Sarah Woodrow introduced me to this song and I just can't get enough of it.
Here ya go: Satisfied in You
Here ya go: Satisfied in You
megan wetselaar
February 27, 2013
I know I wrote my whole deal about saying goodbye to Sam and yes....it was hard. But we did recently have an awesome weekend with our whole family for one last time before he left and I just got the pictures from it today! Though we're not together anymore, we know that in God's time we all will be together again. God is so awesome. And He is all we need. So even though it's hard that this weekend is over and we're all spread out over the place now, well....we can know God is with us whether we're in Alabama, Georgia, Japan, Indiana.
And I am so thankful for that because it can be really hard sometimes being apart.
So here are the pictures from a really awesome weekend:
And I am so thankful for that because it can be really hard sometimes being apart.
So here are the pictures from a really awesome weekend:
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| To start off...here are the cabins.....I don't know which one is ours. |
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| Welcome to..... A Mountain Top View!! |
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| Bears?? Anyway.... |
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| The first picture of all three grandkids!! What?? ☺ |
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| Our reactions to hearing that Emily was pregnant! |
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| Excited sisters! |
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| Finley and Levi meeting for the first time (see earlier post entitled "Cutest Cousins") |
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| Love. |
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| Sam, Derek Rose, and Levi |
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| I could've sat like that forever. |
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| Our kitchen for the weekend |
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| The February/March birthday celebration. Oh...and Finley's half birthday. |
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| Downtown Gatlinburg |
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| Sitting just like mommy. |
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| Standing just like mommy!! We're not cute like Finley and Em though. |
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| The hike was worth it. |
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| Getting ready.... |
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| Ready! |
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| Hello Wetselaars, Millers, Hubers. |
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| Family Trivia game. And of all people, it was an in-law that won! Congrats Lance! |
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| They're already making each other laugh |
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| My sisters are moms!! |
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| Sad to see them saying goodbye, though they didn't know that's what they were doing. |
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| Saying goodbye to my favorite nephew. |
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| Hardest. |
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| Here's the gang and our cabin. |
Until we all meet again.....
February 21, 2013
Today is the day we have been anticipating for a long time. My brother Sam, Second Lieutenant Wetselaar, is now on his way to Okinawa, Japan with his wife Dorinda.
Last August we found out that after Sam's logistics training in North Carolina, he was being sent to Japan. Of all places. We did not expect that.
I handled it by convincing myself February would never come. His graduation date on February 6 would never happen. Our last family gathering from February 7 to 10 was just too far away to ever actually come. I wouldn't have to say goodbye to my Marine brother. He wouldn't go to Japan because our time with our family was just too far away so it would never really happen.
But it did.
I was dreading that weekend for the longest time. People asked me if I was excited to go. If it was someone I didn't know well I said yes. Those close to me got the honest answer: "No, I'm dreading it. I want to see everyone but I can't say goodbye to Sam."
Well, now for some background information. Over Christmas break I just had a lot on my plate I had to deal with that was really stressing me out. I just wasn't myself. I was awful to Sam. We kept fighting and getting really pissed at each other. So I didn't want to pick up where we left off, fighting and being all crabby, in the cabin in Tennessee and then say goodbye to him for three years.
Friday, February 8, came along. It was my turn to lead family devotions at dinner and I chose Psalm 139. I don't know how my family could even understand what I was saying because I was close to tears the whole time. I couldn't stop thinking about saying goodbye to Sam, hugging him for the last time, not seeing him for a really long time, and just missing him so badly. I finally made it through the Psalm and couldn't stop the tears from flowing during Dad's prayer. I left the dinner table and went downstairs and cried so hard. I didn't want Sam to leave.
Finally Sam came down by me. I apologized for being awful to him over Christmas Break and I told him I didn't want one of my favorite people in the world to move to Japan.
It was good. Not great. But good. I didn't know how else I would've conveyed to him how much I was going to miss him. I was really embarrassed about choking up in the middle of reading devotions in front of my entire family (none of them were sad, we still had two days of being all together). But it was good that I was able to tell (and show) Sam how much he meant to me and how much I did not want him to leave.
