MIA.

Yes.

I have been MIA from this blog for quite a while.

My life is busier than its ever been.

I leave at 7 am. and get home at 9:30 pm, just in time to go to bed.

Why? I am student teaching and have a part-time job.

I love it, though! Yeah, I wish I had a little bit more free time, but my fourth graders make it totally worth it! :)

So friends and family, I will try to blog every once in a while [WHOA! a car crash just happened right outside my window! yikes!] but I can't promise anything. There are other things in my life that are more important, and other people who need more attention than my blog.

I will eventually come back to being a full-time blogger! But for now, I need to focus on my life!

I will leave you with this adorable puppy I will hopefully one day have:

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because of you.

Dear BYU Alumni,

I call you every night for my job.
Some of you are so very nice.
Some of you I understand honestly do not have a single penny to spare to give to the school.
Some of you do. And yet you do not give it.
Well, dearest Alumni, because of you, we do not have enough scholarships to give out to students.
Because of you my very best friend did not get a scholarship.
Because of you he may not be able to attend school next semester.
Because of you his plans for his life are slowly slipping out of his fingers, and there is nothing he can do about it. 
So next time I call, think again about giving.
Can you really just not go out to eat once this month and give that $10 to us instead?
Then maybe my best friend can have his life back.

K. Thanks.

Sincerely,
That "annoying" caller that you are so rude to and hang up on

Expressions of Love

I found this video of couples of all ages sharing how they show each other their love. 

Its really cute!

And also, Sam and her husband, Chas, from Young People in Love are in it! Try to find them!

How adorable are Tom and Joyce?! 

I hope someday I can be a cute old couple still in love like them! 

one year ago today...

...I came back from the trip that changed my life.

Ghana, Africa. 

I went without my friends, and ended up making many more.

I went without my family, and gained a new one. 

I took a million and one pictures, 

so I decided this movie I made would do better justice than simply slapping them on my blog. 

I just pray that someday I can go back.

[if you want to learn more about my trip read these.]

this is why i do what i do.

I got my first taste of the reason I went into teaching.

This comment is from a mom of two of the kids in my daycare class.

These two kids came into my class two weeks ago having never gone to daycare,

and wanting nothing to do with the place. 

The woman said this with such gratitude and sincerity that I almost didn't know how to respond. 

"They adore you. You have made such an impression on them.

Thank you."

To you that don't work with children, maybe this comment does not seem that impactful.

But to me, it was a reminder of why I go through the stress of taking care of children,

and why I am going through the hours of schooling to teach them. 

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harry.

I wanted to re-post this from my friend Kylie.

I got chills as I read this post. 

And I am not ashamed to admit that, even if it is about Harry Potter.

"hogwarts will always be there to those who are deserving of it."

i was chatting with my mom the day before last and we were just chatting about how we were both going to dress up as professor trelawney for the midnight premier of harry potter. like mother like daughter, i guess. 

i expressed how bittersweet this is for me, the last of the movies, the last new real harry potter moment. after the midnight premier, i felt that i would be entering adulthood and leaving childhood behind. and here is what my mom said to me:

"oh, well, your childhood is ending in a way...but the thing about great books and great movies is that they are timeless so whenever you read or watch them, you will be swept back to your own awesome childhood. those harry potter kids are your peers and they are my children and you are all grown up now."

so, i raise my glass to harry potter, the boy who lived, the boy who is our friend, the boy who makes reading magical, the boy that is a timeless part of me and my life and you and yours.

p.s. my professor trelawney costume was totally rockin.

[here is her original post.]

new addiction.

i love social media.

but most of all, i love google. 

thanks google, for once again reminding me that you rock.

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