halloween 2014

who needs costumes when you are already this happy?

Colonel Chris Hadfield

My mom won tickets to see "Out this World: Chris Hadfield at the Confederation Center of the Arts".  She gave the tickets to Kayla and I and we went on the afternoon of October 30th.  I just loved every minute of it.  Chris was such a great and inspirational speaker.  I love that he started his journey with a dream and worked so hard to achieve it, despite feeling that he might not accomplish it.  But he did, he became an astronaut and he went to space!  The most interesting thing that I took from his speech was how well spoken he was when he responded to some questions from the audience.  Someone asked him how he felt about his spirituality now that he had been to space.  He responded so profoundly stating that he would not share his own beliefs, but that going to space did increase his spirituality, and I just thought that was so amazing.  We live in such a "politically correct" society right now, but I am happy to know that people still believe in something, whatever it may be.

we are good

I needed to read this today, thanks taza

i think we need to take the time to tell ourselves we are good people.  good mothers.  good wives and friends and women.  we have to believe it ourselves, and not apologize for who we are (i find myself apologizing a lot because i always feel like there is so much room for improvement in my life), but it’s unnecessary. we are good people.  and good mothers.  and good women. all of us. in our different stages of life, pursuing different dreams or goals, parenting or believing or living differently from one another, we’re all good.  we just need to believe it. maybe we should just start giving ourselves head-nods every morning when we look in the mirror. ha. i might do that today…

how my ipod saw things; october

today

To say this past week has been a roller coaster would be an understatement.  My emotions were literally all over the place.  I have a lot of anxiety about school, and sometimes I like to blow things way out of proportion.  That happened this week.  It has been hard to find a balance with my school work, and I doubt I will since I only have another month until I am finished this semester.  I am really looking forward to having some time off and to make some really great things happen.  Back to the school work though, I am in 4 courses and none of them are too difficult, I just like making sure I have things done on time.  For one course, I just work on a paper the whole semester.  I have one more month until it is due and I have done a great amount of work on it, but it still has a ways to go.  Today I am in a rut though because I did a fair amount of work on the weekend, in hopes that they would call me into work today.  I even texted a supervisor last night to let them know that I was available for work today, and then nothing.  It is a little disappointing to work casual in that sense because most other days that people text me, I am usually too busy with school work.  It is hard to know that within the next couple months I will need money more than ever before, and if I am not making any now, it is not easy to save anything.

But this is what all this comes down to.  I have faith and I have hope.  Things are going to work out, because they always have for me and I know that they always will. So, I can make some work for myself today to make sure I am informed in all my courses or to maybe even get ahead.  Then I might just make some muffins and run an errand and take some time to relax, because I know I would enjoy and benefit from doing so.
  

keeping me sane

Haig
Family
Scriptures
Friends
Cookies

fall sister photoshoot

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this time last year, I was going through a really hard time.
I am so glad that hard time revealed who my true friends were.
you learn more about a person at the end of the relationship, not the beginning
I am glad everything changed.