Day By Day

I see things that make me think about how I have grown up in the past 19 years and in the past year or two.

My heart breaks to know how many hurting, hungry and lost people there are in the world.

I talk to people who tell me that I sound more and more like my mum.

My life changes, as growing up is hard.

I realize how the world has changed in the last decade and can’t help but think about how it will change even more in the next ten years.

My love for seeing the world grows as I sit at home.

I watch as my families schedule gets busier and busier, yet we all are able to get up in time to go for breakfast together before work.

My body shivers wishing winter would not come.

I think more about how Derek Jeter and I probably won’t be getting married.

My bank account grows and my want for new things also grows.

I try to remember to smile all the time.

My friends send me snap chats to bring a little spark of joy.

I become more friendly and outgoing.

My hands become more careful with my nice, still unbroken iPhone.

I dream bigger.

My coworkers learn more about my wild personality.

I take leaps and bounds to get to where I want to go.

My want to help people grows.

I say my name on the phone at work and have people tell me they don’t know who I am.

My need to go to school becomes more evident.

love,

a.m

Youth Group

If someone were to go back to the youth group leaders that met me when I was in high school, they probably wouldn't have seen this coming. I didn't see this coming. But the Lord did, He knew that I was getting prepared to be a youth group leader this year. I have been to a few different youth groups, tried many out and never really found one that I stuck with. However, that isn't all bad, now that I can look back on those times and apply the things I liked to the small group of high school girls I will be leading.
Last week was the first youth group of the season. I think there was about 23ish kids out, ten of them being high school girls. My girls. Each one with a different personality, some very quiet, I am not sure they said anything unless I was like 'hello over there' and other girls I just ignored because they never shut their months. With all of that though, we ended up having a great time, some good laughs, a few serious moments and ended with a bang adding each other on snap chat.
As I look back on my youth days, I can see that most of the time I was the girl that just wouldn't shut up - once I was comfortable somewhere. Before that I was the girl who you couldn't get to say anything at all. So, I would say that there are a few girls I need to take some special attention too and others I should probably ask to calm down a little so everyone has a least a little chance to say something.
Now looking forward to the rest of the year with these girls I see some great times coming, some hard times, tears, laughter and days with tears and laughter all together. It will be a struggle for me not to want to just jump back to the days of high school and also a joy to watch as these girls grow in Christ.

Last Road-trip of the Summer

I love road trips. Probably one off top five favourite things in the whole world. However, driving five and a half hours by myself isn't as fun as it might sound to some people. Being alone in a car for more than an hour and a half is normally all I can take and have ever done. Until now. 

Friday after work I got into the car and started on my way to Brandon. That isn't an overly pretty drive at all, when you live in the prairies everything mainly looks the same. Four hours after work I got to my aunts house where I was going to spent the night. Such a beautiful house with a huge yard, I will for sure stop there again if need be. Saturday morning they were hoping to be out of the house by 8 o'clock and be on the way to Arlington but I don't think that happened since I left at 8 and not everyone else was up just yet. 

Brandon is a little out of the way for going to Winnipeg so from there I had another two and a half hour drive to get to my friend, Steph's house.  I made it in good time and was finally reunited with a good friend of mine that I made when going to school in Texas. After seeing each other everyday for about five months and then all of a sudden not seeing her for three, isn't that much fun. We all grow so close together and at the time don't think about how the year is going to end at some point and then most of us won't live close to each other at all. It's a bit of culture shock to all of a sudden not be living in a dorm with thirty other girls. 

Out plans for the weekend are pretty go with the flow, what happens happens and what doesn't then doesn't. We are planning to much but mainly just seeing what we feel like doing at any given time. 

Yesterday, we went to her cousins wedding in the afternoon and then just before meeting up with the boys for supper we hit the mall for some window shopping. I had never been to a Famous Dave's BBQ before so that's where we went for supper and then walked around Osbourne Village, they all say the weird part of the city. But that's where there are cute little dessert places and coffee shops so I loved it down there. After awhile of walking we decided it was time to go over to the Bridge Drive In for some milkshakes. My boss is from Winnipeg and has been telling me all summer that I have to go there cause its better than the Milky Way in Regina. I am not sure about that considering I haven't tried everything on the menu at both places. However, he will be excited that I made it there finally. 

It was a pretty great first day in Winnipeg and I am sure there will only be more fun to come today and Monday until I have to make the long drive back to Regina.  

Love, 

a.m