Playing Cinderella

November 8th I went to my adoptive siblings' (Tripp and Hailey) birthday parties. This was a lot of fun as I hadn't been to a birthday party in a long while. All the little children running around, playing on the playground and constantly asking when it's time for presents. The afternoon was a blast and made my day, but that's not what this post is about, that's for another time.
Every girl dreams of being Cinderella, - or at the very least, some kind of a princess - and a moment when all is about getting ready for the dance and being beautiful, I am no exception. About a week before the party I had told my adoptive mom (Alicia) about this dance that I had hoped to go to. The freshman class was hosting it and its theme was "Dancing Through the Decades". You were to dress in your favorite decade's dress, or you didn't have to dress up at all. I knew many people were going to the dance dresses from the 80's, personally I wanted to be able to wear a dress. Ms. Alicia, "Aunt" Kim, and I were sitting at the picnic table outside and Ms. Alicia brought up the dance. I informed her I wasn't sure if I still planned on going because I didn't have any idea what I was going to wear. Enter "fairygod-aunt" (i.e. Aunt Kim). Aunt Kim and I went back to my dorm room to look at a dress I had that she said we might be able to tweak. Sure enough she got right to making me over. We ran around to stores and friends houses getting things to transform my dress to make me look as if I were from the Titanic. We altered the dress, bought gloves and pearl buttons and hair pins and borrowed boas and jewelry. Then we went back to the Dunns so that I could get ready. Ms. Alicia primped and fussed over me – helping with make-up and my hair – and of course the zillion pictures! When I got back to campus and went to see my dear roomie, Jessica, and dear friend, Jenna, before I went to the dance – I really DID feel like a princess. Jenna’s reaction I will never forget! It was something to the effect of “Holy Cow! Meagan – is that you!? I didn’t recognize you!” Gotta love her! Turns out – that’s not the only time I would get that reaction that night. I wanted to show Ms. Alicia where the dance was because there was still a half hour before the dance but when walking across the grass the grass gave way and my shoes sunk in three inches of mud! Well – this Cinderella didn’t exactly loose her shoe to a prince, but I did lose both my shoes! ;’ ) After walking around campus barefoot for a while I went back to my dorm to get another pair of shoes for the night before returning to the dance. The dance was a blast and the whole night was magical (though no prince was involved....) but my favorite memory of the night will always be playing Cinderella.

The Beginning

Well, here I am. I've been debating for a while now whether or not to get a blog. I think you know what I did! ;' )
It is exactly 12:00am as I'm writing this. It is now officially Election Day! Wow! Just think - supposedly in less than 48 hrs we will know who our next president will be. I'm not going to go off into who I voted for or who you should vote for - I'm sure we're all tired of that. I’m just going to say that this is my first time voting and I must say I am very excited about it. It's been a new experience and one that I found humorously enjoyable, humorous, mostly because I voted by absentee ballot. Having never done so before and not having any idea as to what I was supposed to do - I skimmed the ballot. There were so many names on it - I didn't even see the block for voting for president - just the local officials. This was about a week ago. When I realized Saturday night, that was the thing I needed to vote, I was slightly worried, wondering how I was going to get my ballot in on time. I filled it out on Sunday and mailed it Monday morning. It had to arrive by 7:30 Tuesday night so I mailed it “overnight”. Little did I know voting cost so much! I laughed when I saw that it was costing me $14.65 to overnight a manila envelope weighting 2 ounces over two states. Oh well - the price of beginner’s ignorance. All in all I enjoyed the experience.
Happy Election Day, you guys! God bless you!

In Him,

Meagan

1 Timothy 2:1-2 ~ "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness."