I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirl under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Friday, May 8, 2009

Blahh

So I know I haven't posted a whole lot in the last little while. I really haven't been in the mood. Which is odd for me. It's not that I have been ultra busy or have really had anything else going on, I just haven't felt like it. I am so in need of some SG sun shine! We were supposed to go last Friday but some things delayed us in going.

It's funny, Anthony has been on break from school for one week now, and he is mega bored! Just this morning he rolled over and said to me,
"We need to get out of here don't we?"
and I said, "Huh?"
and he said "We need to get out of here. Don't we?"
and I said "Again, I say... Huh?"
To me, he could have meant a dozen different things: We need to get out of bed, we should have gone to SG already, but he meant moving. I started to laugh because he is so bored sense he's been out of school. And it's only been one week!
I rolled over and said to him,
"Honey, this is my life, this is what I do. I do the same things over and over everyday with not much variation. Can you now see why I get bored?"

I think for the first time he is realizing why I complain, from time to time, about living up here. I miss my family, I miss my friends. It will be nice when we can finally move back home. Whenever that might be. On a better note, and the reason I started this post....I lost three pounds! Only 17 more to go!

2 comments:

Elder Larkin said...

Well I can't wait until you move back to St. George either 'cause that means you'll be closer to Las Vegas, and perhaps you'll actually feel like driving here more often when you're closer. Congrats on the 3 lbs! Very exciting!

Josh and Nat said...

now we can relate to eachother.. I haven't been home for 6 years and I can't WAIT to get back!!! It so hard being on your own huh?? Well the time will come girlfriend and you will be so glad going home with a degree and a fun future!