Remember

Do you ever go through the archives of your life just to see what you were up to one, two, five, ten years ago? It's one of my favorite things to do. It's always an awakening that I need to be better about keeping up on today so I can have something to look back on one, or two, or ten years from now.

I was glancing back through our blog to our first entries. They were almost two years ago exactly. Remember? Remember driving to Salt Lake to watch the Joseph Smith movie and hitting The Belgian Waffle and Omelette Inn on the way back? Remember talking to Seth about random music in the car? Remember the Employee of the month wall? Remember how the next morning (only a few short hours later) we gorged ourselves on Magleby's Fresh? Remember how those were our last few hours together as The Four White Mothers as roommates?

It's crazy to think of that as the jumping off point. The place where we each began to follow our own uncertain course to where we are today. Who knew that since that time Jo would have had life-changing experiences in Africa, Jenny would have decided to stay in Hampsted after all (and it's a good thing!), Whitney would have had inner-city teaching experience, and I would be working less than a mile from The Belgian Waffle and Omelette Inn? My, how life surprises us.