Nothing like spending Valentine’s Day babysitting 3 crazy kids. Hmmm… maybe I should start saving money for when I do have somebody to spend it on.

What is Love?

Baby don’t hurt me… don’t hurt me… no more.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. The actual question is in reference to a peer who said she didn’t know what love was. I was appalled and tried to give some sort of general answer, but I don’t think she found it that satisfying. I asked her what it meant when her parents said told her that they love her, and she stated that it was something that parents just say to their children, and the children mumble the meaningless statement back. Tragic. Though, maybe she is just thinking about it more. How many people actually have a grasp on what love is?

I don’t think it helps that we use one word to express something that the Greeks and Jewish expressed in multiple words. Through brief, possibly unreliable, online research, there seems to be basically 4 main types as described in the other languages:

• Familial love, committed; affection


• True friendship, “platonic”


• Deliberate but unconditional; selfless, sacrificial


• Impulsive, often romantic, deep appreciation

Obviously these do exist, yet in English we’ll usually express these ideas with degrees of like and love.

For something so important to a Christian, how is it that somebody I interact with nearly every day cannot see what Love is? This bothers me a bit.

When my life seems really hectic...

I’ll just take a peek at Hallie’s. haha. Awesome book sale this morning, but I should have gotten some of those Twain books…

Is this the first year they started calling Valentine’s Day “V-Day?”

To add to this, I heard some middle schoolers using this abbreviation in written and spoken form. I guess it is just like when people started saying OMG and LOL. Using shortened versions of texting in their spoken vocabulary. You just happened to remind me of that Brookandlyn =D

Senior Year - Academic Decathlon State = 12 Krispy Kremes

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Having a blast in school

This is one of my funnest semesters ever. The kids are great. The teachers are great. We have the best discussions in English, Econ, and Gov. And Calc is just fun. Yes Kendra, I say this even after being nearly halfway through Crime and Punishment. We are pretty much in unison with Butler trying to push a few things, but I think the whole class enjoys it, especially me. No vicious arguments, just great discussions.