My sense of place comes from being born and raised in Lehi. But the Lehi I grew up in is very different from the way Lehi is now. I long for things to be the way they were then. Fewer people, fewer cars on the road, fewer roads, and no stop lights. My friends and I could walk to each others' houses at night with no fear of anything bad happening. We never locked our doors. You could stop in the street and talk to the car next to you without anyone honking and making you move. We "cruised" main street on the weekends with the rest of the high school. We knew everyone and everyone knew whose daughter I was. Life was simpler.

I'm raising my kids in Lehi but I wish they could experience it the way I did. But we have somehow managed to maintain our Lehi pride, yearly traditions and celebrations regardless of the amount of growth, and luckily, I can still go to the home I grew up in and feel that "sense of place" that made me who I am today.

This crazy weather makes me drink!

One of the reasons I started a blog was to get more experience writing. But when you only write once every 6 months the experience doesn't add up very fast. My life has been too busy to actually write about the craziness that ensues when you try to be a mom to 4 busy kids, a wife to the Bishop, the PTA President, a Cubmaster, a part-time janitor, and a full-time college student. Obviously something's not getting 100% of me, I don't want to say what.

What really prompted me to write tonight was the fact that I was drinking hot chocolate on May 21, 2010. What is happening with the weather here in nothern Utah? Earlier today we enjoyed a successful and warm Field Day at the elementary. The sun was actually shining. It's a rare thing but when it happens it feels so good, I actually smiled. But now it might as well be snowing and I might as well be crying. It's so depressing that I'd have a Diet Coke to make myself feel better if it wasn't 11:00 at night and freezing cold outside.