Rainy Days ☔️

Hello Everyone!

So recently it has been raining a lot where I live, and its been GREAT!  I have always loved the rain, and the peace that it brings.  I especially love it when there is thunder and lightning.  Don’t get me wrong, I know it can be dangerous, but I just love it so much!  As a kid I also loved the rain, but not as much as I do now. Really the only reason I liked it as a kid was because of sugar cookies.  Now that is a strange sentence… trust me I know.  

Let me explain. As a kid when it would rain my mom and I ALWAYS made sugar cookies.  It was just something fun and quirky that my mom and I did together.  I remember always trying to pick out the most complicated cookie shapes, and then at the end having them all look like strange blobs.  They always tasted great though!  It makes me so happy thinking back on those days when my mom and I spent that time together.  Just running around having fun little adventures.  My mom and I still spend a lot of time together now, and we have a great relationship, but it isn’t like the “sugar cookie era”.   

I think it’s so sad how as teens we loose that closeness with our parents that we used to have.  It just seems as we grow up, we quit making time to give your dad that fist bump, or give your little sister that pat on the back.  We are too busy focusing on the future, and what we have to do.  I am constantly reminding myself to slow down, take a minute, and take a look around.  I am so blessed, and no matter what situation you are in, you have something to be grateful for as well.  This week I challenge you to find ONE thing each day that you take advantage of.  Find something that you don’t even think about, but that your life wouldn’t be the same without.  It’s pretty crazy the difference it can make…

Happy Easter!

Hello!

Obviously, recently was the Easter holiday, meaning you are probably in the post-holiday food coma.  I know I certainly am!  Over my Easter weekend I got to participate in lots of fun family/friend activities and I had an absolute blast!  I took a few pictures at one of the celebrations and would love to share them with you…so enjoy!! 

P.S I hope you all had an amazing Easter weekend with your families celebrating Jesus’s resurrection! Oh… and I hope you ate a TON of chocolate! 

The Last 2 Months

Hello!

Today I am here to write to you about the worst 2 months of any teenager’s life.  The last 2 months of school.  Summer break is so close you can almost taste the freedom.  The freedom from homework, quizzes, and waking up early.  I understand that we should be grateful for having an education, and I AM, but my problem is I love education, but I hate school. 

To make matters worse during these 2 months of torture, this is the time when all the state testing comes.  When you are forced to give up any free time what so ever to take a test that doesn’t even affect you.  Then to add fuel to the fire, the teachers decide that we need to quickly learn the last half of all the textbooks.  WHICH MEANS EVERY CLASS YOU ARE IN YOU WILL HAVE TESTS! Once you think that it’s almost over.  That all this chaos will subside, finals.  

The one word that makes anybody cringe. Finals. Finals. Finals. A week of no sleep, energy drinks, and exhausting tests in every class.  But don’t forget friends, that during all of this awful schoolwork, you will have so many extracurricular activities planned that you can’t even breathe. So friends, good luck on all of the above, and if it hasn’t hit you yet, then just know that it is headed your way! :(