Thank The Lord

Hey, this is rare! Its a Friday during a school week and I have time to write!
Since the last time I wrote, Dan has gone back to school (sniff*), and I have been learning a lot. Daniel's trip back to school is always sad. The day or couple of days before he leaves, I am in a bad attitude mood. This last time I told my mom, "I'm sorry I've been such a crab lately, I think it's because it's starting to kick in that tomorrow is the day he leaves." My mom looked at me really strange and said, "you've been a crab?" And I guess it hadn't shown outwardly, but I had a crab attitude, so I knew that I was just anticipating the next day. He came over and I cooked him lunch and we had coffee and just talked about normal things. We've tried making closing statements, as I like to call them, where we say, "just keep busy, and in no time it will be summer, I'll miss you...etc." But, in the four times we have had to do this, we have found that that only makes things worse. If you go on like it's nothing and you'll see him soon, it convinces you of that even though it is unsure. I keep telling my mom that one day I'll keep a straight face and not cry when he leaves, but I have yet to convince myself of it. Once I cry and get it off my chest, I move on and am stronger because of it, but it's always the first two nights that I feel it the most.
I'm learning a lot of cool signs right now like, "Miss you I" and the Pledge of Allegiance. Songs and pledges or when you quote something, flows so well. I like the fluid movement of them.
I am not sure of the next tiome I will be able to write, but if you will, please pray for Daniel and Katie and me while we try to maintain a good GPA. Love you guys!
~~~~Kara~~~

Deaf Lunch

Last year and semester we (my sign language class) had a Deaf lunch in the cafeteria. A deaf lunch, which we will have every year, is one which there are a few deaf people and you are not allowed to talk, but sign. This is a clip of my teacher Mrs. Pierson, "listening" to David Hoffman, a Deaf man on campus who I regularly sign with.

Happy New Year People

Well, I started my new year off right. I got something straightened out with someone that had bothered me for weeks. I also ate lots of food! On the eighth day of this new year I start back to school, thus meaning I might not be posting for a while. School starts and my contact with life outside the library ends.
I am going to see April today. And get my school books. To admit it plain out-- I am scared of Spring semesters. I really am. I dont like them at all, because it seems like every Spring semester I see Daniel like once on a Saturday the entire semester (thats 16 weeks). Believe it or not I DONT like that.
New years eve all I could think about was the struggles I went through this year and, yes, how God brought me through, but it brought me down. I then just started recalling all my good and happy memories of stuff Dan and I have done, watching him open his Red Sox blanket I made for him and seeing his face, going to see the Christmas lights, going to the Thanksgiving play at PCC. So much more. Also, of course this year we got a little news of my sister's pregnancy.
Shauna, the first of our one-too-many little women story, is pregnant with (this is mine and mine alone prediction not fact!) two little girls. I think this because God has a sense of humor and also because Jeremy has become partial to little girls and thinks the world of Lexi Rollison.
Yes, its funny to watch the old year just go by. Can you imagine how God must feel watching how quickly our lives go by. I love the Lord. I love what he's done for me. My blog title truly is what I have to cling to sometimes. Sometimes I think why is this happening? Or what could You possibly be teaching me from this? But in the end of every trial, I keep remembering the past times when it has been For My Good and For HIS Glory.