Freedom is...

SUMMER!!!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

School comes to an end

Tomorrow at noon I will done with school for the next three months. I feel like running and screaming with everything in me. Not necessarily because I will not longer have to get up at 6 or do homework, but because I will be free. Yes, free. To heck with grades and papers, let my adventures begin.


.. and of course it doesn't help that I'm listening to Boys Like Girls who always get me in this sort of mood. I should just stop now before I begin ranting on and on about something that is foolish. ;) 


Oh! It's the finale of America's Next Top Model! Got to go!


Yours truly,
SD

Oh but to run through the forest and dance in the summer air. 

 To be free from obligations and responsibilities. 

To throw caution to the wind as well as all other cares and to rejoice in being a child. 

Oh to live in the trees and converse with the birds. 

To let the cool water rush over my feet and legs. 

To find pictures in the stars and frogs in the grass. 

To have the crickets sing me to sleep. 

To let my dreams grow as big and wide as the sky itself. 

To let the words flow from my brain through my fingers and onto the paper. 

To have time and freedom and purpose. 

That is what it's all about. 

Four more days until this becomes reality. . .

Mother's Day and other matters...

So today is Mother's Day and for my mother I made a card and am cooking her dinner. It will be delicious... chicken in creamy herb sauce with rice cooked in broth and asparagus, tomatoes and onions baked in the oven with olive oil and salt and pepper. I'm excited to make it. And get this, my brother actually volunteered to help me cook if I need him! That's new...


So right now I am watching Pride and Prejudice (the one with Keira Knightly) and oh... I am in heaven. I forgot how much I adore this movie. I really want to read the book now that I actually know what happens and who the characters are. I'd definitely suggest watching the movies to any of Jane Austen's books before reading it. Oh goodness me... I love this so much. I have laughed aloud about 5 times already and I'm 30 minutes into it. I laugh purely out of enjoyment. Oh if only I could sit here and watch this movie every day for the rest of my life. 


Have a good day, all. I will surely dwell in bliss today, watching Pride and Prejudice.


With love for my King and Savior.


Yours truly,
SD

En español...

La escuela fue terrible en la actualidad. Me desagrada a muchos de mis profesores por ahora. Algunos de los chicos de mi clase son peores que las niñas acerca de los chismes, gimiendo, y de ser inseguro. Me voy a un concierto de esta noche Zac Brown Band. Estoy muy emocionado. Ah, por cierto, probablemente no pasó la prueba española que tomé hoy. La ironía? Tal vez. Pero, ¿quién se preocupa por la escuela? Es casi una y pronto no tendrá que preocuparse de nuevo por un largo tiempo. Bueno, me voy a ir ahora. Si se tomaron el tiempo para traducir todo esto, felicitaciones.

Oren por Emma. Me encanta que todos y cada uno.

Con el amor a Dios.

Atentamente,
SD

In the blink of an eye

Isn't it funny how things can seem so normal, so complacent and unchanging and then all of the sudden it's gone. Everything changes and you find yourself amongst rubble without ever realizing what caused it. That's kind of how I feel right now except it's not so severe. I just found out today that one of my good friend's parents are getting divorced and I just know that it is going to be hard for them. My friend is going to want talk to me about it and I'm ready for that and all. 


I guess I'm just sorry for them. But not the kind of sorry where you patronize them or sit there and pity them. I mean the kind of sorry where I just keep thinking that it is sad for them, and very unfortunate that this happened. And I know the hardships my friend and her mom will face in this next year or so. I see the troubles they will deal with. Yet more than anything, I can't shake this sense that God is totally in control of it all. I just know deep in my soul that His plan is to teach them so many things through this. And I think my job is to be there for her and guide her into a mindset that God is in control and has a plan. 


Isn't it funny how God takes what we think are the plans for our life and just totally twist it around? This whole divorce things is just gonna be a huge learning experience for everyone involved, including me. 


With trusting love for Him.


Yours truly,
SDI