Rain, rain, Rain...

It has been raining way to much! I think it is starting to effect my mood. I love sunny weather and where I love rainy weather for a while, I start to get sad if it rains for a long time. Today I am a little sadder then usual, I blame it on the rain. But things are going so well. I had a lunch at my mum;s house, I loved being surrounded by people who tell good stories (or bad ones) and laughter that abounds. Plus good food, and I tried my best to make an Australian dessert called Pavlova, it was good, I think, but I didn't like it in Australia and I don't like it now. So I have decided that is one food I do not have to make again. But it did seem to go over well with my guests!:) My mum through a sort of grad party for all of us, and that was so sweet of her. Well, I guess I have to study a bit for gen 300, I am a little un-excited, because I don't want to study for exams, I want to be done with my homework. Oh well. Tomorrows another day, I am praying for sunshine! Grace and peace!

YAY!!!!

Okay, so i just had my last class of my Dordt career! YAY! well minus, of course, my studnet teaching stuff. oh well. anwyaz, i am so happy i could cry! i got a really encouarging note today, this is the second amazing note i have gotten this week, that makes me happy. I am 1/2 way done with my last take home exam. I have already finished two and that means that i only have three in class exams next week. One will be really hard, one i have no idea nad one will be easy! then camp comes!
Anywaz, i feel pretty sticking blessed today and even though it is raining i am indescribly happy. Just 1 1/2 more hours of homework then to sioux falls to enjoy one final trip with my beloved roomates!

Iced Coffee

You Are an Iced Coffee

At your best, you are: hyper, modern, and athletic At your worst, you are: cheap and angsty You drink coffee when: you're out with friends Your caffeine addiction level: medium

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

Surpisingly,
this was relativly accurate!:) I just don't know what angsty means. Any suggestions?

Ode to Mothers

So today started very early, i woke up at 5:30 am on to intention of my own. I don;t even know why i woke up, we can blame it on stress. So after that i laid in bed for an hr until my alarm went off and i heard the patters of little feet running around upstairs. So i threw on some clothes and out my contacts in and headed to the kitchen. I am babystitting this weekend so the kids came down stairs "scared" me and took ages to sit down to finally eat breakfest! Then with spray bottle and brush in hand i tackled some bed head and cleaned up the kitchen from the crazy breakfest. you would maybe find it hard to belive that to feed three children it would take 40 min. So i finished cleanging the kitchen and headed for making sure chores were done. Then belvie it or not we still had 15 mintues till we had to leave for school, so we read a book about a moose with a loose tooth. Then the coats. Yikes! that took 10 minutes in and of itself. So with the kids at school and me having been awake for almost three hours i headed back to dordt to work out for about 30 min on my dance and then came home for a shower and breakfest. I feel like i could use a nap right now. but i still have class and a little homework. i am always thankful for my mother when i take care of kids over night and all day. well class, homework then class then pick the kids up from school adn the craziness begins again. *sigh* i do love it though, maybe i will get more sleep tongiht!

Running and Stopping

I have discovered teh ability to make my text differnt colors, i like this alot!

So i had a feeling that this week would begin at a fast past, but little did i know that it might quite possibly be the busiets week ever! Even busiser then when the play was going on! In fact, when woke up today i forgot what day it was and that monday and tuesday and even happend. I am not sure i was in my apt for two days... where did i sleep....

At any rate, today is wesnday and that means no homework! It means that i stayed up till two am finishing my project so that i could take today off. I have had the most wonderfully relazing day ever! i needed a break, and i think i deserved it! I got up at 9:30 went to class, worked on my dance for sunday and it was amazing! I mean, i really nailed the movements, figured out waht i am going to say and i have changed and grown in this dance scince the talent show. Having a place to dance this dance where it was intented to be danced (a church, in worship with fellow beilviers) feels so good. Of course this is not to day that it was not worship before, but there was a differnt time and place. The biggest delimea is what to wear. I need something not to "dancy" and not to loose or scandlous.

So then i came back to my apt, took a shower, got ready ate lunch, and watched a ltittle TV with was promptly the same as taking a nap. When i got up i cleaned my room and now i think i am going to make cookies. These seem like simple things, but being able to take all the time you need with simple things so how makes them so relaxing. I will admit, this week i have been stresseed for the first time in ages, like probally since sometime in october. But taking a deep breath day helps alot! it clears my mind and my soul. Cheers!

Happy Easter!

