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Embracing My Journey: November 2013
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November 21, 2013. Who really wants to stand in an oversized net with balls being kicked at them from every angle? The soccer season ended with both her arms wrapped in casts. Perhaps a better story could have been told, but the truth was her Bolivian soccer coach had done this during a practice. A dive the wrong way by her and the strength and precision of a professional soccer players kick had this end result. But the season was over and she could heal. I believe that you can do this Sarah! Looking bac...
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The Summerlin Family: 2011
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Sunday, March 20, 2011. This place was so much fun. Ruidoso. Winter Park is a great way to spend a day in the snow. I was actually surprised. At how steep the hills were and how fast the tubes came down them. I guess I just must be getting old. Growing up in Newfoundland I spent many winter days sliding. Here they call it sledding. I was happy that Evan was all for it and wanted to go on the steepest hill first. See, there really is some newfie. Evan on the kiddie slope, he did not like this one. We LOVE...
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The Summerlin Family: May 2010
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Monday, May 24, 2010. Done with Pre-K onto Kindergarten. I always like to pack notes with Evan's lunch. Here is a little note I put in his lunch to celebrate the last day of school. I got this idea from tip junkie, love this sight. Here is the link. End of school year traditions. As part of Fun in the Sun Day, each class got to go to a station that the school had set up. I volunteered to do the Balloon Pop. The kids had a blast! This station was the inflatable slip and slide. We made little tags with lov...
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Embracing My Journey: July 2014
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July 11, 2014. Are you there God? Predisposed to anger I am trying to take all the pent up frustrations of this week and use them for positive. Which is why I scrubbed the bathroom floors and baseboards on my hands and knees, organized my kitchen cupboards, alphabetized the spices, cleaned, ran, cleaned, wrote letters, etc. Returning from a glorious vacation I was snapped back into reality when I realized my renter had fled the state and left his girlfriend squatting at my rental house. But God, why?
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Embracing My Journey: February 2014
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February 27, 2014. He sits across from me at the kitchen table, "You are still divorcing yourself from the past.". You cannot take years and years of things and poof they disappear. Well maybe you can, but I can't. I don't live in the past, but there are still things I am trying to reconcile. It's obvious I lack the grace to just let the pains inflicted where there should have been love just be. I wouldn't trade the scars for today. But there are things I need to understand in my heart. My choice.con...
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Embracing My Journey: April 2014
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April 21, 2014. Choosing My Joie de Vivre. Whether it is forced upon us or chosen, it is hard. That's why most of us stay. Stay in unhappy situations. Settle for passionless jobs. Remain in unfulfilled or abusive relationships. Live in the confines of what's familiar. A few years ago that was me. On the outside I had it all. On the inside I was a shell. I could please everyone else or choose my own happiness. Most of us have this backwards. We do it all for others leaving nothing left to give ourselves.
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Embracing My Journey: December 2013
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December 20, 2013. Growing up in a glass house, I cleverly hid a lot! I knew what I could not be and created a version of me that fit what I should. My scarlet A was a PK and not a sign of shame, but of Godly status setting me apart. I was suppose to be different. Yet, I have my own Footloose stories locked away still. I am no different than the majority really. Most of us hide our scars. We feel imperfect as we try to live up to the societal expectations of. Beauty, emotional, life. The temporary feel g...
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Embracing My Journey: August 2013
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August 29, 2013. Squished in the sweaty mosh pit of bodies I never wanted to touch I stood with my hands in the air, singing and swaying to the music. The drum beats echoed through my ears making my head spontaneously bop in beat. Hundreds of us moved in sync from the pressure of the crowd. We far exceeded the amount of persons in a limited space. My hand was grabbed as my friend Amanda was lifted to crowd surf and she tried to grab me along. Glaring at a group of guys I said, "Move! Of all that life has...
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Embracing My Journey: September 2013
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September 26, 2013. Who Knew Santa was Mean? I was 14, working as a waitress in the summer at a Bible conference. Naive, unaware of my own beauty, oblivious I had talent, and enjoying freedom, I grew up fast. I made lifelong friends that summer and we hold hundreds of stories to tell. Yet, a thousand more to never share. It was a particularly busy week and I was serving three tables of 10 people each. At the head of one table sat an elderly man and his wife. But, he was not a jolly fellow at all! Sighing...
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Embracing My Journey: My Wishes
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November 18, 2014. Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight…. Stringy blond haired and blue-eyed little me would sit at my windowsill each night, wishing. As I got older I would sit, hoping. And now I sit, praying. My life journey has not gone as planned at all. My dream of working in marketing for a sports team I gave up when I got married the first time. The job offer was there from an NFL team, but I chose marriage and then a baby carriage, and another and another. A dream I never gave up.
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