A Letter to Myself

I know the heading sounds a little crazy, but as a senior in high school my English teacher asked us to write a letter to ourselves to see if we accomplished the things that we thought we wanted to do at that time. She would mail them to our parents or the address to where we thought we would be five years later.
Well, the five years has happened, and the letter went to my parents house. I got it over the weekend and sat down to read it. My parents read it a laughed a lot. I noticed that my handwriting was awful!! I'm glad I write better now!
As I read the letter, I realized I'm not a school teacher working on getting into grad. school, Andrew and I don't live in Florida, and I never went to Blue Mountain. These were my dreams as a high school senior. It's neat that God has other plans for us and has His hand in everything that we do. Dreams come and go, and mine sure did.
Some of the good things that happened from reading my dreams, I did marry Andrew, and he is finally going to school where he wanted to in Florida. We waited long enough for it that the school made it in to a online program! He's living his dream and that makes me happy. I'm glad that they did that because we didn't have to move there. It would have been so hard to go through everything that we have been through living that far away. Maybe sometime in life Andrew can work for Disney. However, it's all in God's hands. Everything happens in His time.
I loved going back to think of my life before everything started going down hill as a lack for better words. Life seemed so simple back then. I feel I'm wiser, definitely older, but glad I've been through everything that I have. It's going to be hard to keep everything going, but I know I can make it with the help of the good Lord above. It was great looking back, but I can only change my future!

I'm in love!!

I love the snow and the everything that comes with it! Being out of school, spending the day with the hubby, and sleeping late. I have the flu, so that means no playing in it this time!! It is beautiful though. I did snap a few pictures of it yesterday afternoon when it all began.




It started snowing yesterday at about 11;30 and didn't stop until almost six. It was coming down hard, and the roads started to get really bad. Wrecks were everywhere on 55, 51, and 240. Andrew left work at about 2:20 and didn't make it home until 3:45 almost. It was nuts! He carpools with a friend from work, and at 3 I texted Andrew to make sure they were ok. They were going 7 mph on 55 due to a huge wreck. By then, hwy 51 had been shut down due to wrecks. I'm just glad he made it home safely. He is a home with me today and helping me out since I'm sick! I promised he has truly earned his wings in the sickness and health and for better of for worse part of our vows at we said almost three years ago. I hate being sick. I feel so useless, and the house becomes a huge wreck because I don't want to clean. I'm feeling better today so laundry is on my todo list. I've also done some home work.





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Sunday night was the Superbowl between the Greenbay Packers and the Pittsburg Steelers. We have a chili cook-off at church. This year, I made chili and potato soup. i didn't when this year, but I'm going to work on it for next year. The potato soup as always was a hit. We had one bowl of it left which Andrew ate. I guess I'm going to have to make it again so I can finally have a bowl of it this winter. It was fun though. I even got some really sweet cuddling time with Jake!! I just love him and the cuddles I've been getting the last few weeks. He's teething so this won't be for too much longer so I'll take it!

We also had some awesome desserts at the party.

They were made by Mrs. Phillis!! Man, they were good!! The first one is a chocolate cupcake with coffee frosting, and the second one was the strawberry cupcake with strawberry frosting!! I think the strawberry one was my fav!! They were both wonderful though!!


The last picture is of Jennifer, Jake's mom, Jake, and me!! I love this family!! Oh and for my family, Todd, Jake's dad, is also in the picture. He's in the light brown coat behind us. The really tall one!