Having to share the BEST!

 Hello Blogger Fam! 

It has been a long time since I have blogged and a lot has happened since I last blogged. I moved back in with my parents for a little bit. I worked at a scout camp for a few weeks this past summer and then went fabric shopping with my mom and her best friend Janet. Then again another school year started and let me tell you what that was a joke! I love my job so I thought until someone decided to push every button I had. I did my bulletin boards back in July! JULY! We were going to be Mountain Climbers again. Let me back up a little. Our classrooms got redone with new old cabinets and counters totally awesome right?! Well, that meant we couldn't go into our classrooms so once we sorta could I went in. I did my bulletin board in July. JULY! I had my board up and then two days before school starts another teacher on my team did the same theme I did but she one upped me and we all know that I don't like that. She them came to me and said "Oh, you did that too?!" Therefore, I went home to my mom and just got so mad and cried because I was so UPSET! I shouldn't have been upset but when you have to one up me that is a problem. Friday after the meet and greet was over I tore my board down and I asked the art teacher to paint sunflowers and she said let me make you a template and she came back to me within 20 minutes with 4 sunflowers ready to be put on my bulletin board. I know the other teacher doesn't know how much she hurt my feelings but she did and then to make things worse she got the most amazing instructor in the world. She can have that instructor but if you are mean to her I will definitely be even more upset.

I loved my instructor from last year; she is a saint! She was the most amazing person I know and she even has the cutest little boy. She knew when we needed an emergency recess, she knew when I was frustrated and she knew what I was thinking before I even spoke to her. I loved her so much! I miss her so much! She took all her stuff and moved it to her new room. When she grabbed her last load she said this is my last load of stuff. When she left something left the calm and peace that she brings to the classroom. I told her she would always be welcome and wasn't quite out. She wrote me a note and it was so simple but that day was the day that I needed it the most. It said, "Have a great day!" That was the day I knew I had a friend and I didn't have to worry about being someone I wasn't and I could just be Jill. She has become  one of my best friends! I am so grateful that I was able to have her as an instructor for a year and a half. Ms. Incredible was a blessing in my life and a much needed one. I am so thankful to have her in my life and to call her my friend. She taught me so many things. She taught me to believe in myself and to not give up on my dreams! Ms. Incredible thank you for all you do and for never giving up on me and sticking around as my instructor. You are truly the BEST!!!

When life gets hard, drink a COKE! 😊

I am off to my next adventure. Until next time Peace Out Cub scout. Work hard, Play harder, RUN YOUR HEART OUT! Never lose sight of the end goal. Keep the Faith! Peace and Love! Over and Out!

Welcome 2021! See Ya 2020

Good Morning Blogger World! 

What a crazy year it has been! We have learned how to be socially distant and how to talk to people on the phone again. Welcome back to the 90's when cellphones and texting were not a thing! As the year has wrapped up I have thought and thought about what a crazy ride it has been and all the adventures. I often wonder if people would change the way 2020 went if they could, me not so much! It got me a best friend who I know I could tell anything to and he will just say oh Jill. It taught me the people you can trust and who not to trust. Some of the experiences I would have loved to not had but I wouldn't change them for anything. They have made me a better person and human.

I am 10 days late at welcoming in the year 2021! It is going to be a great year! Full of adventures and many things to learn. I know COVID has come and took its toll on all of us. I am here to tell you it is hard but life is meant to be enjoyed! Go running in the rain, dance in the rain, dance to the beat of your own drum! Dance like no one is watching because in those moments those are truly the moments that you are being you who you are and what you are meant to become! Don't let the fear of COVID take your dreams away. Go live the dream! 

Last year was hard but this year is new and a new you! Go be the you, you want the world to see, don't look back! 

Here's to a GREAT year! Welcome 2021 let's rock it! 

If you wonder what I will be doing this year I will give you my top 5 things I want to accomplish and next year I will report on them! 

1. Blog at least once a month

2. Date 

3. Pass the Praxis

4. Run

5. Go somewhere new

Those are some of my goals here's to a wonderful year! 2021 let's ROCK IT! When life gets hard, drink a COKE! 😊

I am off to my next adventure. Until next time Peace Out Cub scout. Work hard, Play harder, RUN YOUR HEART OUT! Never lose sight of the end goal. Keep the Faith! Peace and Love! Over and Out!

