treasures

I was looking through some old files trying to come up with a writing sample for something, and look what I found....

Sisterhood of the Seductive Sweater

Rules:
1) The sweater cannot be worn around the shoulders
2) No holding animals while wearing the sweater
3) No drooling while wearing the sweater (if you nap and think you might drool, take the sweater off first)
4) The sweater must never be lent or loaned to anyone outside of the Sisterhood of the Seductive Sweater
5) While wearing the sweater you must never purposely ignore anyone of the opposite sex
6) Never wash the sweater
7) The sweater can NEVER be worn with socks and sandals (NOTHING should ever be worn with socks and sandals… If the thought even crosses your mind, you should be excommunicated from the Sisterhood of the Seductive Sweater)
8) If you ever lose the sweater, your life will be forfeited
9) No sweating in the sweater (if you think you might sweat, take the sweater off – but never wrap it around your shoulders… see rule #1)
10) When you are done wearing the sweater, record all life-changing events and/or unique experiences that happened while wearing the sweater (these can be fact or fiction) including the following details
a. The place you spent the most amount of time while wearing the sweater
b. The cutest boy you saw while wearing the sweater and your attempts to seduce him
c. Any comments or compliments received about the sweater
11) Never, ever deny the power of the sweater
12) When your sweater-wearing-turn is over, pass the sweater, along with the journal on to the next member of the Sisterhood so their adventure can begin and they can unlock the power of the sweater

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.