Family Alive

We packed up my laptop yesterday and sent it off to Dell.  For over a year now, thin vertical lines have been slowly appearing on the screen. Highly annoying.  We just assumed we had been too rough on it and that the screen was going out. Since screens are so expensive to replace, we were disappointed to think we’d probably be better off replacing the entire laptop in the next year or so when the screen finally went out. 

Last month, though, I got a letter from Dell letting us know that our laptop screen had a defect and that Dell was replacing screens for FREE. SWEET!  They sent DHL to pick it up, and we should probably have it back next week.  I’m so excited!  Brian’s happy, too, as this gave us a good excuse to get everything on the computer backed up so he can install Windows Vista when we get it back.  It’ll be like a new computer!  WOOHOO! 

Right now, though, I’m using my (originally Brian’s) old laptop that I used in Nicaragua.  I have such fond memories of this computer… lots of sweet IM conversations with my boyfriend and then fiances, tons of long rambling love letters sent and received, lots of Nicaragua memories chronicled on the old Mercy Ships Nicaragua website.  Honestly, it brings tears to my eyes!  This is a good old computer. 

But.  The power cord is very loose, and it has no battery power left.  So if it even slightly moves, it may power off with no warning.  And the keyboard has some issues.  The spacebar doesn’t seemto beworking wekll.  And I keep getting randome letters insertedinmy typing…  Outlook is not installed, so I’m having to surf the net to get my mail. This is actually a good thing, as I’m a little too mail dependent.  🙂

Quiet Saturday night.  Brian’s at school for some student presentations. Josiah just went to bed, and Analise is snuggled on the floor.  She’s feeling a little sick tonight, so I hope that she’s better before church tomorrow.  She had a busy day at a birthday party and lots of time outside.  I’m alternating between holding her on the couch and looking for a Mother’s Day craft for Sunday School tomorrow. 

Happy Mother’s Day to all my mothers, grandmothers and mother friends!  You are priceless, and God knows you are His hands here on earth.