a splurge, a movie, and marvin

once a week when i go into town to get my groceries i splurge on myself.
everyone here gets boxed milk.
milk that you buy in a packet of 6.
it stays in your cupboard. you only need to refrigerate the box you are currently using.
it is cheaper than regular milk.
regular milk being the kind i buy in the states.
i figure everyone does it, let me acclimate to life here and do that also.
but if the milk isn't in your coffee it just tastes so
wrong.
and it seems a little "off" to me that milk can just sit out and not go bad.
but whatever.....when in rome (or mokopane....) do as the romans....

so once a week i buy an 8oz can of real milk.
i call it "real milk" because it comes from the "cold" section of our store and it needs to either be drunk right away or put in your refrigerator.
i LOVE it.
it is my little "gift" of home to myself each week.
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sometimes don't you feel like scriptures were written just for you?
i can read passages in the Bible over and over and somehow
someway
i'll read it again and its brand new.

i think Isaiah was thinking of me when he wrote this:
for it pierces straight to my heart.
and is as autobiographical as any scripture i've ever read....
 Isaiah 54:5-6

For your Maker is your husband—
       the LORD Almighty is his name—
       the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
       he is called the God of all the earth.

  The LORD will call you back
       as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit—
       a wife who married young,
       only to be rejected," says your God.

i've been rereading Isaiah this spring and it just makes me miss taking my Isaiah course at LBC. i think that class was one of my favorites. one of my hardest classes too.

Isaiah is such a rich book the class was full of so much goodness...

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this morning (last night for him), my brother and i FINALLY skyped. LOVE you, joey!!! it was so nice to see your face and talk as you get ready for bed and i get ready for work. if you don't have a chance to see that movie, we'll go together when i'm home! but you're gonna love it. it is "our" type of movie. love you brother....

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i decided to show Sleeping Beauty to the boys in school yesterday. i've been holding off because though it was my favorite Disney movie growing up, it is also a little on the girly side. and since i have all boys (STILL!) in school, i figured i'd spare them.

but it was a cold and rainy day yesterday and it felt fitting for some sleeping beauty action.

only, i don't think the boys liked it!

if the prince was on they were excited and into watching it. but anytime he went off screen they kept saying:

"push play, bekah! push play!"

i'm not sure if it was SO boring to them,

or if the animation wasn't cool enough.

but either way, they felt it wasn't even playing;

which was cracking me up.

and because every blog is better with a photo. here is my good friend Rhumbi and her son Marvin with me at the Christmas party last week.