Just Sayin’

Seeing as how I have a blog and all, I guess it’s appropriate that I actually write on it. I’ve had my mom  people ask me when I was going to post again and I think I finally have enough to write about.

 How about a list? 

 1. I just had some sweet sixteen powdered donuts and some cherry coke zero for my night-time snack.

 2. I told Phil 2 days ago that I was going to start exercising now that it’s not 30 below outside, which will be of great help – especially when I decide to have sweet sixteen donuts and coke zero for my night-time snack … just sayin’.

 3. I don’t think I’ve ever actually said out loud the phrase, “just sayin’” – but I like typing it. {It’s sort of addictive}

 4. My 10 year H.S. reunion is rounding the corner, which has me feeling quite nostalgic and reflective. I decided to skim thru my yearbooks and read some of the notes that my “friends” wrote to me all those years ago.

There were a few themes running thru most of the notes – lots of “stay sweet” and “stay cool” demands …  quite a few of “You’re funny” … I even got lots of digits (a.k.a. phone numbers) from guys telling me to call them and we could hang out during the summer {uh, sorry dudes…I never called}. And a lot of references to me being spiritual, moral, and a “good person”.  

Most interestingly, I came across a note written in red marker in the middle of my 1999 yearbook  by a girl that I didn’t even know knew me.  

Here is what she wrote:

“…You are my Bright, funny, modest friend. Your laugh makes me smile. You tell it how it is & you don’t need acceptance from N/E one to feel whole! You are one of a kind & you will never be N/Ewhere lonely.”{ N/E  =’s   any}

This made me cry. Little did she know that I felt the exact opposite of this when I was sitting there in class waiting for her to sign my yearbook. She was popular and pretty so I was probably in shock that she agreed to sign my page.

I’m sure that most H.S. girls feel insecure and feel a need to find someone to make them whole. I think I did live feeling that way most of the time when I was in 11th grade…. but I didn’t dwell on it or go to an extreme. I owe it to my parents for keeping me involved in Church. Even though I struggled everyday with insecurity, I knew in my heart that God was the only One who could make me whole. She was so right to say that I didn’t need ”N/E one” … I was already accepted by The One.  Amen! Just sayin’ 

 5. I turn 28 in 9 days – just sayin’.  I can’t lie- I am very excited and thrilled to still have 2 more years of being a 20-something. I love surprising people when they ask how old I am. Most people assume that I’m older because I’ve had a quadrillion kids in the past 5 1/2 years. haha..just 3 – but still. 

 6. Since my friend Kylee went to be with the Lord , I’ve been pretty sad yet also pretty pumped about – Heaven, the Bible, & rethinking how I spend my time. Life can be over in an instant —- yet we all walk around acting like we’ve got all the time in world to – watch redonkulous amounts of T.V., buy a bunch of stuff , and get caught up in a bunch of drama. As the great country singer Tim McGraw would say, it’s time to  ”live like you were dying.”

 7. I’m so in love with my husband it’s not even funny. JUST SAYIN’ 

 8.  I’m also so in love with my 3 blonde haired blue/green/hazel eyed girls it’s not funny, either. Although – I don’t feel as though I’ve shown them enough how much I love them recently. I need to be better at that tomorrow.

 9. I think I’ll make this a 10 point list.

 10.  I hope this post makes my Mom happy b/c she kept bugging me to write one.

I love you all… Stay Sweet and Cool,k?  Just Sayin’