More Holiness Give Me: I have a kid in High School! How can that be when I am still 25?

Saturday, May 29, 2010

I have a kid in High School! How can that be when I am still 25?

Kassidy has been taking an art class in High School. When I asked if she like her teacher she gushed how much she really did like him and how much she liked art. The thing I really like about this teacher is he strongly believes that through practice and effort anyone can be good. That just changes things for me. I took art class but I was not good and I assumed I just didn't have the talent. I think if someone had let me know that I could become good I might have continued on.

So here is Kassidy's self portraits from the beginning of school and then from the end of school to show her improvement. I am not sure if there is improvement or not because they look completely different and I really don't have an artistic eye but I thought they were good and interesting.

(Some smoothing down of hair might have been a good idea...)

Also, here is Kassidy's funny post on her blog.

"School is out, sad sad day! I already miss all of my friends and my teachers! I love my school! It Da' Bomb! I have some very special friends at the school that are going back to Tiwan or going to other schools. But me, Im staying at my school, not because i dont want to go to the other schools, its because i love it at my school, its a great school to send your children, yeah its a small school, but in highschool you know everyone, and you (mostly) love everyone! Because it's such a small highschool, i know everyone's names, i know who they are, and i like (most) of them. :) School is a blast, and im excited to go back! I can't wait! If you are having trouble finding a school that's right for your kids, send them to my school- it'll be the best disision you'll ever make.
I love you my dear friends and teachers!"

I CRACKED up reading this! I am sure you all will want to send your kids to her school! It will be

the best

"DISISION"

you'll ever make!

2 comments:

Pirate Princess said...: This is precious! She's such a sweet girl too. Maybe I don't feel so bad now - Savannah never capitalizes her "i" either, and it DRIVES ME NUTS! :P; June 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Susan said...: Mary said...haha, yeah right....wish her luck:)

Nancy said...How can my little girl have 6 kids of her own? I think I am still 40 years old!

Patsy Jo said...I know what you mean I'm still "?" and I have grandkids!!!; December 12, 2010 at 9:42 PM

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I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. The women of God know this. --Neal A. Maxwell

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

I have a kid in High School! How can that be when I am still 25?

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