Learning to Live

As we all know, yesterday was Thanksgiving. A day we've come to believe should be filled with gorging ourselves and remembering what we're thankful for. I get that. And I think it's cool. Really. Food, family, thankfulness, naps and football make for a beautiful day. But I think we forget to remember what we're thankful for every day. Every year we go around the table and say what each of us are thankful for. In the past answers have ranged from "the Wright brothers" to "toilets." This year we had some other interesting answers, "mermaids, rainbows, unicorns and fairies" and other thankful statements ending with "go Tigers" referring to our recent trip to the Metrodome.  However, there was one thing we constantly kept coming back to- family. Grandpa started it all when he said he was thankful for his nice, big family, "took two wives to get here but we made it." After that, we all came back to our fantastic family and ...

I know I blog about a lot of super cliché things like 100% of the time, but life is full of cliché messages we are supposed to pay attention to. Today was a pretty big day. Not only was it my half Birthday (only 1.5 years until the big 2-1!), but I signed a lease. I realize this is a normal thing for college students to do when they are trying to get off campus, but it just seems like this can't be real life. When did I get old enough to sign a lease? Am I really a sophomore in college? The weirdest thing about it all is the fact that I'm going to have my own room in a house that's not my parents... I don't know if I like the whole concept of buying myself food or paying for my utilities. I guess I have to accept the reality of it all though. Life is happening-fast. I often find myself saying, "I can't wait to be married" or "I want a baby right now." I find myself getting so caught up in the future that I forget about living in the now. And ...