The rest of the weekend flew by. We had a lot of fun. We explored Gatlinburg, we ate incredible food, we warmed up in the hot tub, we did our gift exchange, etc. But I could have cried at any time because it hurt so much to know I had to say goodbye to Sam. An indefinite goodbye. "Goodbye, I don't know when I'll see you again."
Or if I will.
And so right now, as I'm typing this, Sam is in the air somewhere above the Pacific Ocean. They are finally on their way to Japan! What an adventure for them!
What a heartbreak for us.
I know how hard it was for Mom and Dad. Knowing how much they were hurting and crying back at home about it made me cry just as much here, even though my goodbye was over. But Sam called me the night before their flight, one last time, just to talk. I couldn't help but cry. I just missed him so bad. And then the next day Mom and Dad had to hug him, one last time, and watch him walk into the airport.
Sam is one of my favorite people ever. It's impossible not to be laughing when you're with him. It's impossible not to roll your eyes at him all the time either at his ridiculous jokes. It's so funny watching him with Finley and Levi. Finley's scared of Sam. Sam is still working on the whole holding babies thing, but he's getting better. It's so cute. Sam is such a planner and is the one to get us all going in the morning. And he treats his dog like she's actually his child. Sam loves telling the story of our deal some years ago...he let me punch him as hard as I wanted if he got to punch me as hard as he wanted through a pillow. He's an absolute dork and everybody, young and old, loves him.
He's crazy, but he's a leader. And now it's time for the Second Lieutenant to lead Marines in Japan.
So goodbye Sam. Goodbye to the best older brother I could have possibly asked for. I will miss you so much. Three years is a long time. It hurts so bad that you're gone now. But be safe.
And I love you so much.
Last August we found out that after Sam's logistics training in North Carolina, he was being sent to Japan. Of all places. We did not expect that.
I handled it by convincing myself February would never come. His graduation date on February 6 would never happen. Our last family gathering from February 7 to 10 was just too far away to ever actually come. I wouldn't have to say goodbye to my Marine brother. He wouldn't go to Japan because our time with our family was just too far away so it would never really happen.
But it did.
I was dreading that weekend for the longest time. People asked me if I was excited to go. If it was someone I didn't know well I said yes. Those close to me got the honest answer: "No, I'm dreading it. I want to see everyone but I can't say goodbye to Sam."
Well, now for some background information. Over Christmas break I just had a lot on my plate I had to deal with that was really stressing me out. I just wasn't myself. I was awful to Sam. We kept fighting and getting really pissed at each other. So I didn't want to pick up where we left off, fighting and being all crabby, in the cabin in Tennessee and then say goodbye to him for three years.
Friday, February 8, came along. It was my turn to lead family devotions at dinner and I chose Psalm 139. I don't know how my family could even understand what I was saying because I was close to tears the whole time. I couldn't stop thinking about saying goodbye to Sam, hugging him for the last time, not seeing him for a really long time, and just missing him so badly. I finally made it through the Psalm and couldn't stop the tears from flowing during Dad's prayer. I left the dinner table and went downstairs and cried so hard. I didn't want Sam to leave.
Finally Sam came down by me. I apologized for being awful to him over Christmas Break and I told him I didn't want one of my favorite people in the world to move to Japan.
It was good. Not great. But good. I didn't know how else I would've conveyed to him how much I was going to miss him. I was really embarrassed about choking up in the middle of reading devotions in front of my entire family (none of them were sad, we still had two days of being all together). But it was good that I was able to tell (and show) Sam how much he meant to me and how much I did not want him to leave.
The rest of the weekend flew by. We had a lot of fun. We explored Gatlinburg, we ate incredible food, we warmed up in the hot tub, we did our gift exchange, etc. But I could have cried at any time because it hurt so much to know I had to say goodbye to Sam. An indefinite goodbye. "Goodbye, I don't know when I'll see you again."
Or if I will.
