" behavior at a restaurant in Dar. She's so cute and proper! Sunshine personified. |
I told my friend Karen yesterday that I've had a great life. I've had great days in my teens, awesome weekends and adventures in my 20's, and a whole lot of experiences in my 33 years of life that were so amazing and I could never replicate. But still, being with Happy is the most fun I have ever had. Really. She is complete sunshine and brightness to me.
After almost 2 years of holding it back, I feel the dark clouds of depression rolling in. My heart is breaking right now because I feel my sunshine slipping away.
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When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
“Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”
Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the LORD will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
I don't know what else to say, but I do know the Lord will provide for you.
Thanks Todd. I think God is providing, but like Job, it comes with pain and sacrifice. Appreciate your words here and on FB. Really. You are an amazing friend!
~Shae
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