This is an appropriate song for how my day. It certainly was manic. My first class Monday morning begins at 7AM, which means to be parking my car and carefully shuffling across the ice to get to class more or less on time I need to leave home at 6:20AM. (Yes including the capitalized AM is necessary:) Alas, I woke up, got out of bed, and trekked out into the -4 degree weather.
As exhausting as my day was I was greatly enlightened in my Methods of Teaching Modern Dance class. The majority of our discussion was based on this video. It's twenty minutes long but it is oh so worth it. This is one of the main reasons I am changing my major to Dance Education. I strongly believe and stand behind the message in this video. Dance combines and encourages growth in all developmental domains; physical, social, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual. If more of the world understood this and showed respect for dance, then, the world be a more beautiful and obviously more peaceful. :)
Here are some highlights:
"Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status."
"IF you're not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with anything original."
"Educating out of creativity."
How creative can we be? How creative have we been? Can we remember to be more creative?
Now that I am a married woman I must do what married women do, you know:
Cook for a family (remind Steve to eat)
Clean for the family
"Help" manage finances
Make goals
Nurture and strengthen our marriage
And of course....Blog about our sweet nothings or as we like to see them Sweet Somethings
So, I am starting this blog. Is it out of peer pressure because everyone is doing it? Yeah, probably. Can I see myself really enjoying it? Yeah, definitely.
Steve Mortensen and I were sealed in the St. George LDS temple November 17, 2012.This was the beginning of our eternal family and what already is my greatest blessing. It truly was a perfect day. I am forever grateful to the many people who were involved. We are currently living about 20 miles north of Provo in a city called Alpine. (fun fact: I learned in Primary today that there are about 9,500 people in Alpine.) We are so blessed to live in the home of Steve and Karen McArthur. Their daughter and son-in-law Micah and Hank Taylor are living here while the McArthurs are serving a mission. Hank and Micah are upstairs and being the kind, gracious, open hearted, wonderful people that they are, agreed that we could live in the basement. We are planning to live here until our Asian adventure begins in April. After which we will hopefully move into a darling currently unknown abode in the oh-so-charming city of Provo,Utah. Steve graduates this April and I will graduate sometime in the next two years. We are so grateful for Steve's job/internship/full time as soon as he graduates job at Instructure. It has been the answer to his career option dilemma and is helping him focus on the ultimate future goal of working in the field of online education.
As this is the first post on our blog I'd better explain a little more than just peer pressure as to the reason of this blog. Steve and I love the small sweet somethings that make life worth living. There is happiness in recognizing, taking note of, and sharing the seemingly insignificant moments - the moments that ultimately matter most and build the foundation of the grand events.
"Diligently doing the things that matter most will lead us to the Savior of the world."