It's Okay to Ask for Help Sometimes

 Good Morning Blogger Fam!

I have learned many things this past year. The first thing I want w weeks ago about is an experience I had a few weeks ago. As many of you know when I was a senior in high school I tore the ligaments in my right foot. I ran a track meet on the Thursday and my dad picked me up because it was at Skyview and he works in Hyrum. We went to the grocery store to get milk I said dad my foot hurts he said, Willy it will feel better tomorrow. I was like you are right no big deal I went on limping through the grocery store and then when we got home we did the nightly doings. I woke up the next morning in pain that I had never felt before, went about my day hoping people would not ask me to move. I told my mom at lunch I needed to go to the doctor and when I ask to go to the doctor I am DYING!!!! I never want to go to the doctor. We went a few x-rays later Jill I am sorry to tell you, that your track season is probably over that was the first meet of the season. I said are you sure he said I am sorry your ligaments are torn and they need to heal. Maybe in a few weeks we can try running but I need to make sure they are better. Anyway, they got better I could walk again and life was INCREDIBLE! I have been on so many adventures since then. He always said my foot would ache with the change of the weather but I have not felt the pain that I felt that day in over 10 and a half years. 

Two weeks ago December 1, 2020 I was sitting and talking with my roommate and my foot started hurting me being Jill Dallon was like it will feel better in the morning. I went to bed and prayed for a miracle because I knew that without my Heavenly Father's help I wouldn't be able to walk. Did it feel like I could run a marathon? NO! Did it feel like I could work? NO! Did I go to work and pretend everything was fine? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!  I went to work and limped I tried so hard to walk normal but the pain was winning today. I would hold a desk for a minute until I could bare the pain again. I walked my kids to P.E. then I stopped and asked admin a question. They asked me the question that I had been avoiding all day because I knew the tears would come and they wouldn't stop. I am tough, I have a high pain tolerance. But today the pain had won! They asked me why I was walking funny and the tears streamed down my face as I tried to pretend everything was fine. I told them my foot hurt and they said I will go and get your kids from P.E.. Do you need some ice or anything? Ms. Dallon please just sit and don't walk around we are not mad if you sit today. I knew that sitting meant I had failed my kids, just because I was in pain didn't mean that they didn't need to learn. A kind sir walked up to the side of me at the academic office and started to say my name he saw the tears and he just waited. We then walked down the hall together and he we pretended like I didn't just let my guard down and cry. We chatted I said if you need me I will be in my chair at my desk. I got to my desk and texted him. Not that I had to explain myself to him because I don't but I wanted him to know that I trust him enough to know that I am not okay. He was so kind to me and asked if I needed anything. I learned on those days that it is okay to ask for help because sometimes we all need a little extra love! I emailed admin and apologized for crying. One emailed me back and said Ms. Dallon I knew you were tough but I didn't know you were that tough. I didn't even notice this morning but now it makes sense why squatting to take a picture with your friend was so hard. I learned that admin does care and they want us to succeed even on the hard days when we can't walk. Everyday since one of the admin has asked how my foot is doing. That has meant the world to me because they are very busy ladies and yet she has the time to ask me and to care about my foot. 

I realize that day that we are not in the journey we call life alone we have people who care. People who notice and want to help you just have to get off your high horse and ask. I am so thankful that my Heavenly Father loves me enough to have suffered that pain for me and to give it to me so I can learn of his will and not my own. I am so thankful for the days that my foot hurts not because of the pain but because it reminds me of how much my Father in heaven loves me and knows me. He never once has let me down. He sent his son to suffer on the cross for me and for each and everyone of you. I know that he loves me and sometimes I doubt that and then I say Jill he is the one who will always love you even with the mistakes you make. I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father and all he does for me and my family. I am so thankful for all my pains and struggles because I have learned that it is okay to ask for help because we all need it sometimes! 

I am so thankful and blessed to know that the life is hard but with the gospel it is a lot easier knowing you don't have to face it alone. I am so thankful for all the wonderful people I have in my life the ones I trust and just the ones that I don't. I am thankful to be me and to live in this crazy time of COVID! Life is a Beautiful thing! 

