i miss...
~vacations with just my parents, especially trips to phoenix. ah, the perks of the youngest child. just being along for the ride, no planning, no paying, just enjoyment.
~living at home with molly in early high school when she moved home after college for a year and a half before getting married. those were some of the greatest sister times. now we're lucky if we can catch up once a week.
~playing competitive volleyball. i guess it is my own fault for not getting in to a intermural league...
~eating anything i wanted and still being skinny. turns out the whole "metablism slowing down" is more than a myth. :)
~not worrying about money.
~the old facebook where you had to have a college email address to get facebook. those were the good ol days. facebook got a lot less fun when anyone could get one. i'll never forget freshman year when they changed the rules and my friend's mom got facebook, it was like the end of life as we knew it. i'm not saying older people shouldn't have or be in social networks, but couldn't we have kept facebook for the college world? things are always more charming when they are exclusive and unknown to the majority of the population.
~not needing to know what i wanted to be or what i would do after college.
i'm sure older people are reading this thinking how fun and carefree my life is and how i wouldn't even know what real stress/busyness was. i would be glad to argue that point by showing you my school schedule over the next couple weeks in addition to interviewing and somehow having the rest of my year planned out by mid-april. but i will also be willing to admit that 10 years from now i'll long for the days of college that were so "carefree". and i can already come up with 10+ things that i'm going to be missing.
ironically enough. as 'busy' as we all claim to be, we all seem to find time to blog...i have some thoughts on this (why people blog, that is), but for another time.
4 comments:
ahh . . I miss those vacations too Em. Maybe we should have Steve and Linda and Mark and Bev take us on one more trip to AZ. . .just for old days sake! Ryan can watch the 3 girls - right?!
There ARE perks to be the only spoiled child still at home - huh?!?!? Those were the days. : )
The good news is that they can never entirely take being the youngest away from us (but don't let the older siblings know that). : )
And for what it's worth, while I do think college is in many ways the most carefree time of life . ..I also think it is an incredibly stressful, faith-stretching time of life with all the unknowns that can lie ahead.
SO I'll be thinking of you these next weeks (I'll probably have some good prayer time during the nights). : )
em, i am just now catching up on your blog & let's just say how much I laughed out loud at the diary entry from 6th grade! Em, the 11-year-old you wasn't so bad -- at least it makes for a laugh now. :) I love it.
p.s. It's windy tonight!
Ahhh the good 'ole days of Molly @ North White! remember when you came to visit and Tyler Ruemler came and got you to hang out in the high school? Yah...... I was ragingly jealous. Ok not ragingly, but probably a little. :)
Well, even though there is lots of free time in college and it is an awesome stage of life, I def. wouldn't call it carefree. Once I graduated and started working, I loved not having test and study deadlines constantly hanging over my head. I could never truly enjoy weekends until that pressure was gone...so there is something to look forward to in post-college life.
Love and miss you em...hopefully mol got in touch with you about meeting up in a couple weeks??
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