Another mom

Just had to add this quickly: Jared's sister Angela and my brother's wife Amber both gave me a link to this blog: A Daily Scoop. She has been inspiring to read, and I usually end up with tears in my eyes, because she's been journaling about her 18-month old daughter who drowned in their hot tub just a little while ago.

She's actually the one who sparked that memory for me- I remember when I read Twilight, I didn't get the blank pages at first. I thought it was a little too dramatic LOL. Then I was thinking about guys I had either broken up with, or who had broken up with me, trying to remember what I had been like as a teenager. I remembered one guy [and I am so grateful now I didn't marry him BTW] who at the time seemed just what I was praying for. He broke up with me shortly before the semester ended in April [I was 19], and I had a few blank page months after that. Of course, having him write me half-way through the summer with a 'maybe we can try this again' sort of letter didn't help. Anyway, comparing Jared to what I remember about this other boy, well, I definitely got the better bargain :). I cannot imagine having to live with somebody who was so completely picky about certain things. He really wanted perfection in everyone and everything, which is not a bad thing. But I don't think he had the whole 'forgiveness is divine' thing figured out yet, either. Plus Jared's last name is much cooler... My point being that I could sympathize with Bella, after I rememberd how I had behaved with "this other guy." And then dealing with Myles' death, which was exponentially more painful than this breakup, well, I already wrote about that.

Whew- I went on longer than I meant to. Really, I just wanted to share that blog, and also how much her writing has comforted me, and strengthened me, because her faith is strong and she shares it so eloquently.