I'm home right now. I spent the weekend here, but now i'm getting ready to head back to school.

My brother turned 18 yesterday...crazy!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!!! I love that kid!!

My family is pretty much incredible.

I got to see some of my friends which was great. Tams was at church this morning. I am so glad I got to see her.

Well, now I'm getting ready to go back to school..I have some pretty incredible friends there too.

This was my cousin Katie's away message the other night and I liked it...

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. -Neil Gaiman

I liked it alot!

So, I'm back at CBC. It's goin OK so far. I'm working at my daycare again, but I might look for another job. K, I'm going now.

For awhile now God's been dealing with me on loving people, really loving people. I've been tryin to love everyone...the way God wants me to and not just the people that I want to. Well this summer I've been watching this little boy, Nathan, every day. To be honest he drives me insane. It's been a very long summer with him. A couple of weeks ago I was talking with some friends and I remembered that God has a plan for this summer. At first I thought maybe it was for me to help Nathan. He's going through alot right now and his whole life is changing. I wanted to be someone that could help him and keep his mind off of things. But here's the thing--I learned to love the kid. He still drives me crazy..but I do love him now. It's hard and there are so many times that I don't want to love him...that I don't even want to like him. But God's helping me. It's good. It's weird that God used a kid to help teach me to love people. I mean I love kids. But God does things in ways that we couldn't even imagine. That's amazing to me. I love that God is creative

Well, that's just something that's been on my mind lately and thought I'd share.

Summer's almost over. I'll be going back to CBC 2 weeks from today. I'm having some mixed feelings about that, but I can't wait to see everyone.

I'm babysitting my cousins right now-again-and they just attacked me with pillows. I'm gonna get them.

Things are going pretty good here.

I got a job nannying for 2 kids. It should be fun.

Coleigh trimmed and redid my layers last night. I love it...and I love Coleigh!!

It's weird to think back to a year ago. Somethings have changed a lot, and others feel like they are never going to end. Do you ever feel like that?

I was just talking to somebody that I haven't talked to since school got out...it was weird, it was also very hard.

Ever realize that when something new starts happening in your life, you start thinking about the past more? Well, at least I do.  

Question: What's the best thing you've done so far this summer??