And so right now, as I'm typing this, Sam is in the air somewhere above the Pacific Ocean. They are finally on their way to Japan! What an adventure for them!
What a heartbreak for us.
I know how hard it was for Mom and Dad. Knowing how much they were hurting and crying back at home about it made me cry just as much here, even though my goodbye was over. But Sam called me the night before their flight, one last time, just to talk. I couldn't help but cry. I just missed him so bad. And then the next day Mom and Dad had to hug him, one last time, and watch him walk into the airport.
Sam is one of my favorite people ever. It's impossible not to be laughing when you're with him. It's impossible not to roll your eyes at him all the time either at his ridiculous jokes. It's so funny watching him with Finley and Levi. Finley's scared of Sam. Sam is still working on the whole holding babies thing, but he's getting better. It's so cute. Sam is such a planner and is the one to get us all going in the morning. And he treats his dog like she's actually his child. Sam loves telling the story of our deal some years ago...he let me punch him as hard as I wanted if he got to punch me as hard as he wanted through a pillow. He's an absolute dork and everybody, young and old, loves him.
He's crazy, but he's a leader. And now it's time for the Second Lieutenant to lead Marines in Japan.
So goodbye Sam. Goodbye to the best older brother I could have possibly asked for. I will miss you so much. Three years is a long time. It hurts so bad that you're gone now. But be safe.
And I love you so much.
February 15, 2013
The Great Hall. Dinner. Time with friends. Everything's great. So I leave my friends for, you know, 30 seconds to put my cup away and what do you know.....for those few seconds I'm not with my friends something bad happens to me!
I suddenly felt something really cold and wet, and the next thing I know there's a very apologetic freshman boy. He had spilled water down the back of my pants!! Cold water! On my jeans!
He felt so awkward and said, "I don't know what to do right now, but I'm so sorry!"
I hurried back to my seat which, oddly enough, was a table closest to where I was. We never sit at since it's usually filled with baseball jocks, so this was a one time thing.
My friends could tell something happened to me even before I got back. I guess my face was really red and I looked really alarmed, though one of them described my look as "cute." If the look of someone unexpectedly soaked with water when putting their dishes away is cute, then, I guess I looked cute. And we sat there 20 more minutes until I knew it was all dried off.
Rebekah told me she was wondering what was taking me so long and that she was worried something had happened. Because this kind of thing has happened before! One time I walked through the Great Hall with her and I veered off a separate way to grab an apple and would meet her 5 seconds later on the other side. Well I had grabbed my apple and of course knocked one or two over on the other side in the process. How do you knock apples out of a basket in the process of innocently grabbing just one? Well I apparently figured it out.
Bad things keep happening in the Great Hall when my friends leave me unsupervised!!
I suddenly felt something really cold and wet, and the next thing I know there's a very apologetic freshman boy. He had spilled water down the back of my pants!! Cold water! On my jeans!
He felt so awkward and said, "I don't know what to do right now, but I'm so sorry!"
I hurried back to my seat which, oddly enough, was a table closest to where I was. We never sit at since it's usually filled with baseball jocks, so this was a one time thing.
My friends could tell something happened to me even before I got back. I guess my face was really red and I looked really alarmed, though one of them described my look as "cute." If the look of someone unexpectedly soaked with water when putting their dishes away is cute, then, I guess I looked cute. And we sat there 20 more minutes until I knew it was all dried off.
Rebekah told me she was wondering what was taking me so long and that she was worried something had happened. Because this kind of thing has happened before! One time I walked through the Great Hall with her and I veered off a separate way to grab an apple and would meet her 5 seconds later on the other side. Well I had grabbed my apple and of course knocked one or two over on the other side in the process. How do you knock apples out of a basket in the process of innocently grabbing just one? Well I apparently figured it out.
Bad things keep happening in the Great Hall when my friends leave me unsupervised!!
February 12, 2013
This is titled "Christmas in February" not because I'm talking about a Christmas celebration that happened in February but because I'm talking about Christmas...but it's February when I'm writing about it. Remember how my blog stopped letting me log on and write new posts for December and January? Well....I have some catching up to do that I did want to write about.
