22 November, 2011

when I grow up.

...i want to be a dance teacher, I said when asked at about the age of five or six. I had been taking dance lessons since I was four, and what could be better than teaching what I loved? I would make up my own dance moves and make all my students wear big fluffy tutus. Life would be good for them and it'd be good for me.


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..i want to be a 'scientest who studies the ocean,' I said sometime before or after I wanted to be a dance teacher. So what if I was copying my brother? I imagined myself having an office right on the beach, a wooden cabin painted white. I would find seashells down at the shore, return to my cabin and study them. And sometimes I would go scuba diving. Little did I know this is not how it works.

Later on I also wanted to be just a plain scientest. I had no idea what scientests actually do, but I guess I thought it would be fun (don't ask me why, I have no idea).

found via google

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..i want to be a writer, was my thought by the time I was seven or eight. I wrote little poems sometimes, I wrote in my journal (aka a tiny, twenty-page notebook that I was very proud of), and I wrote..hmm, probably fifty stories on our computer. I thought (I thought I knew) they were the best stories in the world. I once wrote a story when I was about five about a girl named Katy with a 'pesky little sister' (at that time I particularly wanted a little sister, not a big one). It was a page long. It turned into a 'series' of page-long stories and that's when I decided to become a writer...Or that I wanted to become a writer.



for some reason I did not like the 'once-upon-a-time' stereotype, and never had. too common. old news. but I thought this picture was neat so I took it.
image also via google.

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..i have wanted to be a writer ever since then. :) I would enjoy singing and writing songs, of course...Anything with words? I WILL gladly accept it. Wherever He takes me, though, I'm sure I'll be happy with it.

After all, He knows what is best for me. ;)

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what did you want to be when you grew up as a little girl? what do you want to be now?

much love.



19 November, 2011

thankful.

Thanksgiving is coming up in less than a week. It's not just time to buy a turkey and ingredients for pumpkin pie-it's time to realize and share what you really, truly are grateful for.

 

We all take for granted the simplest things that many people don't have. A roof over our heads. A variety of clean, nice clothes to wear. Serviceable shoes. Clean water. Food to eat. At least one car, a laptop, a tv. Access to books at the library. A mattress and a bed. An education.

So many kids talk about how school is "the worst invention ever" and how they wish they could spend all of their time doing what they want to do. Think about how fortunate you are to be getting an education at all. Lots of kids can't go to school. And here some people complain about having the chance to learn.

With that being said, let me tell you about a project I came up with. On Thanksgiving day, you and I post as many things as we can think of that we are grateful for (I'll be expecting at least twenty things, so why not try and make it to one hundred..like I am?). It could be anything, from the library to your new sweater from Target to the bike ride you take every night.

So-all you have to do is leave me a comment on this post promising me you'll do it, and post the 20+ things you're grateful for on Thanksgiving (remember to stick the button below on your post before publishing). when Thanksgiving is over, I will be posting my link to the actual post on this post. if that makes sense.

Are you ready?