It's been a crazy week!

Preparing for Girls' Camp is almost a year-long process, and yet I still leave so many thing for the last minute. Friday night I dragged Marc out to three different stores to pick up some much-needed {essential} items for my week away. You wanna know what tops my list? Nutella. Yes, that's right - creamy chocolate hazelnut spread.

In Italy, they eat Nutella like we eat peanut butter - the most common way was on a slice of bread for breakfast. I'm personally not a fan of the Nutella and bread combo. But, my favorite things to eat with Nutella are: graham cracker sticks, bananas, strawberries, crepes, fruit smoothies with a large spoonful of Nutella added in. And, really, there's nothing like just eating a spoonful without anything to distract from its yummy goodness!

Aside from food preparations, Marc also had to help me figure out how to set up our new tent yesterday. We have never slept in it. We've only tried to set it up once - on the beach. It was so windy, though, that we never even got it all the way up. You can see what I mean here. In non-windy weather, it was rather a cinch. So, I think I'll be able to handle it.

So, I'll be taking this whole week off work, which will be a nice break. And, actually I should let you know that I won't be working in the doctor's office for much longer. I gave my notice this week. I'll work through August, then I'm going to focus on other things. For the last week or so, I've felt this nagging feeling that we need to make room in our lives for a baby. See, we both work long hours, have time-consuming Church callings, and fill the rest of our time with a hundred other things. But, I guess that was also part of our initial strategy - keep busy so that we don't go crazy wondering when something is going to happen in the baby department.

When I initially got that nagging feeling to quit my job, I fought it and tried to ignore it, because it's scary to have hope. It's scary to take that step into the darkness not knowing what's going to happen. Being in this position of waiting to adopt is interesting when it comes to making plans, because we never know when something is going to happen. And, we've had to put a lot of faith in the small promptings we feel, even though we don't know for sure when or how things will play out.

So, Marc and I talked about our options and after a lot of prayer, we couldn't ignore the feeling we got. As busy as our lives are right now, they'll be getting even more busy in a month, even without my full-time job to worry about. I'll start teaching early morning seminary again, and I'll also be taking some night classes for my teaching credentials.

As scary as it is, I hope that we'll always have the courage to follow the small promptings that come, so that we'll be ready when important moments in life happen - whatever they may be or however they come to us. Because it seems like those big moments don't come with a lot of warning... or maybe they do but we're just too busy {or too scared} to hear them. So, here's to a life of less busy-ness and more focus on what's essential.

Like Nutella at Girls' Camp. :)

-Megan