First of all, my last day of school is exactly 7 days away. (wknd included) I am ready to be done! I've got all sorts of stuff planned out for the summer! I promise you that I'm going to say the words "I'm excited" about 10 times during this post.
I am so excited! Heading to the beach on June 1st with my youth group! My birthday is on June 3rd, so I will be in FL on my birthday!!!! I am super super excited! :D
Then I'll come back on the 6th and on the 7th we have our swim party for the middle school girls. (I recently started a middle school girls bible study! I need to just do an entire post on that. It was awesome!) On the 8th I'm babysitting. HOPEFULLY sometime between the 9th-13th I can get my driver's license. I had to cancel my original appt. (June 6th) so I could go to Destin. :D
On the 14th we're heading to VIRGINIA!!!!!!!!! That may not sound that exciting to you but I am SO ready for this! I get to see Tate and I haven't seen him since Christmas! Might go look at Liberty University while I'm there, and we might go to Bush (sp?) Gardens or King's Dominion which are two theme parks around where Tate lives. I seriously don't even have words to say how excited I am. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D D: :D :D
We have VBS coming up around the corner! I've done puppets the past two years, but this year I volunteered to do music/dance. It's going to be awesome! I'm excited!!!!
Towards the end of July I head off to Kidzkamp! I am super excited about that too! We've been working on decorations and stuff for awhile now, and I think it's gonna be awesome!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Magical Places
Have you ever been somewhere magical?
I don't mean Walt Disney World or a theme park in St. Louis. I'm talking about a place that has a special, magical memory attached to it.
This place may be something as simple as a field in the park where you and your best friend used to spend time roaming around. It might be the hotel in Florida that you took your first ever trip away from home to. This place might be a small church camp that you visited last winter where you met some amazing people and had the time of your life. Don't you have a place like that? Somewhere that makes you think of happy memories, exciting stories, and wonderful occasions...
I don't want to burst your bubble, but here's the reality: that field is just a field. The hotel is just a hotel. The place you went to camp? It's just another campground. What makes your memories of those places special is who you were with. You could be standing in a blank, white, room with 12 of your closest friends but still have the time of your life. It's not because this room was awesome. It's because the people you were able to spend time with.
I don't mean Walt Disney World or a theme park in St. Louis. I'm talking about a place that has a special, magical memory attached to it.
This place may be something as simple as a field in the park where you and your best friend used to spend time roaming around. It might be the hotel in Florida that you took your first ever trip away from home to. This place might be a small church camp that you visited last winter where you met some amazing people and had the time of your life. Don't you have a place like that? Somewhere that makes you think of happy memories, exciting stories, and wonderful occasions...
I don't want to burst your bubble, but here's the reality: that field is just a field. The hotel is just a hotel. The place you went to camp? It's just another campground. What makes your memories of those places special is who you were with. You could be standing in a blank, white, room with 12 of your closest friends but still have the time of your life. It's not because this room was awesome. It's because the people you were able to spend time with.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Life's too short
I wrote this a while back, but never posted it. :)
You cannot change people. I don't mean painting someone's nails, or cutting someone's hair. You can not change the attitude or mentality of another human being. We'd like to try sometimes though, wouldn't we? Here are just a few examples: that obnoxious man at the baseball game shouting swear words louder than anybody, the woman at her desk who is constantly tapping her fingers, the boy in your class who kicks your chair or talks too much, the drama queen in your 7th period class who thinks every single thing is the end of the world because she wants to be the center of attention. Wouldn't you just love to do something, ANYTHING, to make them quit their annoying habits and change their annoying personality traits? I'm not going to lie, I absolutely would.
(Not to say that I don't have any annoying habits myself! Because I absolutely do! :) Just thought I'd make sure I mention that before I continued...)
Unfortunately, I cannot control others. The only thing I have any control over is my own attitude and the way I react to things. I have to make up my mind on the front end to take a deep breath and have a better attitude about people. Life is too short to waste your time being angry or annoyed.
You cannot change people. I don't mean painting someone's nails, or cutting someone's hair. You can not change the attitude or mentality of another human being. We'd like to try sometimes though, wouldn't we? Here are just a few examples: that obnoxious man at the baseball game shouting swear words louder than anybody, the woman at her desk who is constantly tapping her fingers, the boy in your class who kicks your chair or talks too much, the drama queen in your 7th period class who thinks every single thing is the end of the world because she wants to be the center of attention. Wouldn't you just love to do something, ANYTHING, to make them quit their annoying habits and change their annoying personality traits? I'm not going to lie, I absolutely would.
(Not to say that I don't have any annoying habits myself! Because I absolutely do! :) Just thought I'd make sure I mention that before I continued...)
Unfortunately, I cannot control others. The only thing I have any control over is my own attitude and the way I react to things. I have to make up my mind on the front end to take a deep breath and have a better attitude about people. Life is too short to waste your time being angry or annoyed.
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