Farewells

Okay so I admit that at times I am pathetic and tonight is no different.  I just watched Steve Carell's final episode of The Office and realized what a fan I am.  I found myself crying as he said his final goodbyes to everyone.  Over and over I've told myself I should stop watching the show, but I haven't been able to stop.  I'm super addicted to it and I'm really going to miss him.  Maybe the change will be what gets me to stop watching the show, but for tonight I'm just going to sit here and miss Michael Scott for a minute more.  I know... pathetic!!

For Lynae...

Today my bestest cousin Lynae randomly called me.  I love random phone calls from besties!!  She told me I need to put up an updated picture of the countdown chain since it seems too long still.  We are down to 39 days!!  I am so excited to go see her!  So Lynae, here is the 39 day count down.

Toddler Crafts

My friend Nicole has been posting a lot lately about spring toddler crafts that she has been doing with her kids.  Well I lack the whole kids thing, but yesterday I did something so totally 4 year old that I wanted to post about it.  I decided this year that some of my vacation time would go toward visiting my cousins Lynae and Hannah, along with Lynae's husband Tyler and baby Camden at their home in Alabama.  I bought my plane ticket with my tax return and I am seriously looking forward to 6 days in a place I've never been.  Yesterday while watching conference I decided to make a paper chain to count down the days.  I counted it up on the calendar and 54 chains later this hangs on my living room wall.  Happy Counting!!!

Catching Up

It's 9:00 on a Saturday morning and I'm not at work.  That is good news number one.  Good news number two is that RC Willey will be here any minute with my new bedroom set. Good news number three is that today is General Conference, and I'm going to actually get to watch all 4 sessions.  So the reason I'm not at work is because of General Conference, and the necessity of the manager to be there during the Priesthood session rushes.  I decided to work 6 to close so I can watch conference and still be there for the rush.  It makes a lot of things possible, that aren't usually possible on Saturdays.  Our Young Women are preparing to walk from the Draper Temple to the Salt Lake Temple in September, so a bunch of them get together every Saturday morning and walk.  Because of work, I generally can't go, but this time I woke up early and met them.  We walked a little more than four miles and I am severely out of shape!  I need to walk more by myself, because I was tired after 2 miles, barely made it 4 and now I'm sitting here hoping I don't have to move for a bit.  22 plus miles is going to kill me.  I'd like to think I'm going to make it on adrenaline but I'm not!!  I'm going to have to train for this a lot more than I am now.  I also think I need to buy insoles for my shoes.  The balls of my feet feel raw.  In other news, the new bedroom set is on it's way.  RC Willey had this great deal.  The whole thing (headboard, foot board, side rails, dresser w/ mirror, night stand and HD TV) for $700.  It was way too good to pass up, plus it's pretty!!

 March was an interesting month in a lot of ways.  The first Sunday in March, the Bishop pulled me out of Sunday School and asked if I'd do him a "hard" favor.  I told him I would and he proceeded to ask me to speak in church about the trial of being single in a family church.  I was stumped about how I would take on that task, but after a lot of praying and some serious study I figured out how to present it, and I felt the spirit so strongly and delivered a talk that I hoped was what the Bishop wanted and afterward, he confirmed that it had been.  The biggest struggle for me was that I'd never thought about being single as a trial to me until he pointed it out.  Of course, there are things that I feel like I'm missing out on, not being married, but overall I'm a happy girl.  It was a humbling experience, followed by relief that I couldn't give the talk assigned to the lady that spoke after me.  She had to talk about the trial of being divorced in a family church.  Two weeks later, a couple spoke about the trial of not being able to get pregnant and dealing with not having children.  My first response was that I'm so glad I don't have to deal with those trials, but I realized we all have different trials designed to prove us here to see if we will follow our Heavenly Father.  My second response was a quote I once heard.  It says "be grateful for your trials because if you didn't have them, you wouldn't be here and if they were any less difficult we'd find someone with less ability to take your place."  Sometimes it's easier to be grateful for what you have, when you realize that there are other people in the world much worse off than you are.  That sounds incredibly callous, but I was telling someone, that I was glad I had never found Mr. Right, instead of being married to and divorced from Mr. Wrong.  Also, the struggle of being married and not being able to have children would be terrible to me.  I've always taken for granted that someday I would be a mom.  I can't imagine being married and not having that as the obvious next step.  There are a lot worse things than being single.  Well, that ended up being really long so thanks for reading.  More later!