Searching

Life consists of many, many crossroads. In fact, life just might be a crossroad. Slowly, I am beginning to realize that.  Life is not just a few monumental crossroads, but rather it is a few monumental crossroad and innumerable small crossroads. 

Thus, here I am at another fork in the road.

I'm looking for a better job, but the areas in which I look for jobs will shape what kinds of jobs, lifestyles, schedules I will have.  I feel like I'm on a brink of a "new phase" of life, but I just don't know where to find it.  So, I'm looking and looking.....


"So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you" Luke 11:9

A Winter's Reminiscing

Sometimes a picture so perfectly captures a moment's essence that it is hard to say much else. For me, this is one of those pictures.  I love photographs and I frequently like to look at old pictures I have.  When I see each picture, I am taken back to a place, a memory, a feeling. 

This picture takes me back to February 2008.  Three years ago, yet I still remember perfectly well a long, slow walk down to the Spar as the snow came down slowly but intensely.  There was so much so snow packed into each inch of air.  The snow created a muffled silence that was deafening. 

It was peaceful, it was beautiful, and it was my favorite memory of snow. 

New Year's Promises

Hello, 2011.... Bye, 2010.  

I will miss 2010 greatly, probably one of my more favorite years, and so I say goodbye to it sadly.


Highlights of 2010:
- married my best friend 
-honeymoon to the happiest place in the world
-moved out of my parents' house and into my lovely apartment 
-graduated college
-applied to grad school
-got a job at a daycare/preschool 
-first Christmas with my husband in our first apartment together 


Resolution for 2011:
-learn "River Flows Through You" on the piano.... so far, I know the first 12 notes. Ha! 
-make homemade pretzels 
-clean out that one box in our bedroom.... it's starting to grow roots and firmly attach itself 
-more to come.... 

Surprise!!!

My wonderful husband planned a surprise graduation party for me! It was surprising, wonderful, and made me feel completely loved. 

Current lyrics in my head: Coldplay's Green Eyes


Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand
And I come here to talk
I hope you understand

That [blue] eyes, yeah the spotlight, shines upon you
And how could, anybody, deny you

I came here with a load
And it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you
And honey you should know, that I could never go on without you

[Blue] eyes

Honey you are the sea
Upon which I float
And I came here to talk
I think you should know

That [blue] eyes, you’re the one that I wanted to find
And anyone who, tried to deny you must be out of their mind

Cause I came here with a load
And it feels so much lighter, since I met you
Honey you should know, that I could never go on without you


Honey you are a rock
Upon which I stand