A New Beginning

Today I got up around 8:30am which felt quite late. What am I becoming? 10am used to be when I wanted to get up and anything earlier than that was too early. Now I want to be up at 8am or earlier. I have a new friend here, Sarah, who is inspiring me to get up earlier. I feel better when I'm up earlier-but it seems like sleeping in would make me feel better...but it doesn't. I have some habits that I need to overcome, but it's difficult changing my mentality. Make sense?

Anna went to school and I did some things around the house and then went walking at the park. I'm so proud of my commitment to walking everyday. I feel good when I do it and I can even see some physical changes after just 6 days of exercise. :) Tyler talked with our neighbor behind us. We were thinking to do some major yard work--cutting down a tree and removing a cement wall, building a new retaining wall and building a fence--in our back yard. It would benefit both our neighbor + us. We figured out the total cost and proposed going 50/50 with him. He thought about it and declined. It's kind of frustrating because I really wanted a fence, but we won't be in this house forever, so I guess it's not too bad of a loss + we get to keep the $1500 that we were going to put into it all! :)

Tonight was the Book Club for women in the RS. I've never been in a book club before. I've never really read books before. This is a new beginning for me. I want to teach myself to enjoy reading. Tonight we discussed a book that they read last month, called "The Robe." It looked like a huge reading for just one month. I was pleased to see that this next month's reading will be "Sense and Sensibility." I love Jane Austen and own the movie. I have actually read "Pride and Prejudice" which I really enjoyed. This will be my second novel that I will read out of pure desire. (Pride and Prejudice was the first) I am excited to broaden my mind with books. It seems like a worthy thing to spend my time on...I remember my parents trying to bribe me to read books when I was young. For some reason, I just didn't enjoy it. I only read what I had to and then I would read my scriptures. To be very honest, I struggle reading the scriptures. Once I make time to sit down and read them, I enjoy it. I guess I need to be better about setting time aside. Yeah, that sounds like my main problem...it's not that I don't like to read, I just don't make time for it. Now that I know my problem, let's see if I can fix it. Any suggestions???