Does it TRULY matter?

Does it truly matter?

Sitting on the bunk bed, we are at the ripe age of 6 and 3
Playing with our army men having a battle
You take mine and I take yours
We have a fight and mom teaches us now kids does it truly matter?

We have now grown a little older, supposedly wiser too
I am 8, you are 5 and we are watching cartoons
We fight over if we should watch dragon tails or rolley polly olie
Mom teaches us now kids does it truly matter?

The ages of accountability has reached both of us now
I am 12 and you are 9 and we are watching a movie
Something inappropriate comes on in the movie and we both are in SHOCK
Mom sits down and teaches us now kids, this truly does matter!

As we grow up and move schools
I am now 14, you are 11 and we are doing homework
You tell me a story of a boy you know copying someone else’s work
You then state you do not want to do homework and will do this tomorrow and put your homework away
I pull your homework back out and say, wait, this truly does matter!

We both have seen how crazy the world is now
Now being 18 and 15 years into our lives
We talk about things that are going on in our lives and you ask me what to do
You begin to cry and say you are so confused
I look at you with tears in my eyes, give you a hug, say I have been there before and this truly does matter!

We all have people in our lives that have taught us things that truly do matter and things that do not matter. Lets thank them for all that they have done for us!

Weekend Madness

Well this weekend was one in a million! So many fun things happened and so many new friendships were transformed. I am so thankful that i changed wards from my home ward to the mesa college ward. Verity and i this weekend had so much fun! We attended our ward christmas party and then went to a dance party afterwords with some fun boys from our ward:) For the christmas party we all dressed up in Pj's and had breakfast followed by SANTA CLAUSE! YES HE CAME! :) it was so much fun and i am so glad that i ended up going. yayyy for best friends! Sunday night we went to a broad cast followed by pizookies at my house:) after that spencer, one of the boys, asked if i would help him with his essay... hummm never thought it would take so long! I didn't end up leaving his house till five! Yes it was crazyness but we got it done so that is a good thing! lol. This weekend was great and i wouldn't change it for anything. YAYYY back to school tonight!

Sunday Thought

Last night i was able to go and watch my favorite little kids. 4 children under the age of 12... yes i love them and the sweetness that each one of them holds. While i was watching them last night and today at church something kept coming to my mind...it has made me have a new outlook on so many things in life. We all in this life are given challenges, obstacles if you wish to call them, that we must over come. It is not a matter of if we will over come them because we all have this power but it is a matter of when we will over come them. At points, when we feel that we have been given way to much, or "our plate is full" we start to feel down and start asking why this, why me, why now? These questions have such an impact on our outlook of a situation that is occurring in our life and most of the time in a negative way. We all have things going on in our life that we may not be... happy... with at the moment, i have them too, but i have thought of a new way to look upon these challenges that we are dealt. Challenges are given to us for a reason. We all are here on this earth to learn and grow and to strive to reach our potential. Each of us as human beings has a different potential to reach, none are the same and therefore we are all given different challenges in our lives, different strengths and weaknesses that we may help those we love when they are going through things. These kids last night, while i was watching them, taught me something huge. We were outside playing with the dog throwing toys and just laughing and having fun, no big deal when the little boy came up to me and tried to spit the words out, puppy happy. Simple words but it made me think yeah things are going on in life but we have the choice to be happy! LETS ALL BE HAPPY! SMILE! IT HELPS! haha! Love you guys!

Take a step back

Wow best day of my life! Have you ever had the burden of something on you and then all of a sudden it is gone? Yep that happened to me today! I have been stressing out so badly on how i am going to pay for spring semester this year... it has been a huge damper the past little bit and it finally left! I was so excited to go to MCC yesterday and pay it down right off! YAY! I cannot believe that this semester is almost over though it is amazing to me how fast time goes by. Recently i was thinking about how fast time goes and how quickly things change in this life and decided that i missed the good old days when we worried about where our bouncy ball went not our calculator for math class, where the letter from the school that said who our teacher was at the beginning of the year and not where our packets of homework to do over the summer went. Being 10 min early for school so you could play on the playground, now if i had a extra 10 min it is packed with either homework or sleeping. I miss waking up on Christmas morning excited because Santa came, or on Easter because we could go find the eggs. It is good to grow up, don't get me wrong, but what about all the good times when we were kids. Being in college is so much fun but at the same time you have so much to think about. what your degree is going to be, where are you going to go, how are you going to pay for school, what are you gonna wear, what are you going to do on the weekends, who are you going to be friends with and everything else. One thing that also hit me while thinking about this is the sweet spirit of a young child. The kind and loving to everyone person that they are, if only this traveled throughout our lives with us. I learned this past week to just take a step back and let life take its coarse! Sometimes you need to direct it other times just let the wheel turn where it may.