...and so the busyness begins.

Hello, friends of mine! 

I'm doing well, nearly in the beginning of the conclusion of my high school days. Haha! I'm looking forward to that part of it, but everything else regarding school sounds extremely unappealing to me at the moment! Longing thoughts of summer days at Rockin' C easily manage to taint my excitement for the weeks to come. I find myself wanting to go back in time instead of forward, but I know this year has great things ready to happen! Though unappealing, school doesn’t sound miserable. College Algebra should strike a chord of fear in me, but I actually feel somewhat excited! After trudging through geometry last year, algebra seems - for lack of a better word - fun! I must be crazy.

Nutcracker auditions happen in three weeks and my excitement about it has expanded overnight! I'm so ready for wintertime and the Nutcracker brings back wonderful memories from last year’s holiday season. Having snow on our opening night, riding with Sarah Nicholas and Hannah Lockard, spending an afternoon soaking our feet in painfully hot and then ice cold water at Julia’s house.. I'm looking forward to another year of crazy dancers, long rehearsals, extensive costume fittings, and hysterical memories. 

I can’t wait to have overcast days, with the more than occasional rain. The leaves, rather than being on the trees, will be flying around the sky and in piles on the ground that I will take great pleasure in jumping in. Yes, I know it is only August, which should be way too early for me to be looking forward to reading in front of a fire, but I’m excited all the same. I've discovered that many times it is the anticipation of an event rather than the actual happening of it that is best.. so I no longer attempt to stop my happy expectancy of things to come.

This year I'm a baby senior having skipped a grade.. benefits of being home-schooled. I'm also a freshman in college! Hopefully with two year's of dual-credit classes I will have at least completed my freshman year. My schedule at the junior college is pretty chill I guess, but with four dance classes to teach and many to take in addition to various other things I'll be very busy.

Thinking of the craziness to come sometimes overwhelms me, but verses from the Bible such as "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" and knowing God wouldn't give me more than I can handle restores my confidence. I know that I am competent in most things, and where I am not, He is.

Now, as it is precisely 1:38 A.M. in the morning, I must stop writing. I've been sleepy for hours and yet here is where I've been the whole time; in the living room, sitting on the couch, with my head in a towel, my jammies on, and a Macbook in front of me. My bedtime has come and been gone for a long while now and I do believe it is time to get some rest before church in a few hours.

Goodnight!

- Malorie Grace

Busyness nearing.

Here I am, once again.. with the intention of writing, but of what? I'm not sure yet. We'll see!

It is so odd because though I want to say how crazy my life has been lately, it hasn't really! I've had an excessive amount of free time. I dread becoming busy but get tired of having nothing to do.

This will all change soon. The week of August 9th, my life will become crazy. 

That week Academy classes at TJC are starting, which means I will teach my first dance classes. I'm very excited to have this opportunity, once that I've been praying for and desiring for years. I'm nervous, excited, happy, and so many other things!

The Ballet Tyler summer intensive is all happening that week, which means that I will have dance class from 9:30 to 3:30 everyday. After ending those classes I will quickly run over to TJC to begin teaching at 4. 

It is unfortunate that they have to happen the same week.. I know I will want to spend all day preparing for new job, but instead I'll be exhausting myself in my own ballet classes! I'm depending on the Lord to guide in the the best of my time and give me strength to persevere through so much craziness!

Last Friday, after spending hours of Thursday deciding which classes to take, my mom and I went to the dual-credit office at TJC and registered for college classes! This semester I will be taking ballet, government, college algebra, and english 2. I have mixed feelings.. one minute excited, the other upset, and always nervous! Being a home-schooled sixteen year-old taking this many college classes on a non-christian campus is sort of intimidating! That is only one side of it of course.. I've been dancing at TJC for years so I'm comfortable on the campus and I took college classes at Teen Mania last year, so this isn't completely new for me. I have to continue to remind myself of that fact! :)

*I know I'm very delayed in posting this, but it was pretty much a completed note that had yet to be posted and I hate letting six paragraphs of writing go unreadable. :D