February has come and gone and I haven’t made a post for 2010. Pretty sad I know and I have the same excuse as everyone else…”I’m just so busy.” Life is certainly flying right past me but that doesn’t mean I’m standing still. Jeff is in his second and final semester of grad school at ASU and is busier than EVER! I’m still working with foster youth and loving every second of it. I get to work with 14 amazing teenagers every week. My life is blessed each day by their existence and I’m lucky to know them. I’m even more lucky to have them let me into their lives. I wish I could take a picture and share each of their stories with you. But since I’m not able to do that, I will share some pictures of what we’ve been up to.
Not much happened in January but here’s a picture to celebrate the snow we don’t have in Arizona.
Some of my family came down for Valentine’s Day and Winston went through the Mesa Temple. In case any of you were wondering…he will be leaving May 4th for the Sao Paolo Brazil South Mission. Hooray for him!
Isn’t is gorgeous this time of year?
Of course, who can celebrate Valentine’s Day without making sugar cookies? I was lucky to have my talented Aunt Tracy and cousin Emma invite me over for some serious baking and decorating. Didn’t the cookies turn out super cute? They tasted as good as they looked…that’s for sure!
Nacho felt the need to celebrate LOVE DAY! He was the dog of the park for VD. The ladies couldn’t keep their eyes off of him.
Lastly, our neighbors who are from India, invited us to celebrate their “Holi Day” or “Festival of Colors.” We ate food, listened to music, and participated in the colorful festivities. I got completely plastered by paint and drenched with water… if you can’t tell by the picture.
So attractive. I will do my best to update more often. As you can see, we are alive and well. Here’s to a lucky March!
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Categories: Blog Postings Tags: existence, india, love, neighbors, paolo-brazil, park, picture, snow, tasted-as-good, time, valentine
“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self – my good angel – I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you – and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
–Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
I love you Timothy Clark.
Thank you for being my best friend.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Happy Birthday to My Love
Categories: Blog Postings Tags: better-self, centre, dreary-solitude, existence, good-angel, heart, manhood-passed, powerful-flame, solemn-passion, sympathy, timothy
I’ve made some friends out in the blogosphere who have the same types of blogs that I do and every now and then we check in with each other to talk about our writing. I had one such chat this morning and I’ve received permission to reprint an interesting tidbit…
thatdisneygirl: my readership is way down. now that I’m not doing the wedding blog, I don’t get a lot of search traffic. I think I’m getting back to the point where it’s only my mom checking the blog.
MamaDeee: you should twitter more
thatdisneygirl: I’m not a fan. I think I need to blog more. I’m just not motivated.
MamaDeee: it’s because you have nothing to blog about. you need to get pregnant.
thatdisneygirl: I’m not getting pregnant for the blog.
MamaDeee: you could fake a pregnancy
thatdisneygirl: I’d think they’d notice when the pregnancy extended past nine months. Besides, this is my real life blog. A lot of my readers actually know me.
MamaDeee: the hottest blogs are mommyblogs
thatdisneygirl: I have kittens. I’m a kitten mommy.
MamaDeee: half of the people in america hate cats
thatdisneygirl: Shit.
MamaDeee: my readership was down for a while until I broke up with (deleted) and then everyone wanted to read about how sad I was. you need to have something going on. you aren’t sad enough or pregnant.
thatdisneygirl: I don’t want to have to get sad or pregnant to blog.
thatdisneygirl: There are a lot of happy, non-mommy bloggers.
MamaDeee: nobody reads them. look at the most popular blogs. they’re all mommies or they’re really sad or angry.
thatdisneygirl: Or they’re men.
MamaDeee: men write about stuff, though. they review products or teach you how to do stuff or write about politics.
thatdisneygirl: I could review stuff.
MamaDeee: you’re an unemployed, nondepressed, nonmommy. nobody cares about your opinions.
thatdisneygirl: That was way harsh, Ty.
MamaDeee: it’s the brutal truth.
Is it true? I was a popular blogger when I was a bride, but now I’m caught somewhere between bride blogging and mommy blogging. I’ll continue blogging either way, since it’s compulsive and not really about the numbers, but the very fact that people are tuning out of my life does sort of make me question my own validity. The bad thing about blogging your life is that you actually get to watch the approval ratings rise and fall on your existence…
Has my life jumped the shark?
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Food For Thought
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