happy sunday.

Keep your heart happy.

That’s what I’ve come to tell myself every day.

Now I just need to figure out what makes my heart happy.

Thank goodness for Pinterest for helping me out, eh?

Tell someone you love them today.

sometimes.

    Sometimes one moves two thousand miles away to a place too far away from her mommy and sweet nephews. But sometimes one is blessed to come to know and love a sweet family in the place she now calls Home.

    For me, this family is the Good family. I’m able to be a nanny for four beautiful, energetic, and intelligent children. These kids are my best friends. In all seriousness, I’d probably watch them without being paid. We get to sit in the living room playing games, talking, watching our favorite movies. We get to go on adventures to the Nickle-Cade, Chuck-E-Cheese, and Planet Play. They make me laugh and they teach me more than I think they realize. I think Daniel would out smart me in anything science related. Emily teaches me that it’s okay to be a lady and still choose a dragon over a Barbie doll. Jake and I could color all day and we’d be perfectly content, but I think he’d rather climb on me like I was a jungle gym in a past life. Benson has completely stolen my heart with his blonde curls and blue eyes; we’re best buddies, he says, because we like the same of everything.

    Their parents have become such good friends to me. They have welcomed me into their family and I don’t know how I can let them know how grateful I am for them.

I thank Heavenly Father for them every day.

meacham.

Maybe I just need my best friend back.

i needed someone to dance with me. in an obscure place. under unlikely circumstances.

         It’s hard to see the light in times of trials. It’s hard to be happy when you feel like you’re losing control. It’s hard to keep your heart and your mind aware that these trials are needed to mold you into a better and stronger person. It’s hard to keep your faith strong when you feel so undeserving.  It would be easy to just stop. It would be easy to pretend that you don’t care. It would be easy to stop trying. It would be easy to let it all go.

          That’s when I remember a conversation I had with Elder Price. “The easy way may never be the right way,” he told me. He was right, you know. Like he always seems to be. It can’t possibly be stormy weather forever.

          So find someone who gives you flowers and hugs you for no reason other than to be close to you. Someone who dances with you when the time seems unlikely. Someone who appreciates you in the moment. Someone who’s not willing to let you go.

Happy Monday.