If You See My Brain, Please Return It

What a week! My thoughts have been everywhere....and back again. I found myself sitting behind a car that had "AD8TN2" and I was trying so hard to figure out what it meant. A Date Ten Two? What is that? Who came up with that. Did someone mess it up? 

Then, this amazing thought popped into my mind....why does it have to mean anything? What if (and I know this is a stretch) it was just an average license plate with the actual letters and numbers that came out in that random order? 


This little two minute scenario turned into an afternoon of thought provoking questions. The bottom line was this: Why does everything have to mean something? DOES everything mean something? And, if it does....how much have I missed?

I continued analyzing this for the rest of the week and here I am 5 days later still wondering......was it a random plate or something I didn't get?

Please return my brain:)

Late Nights, Early Mornings, Sleep Texting, Missing My Sweetheart

I realize that several of my late night thoughts come to the tips of my fingers shortly after I have ingested the magical ambien. And believe you me....magical it is!

I had such a wonderful conversation with my sweet Bryndi Boo tonight. Good thoughts about life, what we need to do to succeed and some choices that can definitely make the road a little rougher. She has amazing insight and such tender feelings. The tender feelings are due to Claire, the little girl that Bryn started nannying when Claire was 3 weeks old, possibly going to preschool this fall. This doesn't leave a lot of time for Bryn to continue to be a big part of her life....and of Nate's. Bryn once put a phrase with a picture of the kids that said..."the littlest things that the biggest part of my heart." She truly loves these kids as if they were her own.
I totally understand what she is saying. I, too, have fallen in love with the kids and enjoy moments of pretend grandparenting. I look forward to phone calls from Claire giggling and telling what she has been up to that day and hearing about brother playing with friends or doing his homework.

Kirk is gone this weekend to a shot show in Vegas and he is having a blast! I find I can get some major things accomplished while he's away and try to make every minute count by going to bed late, getting up early and not really stopping in-between. It makes missing the sweetheart go by a little faster.
I think my phalanges are about to start the texting dance so I must end my thoughts and let the rest of them fill my dreams. Love to you all.

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Welcome 2012

Whew.  What a ride 2011 was.  I think I have been looking forward to 2012 for at least a couple of months now.  Don't misunderstand....2011 brought some wonderful blessings.  It also was sprinkled with tears and even some fears.  I don't know that I have anticipated the beginning of a new year quite as much as I have this one.


I was thinking today about all of the things that affected my life so greatly, in wonderful and not so wonderful ways,  in the last year and thought it might be good to say thank you to my Heavenly Father for some of them.  Don't know that I will share them all and I am certain it cannot be contained in one post...so...just do the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading thing if you are not interested.  You never know, it might inspire you to be a little more thankful ;)

Prayers. Short ones. Long ones. Ones filled with Anger. Some with Anguish. Many with Gratitude. How grateful I am to have a loving Heavenly Father that answers my prayers....

"God is eagerly waiting for the chance

to answer your prayers 

and fulfill your dreams.

Just as He always has, 

but He can't if you don't pray,

and He can't if you don't dream.

In short, He can't if you don't believe."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

For me, prayer goes hand in hand with faith, believing that my efforts will be recognized and even rewarded with the sweet peace that He knows what I am going through, what I can handle (even if I have doubts), and what is best for me.  That whole "what is best" for me thing isn't always what I had in my agenda, but I am thankful that He sees things with a much wider angle lens than do I.  Ohhh to have the camera that He has.