Gratefulness

I am staying with my aunt in Florida for a month, and really enjoying it. It's been about a week and a half now. One of the things that's hard is being content with my clothes. I'm not rich or anything, and then I try to wear modest clothing, so I end up with a pretty decent wardrobe. Nothing exceptionally cute, though. I am a girl, and I love exceptionally cute pieces, so that's hard, especially when my aunt wears really cute stuff, that also tends to be more revealing.

I just spent some time looking at the Modesty Survey, though, and I can't say how encouraging it is to know that my wardrobe is really helpful to guys. If anyone who took part in the survey ever reads this, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I finished 1 Kings, and I am nearing the end of 2 Kings. I have to be honest and say that it's getting a bit boring. I hope that the Chronicles will be a bit more interesting. =P Then I can move on to Jeremiah. I still have a lot left.

Re: VBS, I am so grateful for the crew I got to lead this year. I loved every bit of time I had with them, it was such a privilege. I am getting my pictures back, soon, to send to them. The last Sunday I was at church before coming to Florida I went and talked to them for a few minutes and gave them hugs. They pretty much jumped on me. =P That made me feel so good! They were all sad I was going to be gone, and that was just sweet. I wish I could have sent them the pics sooner. I can't wait to see them again.

We went to the mall yesterday, and Bath and Body Works was having this humongous sale. They have this White Tea and Ginger lotion, and wow does it smell amazing. I got two bottles of it I love it so much, and it was super cheap. :D I had some White Tea and Vanilla lotion from Mark(a division of Avon), and I'm pretty much out, so I was super happy to find this stuff at B&BW, especially so cheap.

I am a major sucker for "happily ever after", so it falls in line that I am a major sucker for Disney Princess movies, too. I love them all, and I can't ever decide which is my favorite. Plus, I grew up watching them at my grandparent's house, so that also is a reason I love them so much. Well, Disney came out with this new movie, Enchanted, and it is GREAT. Well, some of the outfits the girls wear aren't great at all, which was sad. Extremely sad. Other than that, however, it is a hilarious, endearing movie. The songs are great, the bit of animation, the acting, the singing...it's wonderful. SO my new favorite movie! =P

I've not been getting my ten hours of sleep every night, just about 7-9, and the weird thing is if I get any more than 6 hours, I HAVE to have all ten, or I'm sleepy all day. If I get all ten I'm good. I got nine last night, so I am going to go get that last hour.

One more thing- I've always grown up in a pretty traditional style church. I am most comfortable in that setting for worship. Well, my aunt goes to a modern, contemporary church, and so I had to prepare myself for that when we came. Fortunately, I was SO pleasantly surprised, everyone was so genuine and real it was very easy to worship God. It was a bit hard to worship him through the music, because it was all that flooshy repetitively repetitive praise and worship. Some praise and worship is good, some is only okay. The preaching was great, though.

Oh, and one more really exciting thing. We got a new music director at church, he's a 20-something, he just graduated from Pensacola, just got married, and he has a baby on the way - he and his wife and so adorable, anyway, he's great! My whole family enjoys him so much more than our previous music minister. Well, we're going to join the choir as soon as Caiti and I get home!!! I am SO excited about this! We never joined the choir before because they always used soundtracks. I hate soundtracks. =P

Anyway, good night.

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Happy Independence Day! No matter how long our spiritual freedom lasts, God is good and I will continue to worship him with all my life.