This Is Kristin

I read a magazine article the other day about the amount different people spend on their grocery bill.  I was thinking also, about how much ours is going to increase the older our boys get.  Just imagine, a house with three teenage boys in it.  That’s probably a box of cereal a day, a gallon of milk a day… etc.

 My five year old has just started eating his whole meals, all three of them, and snacking throughout the day.  He’s growing increasingly, and we can not split meals between him and his little brother anymore when we go out.

 I am just curious what you all spend a month on groceries?  (You can answer anonymously.)

The people in this magazine articles had crazy big yearly incomes, so I think that had something to do with the amount they spent on groceries.  (….or maybe they had three teenage boys..)    

My home church in CA, is involved with the organization Village Care.  

Some dear friends of mine yearly travel to Africa to continue with their support of these villages, and they are about to head out this weekend, and can use your prayers! 

We at Inspired to Action, did an interview with a member of the staff, and she had some amazing stories to share.

 Please read and Pray over the next few weeks for my friends, and this great organization.  

Ok… I am off to work tomorrow morning.  I’ve got my outfit: my ugly shirt, and my cute pants, hemmed.  For some reason I have so much prepared tonight the night before as if it’s going to take me a longer time to get ready than any other time.  It’s weird to have to be somewhere on time.  I’m not usually late, but I feel like the pressure of knowing that to be late, for my orientation, would be really bad, and for some reason that stresses me out.  It should be fine, but I feel weird.

~Pep talks?

I was trying to take pictures of my son the other night.  
He kept making funny faces like this:
 

and this:

.. So I asked him, “Please just make a sweet, angel- like- smile- face…”So this is what he did:

… stinker….  

~For more tiny talk tuesday, visit Mary.   

~This weeks music Monday, hosted by Kat, is best love song, and/ or cheesiest love song. I have a lot of favorites…

*My favorite love song is “Wondertime” by 100 Portraits.  
Other favorites:”Such Great Heights,”- The Postal Service
“My Lady’s House,”- Iron and Wine
Andanother good one,”Hey There Delilah” by the Plain White T’s

*Best Cheesy Love song- I would watch this over and over as a teenager… now it seems pretty cheesy… but I still kinda like it…

~What’s your favorite?

~Last night my husband and I attended the Blood Water Mission banquet.  We heard many inspirational stories and songs, and I was especially touched by the story of Fred and Milton Ochieng’.  

They are “two brothers from Kenya whose village sent them to America to become doctors. But after losing both parents to AIDS they are left with a heartbreaking task: to return home and finish the health clinic their father started before getting sick.”    

Milton told a story of where his dream to bring a healthcare clinic into his village began:  The hospital is over 5 miles from his village, so if anyone got sick enough, they would have to wheel the person in a wheel barrow or carry them, to the main road and then find some sort of transport the rest of the way.  When Milton and Fred were teenagers, they witnessed their friends’ mother bleed to death in childbirth while being transported to the nearest hospital.  They knew that their village needed a healthcare clinic, and so Milton and Fred decided they’d become doctors and build a clinic in their village.   

They’ve managed to make it to America, attend college and medical school, and raise enough money through various donations and with the help of Blood Water Mission, they’ve built and staffed a clinic in their village.     

They’ve already witnessed how this clinic has helped the lives of the people of their village. Milton and Fred were visiting the village, during a time when the roads were barracaded and they were literally trapped within their village.  A woman went into labor with a breech baby.  If the clinic had not been there, they would not have been able to transport her to the hospital in time, due to the closing of the roads, and the complications of a breech delivery.  Milton and Fred brought her into the clinic, worked together, and delivered  the healthy baby who happened to be the grand daughter of the woman that they’d witnessed die all those years before.   

These are men with an incredible story, incredible hearts, and incredible ambition.  A documentary of their journey thus far has been made, titled “Sons of Lwala.” and is coming out sometime this spring.    

“Grace makes beauty out of ugly things.”

~”Grace” by U2  

He chose the shirt to match his brothers’,

the pants because he’s a basketball player,

and the socks will make him go fast as “Lightning” so he can win a trophy.   

If I thought through my clothes that way, I wonder what I’d end up wearing?