Institute Class

This past Thursday I had my usual Book of Mormon Institute class. Brother Abbott told us a story of this couple who won a helicopter ride. They left their large number of children at home (I think it was 8 or something like that) and went for an amazing ride. The heartbreaking part is that the helicopter went down during the flight and it killed them both. Their youngest child was just 10 months old. Brother Abbott had one of the middle children in as an institute student a few years back and she told him how she was still getting to know her mother even though she was gone. Her mother had been a faithful journal keeper and this girl was able to read from the journals she kept and still have her mother and father right there with her.
This story really made me think. It made me think about how I wished my own mother had kept journals when she was younger because I would be able to read them and actually get to know the woman my mother used to be before disease ravaged her mind.
Talking to dj about it on the way home made me want to start being better at doing my own journal writing because I know someday I won't be there for my children and I would want them to know who I was. Know some of the things we did when we were still young marrieds who didn't have kids.
I'm trying to decide the best way to do this to. I was thinking, well I have this blog, that's a journal right? But then I thought that maybe some of the blog entries would work but there would be things that I'd want to write that I don't want everyone on the planet being able to access.
So this is what I've come up with. I'm thinking, since my handwriting lacks certain qualities, I'm going to try typing things up and just saving them in word documents. And then when there are enough I'll print them out and put them in a book, along with photos, kind of like scrap booking, but simpler. So then we'll have a binder of journal entries that talk about trips we've taken, hard ships we're going through and will have our testimonies in there. I know I won't be perfect at it but I hope that I can at least succeed in one thing every week or 2 that sums up what's been going on in life.
Because someday, if something happens to me, I want my children to be able to say that they know me even though I may not be there with them.

Fact of the Day

When dj laughs too hard he gets the hiccups.

It's one of the funniest things ever. And I think it will now be a weekly goal to make him laugh so hard he gets the hiccups.


Yes. I know that I am evil :)

School

So I'm a college student again and I've just about finished my 2nd week of school. All I'm waiting for to finish is for my husband to wake up so I can do the 'teach a friend' assignment. I think I'm going to have to do that every week and I don't know if I like it. I hope they let it be the same person every week....he's the only friend I talk to every week.

Anyways it's been going well, last week I was very bitter and I wanted to quit because we had two days to finish 6 assignments that involved lots of reading and writing. This week though I tried very hard to do my assignments throughout the week so today all I had to do was add a finishing paragraph to one last assignment and then this teach a friend thing. I think I can do it. It's a little too early to tell right now but I think I can manage working full time and doing school part time too, this week I even did some of my reading and writing on my lunch breaks which actually helped a lot! The part I'm worried about most is trying to keep my house clean!!! I don't know if I have the energy to make sure the floors stay vacuumed and the kitchen stays clean on top of all that. It isn't like Dj can do a whole lot more to help either though because he's just as busy as I am. I'm looking forward to the day where I don't have to work full time and go to school too. I think I'll enjoy just doing school again like the old days. I'm sure by the time that comes there will probably be a baby thrown in there somewhere so I won't be 'just' doing school but it'll be wonderful to not have to choose between work and schoolwork.

2012

Christmas and New Year's have come and gone. Welcome 2012. We've had a great year and I'm excited to see where '12 brings us. Along with going back to school and trying to survive with a car payment dj and I have been talking our future and we're trying to pray and figure out what to do on that front. He wants to apply for a doctorate program at a number of schools around the country so when he graduates Poly who knows where we'll be headed. A concept that is both exciting and scary for me.
Concerning New Year's resolutions I want to try and be a little more active in my weekly life. I'm not going to go crazy and say an hour everyday because I know I'm NOT going to do that. So I'm hoping for 3 days out of every week where I do something for at least a half hour that demands my body be active. It's not much but I know that I need to start slow or else I'll never do it.
Christmas was fun, I got a kitchen aid mixer, a movie, a cd, a hair straightener, and a couple odds and ends gifts. Dj got a few movies, a game, a new power supply for the computer, and a couple of his own odds and ends, very fun and chill and better than I expected.
I'm all paid up for school and all I need to do is get a notebook for it. I'm getting pretty excited actually, even though this first year is going to be slow it feels like a really good thing for me to do and dj is pretty excited and proud of my for choosing to do this. The only thing I'm nervous about is whether or not his laptop will be able to hold me through the full year because you're supposed to bring a laptop with you every week (not a requirement but strongly encouraged). We'll see how it does this week. Dj starts school tomorrow with early morning classes so I'm curious how he'll do with that, the hard thing is going to be deciding who gets the car each day. Juggling one car is definitely do-able, the hardest part is that one of us has to give up our time, either me walking/riding bike, or him taking the bus. We'll see how it goes but I'm excited to see how the first week of school treats us.