Here's some things I did over Christmas Break:
C: Crochet. I learned how to crochet and I made my first washcloth!
H: The Hobbit. I re-read the Hobbit so I could compare it to the movie, which I also saw. The book is better, I have to say, but the movie was really good too.
R: Rest. I slept in a lot. Christmas Break is all about sleeping, right?
I: I got a package from Hannah!!! She sent me my Christmas package and I was so excited to get a whole bunch of candy and a pair of earrings from her!!
S: Sarah. Sarah Woodrow came home with me for Christmas Break since her family is in Mozambique. We had a lot of fun...we went to Chicago, we ate lots of food, we watched movies, we stayed up really late talking, we watched Friends. It was great.
T: The Thornbirds. I don't really know what possessed us to want to watch a NINE hour movie, but we did. It's one of my mom's favorites and we got a lot of crocheting done in the process!
M: Monopoly. And Life. And Clue. And Battleship. Sarah and I (and Mom occasionally) played a ton of board games. It was a blast!
A: Auntie Megan! I became an aunt again! Levi Hubers was born December 29 at 11:51 AM. He has red hair and is adorable. I love him! He was eight days late, but I have forgiven him for that. Seriously....he's the cutest ever.
S: Selling books on eBay. I sold a whole bunch of textbooks on eBay and obsessively spent my time checking to see if they got bids.
B: Bean game! Laurissa came over and taught us how to play the Bean game. Basically, you trade and grow different kinds of beans (coffee beans, kidney beans, black-eyed beans, blue beans, etc.) in your fields and trade them in to get coins! What a great game!
R: Road trip. It was a blast riding in the car with Janessa, blasting the radio and talking about cats. Good times.
E: Eating. I ate so much food. Morning (if I was awake), noon, afternoon, evening, late evening, night. Any/every time of day.
A: Atlas. I found this site online (sporcle.com) that lets you take random quizzes and I got addicted! Especially to the geography ones. So I dug up my atlas so that it could help me find all the countries in the world that started with K or show me the rivers that ran through central Europe. Twas great.
K: Kristen. I caught up with Kristen a few times and it was great talking to her! I heard about how she's going to Ireland in May and how she's a super awesome soccer and track star. Yay! I love her.
Well that was my Christmas Break, thanks for asking. There were some good times in there, though nothing super exciting happened, but I had to write about it.
Here's some things I did over Christmas Break:
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| My washcloth, though crooked, is beautiful! |
H: The Hobbit. I re-read the Hobbit so I could compare it to the movie, which I also saw. The book is better, I have to say, but the movie was really good too.
R: Rest. I slept in a lot. Christmas Break is all about sleeping, right?
I: I got a package from Hannah!!! She sent me my Christmas package and I was so excited to get a whole bunch of candy and a pair of earrings from her!!
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| Sarah and I at the Bean in Chicago |
T: The Thornbirds. I don't really know what possessed us to want to watch a NINE hour movie, but we did. It's one of my mom's favorites and we got a lot of crocheting done in the process!
M: Monopoly. And Life. And Clue. And Battleship. Sarah and I (and Mom occasionally) played a ton of board games. It was a blast!
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| Meeting Levi in the hospital for the first time |
S: Selling books on eBay. I sold a whole bunch of textbooks on eBay and obsessively spent my time checking to see if they got bids.
B: Bean game! Laurissa came over and taught us how to play the Bean game. Basically, you trade and grow different kinds of beans (coffee beans, kidney beans, black-eyed beans, blue beans, etc.) in your fields and trade them in to get coins! What a great game!
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| Check out that sunset. Janessa's such a good driver. |
E: Eating. I ate so much food. Morning (if I was awake), noon, afternoon, evening, late evening, night. Any/every time of day.
A: Atlas. I found this site online (sporcle.com) that lets you take random quizzes and I got addicted! Especially to the geography ones. So I dug up my atlas so that it could help me find all the countries in the world that started with K or show me the rivers that ran through central Europe. Twas great.
