To Whom it May Concern

The past few weeks have been really great, as Travis and I went through the school of the Spirit class at church. We really learned a lot, but moreso, we were awakened to a lot we already knew, if that makes sense. So, I guess with that being said, you should just brace yourself for the counterattack, so to speak. It happened. In a few ways. It's not really that bad. We're all fine, but it was more just very hurtful and blindsided us. BUT there has to be a lesson here: don't associate with a P.O.S. I'm sorry, that's probably not the lesson. We'll figure out what it is, but that's not really what I want to say because obviously, I just don't have the liberty to give details. God protected us in the best possible way, and I guess that's all I can really say about it.

Something else happened today on top of all of this that has happened to me BEFORE. And what's so funny (read that with sarcasm) is that I was just telling someone about when this happened to me years ago. I'm sitting at church today and someone says it. The sentence that makes my skin crawl. The sentence that, as far as I'm concerned, you should NEVER say to a female. "Julie, I think you're gaining weight." Thanks. Kick me when I'm down. Seriously? I actually got teary. Look, I'm pretty free with what I say. I hate that about myself sometimes. I think the person could see that it hurt me because it wasn't in passing. I couldn't just walk away. So they proceeded to tell me that that was a GOOD thing. That I should probably even gain more. Ha. I'm not in a frenzy over it. I'm actually over it all together really. I've had several pieces of chocolate today. I'm good. It's just, DON'T DO THAT! IT'S NOT NICE. I honestly cannot think of a circumstance where that would be appropriate to say to a girl. I don't care if I'm 8 months pregnant with sextuplets, don't tell me that. Or anyone else!

I'm believing some awesome things are going to happen this week to counter the (little) things that let the air out of our balloons towards the end of this past week.