Life

I figured blogging would be a great way to journal and to let everyone know what is going on in our whirl wind life. If there is anything I have learned over the past several years it is that we are not in  control of our life. Which in some ways makes me glad because our Heavenly Father knows the best path for us anyway. Anyone who knows me in fact anyone who knows certain people in my family (you know who you are) we are planners! We like to plan 1-30 years ahead. Well for me I have had to learn that what I had planned is not our path. I have learned (and still am trying to learn)  that our life is going to be full of adventure! And that every turn is going to be a new surprise. Ha it is actually getting kind of fun! We have no idea where we will be in a year from now but for now we are here in Elmo. Population 388, beautiful sky's, no pollution, freshest of air (except for the occasional smell of manure), slow paced, friendly people where everyone waves to everyone, where your principle, postmaster, bus driver, teacher, and hair stylist live in your town and where your post office, library, church, fire department, and town hall are with in short walking distance. Oh and where people swear in church and now one bats an eye. We love it here. Yes our house smells old but boy it has character.  And yes we have a giant float and a bunch of junk in our back yard but ahhh never mind who am I kidding I hate the junk. We are happy here! The following quote describes my feelings perfectly.

“......... I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die discover that I had not lived.”

                                                                                                                    -Henry David Thoreau

Written by Heather