Thanksgiving Break!

Break is over and I am back to doing school...

I had an amazing time however!  No school for FIVE days!!!  It was amazing.  Great food, and time with family were the highlights.

We went up to my great aunt's house for a yummy Thanksgiving dinner.  As always the cousins ended up playing in the leaves outside.  We do this every year.  Making our little town out of the leaves by building walls out of all of the millions of loose leaves that our in the yard.  Most of the leaves end up in one place – near the bushes at the back of the yard.  So every year we all run outside after dinner, and start shaping the leaves into walls, often using the bushes as ceilings or part of the structure.  Since building forts is one of my all time favorite thing to do I really like this game.  Most years we spend the whole time simply making out forts better and bigger, but this year we actually played town.  We had “speckles” (leaves with blotches on them) as our currency.  I was the mayor, and I owned a craft store.  We also had a grocery/hot meal store, and a bank.  Man, I really love just being a kid for a day.  No school to worry about… the only worry is what you want your “house” to look like, and how to weave monkey grass together into something the others will buy.  No facebook, cell phone, tv, music, etc… just me and my hands trying to make something.  It feels good!

Now I’m back to using my brain… mostly the part of my brain that doesn’t like to be used.  I like figuring out problems that let me to work with my hands, but school doesn’t usually allow this.  Mostly I end up using my brain and then transferring that information onto paper.  Oh well… I’ll get through.   I’m not trying to complain.

On a happier note, we finished setting up our Christmas tree on Saturday!  It looks really good!  The lights, and ornaments, and garland, and the star on top are all helping me get into the Christmas spirit.  Now I just need to find some time to finish decorating the house!  Hmmmmm… I wonder how I’m going to find it?  Time seems to tick by so slowly and yet I blink and it has gone, and it is never coming back.  It reminds me of the song that goes: “Life is precious, life is sweet, like the earth beneath my feet.  Though I know I’m passin’ through I know I belong to you…”  This is a great reminder that life is precious, and if we aren’t careful it will pass us by.
-written 11/29/2010-

A Rude Awakening & A Sweet Sister

What A Week!...

 The best story I have from this week is how Laura Beth woke me up yesterday morning.

Because I haven't gotten good rest all week, I decided that I would sleep in a little bit on Thursday morning, despite what my alarm clock said.  Mommy had already left to see the doctor, so it was just La, Daisy and I at home.  I was laying in my bed only half aware of what was going on downstairs when I hear my sister coming up to my room.  She climbs into my bed, overtop of me, and lies down next to me whispering (in her sweet little sister way) that I need to get up.  Being me, I refused, and snuggled down further into my warm blankets.  I thought that after that La would leave me alone... but noooooo... she wouldn't do that!  She got up off my bed and started to pull the blankets off of me.  

(For general interest -  this is a very mean thing to to since my room is the coldest in the house)

I of course struggled to get my blankets back but she eventually stripped them completely off the bed, and thew them onto my guest bed.  Brrrr... I haven't even mentioned that her hands were about the same temperature as ice cubes!  So as she is trying to get me out of bed I am screeching about how cold her hands are, and fighting to keep myself on the bed.  Eventually she pulls me half-laughing, half-screaming out of my bed.  Yes... it was funny.  After she finally got me off, I was no longer freezing cold.  In fact, I was rather warm from trying to fight her off.

So I got up...  I tried for a while to stay mad at Laura Beth, but that is a very hard thing to do.  She is too sweet.  I love my sister!!!  <3

Oh boy... you wouldn't think that it would be that hard to get a 16 year old girl out of bed... but I guess that's me.  :P 

-written 11/12/2010-

My First Post

I'm so excited to be starting a blog!!!

I've actually wanted to do this for quite a while now... so I'm very happy to be starting this!

This week will hopefully be a good one... even if it isn't, I have amazing friends who always manage cheer me up!  :)

I also have an amazing mother!!!

Tomorrow is her Birthday!  I'm so thankful for my mommy... she is a wonderful example of a godly woman for me!   I love my mommy!!!  <3

Why does the word have to throw all sorts of junk at teens... through movies, peer pressure, and so many other things.  The media just pounds us with all sorts of cultural norms that don't really match up with what the Bible says.

It is really starting to eat away at me...  :(

Life is hard...  but I'll make it through...  God will alway be there!!!  :)
-written 11/7/2010-