I am off to my next adventure. Until next time Peace Out Cub scout. Work hard, Play harder, RUN YOUR HEART OUT! Never lose sight of the end goal. Keep the Faith! Peace and Love! Over and Out!

Be Prepared for the Unexpected

 Hello Fam! 

What a crazy week it has been! I have never really fully understood the 72 hour kit and being prepared. I mean being prepared yes I get but this was a week that changed my whole way of looking at it. 

I had the experience where I had to pack up my life just the essentials of what I was going to need for a week to survive and to get out. Including food, clothes, bathroom belongings, everything needed to be alive. When it happens it is an adrenaline rush like you have never felt the feelings of the unknown the worry of when can I go back. Where am I going to go? What am I going to do? Well let me tell you. It is okay to be scared and nervous but there is NO REASON TO NOT BE PREPARED! I learned that the hard way. I have never been afraid of COVID. I always joked about getting it but when my roommate got it and that meant I might have to quarantine. My world turned upside down.The fear of having nowhere to go the fear of not being able to go back to my house, the fear of leaving my students for 2 weeks. My mind was going so many miles an hour I would have never guessed that I would panic. (I am a panicier so why I thought I would be calm is beyond me.) 

I talked to my boss and she said get out don't go home get out! I went and packed my bags and the car with everything I could think of that I would need and little did I know that I would need more.  I am able to run to my house and grab a few things as long as I am quick. My roommate also leaves it on the porch for me. 

My nurse roommate who doesn't have it is cleaning non stop to make sure it is safe for us to be there. I can't go home because I don't have a place to shower or go to the bathroom. Because the COVID people said that the COVID positive person needs their own bathroom. I ran to the house to get some food last night and it was so gloomy, it was a ghost town. It doesn't look lived in, if you looked super close you could see tumbleweed just tumbling by. 

I talked to my roommate yesterday and we decided in two weeks when we get to come back together and live again that it will be the best day ever. The Eagle will hide, the tree will be up and all the other decorations too. 

I know that Heavenly Father knows what he is doing and he is just preparing us for what is to come. I know that being prepared is a necessity and I will always be ready now. I am so thankful for the love and knowledge that I have of the gospel because without it this week, I would have been so lost and alone with no one on my side. I had my Father in heaven on my side on the dark lonely nights he was the one there protecting me from the demons of the world. He was the one who was listening to my struggles the nights I couldn't sleep. I know that I am loved and thatI am safe. I think of the conference talk that said.."I don't feel safe, but I know I am safe!"

The world we live in is crazy and fast. Sometimes we just need to stop and take a deep breath and remember it may be the new normal but it is possible to live in.

Moral of this post is to be prepared, expect the unexpected and don't lose sight of the end goal. Have a go bag ready to go with everything you will need for a week even if it seems silly you will be glad you did.

I am off to my next adventure. Until next time Peace Out Cub scout. Work hard, Play harder, RUN YOUR HEART OUT! Never lose sight of the end goal. Keep the Faith! Peace and Love! Over and Out!

Find the Simple Things!

Hey Blogger Fam! 

It is me again and I am sure you are thinking what are you going to complain about today. Well, I want to take a different approach. Today I want to tell you some things that I am grateful for and so blessed to have in my life. I know right now this world is hard to live in and hard to survive and sometimes it seems that it is easier to be dead than alive. I want to be the first to tell you that you are loved. You are cared about and you matter to someone and that someone is me! YOU MATTER TO ME! I am so grateful to have you in my life even if it was just for a short while.

I am so grateful for the horrible roommate I had a year ago because it has taught me that not everyone is like that. It has helped me find some amazing roommates who have become my best friends! They celebrated my birthday for a week with me. They let me feel like I mattered and I was worth it. They even had birthday surprises for me. They decorated the house while I was running a half marathon! Even the neighbors wished me a happy birthday.

Here is another reason I am grateful for my roommates: we work different schedules, I am a teacher, one roommate is a nurse, and one works on a computer. My nurse roommate went out of her way when I forgot something to bring it to me at work so I could feel better about the way I looked. She didn't question it or even think twice about it. She almost got caught in the carpool line but she was more than willing to help me out! 

I am grateful for the people I work with the ones that I have become friends with and the ones that I have become enemies with. I am so sad to see how this year has gone from the friendships that were made last year to now how they are like non-existent because of social distancing. I know we can still call and text but it hurts my heart to see how close we were to not being nearly that close. I love the support team I have because I know that I have at least 4 people in my corner.

