Some thoughts on this Thursday!

After reading comments to my post yesterday, I’m so glad I’m not alone in my hard core blogger status, ha! It’s funny; my good friend Holly is the one who actually got me into blogging. She sent me the link to her blog so I could keep up with her sweet family and then the rest is history. Please go by her blog, it’s precious and I think you’ll really enjoy it. I started blogging July of last year and was kind of sporadic and then it’s like something clicked after the first of the year and I became one blogging machine and now you just can’t stop me. I’ve always attempted to journal in a book but was never successful, I would get on a roll for awhile and then would stop and start again, and it continued like that. But I find this is a more wonderful way to document my days and journal. And it’s turned into a beautiful thing. The blog world is certainly no replacement for real life and those real relationships and friendships in your life, but there’s something so sweet in knowing that there’s people out there on the other side of the computer screen that you can share life with and ask for prayer and you know you might never meet these people, but there’s still something so sweet about it, and you all make it all the more sweeter. Just wanted you to know that :o)

Okay, now that I have all the sappy stuff out of the way, haha…. I want to introduce you to a wonderful man in my life (who I have yet named, haha) and he’s perfect in every way and he’s going to make me lots and lots of money...TADA… :o)

This is my professional machine that I purchased to use when I get out in the career. It made me sick to my stomach when I purchased it, and not cheap by-the-way, haha, but like to think of it as an investment for my future. Isn't he handsome??? :)


Okay, for those of who you might be new to my blog and just to refresh the memory of you others, I started school in ’06 to become a court reporter, a move that forever changed my life. It has been quite the journey and I have been stretched in ways I thought I never could. It has not been without God’s grace that I’ve gotten this far along the journey. I’ve formed some amazing friendships and there’s so much I’ve gained from this but there have been moments of a lot of tears. Thinking that I just can’t do it, that I’ll never make it, and that it’s just too hard and what was I thinking. One thing you have to know about court reporting is that it takes a specific skill and it’s not cut out for everyone and it is NOT easy. But if you can stick out the schooling and make it through, it can be very rewarding and there’s some good money to be made. It’s a self-paced program, so what you put into it, is what you’re going to get out of it. It takes a lot of self motivation and dedication and it’s not always easy. I try to surround myself with positive people and it’s so comforting to know you have that support system among other people going through the schooling, because no matter how hard they try, your friends and family will just never understand this type of schooling. You literally have to close your ears to all the negativity and just keep focused on the goal. I should hopefully be done by the end of this year at the latest, so please pray for me as I near the end of the journey. That my motivation and determination will be at an all time high and that I’ll continue to seek God and his direction for my life as I get out of school and the direction he’d have me to take.

Yesterday was a very hard day. Went to go visit my Grandpa in the hospital. He's recuperating from hip surgery!

This is him on his birthday last September!


He kept going in and out of sleep when I was there. He's not being cooperative and being very stubborn. He will not eat, will not do the physical therapy and sometimes he wont even know who you are and other times he will and he also struggles with diabetes. He also has dementia which is getting progressively worse. While he was sleeping I just sat there and cried. And it almost seems like he's given up. It's hard to see someone you love giving up on themselves and you want them to fight, but he's going to be 82 years old this year. He's lived a good life. You just have this picture in your mind of your grandparents being that figure in your life that will always be around, and sadly that's not the case. So I'm just going to enjoy the time we have left with him, however long that is. I just want from here on out to show him how much I love him and how much his presence in my life has meant to me, even if it's just sitting with him for awhile and saying nothing at all. Sometimes it's that unspoken love that speaks the loudest!