Marriage and Family Studies

I'm taking a class right now, The Family: A proclamation to the World.

For the class I have to do a semester long project, and I decided to do a blog.

I started a blog over a year ago for one of my other Marriage&Family classes, so I'm just continuing on with that.

I'm proud of it and definitely passionate about it, so check it out!

Just click here.

Yay! :)

May 24: Worst Traits

Day 24: Your top three worst traits

I'm not sure these are my worst traits, but they were the first three to come to mind.

1. I'm a worrier. I worry. A lot. My nickname by my friends in high school was "mama Mel" because I was constantly telling my friends to drive safe, be smart, or to text me when they got home. I know it doesn't bother some people, but I've also been told that it can be incredibly annoying.

I can't help it if I care! :)

2. I'm really good at making up reasons for why every day is a special occasion. This sounds like a good thing, but it's not. It means that every time I try to eat healthier or commit to working out six days per week, I fail. For example - today is Friday (that in itself is special) and it's the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. Everyone else is taking the day off, so I deserve a cookie.

Logical, right?

It happens every. single. day.

3. When I'm mad or when I just simply don't want to be talked to, I get scary.

No, really. I get scary.

You can ask some of my closest friends or past roommates.

It's a silent kind of scary where I don't say anything, but I have the "look."

But don't worry, I'm working on this one :)

May 23: Lessons

Day 23: Things you've learned that school won't teach you

I've been skipping days (oops!).

Quite honestly some of the days just haven't been my cup of tea.

Combine that with being ridiculously swamped with school and trying to keep my head above water, and blogging is just simply not my number one priority.

So I'm going to make today easy.

Here ya have it, according to Pinterest:

This topic had a lot of potential for a rather insightful post, but I just quite frankly do not have the time.

Off to do homework while answering calls and appeasing needy clients.

Party!

May 21: Favorite Posts

Day 21: A list of links to your favorite posts in your archives.

Easy peasy!

Understanding Grace: If you need a little inspiration :) I read this one often. I reminds me how far I've come, but also just how far I have to go (or have the privilege of going).

Daddy-daughter Vacation: One of my favorite days from my vacation with my dad last summer. It was hard to pick a favorite post from this trip!

Girl Scout Cookies: Freshman year memories with two of my favorite girls! I still find this post absolutely hilarious, though I'm probably the only one in the world that does :)

What we want the most, but use the worst: All about time. I'm not sure why I like this one so much.

Balloons, Blankets and BFF's: More memories. This was definitely one of my favorite semesters ever!

Project 365: I loved doing this project and this post is a really good summary of my favorite pictures as well as what the project meant to me. I need to do another one!

So there ya have it :)

May 18: Memory

Day 18: Tell a story from you childhood.

Once upon a time my parents went to Hawaii and left my sisters and I behind at my grandparents house. My grandma had a tradition with her grandchildren of sitting on their front porch swing and swinging and singing songs from the Children's Songbook. She would always bring a little boom box, the songbook, and occasionally a few snacks outside.

While my sisters and I were staying at their home some of our cousins came to join us for a little bit. While we were all they, my grandparents shared the bad news...

My grandpa was to redo the front porch to put in the beautiful wooden deck that they now have. This meant that they had to get rid of the swing.

My cousins and I were so upset by this news that we got together and schemed about how we could stop this tragedy from occurring.

So, we put my grandparents on trial.

We had a judge, attorneys, and a jury.

We began the trial by making a picket sign which said, "No swing, no sing!"

We marched upstairs chanting, "No swing, no sing!" until we gathered up my grandparents and held them on trial.

I remember my poor grandmother being so amused but so upset that we were threatening her precious singing time with us kids if grandpa got rid of the swing.

I don't remember much more than that, but in the end my grandpa got rid of the swing and my cousins and I actually boycotted singing for some time.

My grandma still has that little piece of paper we taped to a wooden stick that reads, "No swing, no sing!" She has it in her scrapbook.

To this day my grandma still talks about how our little trial broke her heart.

We eventually gave in and started singing with her again :)

I love my grandparents!