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| For old time's sake...a picture of me and Kristen from this summer |
Well that was my Christmas Break, thanks for asking. There were some good times in there, though nothing super exciting happened, but I had to write about it.
February 9, 2013
February 6, 2013
Well, Janessa still had that Groupon for Lou's, so we drove on down the mountain again to that sketchy little building.
It had grape wallpaper.
It had a TV in the window.
It had birdhouses on the counter.
Its bathroom hadn't had contact with cleaning supplies in a while.
Its menu said "Out butts will drive you nuts."
Our waitresses shirt said, "Do something with your life, get me a beer."
Yep...that's where we were. Lou's in the middle of Rossville, Georgia.
Surprisingly, shockingly, completely against our expectations......the food was really good!
Thank you Groupon for bringing us to this super sketchy, wouldn't-want-to-be-there-alone, good-thing-it's-daytime little restaurant with really amazing barbecue sandwiches and hamburgers! Success!
It had grape wallpaper.
It had a TV in the window.
It had birdhouses on the counter.
Its bathroom hadn't had contact with cleaning supplies in a while.
Its menu said "Out butts will drive you nuts."
Our waitresses shirt said, "Do something with your life, get me a beer."
Yep...that's where we were. Lou's in the middle of Rossville, Georgia.
Surprisingly, shockingly, completely against our expectations......the food was really good!
Thank you Groupon for bringing us to this super sketchy, wouldn't-want-to-be-there-alone, good-thing-it's-daytime little restaurant with really amazing barbecue sandwiches and hamburgers! Success!
February 4, 2013
Janessa: "Hey I got a Groupon for $1 for $12 at a little restaurant I'd never heard of. Wanna go with me sometime?"
Me: "Of course. Is that even a question?"
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So I'm sitting at work all day Thursday (6.25 hours at least) bursting with excitement, eagerly anticipating the dinner I will be getting that is for the first time in weeks, not in the Great Hall.
Janessa and I drive down the mountain blasting King Charles, driving on roads we've never been on before.
The directions told us to turn left at a stoplight. So we did. And we came across a road sign that said "Funeral Ahead." Hmm. Ok. Well, there was no "funeral" ahead, but there was a humongous cemetery that we were suddenly in the midst of. Where the heck was the restaurant? We are out in the back country of Georgia in the middle of a cemetery with no Lou's Barbecue in sight! What did we do wrong?
Time to backtrack. Back through the cemetery, back past the "Funeral Ahead" sign, back past really shabby-looking houses (which I had been relieved weren't the restaurant, though at first I thought they were), back to the stoplight. We had gone one road too far.
We finally did make it to Lou's Barbecue. It looked pretty sketchy. But it was closed. Five o'clock in the afternoon and it was closed. Why?!
What could we do? We couldn't return to eat in the Great Hall after being so excited to escape it. So we drove through the tiny little town of Rossville. It's a very southern town with old factories and boarded up windows on what used to be furniture and antique stores.
And then we saw it....
....Roy's Grill!!
We knew it was the place for us. Set on a street corner, this little 50's-style place really brought us back in time. The waitresses conversed with the regulars, the old men ate their weekly Roy's Grill burgers, and Janessa and I sat at the stool by the counter taking it all in silently. We ate our Jr. sized burgers with fries and water, listened to the old music, and lived, just for that short half hour, in a world very far away from Covenant College.
I forget sometimes that I'm in the south. Covenant isn't very southern, people here are from all over the place. But just a short ride twenty or thirty minutes away can put you in a very southern, hick town.
We had no idea where we would end up after learning that Lou's was closed. But what we found was someplace really awesome and really special. I don't want to tell many people about it because I don't want Covenant to know about it. It's just so cute and 50's and there's not many places like that anymore.
I guess I know where I'll be next time I need to escape.
....oh, and I'm ready for some more adventure around here.
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- Megan Wetselaar
- Hey I'm Megan. This is just my blog of my life, my adventures, my story...even if I don't know where it's going.
