Everything but academic thinking...

I am in need of a break. Spring break will do quite nicely... only 7 days away.

I am far from in love with my classes this semester.

None of them are that hard, yet I just am consistantly achieving lack-luster grades which is frustrating, exhausting, and annoying.

I find my brain hurting from the amount of academic thinking I do in a day

(especially Thursdays). Is that strange? I don't think so. I whole-heartingly believe my brain is wired in a more creative, abstract way and gets angry when I try and push too many math or science facts in there.

That is why tonight- and maybe all of tomorrow- I am not studying or attempting any homework. My plans for the night are to craft a little sumthin sumthin for my momma and watch Emma. I have been meaning to watch this PBS movie, so when I saw it mentioned on one of my favorite blogs, I knew right away what I was doing with my night!

P.S. I got to see this at work last night....

I have by far the best job on this planet.

Childhood Memories

While I love coincidences, they sometimes freak me out... This is a story of such an occurrence:

I grew up around books. My mother is a passionate reader and I am the same. I have many memories of spending hours in the public library looking at books or doing the summer reading program... I loved every moment of it.

I grew up around a wide variety of books, but there has always been one specific book that I specifally remember being quite magical to me. For YEARS I have tried to find this book, but I could not for the life of me remember the title. I'm not joking; I would wonder around the children's section searching for it, never with any luck.

I spend a lot of time at the local Barnes and Noble here in Lansing. Once in a while I also search of this mysteries book here, but again, never any luck. That is exactly what I did last week; I spent a good 15 minutes walking around the kids section looking for the book of my dreams. After not finding it however, I went back to my dorm and was checking out one of my favorite blogs - http://ohhellofriend.blogspot.com/ .

And then it happened.

I was reading one of her posts about making a little book or something and she mentioned it- she mentioned my book. I knew instantly that this was the book I have spent years looking for. My mouth literally (and I mean literally) dropped open. I went straight to Amazon and bought all three books of the series.

A week later, The Jolly Postman was at my doorstep and I was transported back to my childhood.

I love how I have not seen this book or its amazing letters and flyers inside for years, but remember each and every one of them.

Freaky, right?!

Change

I awoke today to SUNSHINE.

I am reminded of one of my favorite verses...

"I am the world's Light. No one who follows me stumbles around in the darkness. I provide plenty of light to live in." John 8: 12

I have felt so convicted lately. I need to work on my relationship with God. I find myself laying in bed, trying to fall asleep and realize that I have yet to pray or sometimes, even think about God that day. I know what I should be doing, so why aren't I? I put so many other things before God, pretty much everything in my life. I seem to only turn to Him when I am hurting or need something, and that is so selfish of me.

It's time to change.

Oh middle school....

Today I had the pleasure of hanging out with a really great middle school friend. I admit I have been feeling really down lately about my ministry- I just never feel like I am getting anywhere with these girls. I have such a great time when I am with them, but I have no ideas on how to take our relationships to a deeper level and start discussing Jesus more in depth.

It takes days like today to change my thoughts on the matter.

God has put me here for a reason... to love these girls and show them Christ.

Valentine's Day Love

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

I hope everyones day is filled with lots of hugs and kisses!

I have spent the day dreaming about summer time in West Michigan...

(Photo by my dad over at www.bullmoosephotos.com/index.html)

What can I say.... I am just a little sick of the snow and cold.

I mean really Michigan... just warm up already and bring some tulips with it.

New Year- New Start

I have no excuses for staying away for so long- I simply have not thought my life has been interesting enough to write a blog.

That is exactly why I have decided to take a new take on this blog thang...

instead of attempting to write about my day-to-day monotonous life, I am going to use this as a creative outlet for my life! Get excited (all four of you that will read this) for pictures, crafts, things I am inspired by, ETC!

It's going to be good.

To start it out I will tell you a little about my truly great weekend. I do not think I can really express my LOVE for the Olympics. While the opening ceremonies last night were a little strange, (punk-rock tapping/river dance?) I still was silently freaking out inside with excitement.

While that alone could have made my weekend, my roommate Sara and I took a trip into Lansing to perhaps the greatest store on this planet. It is called the "Creation Station" and is filled with the most wonderful, random crafting supplies EVA. For just over $5 I walked away with some great, great things.

Once again, these two things could have made my weekend, but Sara and I also took a trip to Hawk Island park. I heard about it awhile ago and have been meaning to go, but just have not made it out there until today. Let me tell you... I have been missing out! There are wooden walkways along the lake and trails throughout the woods. God did some good sculpting here. Some photos from the venture....