Mommy&Me

Recently I realized that I have a TON of pictures of Cora. I don't think you can have too many pictures of this sweet little girl. Nope not possible. But the sad part? I have almost no pictures of the two of us together. I am always taking pictures of her or her and daddy. So I decided I needed some pictures of the two of us. Ben took them for me and I think they turned out great. I LOVE MY LITTLE GIRL. Isn't she a doll?

My Pretty Surprise

Ok, let's get one thing straight. Saturdays are MY day. Every other day Ben is caught up with work, school, and other obligations. Well this weekend, school took over yet again: I was not a happy camper! Then when Ben wasn't home from studying an hour after he said he would, I was starting to get cranky. I called him to see if he was still coming home or what and he told me that he still hadn't gotten all of his stuff done. Although I was frustrated, I told him not to worry I would find something to do (yes I was pouting). Then two minutes later I walk out of my room to find this:

 What a sneaky boy! I was sure excited about the surprise though! My favorite flowers and fudge. I am so lucky.

Ode to Jimmer

Taxes

In case you were wondering, I am not a fan of taxes. And to make it worse Turbo Tax just wasted half of my day...seriously. I was on the phone with technical support for over two hours (not to mention the time it took me to get their phone number--try to find it on their website, I dare you) and they were still unable to get my issue resolved. Hate them. And the only reason our call ended after two hours was because I had a screaming, hungry, wet baby and had to go. What did I get for all my troubles? A free download of the Deluxe Edition of TurboTax & hopefully a reimbursed for the $30 I paid to efile my state taxes. Totally not worth my time.

Perfection

So yesterday, after much debate I decided to go to class (I had NO motivation to do anything let alone sit in a typically boring class for an hour and a half) and I am glad that I did. We were talking about the quote "I think therefore I am" and its origin--Descartes was sitting one day trying to decide what he could actually know for himself and basically the thing he came up with was that he was capable of thought so he knew he must exist. From this topic we moved to Descartes belief in the existence of God. He said "Consider your human experience. Does anything within any aspect of your life rise to perfection?" The obvious answer here is no. Perfection is not a feature of earthly life; there are flaws in EVERYTHING. How then do we as humans come up with this idea of perfection? It is because God exists that we can be aware of perfection! I thought that this was really insightful for me and helped me realize that I need to stop trying to make things perfect in my life because NOTHING in this earthly life is perfect! I am grateful to know that one day I will be able to return and live with my Heavenly Father and know what perfection truly is.

Bath Toys

Cora finally got some new bath toys and as you can see, she throughly enjoyed them.