How To Feel Like a Grown Up. And How To Not.

There's something about visiting with a financial adviser to make you feel like a grown up.

Because, you know, the getting married (twice), having six kids, and working full time hasn't done it for me.

But say the sentence, "I have a meeting with my financial adviser today," now that's a grown up thing to say.

I find being a wife just makes you say things like, "don't pinch me with your monkey toes," and you have to deal with a lot of flatulence.

And being a mom makes me use words like "potty," even when I'm with adults.  Also, I understand way too many Dr. Who memes.

And can even say that, in my opinion, the tenth doctor it my favorite, and actual know what I'm saying.  I'd like to interject here that this by no means makes me a Whovian.

See?  Not feeling very grown up by having kids.

Start asking me questions that use words like, "assets," "estate," and the ever looming word, "retirement," and I feel more grown up than I'm ready for.

Next thing you know I'll be setting up trusts and wills.

But I think being prepared for the end of life is going to help me enjoy the prime of it so much more.

On a side note, I have a ton to catch up on from the last few weeks, I just need to find a moment to plug my camera into my laptop so I can steal the pictures off of it.  It doesn't seem like we've done too many big things this summer, which is unusual for us.  We've been more wrapped up in a bunch of little things and I can't really say that I like it.  I much prefer spending my summer in the big things.

This, of course, only means that we'll have to do something big in the winter.  Which might actually work out well since The Man doesn't do well being cooped up with no sunshine or warmth.

Coming up:

Our giant 24th of July (that's Pioneer Day for you non-Utah folk), only a month behind
a day at Utah Lake
Girl's Camp (word!)
... and I can't remember what else.  I need my camera to know what I'm missing.

Sharing On Your Wall Was Harder Back Then Memes

I am down to one assignment and three tests and then this summer semester is DONE.  Also, there's ten more days until Girl's Camp.

And then my life will be simple again.

For a week and half and then I'll start all over again with fall semester but guys, I'm down to three classes left at the Community College and then I get to go to the big campus and finally start doing the classes I want to be doing and not just pushing through the classes I have to be doing.

I have a few things I need to blog about but have been so incredibly busy.  I need to get back at it next week with blogging because I don't want to lose the memories.

As it it I thought I would share some memes that I made for Girl's Camp this year.  Our camp theme is using our technology as a holy place and each cabin has been assigned a social site: facebook, blogs, texting, instagram, spotify, tumblr (that's my cabin), youtube, pinterest, etc.

Have you seen this meme (that I didn't make, but they put their creds on the bottom of it):

It occurred to me that four our scripture study we could make a series like this that goes along with social media.

And I started thinking of stories in the scriptures where prophets have made a stand on a literal wall of some sort.

I thought of Nephi in 3 Nephi on his garden tower:

And King Benjamin on his tower:

And I thought of Daniel praying in his window and I imagined people looking at the wall of his home and seeing him there:

And to be honest I absolutely love the story of Daniel, combined with Shadrach, meshach, and Abednego, I talk about it and refer to it whenever I can so of course if I can use it in my scripture study slot at camp, I'm going to.

So I've created these memes and everyday we're going to study one of the stories and tie it into our camp theme of social media and sharing on a wall and I'll give them a meme to keep in their scriptures, or where ever they want to keep it.  I'm pretty excited about it.

My YCL's for my cabin are working on their daily devotionals and we'll do a meme for them too, so if you're interested I can post those as well.