doctor small's activities

on that topic, Arwen also arose at 6:30 this morning, and i ordered her to read on her own, since i was still semi-comatose. she got up, grabbed her book, got back on the bed, and read a bit of the story to me: "Doctor Small looks in Ben's ear with an otoscope. He says that Ben needs to have an operation on his sore ear."
I lept out of bed. Not a moment to waste shaping the mind of this young prodigy.

pink dolphins

did anyone else know there are pink dolphins in the amazon?
i'm going!

sdkfljhaekljfru

hi guys, i realise i've been a bit absent the last while, ...i'd love to blog more often, but i guess at the moment, i'm a bit busy with other projects & my blog was taking a lot of my focus. so for now, i may just post at leisure & keep you updated with any important events or any recent pictures & also continue with the book summaries. i hope that won't be a let down for anyone. thanks for reading & i hope i can become a regular contributer again soon. until then, enjoy whatever i manage to post. lots of love.....

howzit

sorry i've been absent, siblings have been blowing through the house, - i say that because just as soon as they came, it seemed like they were gone. it's almost hard to decide whether one is supposed to experience emotion on any level in this situation. and then i was in joburg for a seminar over the weekend, so i wasn't here. ha, now i am.
okay it was brought to my attention that people don't want to be convicted, they want to be inspired & someone mentioned that they wouldn't be too inspired to return to a blog that displayed uninspiring stuff. so, i'll try to keep it positive in future.
well, my family being photo phobic as it turns out, it's next to impossible to pin anyone down for a decent picture. plus, my very life was threatened at the last attempt at publishing one on here. but i am sure i can gather a cluster & post them with permission. so, look out for those.
i'm due to post quite a bit. just been preoccupied actually getting a life. talk to you soon...

i'm still here

I've become pretty sure in the last few weeks that God wants me alive. This month was an exceptionally life-threatening one for me- I've repeatedly tempted fate to dispose of me, yet somehow every time it almost seems like God tells me: "I'm not done with you yet."
Today, i was handed an additional opportunity to just be grateful for life & another day to use the life God has given me to the very fullest i can.
It happened quite suddenly. And in my 4 years of driving, i was never aware that something that dangerous could happen simply from a wet road.
We were running late for an appointment, so naturally i was trying to make good time on the road. I wasn't driving particularly faster than i normally do, but it had been raining the whole morning, so the roads were a little more slippery. The tires on our car have long been due for a change. But i guess it's one of those things you put on a back burner hoping they'll see you through the rough times until you're rolling in the dough someday & can purchase some new ones. now bald tires have long been an acquaintance of skidding on the roads in wet weather. i knew this, but i didn't know it could be that severe.
So we were driving at a fairly fast speed, when all of a sudden, the car spun out of control on the wet road & did a complete 90 degree turn on this busy one way highway so i landed facing the wrong direction. on a curve. so no one coming around the bend could see us. the entire time this was happening, which took approximately 10 seconds, i thought i was gonna be killed, or at best injured or disfigured. this is a major highway. at any time during our spin, we could have been hit with massive impact by a number of cars. the spot the car spun into before it ground to a halt was miraculously in the margin of the road whereas, just a few feet ahead the margin finishes so i would have been pretty screwed in that situation as well. when the car stopped spinning, we were 3 inches away from a big wall, which i was certain we were gonna crash into until that point.
Simon eventually had to stand out on the highway holding the emergency triangle, telling other cars to move over so i could turn our massive vehicle around.
And i might add.......we still got to our appointment on time.
Only God knows why he spared my life today. but the fact that i escaped the ordeal without so much as a scratch-on me or the car is beyond my comprehension.
Matthew 10:30 says: But the very hairs of your head are all numbered...
He's kept me alive in a world of mass confusion & uncertainty. It would be an insult to Him not to do the VERY best i can with the time He's given me here. I hope i don't let Him down.

bbs (be back soon)

hi guys,
im sorry i havent been a frequent poster of late. i've barely had any time this week to do anything. but it only means you're due for a flurry of posts shortly, so watch this space. i miss being able to post very frequently, and have limited access to a computer, but these are all mere excuses, not a condition so i will do better.

i'll just leave you with a few words to ponder, ooo i like these:

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."

see you soon.
xxx sharms

make it go away!

hi guys
im sorry i've been scarce in posting, all the pollen in the air has made everyone in our house a really yucky brand of ill for the last couple of weeks. since im supposed to resist the urge to talk about my health, except perhaps the up tempo variety, i tried very hard not to post about it. but i just wanted to explain my absence. hopefully i should be up and running by next week, in the meantime may post moderately at leisure. i realise i have also been a bit of a dummie in posting photos as i said i would, so im sorry for that. i have to admit i am unable to find a decent photographer, besides people just thinking im ridiculously self-obsessed to want them to be taking pictures fo me all the time. rina has come to visit, & she always makes for a good photo or two, so i'll look into taking some more & posting of whatever i can. well, see you on the other side of the ol' corpus contaminus....hahaha well it sounded like a medical term. see you soon. ;)

did you miss me?

every now and again my visitor count goes down, & i feel like my blog content is being semi-unappreciated. one of the reasons i created my blog was to be a source of positive ideas & inspiration for people, but....if no one's reading it, then there isn't really any point right....so once in a while i just leave it alone for a bit to gain a bit of readership or i browse around trying to acquire a reader community. anyway, so that's why i've been absent recently. sorry to the regulars, but also i hope others were able to benefit from the postings i have up already...
anyway..., i went out yesterday & bought myself a camera, FINALLY.....well, i've been wanting to for a long time, cause i'm missing so many priceless things in arwen's life, plus it'll be nice to post pictures i take instead of always having to download them-its just more personalized..., so look out for some pictures soon, i'll try to take some in the next few days...come back soon...xxx