Little Shoes :)

all pictures found on: http://www.joyfolieblog.com/

Kalina showed me this website last night and I may be in love, if I had a little girl right now I would buy all of these...really I love them. And there are tons more where these came from!

Friday

It's Friday! I am so happy this week is over, between a new practicum placement and with classes starting to get into full swing it's been a long one. But last night I went to interview my roommates for a project and of course we spent 3 1/2 talking and surprisingly I actually got up on time this morning and felt rested

THEN I found out one of my classes was canceled :) so I had a couple hours to chill at home. No worries I was actually productive, I cleaned my entire room (which has not been this clean since before Christmas...)but there's nothing like a couple hours to refuel you. I love days like this, then later I am going to start on my laundry, speaking of which does anyone else love the feeling of clean sheets? I love it.

To top off a great day it was nice and warm outside!! I actually liked walking from my car to class today, and usually when I gave to park on the far side of the parking lot I hate it but today I didn't :) I'm hoping this day will continue into tomorrow so I can finish an activity and play area planning sheets, those can really suck the life out you (it takes about four hours for a play area planning sheet :S). But that's tomorrow and for tonight I'm going to relax :P

All Over the Place

Ok it's one of those days where I have no desire to do homework, like in the past hour I have only done two out of my four reflections...I don't even know what's distracting me. Actually I do, the internet obviously since I'm blogging :P. I even was texting a friend and I was told that he was no longer going to text me because I should be doing my homework. Well even after the texting stopped I am still distracted. Even this post is lame and all over the place :P Anyways I went to institute and that was fun, I feel so much better after attending. There's nothing like an uplifting end to your day :)

Oh funny story. Yesterday our house was freezing, I was shivering so bad in my room so I decided to come and sit on the couch,. Well I grabbed my blanket and wrapped it around my head and the rest of my body then curled up in a ball. Well. Kim decided to come out of her room just at that moment, and do you want to know what she said to me? "Julie you look like ET!" then Kalina comes out and starts laughing and all the while I am shivering. So Kim invited Kalina and I into her very toasty room where I curled up on the floor for a bit. It doesn't sound as funny on the internet but believe me if we had captured that moment you would be laughing too.

Anyways I really need to get off the internet...thanks for bearing with me through this random post!

Sacrifice

Today our relief society lesson was on sacrifice and I have to say that it wasn't until I got to my parents house that it hit me, Abraham was told to sacrifice his son which he was very willing to do. What we forget is that Abraham's son was not a child, he was a grown man and if he had wanted to he could have fought off his father. But knowing that the commandment came from the Lord he was willing to give his life. Another aspect we fail to remember is that Abraham was almost sacrificed as a younger man himself so putting his son through what he thought he had avoided when he escaped must have been very difficult for him. But by excercising faith he showed the Lord that he was willing to do whatever was asked of him. I love this story because it shows me that whatever the sacrifice we never have to do it alone, the Lord always makes up for some of it. It's a comfort to know that there is always someone there for us and we never go it alone :)

Places I Want to Go

I would love to travel the world someday, after going on my Europe trip I realized how much I love seeing other countries and cultures. Here's a few of the places I would like to visit :)



England



Scotland

Ireland

France (again)

Italy <3 (again)

Germany

Australia

So there you have it, I'm sure there are many other places that I will come up with but for now these will do :P.

PS: I just noticed that most of these places are in Europe, anyone care to take me, I'm small enough to fit into a suite case...please?

Found on google

While looking up random things on google because I don't feel like doing my readings at the present time I came across the picture above. When I own my own home and have money to spare (not likely but anyway...) I will own this book case, and have a room for it too. I love reading and imagining having this gorgeous book case as well as a room to put it in makes me happy. Can you imagine having a room where you can go and have a huge selection of books to read? I would never get bored! And it's better then TV. Seriously I would spend hours in there and probably never come out. Ok so maybe it won't happen, actually I know it won't but it's fun to dream right? :P

So I started school yesterday...it wasn't to bad though. I think I'm going to enjoy my classes and there aren't as many assignments this semster so maybe it won't be as hard as the second years tell us? I hope not anyway. So I really should do my readings...lame.

I Can Go The Distance

I have a confession; I connect Disney songs to life. My current connection? I Can Go The Distance from the movie Hercules :P. No really it can relate to life in that we are constantly trying to find where we belong and who we are. Sometimes it seems like we can’t go on and life is to hard but this song talks about going the distance and doing anything to find out where we belong. I’m lucky in that I know where I’m going and I know where I’m meant to be. Some lyrics that I found to have an impact on me was “I have often dreamed of a far off place, where a great warm welcome will be waiting for me, where the crowds will cheer when they see my face, and a voice keeps saying, this is where I’m meant to be.”


I know that where I am now is where I’m meant to be, and time after time I have had that still small voice confirm to me that I am on the right track and if I continue on this road there are so many things that I can be blessed with. If I go the distance and continue to do what’s right I will end up where I belong. When the going gets tough I need to remember that “I know every mile will be worth my while, I will go most anywhere to find where I belong”. I hope that when I do pass on that there will be crowds cheering my name telling me that I did everything that I could in this life. I know that I can go the distance :)

Anyways I should stop applying songs to my life but tonight this one had a impact on me. So there’s my thoughts for the night :P