Dear Aunt Steph,

Well....since you are so impatient. Last week was my spring break and my first time to my new house. And words can't describe how much my family fits so perfectly into that home and that town. I love how doing nothing but daily routines with my family is so entertaining to me. I got to rip out carpet, decorate my new room, and bond with my new puppy. It was a blast and went way to fast.

Coming back to school was hard and it takes me a week to get over my intense homesickness. So this week I have been a wreck, not completely but just when I think about home or my family I get a little teary eyed. But good news! I made it into the resident community that I applied for! I will officially be living in Coughlin, on the Bind, Body and Spirit Community with all my friends and my roommate will be KATE. And let me just say that this is the best news of the year. Now I just need to make it through the next seven weeks and I am home free.

Some things to look forward to between now and then are some road markers....Like me going to visit Heather and Terry in Portland for Easter. But most importantly to meet my new baby cousin Caleb. Then the last two weeks of school I get a break from volleyball. Which will be much needed and then my amazing Daddy will come to rescue me!! The first week of May and help me move out and get a storage unit. And then we will enjoy a lovely flight back to my new home town of Santa Barbara baby! And that is mad cute little story! The end.

Man O' Man life is good! Happy Late St. Pats Day!! Love to ALL and to ALL a Good night!!

Love, Meredith Lynn

P.S. Auntie Steph please don't be so pushy next time. Blogging is like a work of art it is not to be pushed. And everyone can thank you for the misspellings and run-on sentences. Love you even though you are so darn pushy.

funny how things work.

I have been on a dry spell. I haven't written in a week. I want to be able to update my blog as often as I can, but I never seem to have time or feel that what I am doing is even exciting. But those not valid excuses, what it really is....

...I am happy here. No longer do I need to write to vent and release any emotion. It is not necessary for me to write every time I feel even an ounce of homesickness, because if I were to be completely honest I am homesick all the time. But now I am just more comfortable, my mom would tell me that I need to tell myself that I could come home at anytime, but I have just have to decided to be here. And if I were to say that three months ago I would have been lying. Not today! I am content. I love my friends, my team, my school, and pretty much everything about this place minus one thing. But as of nine weeks from now I will not have to encounter that thing ever again if I don't want to, and I don't want to (best of luck to you, as you drive away!).

But anywho my next to-do is my major. What am I going to study? That is going to help drive my future career and life. Wow, that is so exciting to think about. But I am a one-day-at-a-time kind of girl. So....tomorrow home!!!

Life is a gift, let's unwrap it!

One word...initiation. I was safe and was smart, I promise and I had fun.