So this afternoon i was eating easter dinner with my family and nieghbors, and after dinner we retired to the sitting room to enjoy coffee and reading aloud from joke books. Here is one of my favoirtes! It is a bit long, so bear with it and read all of the descriptions:
Job Describtions:

Senior Pastor:
-is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound
-is more powerful then a locomotive
-is faster then a speeding bullet
-walks on water
-gives polices to God

Associate Pastor:
-is able to leap short buildings in a single bound
-is as powerful as a switch engine
-is just as fast as a speeding bullet
-walks on water if the sea is calm
-talks with God

Educational Director:
-Leaps small buildings with a running start
-almost as powerful as a switch engine
-is faster then a speeding BB
-walks on water if he/she knows where the rocks are
-talks with God if special request is approved

Music Director:
-Clears a Quonset hut
-loses races with a locomotive
-can fire a speeding bullet
-swims well
-is occasionally adressed by God

Youth Director
-Runs into small buildings
-reconizes locomotives two out of three times
-used a squirt gun in college
-knows how to use the water fountian
-mumbles to himself

Church Secretary:
-Lifts buildings to walk under them
-kicks locomotives off the track
-cathes speeding bullets in her/his teeth
-when God speaks, she/he says: "May i ask who is calling"

Older Beauty

Today I went for the first time all year to sing at the nursing home. My sophmore and jr year i went faithfully. It started out one day when someone said to me: "you should come with us to the nursing home." and i said "uh...no! i can't carry a tune, even if it had handles!" so they told me that old people are deaf and it wouldn't make a difference, so i begrudgly went. Well who would have known that one day i would love it and go faithfully every week.
This year however, things were differnt. FIrst semester i was in australia and then when i got back gift started up and the two weeks thus far i could have gone i had pior engaements or was sick. So that was a complicated matter. So today i got to go for the first time this year! I can't wait to go again next week! i can not express how much i love this. I have trouble singing, but seeing the peopel makes me think so much. They are just so intresting. So today two stories:
First story: it was really windy today, so i mentioed that to one of the ladies and they told me that "the wind is good for your hair, it helps air it out" I smiled gently and later laughed, i love it!
Second Story: We were asked by a man in his 40s if we would come and sing for his dad who is coherent, but is dying. so we wente and sang a few songs for this dying old man. The look in his sons face was of gratiudte and sadness and tears. It got me to thinking about how precious life is. Some one told me once that they were in a wonderful season of life, and every year after that that i saw them they told me that same thing. It got me to thinking about seasons of life and how precious each one is and how short each on is. I move on to a new season in my life soon and that is scary, but this man moves on to a new season in his life and i wonder if he is scared. It is intresting.

Boomerang

Today Andrea played outside with me. We started out with a frisbee, but it was far to windy for that kind of excursion, so then I remebered that i had brought back a boomerang with me from australia. I was excited, so we played with that and several other friends came at differnt times to play with us too. So we masterd the throwing of it into the wind and then the best part of all was when Mike through the boomerang all the way over southview and almost killed the lacross players and it landed under a pine tree. I was pretty amazed because it had gone so high and so far!
I did think that maybe we could hunt for robins when they are eating all the worms off of the ground after it storms tongiht, We will see what happens!:) But then i would have to find a way to cook robin meat, maybe for my iron chef compititon on sat.:)
in other news i spent 2 and half hours outside today sitting in the sun. This was one time i was thankful i was not in Australia, becuase my skin got some colour today, but had we been in sydney i would have been burnt to a crisp. I love the sun! and I have no homework! So i need to get ahead in my other homework i guess. yay for sun! I hope we don't die in a tornado tonight!

I can hardly contain it!

It, being my excitement! it has just been the most amazing day ever! I love the sun shiny weather, it makes me so happy. I opened all the windows in our living room and i opened our door to our hall the neighebors across the way did the same thing. We have a vortex of wind inside, it is like being outside but not. I love today! I had a wonderful time dancing this afternoon and i spent some time developing friendship! i am so happy right now! tonight i will think of a way to spend more time out side, go to a meeting and then praise and worship! I have a desire to do print making too. All my pictures are blowing off my wall!:) I am so happy!!!

BEAUTIFUL!

Things that i think are beautiful:
`Hands Lifted Up signing in Cella's church on sunday
`the sun pouring in my window over my shoulder making me warm
`a gaint dress up tea party where we celebrated life and love
`birds covering the soccer field on saturday morning after it had rained for three days straight. I think they were eating the worms
`earthworms covering the sidewalk
`God teaching me the same thing for two weeks-- me finally processing it
`rainy days
`life