A New Year

Well, Tyler and I have made a huge list of new years resolutions that we hope to achieve this year. I hope to achieve the usual, lose 15 lbs, eat better, go to bed earlier, go to class, do all of my assignments, but we also really hope to read our scriptures everyday and attend the temple once a month. The new year is a great time to make new goals for ourselves and get a new start at life.

So, after having lost our keys and going totally crazy ...WE FOUND THEM!!! Of all places they were under our mattress, between our mattress and box spring, how they got there, I have no idea. So after finding them and Tyler being as happy as a little school girl, he lost them AGAIN!! He is not meant to have a set of keys. I wish they had a remote control alarm or something that you can attach to your keys and then when you have misplaced them, push a button and then an alarm will go off that you can follow the sound and find you keys. So, we were at my parents place when he lost the keys for the second time, well really my Dad lost them. We were out skating with my sisters and my dad needed to move our car so he could go out. My dad took Ty's keys to move the car then said that he put them back in Ty's coat pocket. Tyler searched his jacket inside and out (or so he said). After 2 more days of Tyler being convinced that my dad lost the keys, I decided to take another look in his jacket. Low and behold they were of course in his pocket. Mind you the keys were in a pocket that Tyler didn't even know that he had, they were still there. I have now made it my mission to help my husband to not lose his keys for the next week, that might be impossible.

These last two months have been some pretty painful ones. My grandmother, we know her best as Nana, and my great grandmother have past away. With my Nana it was pretty sudden. She had been sick for a while but I never thought her life would end as fast as it did. My grandmother past away just this past weekend. She was 88 years old and we had been expecting it for a very very long time. Since her husbands passing almost 15 years ago grandma just wanted to leave this earth and return to him.

It is so different how having the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in our lives can help us to understand and deal with death. I remember that when my grandfather past away 2 years ago I really didn't have a full understanding of life on earth and why it had to end. I now know it is all a part of God's plan. I just think of how extremly happy Nana and Grandma must be right now. They have returned to their Father in Heaven. They are surrounded by their loved ones and ancestors. Although my family may be sad right now, our time on earth is so short in an eternal perspective that we will return to them in no time. Our loved ones that pass away do remember us and love us and understand that we need to go through the grieving process but we need to remember to live our lives, in this world, in a way that will make our family and our father in heaven happy and honoured when we return to them.