All being well, 1 month from today - April 7th - I will be in Ukraine!! I am so excited that it's so close, I want to do this work so much. For years, especially as a teenager and then the last 3 years, my head has been a horrible torture chamber of self-destructive thoughts. All I have thought about and strived for is "perfection" - in my eyes that meant starving myself to as small as I could. Then this summer, something (although I know now it was some ONE - God) changed my heart and my head. I felt peace like I have no felt before, I knew how lucky and blessed I was, and how it was my responsibility to share it with people who are not so lucky. I know that God has layed this in my heart and is using me as a way to help the orphans of Eastern Europe. I am only one woman,I am single, I can't adopt and I don't have a tree that produces money - but I can share what I have and help who I can. It's only a 10 day trip but in that time I really hope that I can make some children smile and laugh, and provide them with some much needed items. As you can tell, I am itching to go!!!

Other exciting things is my sister is now 38 weeks pregnant, she could pop at any day now!!! I am so beyond excited to meet my darling nephew, I love him so much already!! He is going to be one spoilt little boy - but spoilt in love and laughter but his Auntie Sarah. I also just completed my final week at the lower grade at work, the promotion is official as of monday when I will be training in a new job role. I am excited but I am always apprehensive about change, even positive ones. I don't like that about me, it sometimes makes me seem ungrateful for an opportunity and it's not that, just along with my eating issues came a load of anxiety problems, and I am still cautious about everything now. Anyway...

Well, that's all from my boring little life. If anyone wants to donate to my UKR fund (all money will be spent directly on the children - dailyfruit supplies to take to the orphanage, things bought in the UKR for them etc) pls ask me for my paypal address.

Sarah x