mama and currently

if you stalk follow me on twitter, instagram or facebook then you know what happened to my mom/family on monday. short story: my mom herniated a disc in her back around 7am. thankfully my dad was still home and was able to be with her and call the squad. it was a rough morning to say the least. mom has a dr. appt on friday to see if she needs surgery or if physical therapy will heal it. Right now, mom is confined to bed/couch and can't lift more than 2 lbs. Its going to be a long few weeks but we''ll make it! We are so thankful for friends and family who have been praying and helping with my siblings, rides and meals.

Loving: this is going to be original: the fall weather. hoodie weather. boot weather. tea and coffee dates.  sweatpants. cold mornings.

Reading: I read this last night and it was so encouraging: Ephesians 3:14-19

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Watching: Downton Abbey baby. I'm rewatching it and I'm in Season 2. that show is so.good. like its gorgeous good.

Anticipating: the 3rd Doctor Who episode this saturday.

Listening to: rain steadily falling outside and this.

Planning: to do my writing paper in a few mins and watch Downton Abbey later tonight ;)

Working on: relying on God for strength and my anchor.

Wishing: that I didn't feel so bad.

well there's my first post here on the new blog! I hope you all are having a great week!

--Marissa

tumblr thursday vol. 18 + a conversation that happened last night during a particular movie trailer

conversation that occurred last night: 


*The Dark Knight Rises trailer comes on tv* 
Mom: *calls my name* 
*silence*
Mom: can you go get your phone?
Me: hold...on....
*trailer ends* 
Me: *comes back to reality and runs to go get phone*

and they said "coming to theaters July 20th" and I said out loud, "WE KNOW I KNOW EVERYONE KNOWS" ;) I'm so excited for this movie you guys. The legend is coming to an end. and its going to be epic. I had seen the trailer a few nights ago and I was just like "oh my goshhh I cannot wait I cannot wait" 

so obviously, I'm SO SO excited for it ;) 

I hope you all are having a good week! I've been busy with babysitting, working out(I ran 2 miles on tuesday night! no excuses.) and getting ready for our trip. we are leaving at 5am on saturday morning :/ I'm going armed with music, books and movies and a pillow and blanket for sleep ;) (which i will hopefully be doing a lot of). 

well I'm off to do some more stuff on my 'to do' list ;) 

<3 Samarah 

INDIA {part 1}

happy sunday! I'm kinda in a blogger's rut as to what to post about and when I do have something it doesn't come out right.. then I thought about how I've been promising to post India pictures for for.eva. so here's the first part!

So my mom left to go on a ministry trip on (last) March 9th, it was her first time out of the country and she had an amazing experience! She went with 8 other people and they helped with a conference for the pastors (current and to be.) and the pastor's families who are building churches in India.

amazing view from the plane!!

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I've never been on a plane but i really want to! :) 

my mom had to get on 4 planes before she got to her final desintation. plus India in 10 hours ahead of us(EST) and so she left on a wednesday here but didn't get to Dehli till friday. crazy!!

flags at the airport in Nagpur

Polly Carp(a parrot that travels with all the short term misonaries from our church :) he's a cute lil' guy ;)

an off duty flight attendant taking a picture with Polly :) She said she didn't look good in pictures...pssshhh!! she could easily get a modeling job!

first look at rishaws. those things are tiny and like 20 people ride in there. 

gorgeous sunrise!

wallpaper in the airport, looks real doesn't it? 

snack shack along the road... 

first meal...

papaya, pineapple, cucumbers,  potato thing and  chapatis

toast and some sort of sauce 

sign for the Cricket World Cup! which they won :) 

first India street experience!! 

French Army(Navy?) plane mom saw through the window of the airport

the bathrooms are located behind those blue doors. yea, more on that later.

at destination! Hotel room

Now she is at the director of The Bible College's house

ladies wearing their saris

Baby "R'" 

"G" 

"R" coloring with a book and crayons that Mom brought with her 

:) 

dinner 

and that wraps up part 1! 

i took a picture of fruit snacks and my science book.

i hope you all are having a great saturday! I'm not sure how i got up at 7:50am after just going to sleep around 2:15am. like getting upas in, as soon as my alarm went off i hopped up, i've never done that before. and my mom and i were up till 2am watching the first 2 episodes of season 2 of Downton Abbey. yes, i searched in the depths of the internet and found them. it was a happy yesterday. and they are so beautiful. i'm officially addicted.

 i'm looking back at pictures from this past spring and summer. i seriously took pictures of everything when we first got our camera. including my math and a pencil. and countless pictures of the sky! sweet goodness. I want to post more personal pictures on here(ones i've taken) and so i thought i'd share some  from this past year. ready? ;)

my sweetness. 

yeah. 

obviously i was not learning about the life cycle of whatever that is. 

<3 

taken by mom 

taken by mom 

really once the late fall/winter hit i stopped taking pictures. but now that's its getting nicer outside I'm feeling inspired!

there's your random photo post for today :)

happy day!