"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Monday, November 8, 2010

Gratitude

I've really been thinking about gratitude (which many people do this time of year), partly because of the relief society lesson yesterday, but also because everything is so wonderful right now. Mel and I are still blissfully happy (I think we're going to be newlyweds for a long time!) and I can't believe how big the turnaround was when I married him! I think about the 5 years before I met Mel, and the last 2 years and I can't even compare them because they are polar opposites! So, anyway, I'm going to try and express my gratitude here over the next little while and we'll see how it goes.

Today I am grateful for:

1. The opportunity to go to school (without having to drive to Logan!)
2. My students and how they always complain when they have to leave my class (it makes me feel so good!!!)
3. My wonderful, amazing, awesome, loving, understanding husband.
4. My wonderful, amazing, awesome, loving, understanding parents, and my Mom especially who cooks breakfast every day and dinner 4 days a week.
5. My car. I am so glad that I never had a car payment, and that it is still in such good shape.
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