Fall Break

I'm sitting enjoying the beautiful sunshine that is pouring out of the sky today.  I love fall days when there is not a cloud in the sky and there is that clean, crispness to everything.  Most of the farmers have harvested their fields and have been plowing.  You can smell the good, clean, earthy smells when you are outside.  My flowers are still blooming because the frost hasn't come yet and I feel that I am so surrounded by beauty.  I am grateful for a Heavenly Father that created this for me to enjoy.  I have such a gratitude for the bounties that he gives me and my family. 

This past year in our new house has brought many things to our lives.  Some are good, some are trying, and through it all, I realize I am growing in so many ways.  We are making friends, but I miss seeing our old friends.  We don't have the subdivision streets here to stroll around and so we can't just go out for an evening stroll and say Hi to those around us.  I miss that.  But we do have friends show up with the bounty of their gardens to share with us (and I love them for it) since we haven't gotten our yard in yet.  Hannah's bills from this year have side-tracked us from those plans.  Hopefully this next year we'll get the yard in as well as a garden.  But we are ever grateful for those bills, because it says we had help in getting her well.  She is doing so good and seems to be pretty well back to normal.  What a blessing that is for us and her.

My school is more trying than I ever thought it would be.  I see why it's so important to go when you are young.  My brain doesn't work like it used to.  Also, I'm not so eager to please those professor's I have like a younger person might be.  I'm not so easily impressed or intimidated by their status.  Being older than most if not all of them, I feel like I have as much or more life experience than they have and so, sometimes I feel like this is just as good as some of the things they are teaching the kids.  I also don't give into their agendas, and I know some of them don't like this.  I will finish this semester and am not sure if I want to continue on with my education as far as college.  I think I will continue to grow and learn, though I think I will do it more with the things I am most interested in and not worry what the world thinks I should be learning.

My calling is going good.  I am surrounded by wonderful women who are so talented.  They each bring so much to our ward.  I feel inadequate around them so often.  But I am trying to learn and grow and do what Heavenly Father would ask of me in serving them.  I hope I can continue to please Him most of all. 

So, as one of our friends always says, "It's a Beautiful Day, Life is Good!"  And I am blessed!!