25 days and counting! That's all the time I have before school starts again. Can I really cram a whole summer in 25 days?
To Do List:
#1 Close the store :( still a little- ok a lot sad about this one. Should be done in Monday:( :( :( :( :(
#2 Repaint Jordan's room
#3 Put together the hammock I got for my birthday a month ago so I can use it for #4
#4 Read a book for fun- by now I have usually devoured 5 or more books. The librarian knows I only come by in the summer. I wonder if she has missed me?
#5 Sleep in with out guilt- I mean is 9am really a bad time too get up?
#6 Figure out some monthly menus so we don't eat out all school year
#7 I don't' want to be an over achiever as my friend Missy called me the other day. That was definitely a 1st for me. In my whole 35 years of life I have never been called an over achiever.
#8 Be as bored out of my mind as possible because that may not happen again until Christmas break!

Another post without a picture- sorry. I'm too tired to figure out something to put here.
I took my last test a couple of minutes ago. Didn't do so good. But if my teacher has any grace in him I may squeaked an A from the class. Otherwise a B isn't the worst thing that could have happened right?

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
This quote has always fascinated me. How two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. One person can think it is beautiful beyond words and another person will want to hurl at the sight. We are truly made individually and different.
I've also spent some time thinking about my definition of beauty. It has changed over the years. Things that were once beautiful have now faded or change or don't compare to something else I've seen.
Beauty is relative.
It relates to other things we have seen. We compare things to each other to determine beauty.
The more things I see the more things I have to relate to.
Times in my life work the same way. They all relate to each other. How can I know I'm having a bad day if I have nothing to relate it to. I have had good days and bad days. I've had really great days and days that I don't want to remember.
Today is one of those that I don't want to remember. We have made the announcement that the store is closing. Eight years of hard work is coming to an end. Eight years of sacrificing- over. Eight years of meeting someone new every day- done. Eight years of never knowing for sure what the day would hold when you walked in the door- complete.
Complete..... now I'm not sure that's true. I don't feel done and I certainly don't feel complete.
Back to the beauty thing.... Right now I'm sure my life does not seem beautiful. But some where down the road when I look back on this time in my life I will see beauty. I'll have this ugly time to compare it to and the future will seem beautiful.
Right now I'm looking up. Not forward, not backward, not down, not all around just straight up. Sometimes I'm laying down. Sometimes I'm on my knees because that is as far as I got that day. But someday I'm going to stand, then walk, then run again. And the day will be even more spectacular because today was not very pretty at all.
And I'm holding on to the promise that if God brings you to it He will bring you through it.

Is it really July 17th already? NO WAY!!!!!

Today is Leland's birthday. Guess how old he is.... *hint* REALLY OLD! 40 I'm not old enough to be married to a 40 year old. They'll probably arrest him he so old and I'm so young :)

What's happened in the last 3 weeks since I've checked in?

Well I've had a birthday (I'm still not as old as Leland),

the 4th of July,

volleyball tournaments,

Fuller Family Fun,

boy scout camps,

many test and projects for school,

life changing decisions....

I know I can't make comments like that and not explain but I will have to tell you more in the very near future.

I am learning lessons. Some lessons are not fun to learn.

Here's the most important lesson that I think I finally have learned: All things work together for the good for those who love Him.

When God gives you a path to walk you need to walk that path. Don't stop and ask questions just walk the path. Walk the path even when it's dark and you can only see a foot ahead of where you are going. Keep walking. Walk around that REALLY scary corner. Walk though the beautiful fields of flowers and be thankful for the beauty. Walk up the mountain. Walk through the valley. Just walk. And when you stop walking, get on your knees and pray. Then you can get up and walk again.

So we are walking. It's a little steep right now. But I can't wait to get to the top and see what the view is like!