Pay It Forward

I found this on a friend's blog. I thought it was a cute idea and so I'm going to continue it. You know you want to be a part of it too.

The rules:

1. Be one of the first THREE bloggers to leave a comment on this post, which then entitles you to a handmade item from me.

2. Winners must post this challenge on their own blog, meaning that you will pay it forward, creating a handmade gift -anything!- for the first THREE bloggers who leave a comment on YOUR post about this giveaway!

3. The gift that you send to your 3 friends can be from any price range and you have 365 days to make/ship your item (no pressure there!). This means you should be willing to maintain your blog at least until you receive your gift and have shipped your gifts. And, remember it’s the spirit and the thought that count!

4. When you receive your gift, blog about it! If you are not one of the first three to comment on this post, you can still play along. Go ahead and start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same! It's all about paying it forward. Or just lurk the blogs of the people who respond to mine- then you'll be ready to add yourself in the mix.

What a crazy afternoon

Soren and I were out running some errands this afternoon. The first place we stopped at ruined most of our plans for the rest of the day. We were getting back into our SUV and when I put the key in the ignition it broke off. I don't know how it happened. I wasn't being rough with the key and I hadn't even tried to turn it yet. As far as I know my key looked like it was in perfect condition before.

Luckily we have AAA so we called them and they sent out a locksmith to extract the broken piece of a key that was stuck in the ignition. It took them about an hour to get there. They ended up making me a new key too.

I didn't know that we were going to get another key and Soren hadn't brought his keys so I walked home to get his keys. We weren't too far away from home so it wasn't too big of a deal to walk home. Still, by the time I got there I was really thirsty and had to pee really bad.

The craziest part of all of it was the locksmith charged $120 for coming out and he was only there for about 10 minutes. We only had to pay $20 and AAA covered the rest, but still that is a ridiculous amount of money to charge. I guess these kinds of places figure they can charge whatever they feel like because people don't have any other option.

My blog has been hijacked

I just noticed that some of my past posts have ads linked to them. I don't know how this happened. I never signed up for anything. I'm going to investigate further. For now I just want everyone to know that I didn't intentionally puts these in my posts. (I'm not trying to sell you anything.)

Love this quote!

I was reading the February Ensign (All of my church friends will know what this is. For the rest of you as way of explanation: it is a magazine put out by my church.) and came across a quote that I feel was directly speaking to me. It's from Elder George Q. Cannon. It says,

"The Saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and-by."

When I read this it seemed to be an answer as to why I haven't been able to get pregnant. I don't know for sure what God has in store for me but I am trying to have more faith that he knows what is best for me better than I do. Over the past several months I have had the feeling that the Lord is preparing me for the fact that I will never be able to have biological children. Granted, I don't know what (if any) issues Soren and/or I have that would be preventing me from getting pregnant. Still, I feel as though we need to be prepared for the fact that we will most likely have to go the route of adoption to have children.

One example of how things can work out for the best is my Grandma and Grandpa. They adopted all of their children. My Grandpa died from Huntington's Disease. For all of you who don't know it is hereditary. Growing up I thought they decided to adopt because they didn't want to pass this disease onto any children they might have had. A few years ago I found out that they didn't know my Grandpa had Huntington's when they were trying to have children. My Grandma wasn't able to get pregnant and she told me that she had been very angry at God about this. (I can't imagine my Grandma being mad at God. She is one of the sweetest and most faithful people I know.)

It turned out to be a blessing in disguise that my Grandparents had to adopt because they didn't pass a disease on that would have greatly shortened their children's lives. Plus, because of this fact I was able to be a part of my Grandparents family. I love them so much and can't imagine what it would be like without them.

I try to keep this in mind myself when I feel frustrated or angry about the fact that I haven't been able to get pregnant. For now I am just trying to have faith that everything will work out for the best. If I do have to adopt to have children I will love them just the same as if they grew inside me. There is another quote that I can't remember word for word, but it says something like this: Being adopted means you grew in your mom's heart instead of her tummy.

Trying to be grateful for small blessings

So, I have been offered a job at Marshalls. It isn't exactly my dream job and the pay is going to be less than what I'm worth. Even though I'm not that excited it is good that we will have some income. With the economy being so bad I do feel grateful to be finding employment. It will be good to have something to help us out until we can both find some good jobs.

I just hope that the saying that it is always easier to find a job when you already have one will be true in my case.