It’s Monday morning, but you wouldn’t believe the last 48 hours of my life.  I’ve gone from vacation to shooting a wedding to driving to North Carolina then onto Tennessee and it didn’t stop there.   After seeing my dad yesterday morning, I spent the whole day with a few of my college girls and then, last night, Ryan called to ask if I could keep Angelina, Juliana and Olivia overnight and take them to daycare this morning.

I am, as you might guess, looking forward to an early bedtime tonight.

Which won’t exactly happen since my college girls are coming over at 7 p.m. for Life Group.

Nap during my lunch?  I think so.  But for now, another round of questions from Monday Mail!

1.  Best part of being 25?

I’m unsure about nearly everything in my life.  I don’t know if I’ll get married, if I want to get married (oh yes, that post is to come), whether I could ever have biological children, what I will do for a career and how I’m going to fix my hair tomorrow (I’d say that a ponytail is a safe bet).

More than anything, I just feel like God gets the biggest laugh out of me right now.  One minute I’m giving Him the silent treatment over something and then next I’m laying in bed saying “God?  What did that boy mean when he texted ‘we should get coffee sometime?’  Do you think he meant ‘we should get coffee sometime?’ or ‘WE SHOULD GET COFFEE SOMETIME?’ because, You know, those are two totally different things.”  I cannot even begin to imagine how often God looks down at me and just shakes His head slowly back and forth while saying “What am I going to do with that girl?”

I’ve heard it said that you change a lot during your twenties and, from what I can tell, truer words have never been spoken.  I’m not the same girl today that I was at 20, 22 or even 24… which begs the question of what girl will I be at age 26?  We’ll have to wait and see, I guess.

2. I’ve never seen you mention politics.  Are you conservative, liberal, independent or uninterested?

I’m conservative on a lot of issues (shocked?) and perhaps liberal on a few.  For the most part, politics make my skin crawl.  While I have opinions about all kinds of politic-related issues, the only one I would ever really comment strongly on is abortion.  I don’t get how we allow abortion — and I don’t mean that from a religion standpoint, either.  Even if I had no religious ties, I still wouldn’t understand abortion.  I understand the issue and why it is an appealing option for many women who feel that there is no other way out, but I just don’t get it.  As a human, not even as a Christian, I just don’t get how that ever even became an option in our country.

3. Where do you like to shop for clothes?

Because I don’t care for my appearance, I really don’t like shopping for clothes (sad, but true).  With that said, I suppose my favorite place to buy clothes is probably Target.  If I could buy clothes wherever I wanted, because I’d definitely fit in them, I’d choose H&M, Anthropologie and my cousin Marisa’s closet.

4. Where did Cousin Cate go?  I noticed she’s engaged.  Will she hop on the blog and give us a sweet dollop of her Cate-kickingness?  I miss her.

When she’s not busy trying to chase down drunk men in airports, Cate is spending as much time with her fiancé as possible.  He deploys for Iraq in the next few weeks, so she’s going back and forth between here and his base in South Carolina right now, but I think she’s going to try to stay in South Carolina for the rest of the time he is in the U.S.  We talk almost every day, at least by phone.  I know that she’s really dreading the deployment and I’m dreading it for her; I can’t imagine how hard this is going to be.  If the deployment lasts as long as she’s been told it will, she and I are going to have quite a bit of bonding time together over the next few months.  I’m sure that, as soon as she’s back in town more, you’ll be hearing many stories about adventures we go on to cheer her up.

5.  Would you like to do a trash the dress session in K-town?  I have been married for two years… and have always wanted to do one… and I might be able to cram myself into my dress.  Might.

I didn’t have a name left with this question, so I’m not sure who this came from… but I was just telling some friends recently that I can’t wait to do trash the dress sessions.  If you’ve never heard of them before, it’s where you basically trash your wedding dress (though most are able to be dry cleaned and are perfectly fine) either by doing a photo session in water, on train tracks, in a tree, etc.  I’m assuming that K-town means Knoxville, so whoever you are, let me know because I happen to have five sessions in Knoxville coming up soon, starting this coming weekend with another wedding!

But for now, I’m going to go wake up three sleeping little girls and get them dressed and to daycare before heading to my office where I will attempt to get caught up from a week off while simultaneously trying not to fall asleep at my desk.

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