What to do?

My mom has been given the opportunity to advance her career. In Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. What will she be doing? She will be the main supervisor of the demo services at Costco Wholesale. Ya know those lovely ladies, and men, that serve you samples at Costco in order to make your time there more enjoyable? {I am sure that’s not the reason why they are giving you samples… they want you to buy the stuff, but it does make it more enjoyable… doesn’t it…?!} she is one of them now. She loves her job. She also loves her other job as a lunch lady at one of the elementary schools in Gig Harbor.
Somebody higher up in the company called my mom directly and told her that they wanted her to take this job. That if she applied it was pretty much hers. So she applied, and she had an interview on Friday. Then she had a phone interview today, and they told her that they are flying her out to Coeur D’Alene on Saturday and she will do a trial run on Sunday and they will go from there.
I am so excited for my mom because she will get a new start. A new life. Make new friends. Maybe join the Church, but I won’t go that far. :D

The problem is… she is married. To my dad, obviously. Maybe not obviously, but… ya know. She is married. My parents have been married for 25 years, unfortunately the last few years of their marriage have been really, really hard. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 15 {I am 23… just so you have a time frame… that was a long time ago!}, I am so grateful that she is a cancer survivor. She is also battling the disease of alcoholism… and she is doing so great! She has been sober for about 7 or 8 years. The last 5 of those years, pretty much after I graduated from high school my parents have had a falling out. Sometimes I blame myself because I feel like I was the reason they were staying together in the first place. But I know that I can’t do that to myself. And besides, this isn’t about me… it’s my parents.
Now that my mom is going to Idaho, my dad won’t go. He feels like she is abandoning him, and running away. That she hates him. She doesn’t, I know that… but my mom is living with an alcoholic that drinks way too much. I LOVE my dad so fiercely it’s a little ridiculous. I don’t know what it is about my dad but I just… I feel like I chose him to be my father or something, and that I am here to just love him until he dies… and longer. I am a daddy’s girl through and through. I am having a hard time dealing with the fact that my parents are probably not going to survive this, and that they are going to be separated forever. Maybe not eternally, maybe things will change after they pass through the veil, but their time together in this life is more than likely over. I pray every night that it will remain in tact, that maybe they can salvage their relationship, but I feel like I am kidding myself. But I will keep praying for them.
I love my family. They are my life.

I am going to miss my mom so much when she is in Idaho. I will have my dad close by, though. I am going to visit him as much as I can. And I will visit my mom as much as I can as well.

Have a happy Tuesday! Sorry if this is a little depressing today.
here… listen to this song. I am mildly obsessed with it right now.
Actually, a lot obsessed.

I really love Gotye right now. I don’t know what it is about them, but they are so bomb.

I’m still alive!

this is a reply kissy kiss to my loveliest of sisters-in-law.

After the storm, I was playing MAJOR catch-up with homework. All of my teachers were going so fast through lessons because we missed 4 days of school {because last Monday was a holiday} and so I had a TON of homework. This week will be so much better, though. :o)

Ummm… lets see… I learned how to make a playlist on YouTube! I was really, really excited. I have Gotye, Foster the People, The Naked And Famous, Boyce Avenue, John Mayer, and MGMT on there right now. I haven’t looked for a lot of songs that I like. I wonder if I can make multiple playlists? I have no idea. It’s exciting learning new things.
I also got a KINDLE FIRE!!! I love it so much, oh.my.word.
One of my New Year’s Resolution was to read 25 books that I have never read by the end of this year, which is pretty doable for me. I was planning on reading Neil Gaiman’s book American Gods, and it is sitting next to my bed. As I was going through all the books that are available on my Kindle, I came across one that I have wanted to read, but I wasn’t sure that I wanted to spend the money on it … and I don’t have a library card {I am so bad}. Do you want to know what the book is?
… okay, you pulled my arm. It’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I know, it sounds a little bit ridiculous, but I love it. I love Zombies, and I LOVE Pride and Prejudice. It’s not as fantastic as Jane Austen’s original, of course, but it is written in the same way that hers is only with talk of Zombies and the Bingley girls were trained to kill Zombies. No big deal. I recommend it to mostly anybody that loves Zombies… and Jane Austen.

