Feb 24
Beautiful, right? Looks can be deceiving sometimes. Well, I guess it’s not really “deceiving.” It IS beautiful, after all. But it’s also. So. Freezing. Cold.
You know, I ought to be used to this sort of thing by now. I grew up in Utah – Missouri shouldn’t feel that different. Here’s the catch though – I was born in Southern California. I think when you’re born there, you get an automatic gene that says “I. Love. Heat.” Whatever it is, I’ve got it.
All my love for heat can’t stand in place of my family though – and they live in this freezing place. In fact, this is part of their front yard. “Yard” is kind of a misnomer. They’ve got 25 acres of “yard.”
This beautiful place can be kind of dangerous sometimes. You know how I was supposed to take the Iowa Bar Exam this week? Well, it didn’t happen. Winter storm warnings, combined with actual winter storm conditions, made the risk just too high to travel the 3+ hours to Des Moines on Saturday, Sunday OR Monday. (The Iowa Bar examiners are pretty inflexible about “mandatory orientation” held on Monday. There is no getting around it. Even if you’ve taken 3 bar exams in the last 2 years and it would have been your 4th. If you can’t make Monday’s orientation, you won’t be allowed to take the Tuesday exam. You’re simply out of luck – and money.) At any rate, I made the choice to stay put. So you know what I did? I had that virgin mojito early.
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Dec 25
And snow. And snow. And snow.
Merry Christmas! We have an official blizzard warning in effect until Saturday morning. Cool, huh? Much different from Christmas in Vegas. (I think it was mostly cool because we didn’t have to go anywhere – if we’d needed to go anywhere, it would have been a total mess.)
Today was my first Christmas home since 2005. What a fantastic time! I had forgotten how much fun it is to have brothers and sisters wake you up at 6am because they are so excited Christmas is finally here. (Since I’m a morning person, the whole 6am thing is not quite such a big deal. Except when I stay up until 2am the night before. Which I did. But that is beside the point.)
I love that we all get together and laugh. We love each other. And our whole house is filled with the laughter and love the whole time. No material possession in the entire world can substitute for that kind of love. Christmas is a time when it becomes a little easier to remember to show that love. Just think about it – it’s the time when we celebrate the birth of the Savior of the World. I’m amazed when I think about His sacrifice for all of us. Over the past year, I feel like I’ve become a lot closer to Him. It’s a relationship I plan on continuing for the rest of my life.
Tagged with: blizzard • cameron • christmas • family • missouri • snow
Beautiful, right? Looks can be deceiving sometimes. Well, I guess it’s not really “deceiving.” It IS beautiful, after all. But it’s also. So. Freezing. Cold.
