Babysitting Rufus! My Water Balloon!

Yes you read the title right, I have been so bored lately I have taken to babysitting a balloon. This was my own idea. I found a green balloon sitting on the TV stand the other day, while trying to fix the cable box. I have played with this balloon for 3 days now and enjoyed the balloon immensely. I named the balloon Rufus. Rufus is a very bland sort of person he doesn't do much, and stays very cold. Even when you hold him for long periods of time!!! Rufus is shaped like a yam, which I think is quite hilarious, a green yam!!! Anyway, Rufus makes a great companion when reading a book or watching TV. Becuase by holding Rufus, I can keep myself from chewing my nails. When your watching or reading something suspenseful, that is very diffucult. Rufus helps a ton, I love my little Rufus. I feel very strange being 12 years old and writing about how I adopted a water balloon and named him. Rufus sleeps in the bathroom on a washcloth, because if he is on the counter he won't roll off, and if he sadly breaks then he won't make a mess! So Rufus is my new best bud, and I enjoy this silly little thing in my life.

Rufus though reminds me of how God takes care of us. Just like I take care of Rufus, God takes care of me. Although I am a person with feelings, thoughts, and needs. Rufus is a water balloon, he cannot think, talk, or even move. So though a poor analogy I think that it is important to see God in all things. I realize that Rufus is a balloon, I am a person, and God is God, we all have different was that we work and make things better. Rufus gives me enjoyment, I can share that enjoyment with others by filling other balloons and handing them out, and God can show me that this enjoyment came from Him, that He is the one who created balloons and water!

So there you go, a nice little post that is about Rufus my new friend. I throughly enjoy Rufus, because when I ask him questions he never gives me stupid advice!!! Oh and he is pretty low mataince! I hope you too can find some little thing in life to adopt and let bring you happiness!

10 Things I Adore!

Alright, I felt compelled to follow in the footsteps of my aunt, sister Robyn , and sister Clare. So here is my handy dandy little list.

1. I love Summer Time!!!!! (AHHH SUN!!)
2. TEXAS!!!!!!!! I can't wait until I can live there. My mom was talking to Robyn who says that it was 90 degress the other day!!! How wonderful!!
3. The smell of old books. I was packing some old medical texts of my dads, and they smelled so fun. Kind of musty, and dusty!
4. Flip-flops!! I think I must have at least 20 pairs!! Even though I only get to wear them like 3 weeks out of the year. (Well, if I wear them when most normal people do. I don't!!)
5. Exclamation points!! Who needs periods??? Just write like you are talking with a reason or possibly yelling?!??!
6. Hold My Heart by 10Th Avenue North. It is a song, and I love it!!!
7. Target!! My favorite store in the whole world!!
8. E-MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what I would do without it, I never have to call anyone unless I want to!!!!!
9. 18 Kids and Counting! Such a wonderful show, I could never be like them!!!
10. Checking the Mail! Don't ask me why, but I do this everyday, and love it!!

Okay random list. I am probably so weird!! But I know everyone loves me anyway!!:)

Thank You Robyn!!!

Today I talk to my fantastic sister Robyn!! (All I want out of life is to be just like her!!!) I was a little upset because of my size, I am 5 ft. and 105 pounds. My dear sister Katy is 5.5 and is 101 pounds! She can wear a size 0 I cannot, I tried a skirt of hers on and could barely breathe!! Plus being an emotional eater, having a bad week, and Easter candy sitting on a kitchen counter don't mix!!! So I knew that me and Robyn have the same body shape so I figured that she would be the best person in the world for advice on being upset about sizes and shapes. When your 12 looks and size matter, they shouldn't, but they do! When all your friends are stick thin and little tiny and make you feel fat, it is hard. But having a sister who reminds you that it'll get better and that some boys like girls who aren't stick thin makes all those dumb thoughts seem, well, dumb! She also reminded me that God made me perfect and that I am fearfully and wonderfully made! I love my sister Robyn. Today has been a great day! Thanks Robyn! (Now all I have to do is convince my dad to let me get a cat! Pretty sure that won't go over well, But I can try!)

P.S. Clare I promise that I will have a post about you sometime!!!

A Few New Things!

So sorry about the month of no posts!!! I don't really have anything exciting or new to post about. My current life is boring, and uneventful! A few intresting/fun things have happened lately.

• I got to spend the night with my friends Angelina and Alyssa.
• I am going to be in a play called a Hairy Tale.
• My few surviving tulips have blossomed!
• The weather has been beautiful!!! (80 degrees yesterday!!!!)
• I have stayed on track with my math!!!! (Yeah for me!!)
• I got a new Bible. I am happy because this one is much smaller than the one I had before!
• I got a ton of new clothes for Easter, and because a lot of cute things have gone on sale!