Anyways, I found these pictures on my webcam… obviously I do weird things when I am bored. Enjoy.

Happy Sunday!

10 things that made me smile LAST week

1. A three day weekend
2. Snow
3. More snow
4. Power outage {at first}
5. Spending quality time with my husband
6. Spending quality time with my husbands family
7. Reading my scriptures by candle light. So cool. Like the pioneers.
8. Playing flashlight tag!
9. Taking a drive to the mall… and getting to walk around under real lights!
10. The power coming back on… Thank goodness!

Last week was quite the week, if I do say so myself. I am glad that the power is back, and that the storms have passed… for now at least, the PNW is very unpredictable sometimes.

Have a great Sunday everybody!
Here is a nice spiritual message for everybody… you can also visit her blog here.
And please do, she is amazing.

Pictures

here are some pictures from the storm
These were taken yesterday… Today, there is NO ice or snow on most of the trees because of the raging winds that we had. It’s crazy the difference only a few hours can make. I will try to take some more pictures later.

Okay…

I am so backwards right now.

I really thought about blogs this weekend… because I didn’t have any electricity. For two days. TWO.WHOLE.DAYS!
We had a snow storm.
An ice storm.
A windstorm.
Tomorrow, we should have another windstorm.
The PNW is not getting any slack from the elements this week.

I didn’t even have school this WHOLE WEEK! Only Tuesday was a delay for two hours, but it was snowing so much I couldn’t drive.
Then the snow stopped and melted, and I had a job interview. Hopefully I will find out some time next week if I got the job or not. :o)

OKAY! Back to my original thought … “I really thought about blogs this weekend…” and I decided to just keep this one only. I don’t think I can keep up with two. It will be way too hard. Just too difficult. Which is okay.
I just felt so weird about it haha

Anyways, I am so happy that the power is back on.
Josh and I are still trying to have a baby. Our insurance cards will come any time in the mail, so then we can FINALLY get to the doctor. Hooray!

See ya later!

It’s been a while!

I deleted this blog for a while, thinking that it was a waste.

Then I created a “family” blog.

Then I decided that I was actually going to keep this one, AND have a family blog. I think that I just want to keep these separate. But I am not sure… For now, I will keep both and see what happens.
I will still keep the 10 things that make me smile post for Fridays. It will be on both blogs. But this one I really want to focus on my quest for pregnancy {did you like that word… quest… it’s such a nice word I think… :D)

my family blog is this:
thelarsenslife.blogspot.com

I think, though, that I am going to start posting every other day, instead of every day. I can’t think of something that I would say every day, but we shall see.

Have a great weekend everybody!!!

P.S.

10 things that made me smile this week

1. Cleaning and organizing. It’s been crazy for days here.
2. My sister-in-law moving and going on to do great things.
3. Getting my books for my next quarter!
4. Realizing my next quarter of school starts on MONDAY!! WOOHOO!
5. The rain!
6. Hearing a song on the radio that I had never heard before, and falling in love with it!
Gotye- Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)
7. Clean sheets
8. Seeing old friends
9. Cozy blankets and hot chocolate
10. Watching Power Rangers Samurai with my other sister-in-law {I have so many}

And another thing, yesterday Josh and I went to Wendy’s! We do love going there, it’s so good. Currently at your local participating Wendy's, for just $1 you can pick up a frosty key chain and each time you go to Wendy's through the end of May, you will get a free Jr. Frosty!  Plus, all the proceeds go towards adoption.  I just picked mine up and I seriously can't wait to start using it!

Josh and I were very excited to find out about this current promotion at Wendy’s because not only do we love their food, but we are also contemplating adoption!
If you would like to learn more about how Wendy’s helps with adoption please click here.