it's that time again...

the most wonderful time of the year. (and this year I have my own classroom!) 

may june july august love love love love list

(I'm catching up on my love lists that I was detained from typing while in Africa).  

• fresh fruit and vegetables
• going on pretty drives, especially in the mountains
• the farmer's market
• the Demodeaf School in Ghana, West Africa
• getting ready for school!
• hanging out with Bay
• warm nights
• barbecues
  
• new music
• getting my classroom ready
• my mom
• seeing Peter B live
• a nice long stint at Hebgen
• playing guitar
• painting toenails
• lemonade with ice
• creamies
• grilled everything
• swimming
• running water
• fast internet
• lyvie lou who
• school shopping
• riding bikes in centerville
• french fries
• globes
• friends around
• roasting perfect marshmallows
• reading books from my ever-growing list
• hot showers
• chapstick
• eating dinner on the back patio
• my bed
• frozen yogurt
• birthdays
• hiking
• students
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• family jokes
• peaches
• scooter club
• stargazing
• buying school supplies
• getting projects done

as good as it gets

Just returned from two dreamy weeks at Hebgen.  Life does not get any better.

home again

I made it home!  Africa was incredible.  

Gone to Ghana

Hey all!  For the next nine weeks, I'll be volunteering in Ghana, West Africa.  Keep up with the adventure, if you like.  Goodbye, America.  I'll miss you.

Tribute

"As a covenant-keeping daughter of God, she had prepared all her life for motherhood…
A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her…

Oh, that every girl and woman would have a testimony of her potential for eternal motherhood as she keeps her earthly covenants…

She knows that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily mothering is far more lasting, far more powerful, far more influential than any earthly position or institution invented by man. She has the vision that, if worthy, she has the potential to be blessed as Rebekah of old to be “the mother of thousands of millions."  

Every girl and woman who makes and keeps sacred covenants can have a mother heart. There is no limit to what a woman with a mother heart can accomplish. Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities. How grateful I am to the Lord for trusting women with the divine mission of motherhood."  -Julie B. Beck, ‘Mother Heart’,” Liahona, May 2004, 75–77

Happy Mother's Day to my mom-- a perfect example of a mother heart.  I hope you know how much I love you and appreciate your example and sacrifice.  KYW.

hey hey it's may

guess what? I get to go to Ghana in ten days.  

yep.

Also: 

• tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo
• teaching this week: kindergarten and second grade
• my mom is awesome.  
• The Poisonwood Bible is good
• concert coming up on the 9th!  at Holladay City Hall.  please come! (it's free)
• got another shot today (hepatitis #2)
• Elder Bednar is wise and delivered a purposeful address.  loved discussing it with the Grovers.
• missing my dad. (he's in Texas)
• I love spending time with Kaite. she's going to DC for the whole summer and I will miss her.

May is like the first month of summer, but not quite.