Qs & As

So I have had pretty much the same question on my mind for a long time now and I got a partial answer that, for a while satisfied me but I have had the main part of the answer for a long time, I was just pretending I hadn't heard it. I keep making resolutions and goals to act on that answer but tonight it finally made sense and I finally said to myself, what am I waiting for? Here is the answer: if all it takes for me to find my true love and live happily every after and enter the next stage of life that I feel so ready for is to make myself a better person by reading my scriptures every night why am I not doing it? I am going to do it. It's as simple as that.

That's not the only reason I have finally decided to get my act together and read my scriptures daily - I learn so much from them and I want to learn more I just lack the self motivation. I have been praying for more of that because I feel like the long hours at work coupled with shorter, colder days have made me lazy and unmotivated. Today was a great day - I got a lot of Christmas shopping done, spent the day with my awesome mother, had a great time at the ward party, came home and tidied up my room and still have plenty of time to read my scriptures so why can't that happen every day? There is no reason it can't. The more I accomplish the more motivated I am to get more done - makes sense, right?

I hope this kick lasts and I feel like it will because I haven't felt this motivated in a while and it feels good. I am in a new stage in my life where the routines of school are not governing how I schedule my time and if I don't get a handle on things now, chances are I will never have a good grip on the pieces that hold everything together. I know that if I make the little changes I need to now, I won't have to adjust so much when big changes come along - and doesn't that sound nice?

Fate

So I noticed today that my awesome pocket watch necklace stopped working and my beautiful friend JoAnna told me that will be the time I meet a man. Obviously. So everyday at 10:33:04 I will be anxiously awaiting the love of my life and I will have a second of silence at that time so I don't accidentally speak to the wrong person.

Forget Everything I Said

I've said a lot about what this blog is going to be and I decided to stop trying to make my blog some awesome famous blog and just start blogging for the sake of journaling (in my own special way) so forget everything I've said I was going to do and everything I tried to do with this blog. It's just a blog. And that's that.

This Week in Chalk!

I did pretty good - a new chalkboard quote almost every day this last week! Enjoy!

Scrubs make me Happy!

Today I had a working interview! It felt good to put the scrubs back on but mostly being around the small animals made me A) miss working with the horses B) overwhelmed cause I feel like I remember nothing about dogs and cats. I think the interview went well and even though the clinic is farther away than I would like and it's only part time I am happy to get something over nothing and the people there were super nice. Here is the other thing: lately (as in the last oh two days or so) I have had this feeling that big changes are going to happen soon but I don't know what and I don't know what soon means. I feel that I have matured a lot in the last few years but recently I just feel even more like I am ready for a new stage in my life but I have felt this way before and I don't want to get disappointed if no big changes happen in the near future but I am doing what I can to be open to what Heavenly Father wants me to do and where He wants me to go so if those changes are in my near future I will be ready for them and know when they come. Anyway I don't know what is in my future or when the next phase of my life will begin but I hope I will be ready for my life to evolve when it does. I like where I am right now but I will welcome whatever it is that is in store for my future. Sorry for the very vague, very personal rant but I just needed to "talk" it out so I can sort all the thoughts and feelings running around in my head! Enjoy the rest of your week!

Last Week in Chalk!

So I made myself and cute little chalkboard last week (frame $0.25, glass $2, joy this chalkboard brings me: priceless). And I immediately started skimming Pinterest for cute quotes, doodles, handwriting, etc. I will be trying to change it every day so at the end of each week I'll post "This week in chalk" with all the week's happy quotes! Enjoy!
*If the quotes don't have an author please ask in the comments - I usually just run out of room and figure if I know then that's all that counts but now I'm sharing it with the World Wide Web I want to give credit where credit due! Also, check out my Pinterest for the quotes I use!
Quote #1: Thomas S Monson

Conference makes me Happy!

