The Bubbly blogger

Complete a half marathon for World Vision (X) I can check this goal off my bucket list.  Today I ran in the MN half marathon with Kassie and Peter. I never thought I would complete/run in a half marathon. I always thought running over 30 minutes was boring. I have this fear that I would get sick or hurt if I ran 13.1 miles.  Then I saw how Kassie was training for the half and full year after year. I knew I had to at least try to run a half marathon. So I started training in April and ran up to 10 miles.  Then a week before the half, I started waking up at 3 AM, sweaty and having mini panic attacks as I thought about the race. You can say Satan was trying to get me to back out of it. I was more determined than ever to run it.  Flash forward to today, I started claiming God's promises as I ran, such as " The joy of the Lord is my strength, In Christ I can do all things who strengthens me, and I look up to the hills, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lor

Hi Everyone!! I am back and its been a long week since conferences were on Monday.  I think its so easy to get caught up on the negative and carry the hard things with us. 1. One of  my first graders told my mom that she was worried of me: she is learning Empathy 2. My mom got to come help in my classroom. 3. My prayer group and I put on a breakfast for the school and two more teachers are interested in joining. 4. I got to have coffee with my one of my co workers after school. 5. We have a 3 day weekend. 6.  I get to go to Dallas with KJ 7.  One of my co workers complimented me on my patience with the difficult class that I have. He gave me the validation that I am not doing anything wrong, my kids are just hard. 8.  Two of my student's parents said they appreciate me and the hard work that is put in to care and teach these young students. 9. My brother and sister won their basketball games against Gustavus. 10.. My dad got to come home from the hospital.

This post has been forming in my mind for awhile but it has taken some weeks to get the courage to write about it. My birthday is 4 weeks away and I am reflecting on turning 27. I am realizing that its okay to not be in a relationship. ... Wow I can't believe I said that. Singleness is a gift not a burden, something that my really good friend Noelle told me over the weekend  when I visited her in South Carolina. She helped me see that I was putting myself in a box because I was feeling like I had nothing to offer the world and the church since I didn't have a significant other. Yet Paul celebrates singleness in Corinthians.  I have so much to offer the world and God can use me in so many different realms that I haven't even explored yet. So many people say use this time before marriage to do things you want to do. I am making a goal to go somewhere new once a month. So I sit here and encourage you to try new things, take yourself  to dinner, join a class. Don't