Happily Ever After Will Happen

It has been a stressful week: with a 12 page research paper, 18 hours of work, and 12 hours of babysitting my baby niece... not to mention all my classes and regular homework, a broken car, spending time with AJ, a test, an unnecessarily large hospital bill from forever ago, and the fact that I had to cancel multiple plans because I had no way to get to the activities. By Thursday I was pretty much wiped-out and I thought to myself... this seems all-too familiar. i made a goal to not get this busy again! what happened?

and then... it hit me.

Life happened. 
Some things happened that were beyond my control and I was asked to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of others.
Some things happened that I should have been able to control and I felt the pangs of procrastination and sloppy scheduling.
Some things happened that I could have never anticipated and I was forced to rely on other people for understanding and support.

This kind of stuff just... happens. And though it isn't as easy to handle as when everything runs like smooth butter, you learn just the same. If not more. thank goodness for stressful situations and untimely trials... because of them i am forced to excel at a higher learning curve.


anyways...


Now I am at my parent's home, sitting on their new couch, listening to the stillness of fast Sunday and 1:00 church combined. I've been awake for over an hour and haven't heard a single stir (other than someone getting up to go to the bathroom... only to go right back to sleep again). This weekend has been the perfect contrast to my worry-week; I have had a stress-free weekend in breathtakingly beautiful Logan.

Yesterday morning, I picked-up Ashleigh (my cousin) and AJ (my boyfriend... for those of you that didn't know C: ) and made the drive. When we burst through my front door, my mom was baking pumpkin bread and frying up some bacon! oh how i love coming home to the smell of bacon! We made the usual rounds, hugging and catching-up on various aspects of each others lives, battled each other in Just Dance!, ate breakfast at lunch-time, watched some of our favorite classic YouTube videos, and spent about an hour doing the randoms (you know, catching up on homework, taking a nap (me), and doing chores). Then the girls went to a Christmas Craft/Gift Fair (decent) while the boys stayed home and did... who knows what? 

Then it was time for... the variety show! My two younger siblings performed in their school's acting/singing/dancing show that was appropriately titled...

"happily ever after... or was it?"

The entire first half of the show was dedicated to princes, princesses, falling in love, and yearning for happily ever after. I really connected with this half of the show. i am a disney girl at heart. I love to hear stories of love, magical first kisses, and bad-guy battling. As I watched number after number of beautiful Disney magic I became more dreamy-eyed, smiley, and excited for my own Happily Ever After.
then, intermission happened.
When the cast came back on stage they were dressed in villain's clothing! The "or was it?" involved  skits about the Big Bad Wolf and Villain Therapy... there was even a fog machine! I was amazed as I watched students that had a short 15 minutes ago made me swoon for my own fairytale turn into villains with evil side-plots and crazy Hades hair. I loved it.

moral of the story.... 
love conquers evil.
good overcomes bad.
knights in shining armor do indeed exist.
life is meant to be filled with singing and waltzing.
and... most importantly,
happily ever after will happen.