A Scoop Of Mint-Chocolate Chip

pre-spring break inspiration at [1:23]

Tonight in two very different ways, I have been reminded to c'est la vie. 

I was sitting at my desk learning new music when my dad walks in and asks if I want to go get ice cream. and for some reason I said, "no. when i finish this i need to study." But as soon has he walked out of the door, I realized I had missed an opportunity. In that moment "18-year-old emily" thought homework was more important than ice cream, that studying was more important than dad-time. But quickly, I burst through the door and said I re-evaluated my decision. And then mom was in on it! Family outing to Baskin-Robbins. you know, I don't take advantage of this time as much as I should. The only running through my mind these days is when is the next assignment due? can I make it to the weekend? when will my phone get here? but what i need to be thinking about is spending as much time with my folks as possible. After may, there will be very few family ice cream runs, doctor who dinner times, and car-rides full of laughs. As I held that mint chocolate chip ice cream cone in my hand, I realized I wasnt holding just a scoop of icecream, but a scoop of joy, of memories, of time. 

When I got home, I was reading through blogs as I ate my ice cream, and a sweet friend wrote the words of my heart. how I have forgotten who I am this school year because many times i have been expected to be the leader or the perfect one or the friendly one or "the most spiritual female." labels like these have done nothing but made me stray from my true self: a daughter of the king, one who smiles a lot and doesn't sweat the small stuff. So often in our lives we become fixated on the little things. we get stuck in a rut. we say no to the joys in life and make up excuses of better things we could do. but down the road im not going to remember the night i stayed home and studied. Im going to remember the night that mom and dad and I went to baskin robbins. and I had no shoes on, and dad thought he was going to die before he even got there. Those are the moments I will remember in college. 

So in this season of lasts I am learning to live. Im learning to make memories. Im learning to not sweat the small stuff but take advantage of the little joys in life. Because it's in those moment where my story comes alive, where everything is truly magical, and where a scoop of mint-chocolate chip becomes more than just an icecream cone.

So here's to family time, 

to blowing off homework, and to living. 

may we find our joy in things as small as a scoop of ice cream.

mermily

ps: if you've noticed I haven't been communicating with you recently, my phone crashed on monday and should be restored by tomorrow (so no, im not avoiding you)