Respected and Needed

      Today is my mom's birthday! What did I do to celebrate? Well, I was in a different city then her. Susan and my mom spent the day in Chicago. Susan was trying to get her visa to go study in Spain and Mom went with her. I was going to join them but I volunteered to stay with Papa, so he didn't have to be home alone while my dad worked.
      Today, I tried to be my mom, tried to do what she normally does. I cleaned, cooked and did the things that are done by my mom. And now sitting here at the computer, I am totally, utterly exhausted. As I was making dinner, I realized how thankful I am to have my mom. Some people have mom's that have walked out on them, abused them, or just totally ignored them. I am so thankful for my mom, for putting up with all my complaining, whining, and fighting. I can't believe how much she does. She cleans the house, cooks us really, really tasty food, homeschooles us, manages rental properties and so much more. And the most amazing thing is She never complains.

      I did half of the things she usually does for one day, and I am totally ready for her to come back and take over. I can't imagine having to do all that she does. I respect her. From now on, I am going to try and help out around house more. Do chores without being asked and tell her everyday how much I love, respect and need her. I love you, Mom! Happy Birthday! Can't wait til you come home!

The Funnest Saturday and Sunday Ever and More of My Favorite

"It's double stuffed," Austen tells Marie as they discuss Oreo eating techniques. Michal turns to inspect the Oreo in question and says, "Actually, that's quadruple stuffed, originally the Oreos are double stuffed, I know." That's my favorite thing said at Susan's going away party, today.

Why did I throw Susan a going away party? Because she is leaving in 8 days! 8 days, guys! I am crying on the insides. I am going to miss her so much. We played games, ate chips and salsa, and went crazy in a photobooth! Enjoy some of favorite pictures.


So on Saturday I went to my friend Tania's Baby Shower! I love babies they are just so cute! It was a lot of fun, especially because we got to eat Pakistani food, which is very tasty. Guess who showed up to the Shower? Guess. MOLLIE!!! She has been gone for 10,000 years! I missed her so much. She most definitely one of my favorite. She been at Swedish Camp, learning Swedish and loads of fun. After the shower, Sariah, Mollie and I spent the night at Mollie's house. We got to catch up and love on each other. I love you guys so much!











This is Mollie. She IS homeschooled. She is a freshman. She growing up, sniff sniff. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Mollie is her sense of fashion. Mollie is so cute. She has the cutest clothes! I love her!

One of my favorite memories of Mollie is before she moved to U City, when we were little kidos. We loaded into her wagon and rode to the pool and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I don't know why but that has had a lasting impression on me. We have been friends for a LONG time!

Today, I got to see my friend Megan, who I hadn't seen a while she's one of my favorites so here's here favorite friend profile.

This is Megan. It is spelled the correct way not with an h or extra vowels. She IS homeschooled. She is a Junior. Man, kid, you are old. I forgot we aren't friends, right now, we aren't the same age. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Megan is she always helps me keep in shape and she tells me truthfully how I look so I never have to worry if I have something on my face or a bad outfit.

My favorite memory of Megan, wow, that's hard, I have know her for my whole life. One of my favorite memories of Megan is when they lived in their Rosemar Lane house and we were playing dress-up in the garage attic and Susan and Melody came over and shut the door to the attic. Now you have to realize this is literally an attic door, a pull-down ladder door. They wanted to see if we could down by ourselves without help. At first, we didn't really care we finished playing dress up and then we decided we wanted to get down. We ended taking a pole and pushing the door down, pretty easily. I was so proud of us, we had gotten down without any help. Take that bullies.

Some of my Favorite

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself" -Jim Morrison

I agree.

A friend should want you to be yourself. I used to think that if I liked and agreed with my friends, they would like me. But one day, I stop and found out that people like it when you are truly yourself. Everyone is special in there own way. My friends and I just happen to be more on the insane side of things.

In this blog post I am going to talk about 3 of my favorite friends that I got to see recently. Gloria, Emma and Sariah. Pleas read on, they are some of my favorites for a reason.

This is Gloria. She is 11 years old. She homeschools with us. She is in the 5th grade. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Gloria is her laugh. It's a full body laugh, she literately quakes when she laughs, which is quite a bit. I love her.

NO!

This a great picture of Gloria because it captures the personality of Gloria. Happy.

One of my favorite memories of Gloria happened just recently. We had just finish taking pictures in our backyard and she turns to me and says "Nancy, Can I pick this flower?" She was pointing at this great big purple flower in my garden. After some consideration, I agreed. She promptly plucked it, smelt it, and then started pick off the petals. Immediately, I was disgusted, that was a flower I had worked hard in planting, watering and growing, how dare she destroy it! Then, I realized that it was no big deal and she looked so happy, I couldn't stop her. She looked up from flower and saw my face, "What!?" she asked defensively. I had forgotten to wipe my face of disgust and smile. "Nothing, I was just thinking." I reply swinging her in to a hug.

This is Emma. She isn't homeschooled. She is a sophomore. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Emma is that she completely and totally accepts me for who I am. I love her.

Emma and I acting cool several years ago

One of my favorite memories of Emma happened ages ago. It was when she still lived in Edwardsville. We went over to her house after church, this is when I still didn't know her very well and thought she was weird. We ended up watching Fairytopia. For those of you who don't what Fairytopia is Google it, then you'll understand how little we were. Afterward, we somehow convinced her dad to make us fairy wings. So we spent the rest of the day flying around her house, giggling and placing magic potions of her family.

This is Sariah. She isn't homeschooled. She is a freshman. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Sariah is how crazy she is, because I can let out all my crazy and not feel bad. I love her.

One of my favorite memories of Sariah happened a bit ago. It was at Emma and Sariah bowling birthday. For some reason, we decided we could no longer have normal hair-dos, we had to have crazy hair-dos. We just went a little crazy, which happens quite a lot. We are cray-cray. Not only are Sariah a wee bit crazy, she is also so thoughtful. She really listens and loves through what your going through. I can't go more then a few days without seeing her.

I got to see these Emma and Sariah today, I guess now yesterday. We met up at Forest Park and had a picnic. We talked, listened to music, put our feet in the streams, and loved on each other. I am so close to these girls it didn't matter if we talked or not. We belted out songs, talked to strangers (just like our parents told us not to), and ate chocolate chip cookies. It was an overall fun day. I love you girls!