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Waiting.  Waiting for the laundry to finish washing, or for the cookies to be finished baking. Waiting for class to be over, or for a meeting to start. Waiting for Zachy to get home from work and then for him to be done doing homework... yep. I wait for that everyday! Waiting for Friday to come, then the weekend, then for new week to be over so Friday will come again. Waiting to graduate high school, college, grad school... all of school. Waiting to get married, to have a baby, to get a full night of sleep after baby comes, to have another baby, another full night of sleep and the process continues.  We're always waiting. Waiting and wanting. But how much time do we waste waiting?  A couple of years ago, I served as a missionary for my church, but mostly for my Savior, Jesus Christ. As a missionary, you wait for a lot of things. I waited for the bus. I waited for people to listen to what I had to share with them. I waited for lunch so I could eat another baguette......
Hello. My name is Emma Watson and for the longest time, I thought I was just like most everyone else. I mean come on, blonde hair, blue eyes, a little too obsessed with ice cream, and often times louder than most appreciated. And that's all I wanted to be - just like everyone else. A ll I wanted to do was fit into the crowd. No way I wanted to stand out... that meant I was weird.  Right? Wrong. Weird is only an opinion of others, a speculation - usually one that is easily accepted of others because of their fear of being 'weird.' Yeah, well who knew that living my life the way I wanted to instead of how others thought I should is what living life is all about!  Then I found joy. And that is the purpose of my blog. To say that hey, be YOU! Find what you love and run with it! Literally! Some people may tell you to stop. Or to 'act normal.' Except, what even is normal? Dictionary.com says that normal is "conforming to the standard type; usual; regular; n...