Congratulations!

I officially had the WORST blogging month in the history of my blogging career. I don't know what it is. Maybe I am just lazy. Or busy. Or lazy. Ya. More kinda lazy.

Well folks. I have an announcement to make. Some of you may be disappointed that I haven't told you in person, but I apologize. It is what it is and sometimes it is just easier to "blog" about it.

I am...... a STUDENT again! I have officially been accepted to the ASU graduate Doctorate of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program. SO, as of June 1, I will be in class!

Some time ago, ok, my whole entire life, I knew that I needed to do something more, to be something more. I prayed and I fasted and I prayed some more. I prayed that I would be satisfied and content with being a mom and a nurse. I did. I really did. I tried to ignore the burning inside to continue on to graduate school. I have fought it for 3 years now. Some of my classmates from my undergraduate went right into their respective graduate programs. I knew that it wasn't for me at that moment, and now I know why.

It is actually a cool program. Most of it is online and there are only 6 days a semester that I will have to physically be in class. And some of those are NIGHTS! Yay! Hopefully work will work with me as long as I can stand to work :) AND go to school AND be a mom :). I love all of those things and it is sooooo hard to choose which ones I want to do, so I suppose I will do them all.

SO there you have it. That's all folks!

Jealous Much?

I learned a powerful lesson the other day in my institute class. It was about Sacrifice.

3 Nephi 9:19-20

Elder Maxwell said,

“Real, personal sacrifice was never placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put the animal in us upon the altar and letting it be consumed.”

Hartman Rector said,

“Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with Him, for that is when the blessings flow. If you would have a blessing from the Lord, put something upon the altar. Make a sacrifice.”

There is something in my life that I have really struggled with lately. And it is jealousy. I won’t tell you what of because that would just be too much information. And we wouldn’t want that.

But it has been eating me up inside. Literally. I have been in a pit of crap wallowing in it. I am sure this isn’t the first time I have wallowed and I am certain it won’t be the last, but it is something I have to give up or it will eat me up inside and do irreparable damage.

As I pondered the words of Elder Maxwell, that if I just take my jealousy and give it up, that the Lord would take it, and replace it with something better. So I am going to try. Try giving it to Him, and see where it goes. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

****postscript: IT WORKED!!! Just sayin :)

Check it out... no SERIOUSLY!

Ok, So remember awhile back I told you about my amazing singer cousin whom I am SO jealous of because she has an amazing voice and can strum on the guitar and play the piano and many other instruments I don't know that she can play?

Well she is trying to make a CD. She got a lot of offers from record labels in LA, Vegas, and Nashville, but they charge THOUSANDS of dollars to get started. SOOOO, many up and coming (her talent surpasses up and coming... just saying) musicians have started to do their OWN label and their OWN CDs, because it is cheaper.

However. She has run out of funds and NEEDS your HELP! Heck. I need your help. For years I have been saying that she needs to try out for American Idol or move to LA and make it big. But you know what? She didn't listen. She likes being a mom more than she thinks she would like being a SUPERSTAR!!! But you know what? I think she would make a GREAT mom and a GREAT superstar... just sayin :).

Well ladies and gentlemen, she finally took my advice!!! Now we don't want her to be disappointed (or me) so go ahead and donate $1, $5, $10, $20 or whatever. She needs $2700 to record the rest of her FIRST ever Lucky Lyndy ALBUM. She has $1900 so far.

Go ahead. Be the first to say that you helped Lucky Lyndy back when she was just a girl singin her heart out in Southern Utah. I dare you. Even if you don't donate... you should really go check out her website.

30 DAYS TO MAKE IT

Oh and you should become a follower of her blog and put her in your google reader, because every once in a while she will post a video of herself singin and you just won't be able to get enuf of her. Seriously you ask? Yes. Seriously.

Head on over there and come back and tell me what you think. AM I RIGHT?

PS What did you think about her adorable little boy in her video saying that he had to go poop! Seriously. Little boys. Tug... tug... tug...