Deep Roots are Not Reached by the Frost

One two three four, tell me that you love me more.....five six nine or ten..... That is what I sing when I need to step back and breathe. Like when people tell you to count to ten before you say anything else so you can think about what may have almost come out of your mouth. Well, I like to sing, so I sing that instead. Today there were plenty of opportunities to sing that song. But I didn't because those happenings deserved laughter instead. :) Today I cooked my dinners for the rest of the week and am so excited to eat deliciousness all week!! But with that excitement came a whole lot of mess and burning things. I burned 1/2 my bacon and 1 batch of candied almonds.... :( I had a fabulous time picking out the burnt bacon though as well as chopping and mixing another batch of almonds which then brought me great pride when I took them out of the oven not 3 seconds too soon. If I hadn't failed the first time there's no way I would have appreciated the timing of the s...

Something I'm excited for: becoming what i know i want to be And you know what?? This semester will help me do that more so than any semester before!! How do I know this? Every single one of my classes will help me develop critical, creative thinking. Forming ideas and molding what I believe about this world. I've always been frustrated with my passive opinions and my lack of determination to stand up and say something (that would be because I had nothing to say while standing...) Each class will help me figure out what I want to say, how to say it, when to say it, and the importance of saying it. I'm excited!!

Today in my U.S. History class, my professor was guiding a discussion on the reading that had been assigned for that day. I had only read about 2/3 of it, and of course the largest part of the discussion was based on the 1/3 I hadn't read. So there I am sitting in class having very little understanding of what is happening and I'm nodding off, trying desperately to stay awake. Then the discussion starts to turn and I recognize some thoughts as relating to parts of the reading I had familiarized myself with. My professor asks another question--one I felt like I could maneuver around and give some sort of logical answer. "Let's get some people who haven't said much." And so I raise my hand. Dr. Underwood sees me and lights up at the sight of someone who hasn't said anything yet, raising their hand. "Yes?" I share something that I thought was interesting about a part of the reading; it happened to be a different way of looking at a passage. My...

It's Christmas time again!! Last Christmas came and went so quickly and now here is another Christmas come and gone. I'll save my year "recap" for new years week. Right now I'd like to say that I have a wonderful family. There is a sanctity and sacredness that I feel is a very prominent part of my family. If anything I feel that with Laurel on a mission that heavenly sacredness has grown stronger between the 8 members of my family. For Christmas Eve my family sang some Christmas songs around the Christmas tree before opening our Christmas Eve present. We were singing....lalalala. And all of a sudden I get really emotional and can't hold back tears. I'm usually really good at making them go away but that night I simply couldn't and so they came. I was trying to hide my face but then a song ended and mom turned my way, asking what song I wanted to sing next, but then saw my tears and asked what was wrong. I couldn't say anything for a few ...

Mi hermana has left on her mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She will be going to Singapore and speaking Malay! It's all very exciting. :) Her service to the Lord for 18 months will be a tremendous blessing to our family, to her life forever onward, and to all those who come in contact with her during her service. She is a wonderful example of Christ-like love and understanding. I'm not putting her on a pedestal, but I am acknowledging that she is ready to serve the Lord and has prepared wonderfully. When dropping her off today, we had almost my entire family (Georgia and Ruby had to stay in school), by Aunt Debra and her little baby Truman, my Uncle Joe, Laurel's friend Janice, and her honey as well, Sterling. We all gave her hugs, took pictures with her, and were very calm and ready for what was coming in a few short moments. Once we dropped her off, it felt like nothing had changed. Just another part of life happening. I thought about ...

My initial thought to this quote was that those days never actually occur and they are simply memories that come from fragments of other memories pieced together. But as I thought more about it, I realize those “perfect English autumnal days” really do exist. They exist when we let the beauty envelop us and push away the ugly. Those perfect English autumnal days did actually occur in life, but simultaneously it’s possible a harsh word slashed that beauty away for a bit of that morning or afternoon making that perfect day slightly imperfect. But the way my mind works is that I tend to remember the wonderful things separately from the terrible things, making a peaceful, joyous walk through arches of trees a distinctly separate experience from that same day needing to take a foreboding test. So then, when I look back a year later, I don’t remember that test at all! It was a test to be forgotten, but I do remember that breathtaking stroll with Heavenly Father. I remember t...

I like blogging. In fact, I love it. But as of late I've been at a loss as to what to grace your eyes with. I shall be more observant, more exciting in my life. Hopefully this will bring me to write a little more. Maybe not. We shall have our patience tested, shan't we?