Walk 22

Today

I had to leave my family

and come back to college.

I love visiting them.

In fact,

I just plain love them.

They're incredibly awesome.

And I don't think

how much I truly loved them

or how awesome they were

until I wasn't with them every day.

How am I ever supposed to leave them?

How am I ever supposed to be completely independent?

I used to have dreams of moving to a big city and having a fabulous life,

but then I became a little practical.

I realized that I 

a) don't have a talent that would take me to New York or L.A.

b) absolutely hate city traffic. Not as much as the interstate, but it's still frustrating.

c) I couldn't be that far away from my family.

I feel sorry for my dad.

His mom is old,

and I knew it made him sad when we would have to leave after visiting her,

but I never truly realized how much it must hurt.

We only see Granny a couple times a year.

Imagine only seeing your mom a couple times a year

and also realizing that she's not going to be around much longer.

That must feel awful.

I don't think I'm going to complain about possibly spending extra days at Granny's anymore.

I want my dad to have all the time on the Earth with his mom.

There is no one 

on this planet

that I love more than my parents.

I could not imagine life without them.

That would be the worst.

Man, I should've gone to school in my hometown.

That way, I could've gone to school and not lived at home

but still be close enough to pop over a couple times a week.

My kids will be so lucky.

They'll be the ones who have lunch every Sunday with their grandparents.

I'll make sure of it.

Because I will want to see my parents every week.

Maybe,

I can marry somewhat rich

so I can live in the Franklin area.

It's SOO gorgeous there.

And it's close to both Nashville and Murfreesboro.

I could hopefully find an interior designing job in Nashville, right?

I hope so.

I guess I also have to take in consideration of whatever my future husband might want.

You know,

granted I have one.  ;)

Good things on the 22nd of January:

I love this place so incredibly much. NBC :)

To clarify, that is an empty sparkling cider bottle. Don't ask me why he has it.

•  Going to church this morning and hearing a good message on the sanctity of life. Happy sanctity of life Sunday everyone!
• Having a family lunch. Usually on Sundays, we eat sporadically so it was nice to all sit down together.
• Filming an awesome half hour video with my siblings. This turned out to be very bad though because my Ipod ran out of power and the video didn't save. So we painted beards and acted stupid for nothing. But it was fun :)
• Buying small kits to grow strawberries and forget-me-nots in the dollar section at Target!
• Coming back to college from my weekend home.
• Thinking.... nevermind. This good thing I can't say out loud. So whenever I think it and it makes my day good, I'll just put this: :)
• :)

 So Walk 22 was about the final 

and biggest plague

that God sent on Egypt.

And this plague was big.

It was the daddy of all plagues.

Since Pharaoh and the Egyptians weren't listening to Moses and Aaron,

God killed all the firstborn in their homes.

Actually, 

God killed all the firstborns in the houses that weren't marked by lamb's blood.

God gave 

very,

very very very

specific instructions for how the Israelites were supposed to go about sacrificing the lamb.

It was pretty cool to see how God worked His ways to bless His people.

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