Joy and Happiness!

Steven and I have been looking for a new apartment for months. Our contract is up at the end of March and it was starting to worry me. But, the Lord let's things work out for the best. We now have a new apartment, we get to move in on V-day, and there is peace in my heart once again. I love it!

Life

Life works out in funny ways, and it never works out the way you plan. Two years ago I had my life planned, I was working, and living at home with my mom and dad. I fully intended to try to get along better with my father and get to know him. I was going to get married at twenty-three-ish, maybe go on a mission, start having kids at twenty-five.
Now, I am married--at nineteen--I am trying to get up the courage to write my dad's history, and trying not to regret never getting to know him. And trying to forgive him for dying. I am looking at everyone around me who is either pregnant, or a mom, or both, and I find myself green with envy. I am going to school and working, which is stressful and wonderful all at the same time.
I get to be near friends for part of the year, but not all of it, and I find that I don't like living far away form my mom.
My life is blessed, and the Lord has His ways of pushing you into things that you don't expect. But sometimes I wish I would get less unexpected things and more of the things I am prying for.
However, I learned long ago not to pray for patience, because He doesn't just hand that virtue out, He makes you work for it, and if you pray for it, you work for it even harder.

School

I am so excited for school, I have the opportunity to learn so much. I want to make sure that I take advantage of that. I get to learn about child development and parenting from a religious and secular stand point it is amazing to go to a school that believes that religion and education not only can be, but should be mixed. I love it, I love learning, and I love expanding my testimony, and I get to do both here.