Peculiar Thing: January 2010

Everyday I drive past my old Pre-school and today I watched all the adorable little kids walking out and running into their mothers arms almost bursting with excitement about what they made in school that day. I wanted to pull over and just watch them all (Then i realized thats not really accepted in this day and age and I might end up with a restraining order rather than the warm and fuzzy feeling I was going for) But this got me thinking about how wonderful it was to be in pre-school...Life was so simple... Your biggest worry was something like if you got to eat ice cream and watch your favorite T.V. show when you got home. Now I can bearly make it through a T.V. show without being to distracted by the guilty feeling for all the other more productive things I should be doing at that time. "Dating" was so simple then... I had a boyfriend who was my best friend and he used to buy me candy and at 5 years old there was no doubt in my mind that we would get married one day :) Not quite as simple these days.

Don't get me wrong, growing up IS all its cracked up to be, but lets just say it comes with much more luggage that only your mother warned you about when you complained of being too young. And of coarse you didn't listen because you were in a daze dreaming of the days you get to drive and date and move out and be in College. They should have strapped us to a chair and made us realize that those were the days of freedom. I wish I would have taken all my naps that would have lasted me a lifetime.

Ok I am done with my reminiscing. I have an amazing life and friends and family and more opportunities than I can take. I have so much going on in my life and thats nothing to complain about! I had a wonderful semester and learned more about myself and what I want and need than I think I have ever learned before, Amazing what we learn from hard time. In many ways we are still in "Pre-school" for whatever is coming next. Pre-school is everlasting because we are constantly learning "pre's" for what is around the corner and its usually something thats pre for something else and so on and so on. We live in a musical for the song that never ends...

So I keep taking as many opportunities as I can! So, I started a wonderful job this semester that I love. Its amazing when you get to feel like you are doing a service project every time you go to work. I work at the Psychiatric unit at the University of Utah Hospital. It is definitely different than what I'm used to since I have been working in pediatrics for 3 years now, or actually its pretty different to what most anyone is used to for that matter, but I really love it. I have learned so much from this great opportunity.

So here are some pictures from this past semester...

As soon as I got home from sales this summer all I wanted was Powell!!!!