I want to do only the easy things!

I was talking to my sister the other day and she told me about her daughter... She has been taking piano lessons for a while and the other day she told her mom she didn't want to do it any more. My sister initially said that's great, no one is going to make you do this. But out of curiousity she asked her daughter why... the response was that piano was hard and she only wanted to do the easy stuff. Well, guess who's still taking piano lessons?

I was thinking about it more and you know... I only want to do the easy stuff too. Sometimes it just seems like that would be the way to go. But where does this take us? My guess is that life would actually turn out to be a lot harder. It's funny how the things that seem so hard when we are doing them are the things that set us free. Life would be so dull and unrewarding if all we ever did was "the easy stuff."

Our Father in Heaven has given us families, jobs, church, friends, homes, and the list goes on and on... and it's all hard work. We have to work everyday to keep up those things. Is it easy? Sometimes yes... and sometimes it's so hard I want to dig myself a hole and hide for a year or two. But most of the time it's fun and it is always worth it!

So enjoy life... learn from it...

Speaking of learning...

We went to NYC last week. What an adventure! I feel like I learned alot about people, our country, myself, art and everything inbetween.

I'll just give you a day it a time...So here is a shot looking up. It looks alot bigger in pictures than when you are really there. Is it big? Yes. In NYC everything is big... including the rats! And yes this is our friend we made the first day... luckily he only stayed just long enough to get a picture.It's not as big as I thought it would be. Everything was kinda spread out. But over all I loved the trip! It was refreshing to spend some time without kids. And it was relaxing.

This is Times Square. Wow! This place was busy everytime we through it (and we walked through it alot! It seems like everyday at some point we would end up here...). So many people and the stores were always open... I have got to find out what their hours are. So that was day number one...

Sing your heart out!

I made some bread last week... It sang! It was the most amazing thing ever. And it was almost the perfect loaf... I didn't actually make the dough a friend did. And the recipe she uses doesn't have any sweetener... I like my bread with sugar or honey in it. So I made some of my own with sweetener (I used honey) and my bread didn't sing... the crust was almost as crunchy... but it sure tasted good anyway, and it still wasn't the perfect loaf. I guess I'll have to try it her way and see if I can get it right.
Bread makes me feel good. I love to bake bread. There is just something about having bread at some point in the making... it make my house smell good... and just looking at it can be comforting...
So bake some bread this week and just see how good it makes you feel!