Sarah and I are coming up on 1 year of working as pizza ladies at Little Caesars. It's been real fun, but also real hard. I have seen so many good workers and leaders either let go or quiet. The dude in this picture was one of the greatest team leaders and workers, in my opinion, and has taught me how to deal with hungry and sometimes angry customers. He also knew how to have fun in the midst of great stress and often times made me and Sarah laugh so hard we'd mess up on pizzas. He was a blessing to both of us at a most stressful place you could be!!.
A picture of me and these fun ladies. (only taken because the majority workers at LC were guys!)
I wrote about this wonderful lady on Facebook not too long ago about how absolutely wonderful she is: "Thankful for this amazing mama. She is filled with so much love, kindness, and tenderness."
She is all that and so much more. She is like an angel to me, which God placed in my crazy life. She represents everything that is good and portrays kindness and love like no other human being on this earth. She is everything I want to be! She is my blessing.
She laid on my bed on the first day of school, praying for Sarah and I to have a safe and great day at College. When I came in she was sound asleep, peacefully dreaming in the comfort of a daughters bed. It was a great ending to my first day of College!!
This picture represents another huge blessing in my life. As a lot of you know, I received a scholarship which will be paying for my college education. What I didn't know was that I would be receiving a car package filled with small gifts to help me through the 1st semester. After about already two weeks of school already in motion and stress building up, I received a bundle of small precious gifts, which brightened up my whole day.
On a Thursday afternoon, after a morning class at Collin, I headed over to UTD (a possible school I may choose long term) to go visit my older brother who studies and works there. It was a real joy walking through the very same halls that my genius brother Mark got his Masters in Accounting and my brother Tim who worked for years getting a Teaching certificate for special ed. And now my brother Joseph who is working hard to get his Masters in History. It was so quiet and peaceful, filled with students who were committed to homework and learning the things they were there for. It was really cool to be walking with my brother and having so many students and other employees coming up and asking him permission to do something, or asking him for help. We had lunch together and talked for 2 hours about almost everything. It was very much needed and I loved it. Another sweet blessing.
Sarah and I got together with a group of friends and spent hours out on the boat the day before the new semester started. I love being in the boat on the water, feeling the wind against my face, hearing the laughter of my friends, and seeing the determination of those who were willing enough to push themselves past what they think they can do.
Speaking of friends, this guy is perty cool too. After a night of youth group at our house, we got to hang out with this guy, singing, sharing movies with this guy and enjoying favorite songs.
So Sarah and I can be a bit crazy when it comes to late nights. She was doing laundry and made a statement about playing hide and seek in the dryer when she was younger. I replied by stating she couldn't fit in there anymore and she decided to prove me wrong. So here's the proof.
I got the pleasure of training this girl in the sound booth at out church to make slides and adjust microphones. It was a fun night filled with uncontrollable laughter and so much sarcasm.
And then there's this gal. My sister, who brings me so much joy and laughs at the most stupid things I do or say. We have so much fun together, from getting gas for my car together, to going shopping for our mother, and to driving up to college looking like the coolest girls alive!!!!. I am soon to move out to a college campus and start a new phase of life, and boy will I miss these precious small memories with this gal.
I'm trying to remember if I've written about this crazy guy. He is the one person at Collin College who has brought out the most crazy and wild side of my life. We have this game we play at college, where the first to spot the other takes a picture and sends it to him or her saying "I see you". This guy makes my college life so much fun and has given me a great friendship.
Photo Credit to John.
This gal is soon to be home, has worked hard to get back to family life, and will soon be given the chance to do so. This is a selfie we took at our church, when she got to spend a weekend with us.
Lastly, I want to end with two blessings that have been in my life. The last few weeks have been extremely rough and demanding. I lost a friend to suicide, another to old age, and another distant friend to a car accident. Classes have been really demanding and many due dates have been keeping me endlessly busy. I have spent many late nights studying at College, and thankfully with a friend who also stays late and normally studies alone. Never would I have imagined how amazing this dude is and that he would be the one to remind something I tend to remind those around me. He had time to breath, time to do things spontaneously, he had no one to answer to career wise, not stressing, and was totally sailing through life. I envied that and was totally curious as to how he got so far ahead. He talked with me and explained how he managed to do so. He told me that life is too short to be rushing from one thing to the other. When one of my long and stressful day of studying ended, this friend walked me out to my car, but stopped me half way. He told me to close my eyes, breath slowly and open them gazing at the sky. "Slow down, and don't forget to enjoy the little things around you." In doing this, he was trying to show me the beauty of what God had put in place right before me. The beauty I have missed throughout this whole semester right before me, all because I was trying to meet the demands of this world. It was a great reminder and a great ending to my very stressful day. There have been many more reminders like these during late night studies and the most recent was when it rained. I have never been a big fan of rain, because the rain always brought clouds which covered the brightness of the sun. It was depressing to me, but this guy reminded me of the beauty of it. We both sat on the ground, outside the library waiting for the rain to calm down and he had me close my eyes, stop thinking about everything going on in my life, and listen to the sound of the rain. I closed my eyes, listened and then asked him to describe the scene as if I was a blind person. He did, and it was beautiful. It was right there, I could see it with my own eyes, but was so caught up in my own thoughts and tasks, that I missed it all. It was a great reminder that even in the cloudier and darker days, there is still beauty....we just have to look deeper.
The last wonderful blessing I will end this post with is my sweet, and oh so energetic mother. I have recently been extremely busy with many duties, and have lost a lot of the time I use to spend with fun lady. She is so spontaneous and loves to do random things. Last Saturday, I had a full day of not having to be everywhere and was able to stay home doing small chores. When mama took my baby sis to work, I tagged along to spend some time with her. She looked at me with the face of, "I finally have time with you!" She took me out to a late lunch and we both got to talk. It was great cause I had so much on my mind and hadn't talked to her like this for a while. She then took me to Hobby Lobby to get my Christmas ornament early. This is a tradition in our family. Every year, we buy a new one to add to our tree, so that when we grew up and became adults, living on our own, we had these ornaments to remind us of the many wonderful Christmas's spent in the Minich house. Each ornament told a different story and we were apart of it. We both came home and got back to life in the home. I sat down to study in the kitchen, and she had two laundry baskets to fold. Now normally, when mama finishes baskets, there is always a sock left without a matching other. This time, she finished both and all socks had matchings. She was so excited she nearly started dancing with joy. It was such a sweet moment, a small moment, a moment that put absolute happiness in my heart and a smile on my face.
Needless to say, I am beyond blessed with family and friends. It is so easy to get caught up in this chaotic and stressful world, forgetting the small things that we are often given! :)
Hope you all enjoyed.
