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Alice came to my Tea Party

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -The White Queen

1. There is a drink that makes you shrink
2. And a cake that makes you grow
3. Animals can talk
4. A cat that can disappear
5. There is a place called underland
6. I can slay the jabberwalkie



What did you think of before you ate breakfast this morning?

Create

"The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before."



"Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before—colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter."



"If you still feel incapable of creating, start small. Try to see how many smiles you can create, write a letter of appreciation, learn a new skill, identify a space and beautify it."



Create something new today

[All photos taken from audreyhepburncomplex.tumblr.com]

[All quotes by Dieter F. Uchtdorf]

rewind

Let's go back to a month ago...

My computer died. Well, the charger died so a week before finals I was left computerless. I felt awkward blogging from a computer in the library. So here's a recap of what has happened in the past hmmm 5 weeks?

finals
junior year complete
road trip to California
beach
DISNEYLAND DISNEYLAND DISNEYLAND (did I mention that I got in for FREE?)
spac/wds (BYU Folk Dance) which entails the following:
4 weeks making over 25,000 children smile
dancing in over 55 dance shows
pranks
matchmaking
free food
laughter
tears
learning




My heart is full.

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

LOVE

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau

It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;
I'll wind thee up no more.
Ben Jonson

That's all.

Grandma at 20

I am not ashamed. I'll tell you straight up.
I'm a grandma.

I recently went on a trip to Indiana with my dance team and was reminded of this lovely little trait of mine. My friends made fun of me the entire time and I received a new nick-name. Grand-ma.
I have been excited to be a grandma for a long long time. I'm excited to bake cookies all day long, and travel the world with my cute, old wrinkly husband. And have a huge dress-up box that my sweet grandchildren will love. I'm keeping all my dresses. And I'm going to spoil them silly. What does that even really mean? Spoil them until they're silly? I hope my grandchildren are silly. Oh, and I'm going to go on walks with my husband, hold his old hand and watch people play at the park. And watch old movies. And order out food. But I'll still cook a lot. And we'll have the missionaries over all the time.

I'll admit, florals are in right now. It's easier to find something I love. But somehow, even as I was in H&M, picking things that were clearly IN STYLE my friends still said I was a grandma.

Another story:
This weekend I was at my home, crocheting like I normally do during conference and my dad turns to me and asks, "Are you a grandma?"

MY DAD?

Oh well, I'm happy. And will be even more so when I can do this...