Wow! The summer is going by so quickly. 
It is the middle of July already!
This past week was spent with Aaron and his family. Each morning consisted of me being one of the last people to wake up, get a shower and one of the last ones to breakfast. Instant Coffee people! Mrs. Cook saved my mornings. I am rather slower at waking up then the rest of the Cooks. I sure hope I wasn’t too unpleasent to them. I have a feeling that they are going to have fun with my slowness in the morning.
If they don’t tease me about Aaron I guess they will tease me about that!
So, the reason why I have refrained writing a lot about Aaron in my blog is because poor Aaron is surrounded at his house! His sister Amy’s blog post began with the sentence, “Aaron is going crazy.” Then it went on to explain about how he talks on his bluetooth to me while working.
Seriously, he is surrounded. Try getting away with saying “I was thinking about you the other day…” with a fourteen-year-old brother around!
While I was giving him a hug to make him feel a little bit better about the teasing I realized that probably wasn’t the wisest thing to do because Brian, Logan, Libby, Betsy and Naomi all huddled around each other each saying different “Aawww, let’s get close!” type of sentences.
Me at my house, I don’t get teased. I just don’t. So it is only fair then.
Oh, the things I could write! I know I am supplying ample amount of ammo against my poor boyfriend right now, and that it is unavoidable when you have seven other siblings around you, but I think he will forgive me when I say that we love each other.
We do, we really do. For a long time. Before we were courting I had struggled with the strong feelings I had for him because I didn’t want to get too attached to him. I was unsure if his feelings were the same and I didn’t want to make those feelings into an idol. He was dropping major (and minor) hints towards me the whole time since the accident, basically since he came home from the hospital. He was even dropping hints when I was washing blood out of his hair!
I shrugged some of them off because I wasn’t sure what he was trying to get at. Was he interested in just having conversation with me? Or was he genuinly curious in something more?
Now, I point out to him things that he said to me, “You said this, you sat next to me at the table, you asked me this question…” His response is “Yeah?” or “Should I not have?” He finds it funny, I love it! (Note to siblings: Yeah, your sides must be hurting from laughter right now! hahaha).
What is one more (maybe 10 more) of a blessing to me is his family! I love them! I can talk and relate with any of them. I am getting more and more blessings that I don’t deserve. I’m getting all I have prayed for and wanted and more! God is so good to me! It is indescribable, I can’t find words to explain it. I love my life!
I told Aaron at different times that at this time last year, I had no idea. If you would have told me, I would have had a hard time believing you.
If you would have told me that I would have a godly man who loves me inspite of my imperfections, who I can ask anything, say anything, truly be myself, someone who is secure, who can be content, someone who is hardworking, someone who has vision, someone who I can trust in 100 %, someone who loves God and is following hard after Him and who won’t settle for anything less, I would have been happy that you would have been so kind to inform me but I would have had a hard time believing you.
But I am so richly blessed.
) Last week it came to me as I was in my car changing my shoes for my exercise class (of all times for someone to have an epiphany…). I DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT! I think being in a whole new world (haha) has a lot to do with this. I’m in a new setting, (believe it or not the world does not revolve around Western High School) with a new group of friends, and I can choose to not be near people who dislike who I am, and I’m sorry that most of my classmates ( just a side note MOST not ALL) in high shool felt that way.