That's it for my uneventful, very boring, so non fun, and really unintresting post! Thanks for reading, all my wonderful friends and family.

Starving to Learn

Last Friday and Saturday I spent 30 hours without food! I had been going around for 2 or 3 weeks asking everyone and their pet rat for money!! I did this to feed kids and their families in China, India, Africa, and South America. I spent the night at the church with 15 others who participated, and we learned about what we can do to help those kids get fed. I was in the Ecauador tribe with 3 others from my church. We played a lot of fun games and learned lots of new things. I realized how much God has blessed America. Do we really ever sit down and reflect on what we have. So many times a day we look around and think, whoa they have a really sweet car they must be rich! Wow she is carrying a Donney and Burk she must have money! But we never realize that since we have a bed to sleep in, a car to drive, food and CLEAN WATER! that we are truly blessed. We watched a show called Rich out of a series called Nooma. It was amazing to learn the statics of how many people don't have a car, how many people don't have homes, how many people don't have clean water whenever they want it. I finally realized (while the hunger pains started to naw) how much I complain and whine about what I do and don't have. How so many times a day, I take things for granted. I really just needed that small 30 hours to find out what I really am blessed with. I don't ever think about how many people don't get up at 7:30 am on Sunday morning to go to church, because they can't, and I complain most of the time about how early I get up, about how I am so tired and wish I could sleep late instead of going to church. I realize that what God gave to me is a blessing. My clothes are a blessing, my food is a blessing, my water a blessing (most of the time I complain about having to drink water!), my house blessing, my church blessing, and even my breath is a blessing!! I have heard the song Count Your Blessings so many times, but have I ever took the time to realize the blessing that I truly have, have I ever heeded the words?
Count your blessings, name the one by one, count your blessings see what God has done! What little words that so often I forget, when I have a bad day, when I see someone with more than me, when I have to drink water and not soda, do I ever stop to realize that someone out there has so much less?? I guess that what I am trying to say is that I realized that God gives me blessings and that I need to take them into account and thank Him for them!
I earned 825 dollars for the 30 Hour Famine. I am able to feed 2 kids for more than a year!! $1 can feed a child for a day. If you would like to figure out more about this or donate to it just go to www.30hourfamine.org. I really appreciate all that everyone donated. Because I know that 2 kids will get to see another year of their life. This was such an amazing oppurtunity for me to realize that so little can do so much!!!

Gardening is Fun!!

I love gardening. I am not really sure why, because I am not one for outside or getting messy. But last year I grew tomatoes, they were really fun. We got to eat a few. This year I am growing tulips and some other really pretty flower. I think that it is all such great fun, I loved planting them. Sadly though some of the tulips were rotten. I think that watering them is my favorite part. I think it is so fun to watch as they drink up all the water that you give to them. I decided to make bees my background because they will definitely help to pollinate my flowers. I really like gardening because you can see the fruit of your work when fall comes along. You can see them growing during spring and summer, but you don't get to see the actual product until fall comes. I am excited to do flowers this time though because they will bloom and grow much faster than any veggies or fruits do. I am really excited about our new big yard, my mom says that I can have a much bigger garden than the little tiny bucket on the back porch which is currently my garden. When I planted the flowers we didn't have quite enough soil so I had to press them in really far, it was fun though beacuse I watered them before I realized this so I got to play in the mud!!! Which is kind of little boyish, but I liked it. I can't wait to see if anything will come of my hard work and toil.

STINKING UN-MATCHING SOCKS!!!

Angry Kelly is very angry. Today I got assigned the hateful task of matching up socks that previous laundry persons have failed to match!! Yeah, not fun!! We have a basket and when you fold a basket of laundry you almost always come across those terrible socks that have no mate. You then place them in the sock basket and continue putting away the rest of the laundry in the basket. You never realize that by doing such an easy thing you are creating a 20 to hour project for some other unspecting undeserving soul to have to attend to. You sit on the living room floor and dump out the basket. You may immediately notice 3 or 4 pairs that are easy to match. You being searching through the 2 foot high pile for other matches. You have many ways to make doing this slightly hateful task more enjoyable.

1. You can play sock basket go fish if you have another person willing to help you. Essentially you just play the card game go fish with socks instead of cards.
2. You can sort all the socks in to piles such as plain white, colored, brown, dark, and other types.
3. You can simply pick out 3 or 4 socks and search for their mate until you find it or your eyes begin to blister from searching.

So that is my terrible saga about how much I hate searching through mismatched socks!!! (Now maybe you too can have a more enjoyable time of doing this terrible task!)