All My Little Plans and Schemes

My plan when I was 4:

• Start dating when I was 10


• Get swept off my feet by a handsome prince


• Get married when I turned 16 (that's how it happens in Disney right?)


• Have a baby girl to dress up in lacy, frilly dresses


• Live happiliy ever after

What actually happened:

• Graduated from high school


• Started dating after I graduated high school


• Started college


• Graduated from college (still not married, the 4-year-old me was heartbroken)


• Got a good job


• Started dating my best friend (again)


• Got married at age 24 to a farm boy (but he still swept me off my feet and treats me better than a princess)

I think I like what actually happened much better than what 4-year-old me planned.

What we'd like to happen in our future:

• Get new jobs in Twin Falls, Idaho


• Move to Twin this summer


• Have Robby start nursing school this winter


• Robby graduates in 2 years


• Robby finds a good job soon after he graduates


• We start a family


• I quit my job when our first baby comes


• In 3-5 years from now, we have enough saved up to buy a modest house with a big yard (just in time for baby #2)


• We hopefully have somewhere between 4 and 6 kids and add on to our house to accomodate our growing family


• Live happily ever after

Well, that's the plan at least. Now what will actually happen? Only Heavenly Father knows. But I know that he has a plan in store for me that is better than anything I could make happen by myself. So I'll trust in Him -- even through the hard times. Because His ways are better than my ways and His timing is better than my timing.