Trust

Children can be the perfect example of self-confidence and complete trust. Last year, my family had a reunion up at the Heber Valley Girls' Camp. While there, we participated in one of the challenge courses. The idea of our course was to climb up a pole...about 20 or 25 feet. Next, you walked across another pole...about 15 to 20 feet long...holding onto nothing for balance. Then, after you completed the terrifying part, you got to go on a zip line. Everyone that was able participated, including my four-year-old niece. Kaylee was amazing to watch. Her only problem with the whole thing was that she couldn't reach all the steps on the climb up. So, the missionary that was holding the rope would pull her up until she could grab onto the next step and pull herself up. Then, she walked right across the pole with no fear at all.
Kaylee was the perfect example of confidence. She new she could do it and just went for it. She was also a great example of trust. She had perfect trust in the missionaries that helped her. As she was being pulled up to the next step, she had no fear of being dropped. She had complete trust in the rope that she was attached to as she walked across the pole that was some 20 feet in the air. And when she was done, all she wanted was to do it again.

I have so much to learn from my little niece. I can learn to be more confident and trust myself more. I can also learn to have more trust in those supports I have around me. Children are amazing, and there is so much I learn from a young child. That's why I love them so much.

One year...

One year ago today I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Child Development from BYU-Idaho. It was a typical windy Rexburg day, and I was so anxious to be done.

It's strange to think it's already been a year. So far, post graduation life has been great. I can't wait to see how it continues to turn out.

Patience

I looked up some quotes to see if I could convince myself that patience was a good thing. In the process, I found...

~All good things come to he who waits.
~The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.
~Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

So, yeah. Those helped. But of course, in the process, I enjoyed coming across some that discuss patience with somewhat of a sarcastic tone...

~How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
~Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

The second set of quotes describes more of how I'm feeling. Whoever said patience is a virtue was not waiting for something!

April Fools!

Remember how I went to the park for lunch at work on Monday? Yeah, it looked like spring was really coming, but today I woke up to snow. I would say thank you to Mother Nature for the April Fools Joke, but I'm not exactly feeling grateful. I'm sick of the snow!!!!