Chiquita on My Bucket List Again

Ok, I have a few new things for my bucket list.

I want to adopt a child. (Ok, I know you're probably thinking this is very unrealistic. But I'm serious, if I ever have enough money to adopt a child, and the time is right, I want to do it. My mom was adopted. If she hadn't been adopted, I probably would have never existed. My mother would have never had the opportunities she did. Her life could have been very bad, and because of the kindness of one couple who wasn't able to have their own child, she grew up happy. I want to be able to give that opportunity to a child.)

I want to go to a huge sporting event. (Yes, I watched the Super Bowl tonight. Could you imagine being there? That would be crazy! I've never even been to a Hawk's football game. Its sad, I know. I went to a Twins game one time, but there wasn't very many people there. I'm talking HUGE stadium, completely packed. Like, don't let go of my hand or we might lose each other.)

More specifically, I want to go to a Cubs game. If possible, I want to take my grandmother. (My grandmother is a huge Cubs fan, as am I. We love the Cubs. During the season, our lives consist of a lot of baseball talk and game watching. If I could think of one single thing that my grandmother and I have bonded over the most in my life, it would be the Cubs, no question. I think it's safe to say that its one of my biggest dreams/goals for the next year/season. I hope I can make it happen.)

That's all for now, I'll let you know when I think of more!! PS, I am knitting a scarf and its coming along quite lovely!

Chiquita on Mormonism

So long story short I'm looking into Mormonism. I'd like to say I'm baptist, although I don't currently attend a baptist church. I went to a baptist church with my grandmother my entire childhood, and I also went to a (different) baptist church with some people I babysat for during middle school and the first two years of high school. I'm not going to lie, I don't really understand the whole baptist thing. Its not that I don't understand Christianity, that I have at least a decent understanding of. Its the whole baptist, Methodist, Lutheran thing that I don't understand. But anyways, my friend Mikayla recently converted to Mormonism, and I find it rather interesting, so she gave me The Book of Mormon, (who's actually a person, I didn't know that!) and I'm supposed to be going to church with her sometime. Its not necessarily that I want to be Mormon, its just that I am curious, so I'm going to find out more. We went on a small road trip to Des Moines, so I learned a little bit on the way there. She happened to have The Book of Mormon in her car, and she has another, so she gave it to me. I read the introduction and the testimonies of the eleven people who saw the plates (I know... if you're not Mormon, you might be lost... sorry...) as well as the testimony of Joseph Smith (a Mormon prophet). I read the first two chapters of the first book. That's as far as I got tonight (I had some knitting to get to), but tomorrow I hope I can make time to read more. Oh holy crap!!! I just thought of something! I could potentially pull a research paper topic out of this! (Mr. Ayers, there may be hope for me yet!) I'll keep y'all updated about this whole Mormon exploration thing. And if you'd like to explore as well, this might help.