August 2010
3 posts
Fertility
Me: What is this?? It’s a scary African doll.
Emily: Oh its a fertility doll!!
Ruth: Yeah its a fertility doll!
Me: Ew get it away from me!!!!!
(Ruth proceeds to rub the fertility doll over me)
Ruth: HUNDREDS OF BABIES!!!!! HUNDREDS!!!!!
Emily: BABIES!!!!! BABIES!!! BABIES!!!
Ruth: No! Not hundreds, nineteen!!!
Emily: BABIES!!!!!!!!!!
Ruth: Nineteen like the Duggers!!!!
Wherever.
Wherever you go, God is sending you.
Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there.
Christ who dwells in you has something He wants to do through you where you are.
Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.
July 2010
9 posts
Lately
The past few weeks I have been spent gallivanting around the South.
One second I’m in Nashville shooting guns and pretending to be a redneck, the next I’m in New Orleans with 25,000 teenage Lutherans, then somehow end up climbing on rocks in a river up in Gatlinburg, only to land back home in in the Ham.
This is the way I live. (Cue song getting stuck in your head)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain || Submitted by xtiner (via quote-book)
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need...”
– Greg Anderson
What I learned tonight:
Now is not the time to play it safe. Now is not the time to settle. Now is the time to take risks, try new things, and figure out what I want and who I’m supposed to be.
And to surround yourself with people who inspire you and challenge you.
For the past six years I have wasted my life watching The Hills. Tonight is the series finale. And I will gather with friends to mourn the end of the most drama filled show on TV (besides Real Housewives).
Tomorrow, I will have my life back… until a spin off series happens.
To Plan or Not to Plan?
Today I had an epiphany. Well, not really, but kind of.
While walking toward the bathroom at Barnes and Noble, with a baby on my hip and two elementary aged girls following close behind me (babysitting) I found it. It was almost as if the clouds opened up and the fluorescent lights in the bookstore shone brighter.
An entire section of books devoted to Wedding Planning.
I stopped. And I...
“Do you think, when we are older, we will be the women teenage girls laugh at?”
– Sarah Garrett
time to start
I think for quite a while I have been stuck. Stuck in a way of life that felt right, well not right but comfortable.
Comfortable in my way of living.
Comfortable in my faith.
Comfortable in my friends and family.
But now, I’m sick of just being comfortable. I want to start living.
I think now, more than ever, I finally feel ready. Ready to start to seize the day and do the things that...
June 2010
12 posts
“Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via justbesplendid)
glass half full... or trying to be
Tonight was a strange night. An emotional one to say the least.
Today it hit me that my best friend Hailey will be going back home in a few short days and the life we have created for ourselves over the last six weeks will end. And it breaks my heart to think about it. Not just the fact that she is leaving, but the fact that I’m not sure where to turn.
Lately, I’ve been blindsided. I...
Blessed
Yes. I know this is four days late. But it must be said.
Happy Father’s Day Daddy.
For those of you who don’t know Glenn, you are missing out on one of the most amazing men in the world. My father is the most selfless man I know. Always giving anything and everything he has to the people in his life, and even the people he doesn’t even know. He is a quiet man, but what he lacks...
After an entire day of babysitting I rely on my best friend to make me laugh. She did her job.
“Sometimes it weirds me out when you call me muffin because thats a term some people use for vagina” -Sarah Garrett
Well, Sarah- Muffin- Beaver- VayJayJay- Hoo-Ha- Box- Garrett I apologize for weirding you out.
rodents
Me: (On the phone with Sarah) Oh my word. I'm going to have to call you back!! (Hang up phone) (Whispering) Hailey! There is a little kitten!!!
Hailey: Ah! Where!!
Me: Right there! Aw it is so cute!!!!!!
Hailey: Where?!
Me: Right there behind the plant!!
Hailey: Oh! Oh! I see it!
Me: AH! EW! That is an oppossum! EW! EW! Its a baby opossum!!
Hailey: Oh my god! SO CUTE!! AW! I want a picture!!!
Me: Sick Hailey. How can you think that thing is cute!?
I have the weirdest friends.
confusion
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind. A mixture of chaos and simplicity.
It has been filled with deep talks with people I love causing me to reevaluate things.
Things such as life, future, faith.
I’m still processing it all.
I’ll get back to you on this one.
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is...”
– Dennis Waitley (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
May 2010
14 posts
Back
Just spent the week at the beach with these two and some other old friends from high school. It is weird that now they are old friends. Who knew at nineteen you would have old friends?
The week was full of laughing and singing at the top of our lungs. At times I would pause and smile at the fact that we haven’t seen each other in months, haven’t talked to each other in weeks, but...
WatchLast summer I spent four of the best days of my life in Washington DC. There I lobbied with my best friends and thousands of others to our Senators and Representatives. Our plea, to end the longest running war in Africa and free Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers. We lobbied to have our members of Congress co-sponsor a bill to encourage Obama to put an end to this war.
On May 12, 2010 history...
Done!
Freshmen Year? Check!
enjoy
it is 5:35 in the morning.
i have a final at 10:30… sitting alone in the chapter room studying.
and crying. now laughing at the fact im crying.
just spent one more crazy night with my best friends- staying up all night causing trouble and laughing until our cheeks hurt from the smiles
i sit here wondering how i blinked and i have two more nights left of the most wild, fun, adventurous,...
“If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next, don’t be. Embrace the...”
– Gilmore Girls
slipping.
why does it feel like i have to choose?
like i have to balance?
new friends and old friends.
i feel like the old ones are slipping away.
pause.
one week.
that is all i have left of my first year of college. one week.
and i sit here flabbergasted(yes, i just used that word) wondering where the hell it went.
honestly, i just want a pause button. i just want to pause at this time, this moment, right now in my life…i just want to soak it in. i want to soak in the laughter, the people, the age where it seems like everything you need...
“Wherever you are, it’s your friends who make your world.”
– William James (via dauntwishes) (via quote-book)
April 2010
7 posts
bad decisions.
The next time I have a six page paper due remind me not to go out the night before it is due, especially when I’m no where close to being done…
If you do, be sure to be with Hailey Rogers who will stay up with you the entire night, check on you, steal your computer to read over the paper, and encourage you.
i am dumb. but i am blessed.
life as i know it
All nighter in the art room…wonderful
To Do:
With a constantly growing To Do list, I am beginning to become a little over whelmed…
From Semi-Formal on Friday(still no dress), to Papers, Lectures, Laundry, Forms, Appointments, Sorority meetings-I then remember why I look the way I do… no shower, a shirt I found on the floor, make up from last night- or maybe even the night before.
Finals are in two weeks, so these last few days...
now.
so it has been a month since i last updated, and i have really missed this place…but it felt right.
lately i’ve been living and as someone eloquently put it “busy with living”
a beautiful mess.
and now, finally, i’m ready to share it again.
March 2010
14 posts
