Merry Christmas

For this blog you might want to scroll down and turn off the music I have playing.  I have videos to watch on here!!

Now that I am older I really find myself struggling to write a Christmas list.  It is the season of giving, but really do we remember why we give?  And do we remember that it IS NOT about getting?

Meaning of Christmas simply quoted in Charlie Browns Christmas (it really makes me happy that a cartoon brought in the REAL meaning of Christmas meaning CHRIST meaning they brought in religion. ...I could rant about how Christ is being taken out and people use the holiday as gifts .. including those who don't believe in Christ...working retail you see things you would second guess about)
BACK TO WHAT I WAS SAYING...

Now I use the video because every time I read the verses I hear him saying it. 



We have Christmas because Christ was born this day.  He was born to be an example and to die for us so that we might live again.

Every Christmas Eve we watch The Muppet Christmas Carol.  I could post just about every song on here but I will just post 2 of them that really get to me every year and I do try to keep the message with me year round.



You will understand what Christmas is all about.  In all the places you find love it feels like Christmas.  It is SO SO SO SO much more then getting gifts.  Christ didn't just come to the Earth and do good things once a year.  We have this day because He was born but we should live out lives as he did.  Giving every day of our lives and sharing the love and joy we have with  others.



We could all learn a thing or two from Tiny Tim.  Such big strong words from a little guy.  He knows the meaning.  It should be every day not just this one day a year.

I could keep posting more videos from the movie but I wont make you all sit here for hours reading and watching videos .. though its the best movie ever pretty much and if you have never seen it you should.

I hope we all can remember the true meaning of Christmas and take it with us every year.

Now for the fun part for me just a few pictures from the night/day where I can show off my Nephew (It was Orry's First Christmas!!) and SOME of the wonderful things I received today from my family that I am so grateful for.  ....I really tried not to post a lot but somehow I still posted half of the pictures I took.  Sorry I got carried away!

As I post this the day is almost over but the spirit of Christmas should be something year round not just one day.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and will have a happy New Year and we can remember these things year round this up coming year.



<3  Erin Christina 

People

As a disclaimer on this post.  Often times when you read something and you feel like it is pointed at you, even if it is not, you might be having some guilty feelings of your own.  

Why do some people just feel the need to bring other people down?  Or get the thought that they are better then other people? Or treat the person they married family like they are not important at all.

There is a bunch of stuff that just makes me stressed, mad, want to cry, and I just don't know what to do with so many different emotions going through my head because of many different situations. 

I recently cut a very good friend out of my life.  All this person was doing was hurting me and lying to me in one way or another.  Even if the friend wasn't the one lying to me if it makes other people tell lies to me I don't want to deal with it.  So everyone surrounded in the lies I just don't care to deal with.  People need to watch their actions no matter what they are going through in their lives.  We all have our trials and struggles.  I have taken crap and been stabbed in the back way to many times to let someone just walk all over me and lie to me day by day.  Maybe when they figure out what is important in their lives they can be a real person with me, but until then I wont be used. 

All we can do in this life is try.  We have our hard times and those are there to make us stronger.  To look on the bright side and see all that we have been given.  Hold on to our hopes and our faith.  Believe, pray, try, endure to the end. 

Now lets get off that rant before I start saying more things I should not say.

So here is a new count down lined up for you: 

TOMORROW!!! Seeing Sherlock Holmes!
6 days till Kris is off his mission and can give me a phone call
10 days till Christmas Eve
11 days till Christmas day
12 days till my Uncle and 2 of my cousins from Canada visit
14 days until I leave for Idaho
16 days until New Years Eve
17 days until New Years Day
18 days until I see everyone in Idaho again (See KRIS and also help Jenn move in to her apt)
19 days until I start my student teaching

....I cannot believe all this is happening in LESS then 20 days.  Life doesn't just stop for you.  You have to keep going and taking what you get.  No one ever said it would be easy, but I have been told that it will be worth it.  I have been promised many great things and I intend to be able to keep living my life so I may receive those blessing that have been promised. 


<3  Erin Christina

Officially

I have made contact with my cooperating teacher!!  3 weeks from today is when I start my student teaching and I am really excited.  This will be a brand new experience for me.  I have been in k-3 classrooms but never a 4th grade.  So my teacher told me the class is excited to to have a student teacher and I hope they like me and I don't disappoint them.  I cannot wait to meet Heather Andrews and her class.  Heavenly Father has a plan and I hope I am on the path he has directed me on to.  I am excited for the changes coming up and everyday I am more excited to be where I am and at the same time a little nervous and scared but I am pushing forward with a prayer in my heart. 

<3   Erin Christina

wow

I have a pretty blessed life.  Not a day goes by that I am not grateful for the things and people I have in my life.  My life isn't perfect and my life isn't easy but it is my life and it was given to me, the good and the bad, and I will live it and do what I can to live it to the fullest. 

PS.I have been meaning to mention books I have been reading and so the last 8 books I have read have been AMAZING!  They are books I will have in my classroom some day (I only own one of the series I have read, borrowed the others). I highly recommend The Huger Games Books to anyone and everyone and also the Percy Jackson and the Olympians as well.  I am not starting The Lost Hero and cannot wait to continue the adventure.  

<3  Erin Christina

What More Can I Say

Simply Stated: The church is true.

At times my mind is just blown away by the little things that I can look over or those huge slaps in the face and how I had not realized what was going on. 

I sometimes tend to find myself kind of just wrapped up in my own little world I don't really notice what is going on outside.  And it isn't a "everything is about me" wrapped up, more like I am just moving along and just really not taking much time to "smell the roses" 

Most of you all who read this know of the fact that I was supposed to do student teaching this fall but because of the test I did not get to and was, how I saw it, stuck here.  I was bitter and hated life.  I had lost all my faith in myself and my choices.  I was pretty much the only person who thought I could not. 
---> This brings me to a point I came across while watching The Green Lantern tonight with my family.  I am a weird person but I like to find the little light of truth in everything...want to know what I mean watch any movie with me and I will point out something to do with the gospel in it.   ANYWAYS! For those of you who don't know the plot the Green Lanterns' power comes from will..it they will it they can make it.  Their enemy is fear.  Fear sucks everything out of you.  And the main thing about being a green lantern is that you fear nothing.  Well long story short the green lantern from Earth has to over come his fear to destroy fear.  Sometimes this means we have to admit that we are afraid or we can never conquer our fear and "will" it away.  In gospel terms will would be faith and faith and fear cannot live in us together in peace.  Just as I was so afraid of everything I had lost my faith.  Until I had admitted my fear and started to work to over come it.  Soon I had passed my test and I was stronger.  I conquered my fear and came out a victor.  My dear won for a while but I was able to come out of my slump and become me again. 

My best friend on a mission had noticed how much I was beating myself up over everything and he was prompted before he knew what was going on to have a talk printed.  He then knew the talk was meant for me and sent it.  "Come What May and Love It"  was the talk and has been my motto for the last few months.  Things wont always work out our way but there is a plan for us.  Even when the plans we make don't work out. 

NOW I get to go back up to Idaho for my best friends first semester up there, I get to see my other best friend that I haven't seen in 2 1/2 years, and I get to experience a grade I haven't taught in yet and will be able to expand my resume on that! 

There is so much good coming from what I thought would be the end of everything.  I am excited to be living the life that has been given to me in the way my Heavenly Father would want me to live it.  I am blessed in so many ways.   In the scriptures we learn that our faith will be tried, and that is how we gain a testimony...through the trial of our faith.  I welcome my trials and I look forward to them and what I will learn and grow from them.


<3  Erin Christina