BBM.

BBM doesn't stand for BlackBerry Messenger.  It stands for Blessed Beyond Measure.  It's weekends and in general--days like the past week that I've had that remind me how blessed I am and how wonderful life can be if you let it and create it that way for yourself.  As my recent posts may have suggested, I've really been trying to be consistent in creating more opportunities for myself and being more productive.  I've been doing just that.  The goal now is to be consistent.  This past week and weekend has been just great from: going to the park, spending time with my friend/co-worker, trying new recipes and making dinner for a close friend, going to Bible study and exploring the Bible further, having a much needed sleepover with two new friends and a breakfast outing, and of course going to dinner and ComedyWorx with Ricky was a highlight to the weekend.  I know the previous sentence was a significant run-on sentence, but there are so many good people and good things in life and I'm excited about these moments.  Having these people and events in life are often what drive me and motivate me to be successful in other areas of my life.  It's almost as if I'm working hard for myself because I want to grow as a person, educator, role model, etc, but also when these successes are reached I know I can celebrate it and share it with some of the people I care about most doing the things we most enjoy.  Establishing those times for myself are so important to me now.  Especially since I'm still young, living in a fairly new area, and have a good amount of free time, I want to be able get some more life experience under my belt.  I want to be able to look back and say, "Yeah, I did that...I went there.  I even made a mistake a time or two."  Not:  "I didn't try that...I was too tired."  While I've got time, I'll make the time to create the moments I can with the people I care about.  That's one of the reasons why I'm working so hard....to enjoy life.

On another note, I'm extremely excited about visiting this church tomorrow.  It has a deaf ministry and I would be more than willing to become with them.  They may be also looking for some volunteer sign language interpreters for their morning service.  I have a good feeling about this, but we'll see.

My first grade student's birthday is tomorrow.  I hope he's having a party or something.  I'm not sure.  I bought him two little gifts to give to him on Monday.  I want to bring him a few cupcakes during his resource class so I may do that too.  He's a sweet kid and he deserves it and plus I have only 3 students so I figure it doesn't hurt to spoil each of them.  =]

Oh, and I'm almost done with the book of Matthew.  I'm really stoked about that too...I'm learning a lot about Jesus's life and his core teachings and how the parables he tells relate to how we should have faith.  I hope I get a good vibe from the church I visit tomorrow.  I'm really enjoying studying the Bible.