These Happy Golden Years!

I will admit it...I cried at the end of the Little House on the Prairie...The last book of the series was called "These Happy Golden Years".  And I have to say what a story she told. It all started in her first book..."Little House in the Big Woods" where she lives with her mother, father, and older sister. By the end of the series she is married and has a child with Almanzo Wilder. It is so moving and climatic how we see her life grow and how she finally finds love and happiness.

The way I see it...my life is a story or more so a series of books. In the big picture I am not very far in the series but it is definatley getting interesting. I am seeing my life come together and seeing my dreams come true. But most of all I want to keep sight of what my original goals were in life. That be:

1.  Live for God, in all ways possible.
2.  Treat my family with love and respect.
3.  Find True Love.

One and Two are pretty self explanitory you just do it but not so much for number three.

TRUE LOVE!  -   I have to be honest; I have lost sight of what that true love was supposed to be life...or say feel like. When I read Ingalls-Wilder novel: "These Happy Golden Years" and saw the love she had found and the kind of person Almanzo was....WOW! I thought this is what true love is. I was in fourth grade when I last read her books and they have stuck with through all years up into college. The first time I fell in love was with a book character - Almanzo. Silly as it may seem...I really did! Frankly my expectations of men have since dropped some since no one really matched up to him anyways. I stopped searching for the magical character quite a while ago....actually way before high school. High School was when the boom was lowered. First Love - Believe me wasn't worth my time....But none the less I learned a lot from it. If you think someone is it....It is best that well....to put it in the words of JoAnn Lowery Nixons (writer of "The Other Side of Dark") character's words, "I don't want to be your first love...I want to be your last love". 
This just means your first love is mostly likely not going to your only love, and you might not want them to be. High School can be cruel but middle school is worse...Boy friends in middle school aren't worth the oxygen it takes to talk to them...So for all you pre-teens....don't go there...In high school it is best that you stay low on the radar...getting mixed up in lengthy relationships isn't good for you any way you look at it....you are either completely unavailable to everyone else or you are wasteing you time with someone who probably is thinking past the next football game. So, when you get to college...now here's where things get cooking...Now mind you my first love in college was a good experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything...I'm just saying you don't do! Don't fall in love too soon. It takes alot of fun out of look for potential prospects.

Anyways, college oh yes...here where it can get hairy...some people go into college looking to hookup with as many people as possible or they are looking for Mr.Right....and I mean right then and there. As for myself...I have never carried to date anyone that I couldn't possibly see myself marrying some time in the distant or near future. So, yes I am look for Mr. Right!


This last summer I went on vacation...not expecting much, just some good quality time with my family and friend. Little did I know that I would fall for mdg...He know's what these stand for..you don't need to. =) Anyways, I wasn't expecting to lose my heart that night to a New Yorker who could sing like the songs of angels...lol I know...So, I didn't expect that when he left for New York this winter that my heart would travel right along with him. Do you know what it is like to be missing a vital organ in your body???? Not exactly what I would call wonderful. And I have spent the last six months to this day exactly trying to pull myself together. - To Be Continued! I'm Tired and Going to Bed!