This weekend was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! I love conference it is so inspiring and up-lifting. I love the atmosphere of being at home on your couch and getting a 4-course Spiritual feast! I didn't get to catch a lot of the Saturday sessions because I watched my sister's two kids Friday and Saturday while they were in Utah for the BYU football game. It was really fun to watch the kids by myself although Friday was the craziest day I've had in a really long time...maybe ever.
Let's just have a little rundown of Friday: spent the night at my sister's to Thursday night so I could get the kids' routine down so I spent part of the morning there then on my way home to get some stuff for the day away from home (basically food because thankfully none of my siblings are plagued with celiac and they don't have the abundance of GF stuff that I find at home) and let the horses out for the day, I took my sister to drop her car off for new tires then have her a ride back home. When I got back to my sister's her husband was home from work and they left shortly after I arrived. Little Miss was awake and Mister Man was napping so we hung out until it was time to wake up brother and eat lunch. After cleaning up we got ready to go hang out at My sister's until her car was ready and I needed to take her back to get it when I got a phone call from my OTHER sister which reminded me I was supposed to watch her kids at the rent's house while she did a photo shoot on the greenbelt behind their house...in 10 minutes. So thankfully the kids were all ready and we rushed out to the car and got everyone buckled in as I called my sister back and told her sorry I forgot I am on my way when she said it was actually a half an hour later than what she originally told me so that gave us a little wiggle room. And we were off like a herd of turtles and we got there right on time and Sis fell asleep on the way - Yay! We hung out and played with the cousins then after the photo shoot they visited and left and shortly after that we went to play taxi and drop my sister off to get her car back. I barely had enough time to do that and pick Mister Man back up from playing with his cousins before going back home to receive 5 more charges who needed to be watched while their parentals (my brother and sister in law) took their friends to a birthday dinner. So with 7 hungry, energetic children (two of which were being very clingy little babies) I tried to maintain my sanity (and not yell too much - which was difficult as I was downstairs feeding the two one-year-olds and cooking dinner while the rest were causing a ruckus upstairs where a movie was on and they couldn't hardly hear me unless I screamed which made me unhappy and caused a soar throat at the end of the night). All in all the 7 dwarves were well behaved and after the 5 left I fed the animals, tucked my two weekend charges into their PJs and we went back to their house to go to bed! Thankfully they both fell asleep in the car and stayed asleep as i transferred them to their beds. I got to relax for a little bit until my oldest niece was dropped off by her mother to spend the night with me just for fun. We couldn't find anything on Netflix that was both age appropriate and wouldn't make me vomit from corniness so we settled on Hachi. Seriously, tear-jerker not the most ideal movie for a slumber party but a really touching story (and yet another reason I need a puppy like right now). So we turned on the Tv after that to see if something more lighthearted was on before we slipped off to slumber and low and behold Fresh Prince was on! Annnnd it was the sole episode of that show that was not funny in any way (the episode where will gets shot and is in the hospital) so after thoroughly confusing my niece by trying to convince her that the show that has Will Smith crying in a hospital bed was once the epitome of awesome we decided on some Disney Channel show that I felt pretty safe about being entertained by because it lacked Ashley Tisdale and had the Mowry twins in it. I soon started falling asleep and ended my very very long day with a peaceful slumber in the oober comfy guest bed of my sister's house.
Phew. I am exhausted just reliving that day! It gave me a taste of how crazy busy and hard a day in the life of a stay-at-home mom can be and honestly I really enjoyed it - I felt like overwhelmed at times but like I could still handle it and I had fun, I enjoyed spending all day with munchkins. I can't wait for the day when I get to become a mother!
Saturday after a quiet day with the kids, their parents came home and picked them up and I got picked up for a hockey game with two of my sisters and their families. Sunday I enjoyed Conference at home with some killer meals! Then I went to sister's to eat Taco Soup for dinner and hang out.
Today I got back into my routine - woke up early(ish), fed the horses, took the girls to school then came home. I watched my sister's kids while she went to the doctor then I got picked up to go to the mall for an all day shopping trip with my sister and her kids where she helped me find my blouse for our family pictures this year! We had a great time, the kids behaved well and we got home in time for my dinner date with my grandparents to P.F. Chang's (yum)!
Now I'm settled at home for my last night alone before the rents get back from their trip to Seattle and the house is not holding back with the creepy noises erupting from downstairs. Watching crimes shows is probably not the best thing to keep me feeling secure but I like watching them so whatevs. Writing all this makes me feel pretty confident that I love my life and I am very very blessed!