I am grateful for nature and the natural beauty and the silence of it all. I love to go and just listen to the birds chirp and the wind blow. The peace that fills the soul is so real. I am thankful for the mountains! 

I am grateful for my ability to run and I am so thankful for the foot doctor who has made it possible for me to run again. I am glad he took the time to figure out what was really wrong with it and not just say or it is this and you will have to take medicine forever. 

I am thankful for the simple things because it is the simple things that mean the most in life. Even a simple note to say hi or even a fresh baked loaf of bread. Just the simple things are the things that mean the most. I am so grateful for the people who do little things for me not because they have to but because they want to, they do it because they know that I am about to burst and can't handle it anymore.

I am so grateful for my family, my parents and my brother. I am thankful for them for many reasons. They put up with me even when I am not very nice. My dad fixes my car when it is having problems and he always says it is just a part of life. My mom goes to the fabric store with me and helps me pick out fabric for quilts I am making and even pillow cases. We get kits to work on together okay so mainly me but I wouldn't change it for the world. Josh is my best friend. He comes and helps me hang pictures. He takes my chair back when it is the wrong one to get the right one and then he puts it together for me. I have the best family in the world.

I am thankful for many things. I am done with the negative. I am working on letting go. I am going to work on the positives on my blog from now on. I don't want the world to see the sadden girl who is living in darkness. I want the world to see the girl that I am the one with a smile even when running a half marathon. I want the world to see me as a person who loves others. I want the world to know this life is hard but together we will make it through.

I know that Heavenly Father has a plan for each of us and sometimes it is a hard pill to swallow but it is all in his timing. I am so grateful for the plan he has for me even though it is different than my own. 

I am truly blessed to live the life I live and have the wonderful family that I have. I love family. They are the people who remind me that it is okay to be different and to be me. I have some amazing parents and an amazing brother! 

I am off to my next adventure. Until next time Peace Out Cub scout. Work hard, Play harder, RUN YOUR HEART OUT! Never lose sight of the end goal. Keep the Faith! Peace and Love! Over and Out!

Sometimes Life is Rough

Sometimes in life we do things that we want because it seems easy and it will get us out of school the fastest, when in all reality the only person we are hurting is ourselves. I can't pass the silly teacher test. I am going to take it one more time and give it everything I have and then if I don't pass, I will study for a different test and follow my childhood dreams. I will get my law degree and then I will become very successful and then you will see. You will see! You doubted me many times and you know what I am done with the doubters and the haters. Life is hard and right it is hard to do a lot of things. You have to teach with a mask on and hope and pray your glasses don't fog up but then they do so you don't breathe and then all of the sudden you gasp for air. 

COVID has taken over the world. This has been around for a long time. Why is it a big deal now? If I am going to get it I am going to get it. It doesn't matter if I am meant to die and it is my time to go, then it is my time to go. Covid took us out of school for 6 months and all the progress we made with our kiddos went down the drain because some of the parents didn't even care to help their student with work. I get it was hard, it was hard for teachers too. Teachers did everything they could to help them succeed. Some made house calls and others sent mail. I know that right now you are afraid of the world but sometimes you just have to remember it is in the lord's hands and not yours. Never lose sight of the end goal. Everything happens for a reason and right now we need this struggle to help us remember how good life used to be and how good it can be again. I know wearing a face mask is hard. I wear one everyday, usually two. I know that this too shall pass. Just remember patiences is a virtue and we are learning it together. Never give up on your dream, reach them, they are never out of reach. Even if it is taking the silly test 20 times! NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP THE FAITH!
Until next time I am off to my next adventure! Keep the Faith! Work hard, Play harder, RUN your HEART OUT! Peace out cub scout! Over and Out! 

Florida be KIND to my PEOPLE!

 Hello Blogger Fam! 

Life is a crazy thing. The world which we live in is a weird thing. Take me back to February when life was normal or what we like to call normal. The normal we used to know. We had a family dinner that I didn't want to come or did I ever think would come. My cousin is moving because her husband who is history smart is going to school for his Phd. She has a cute little boy name Hamilton. I never thought they would move away. Kirstie has always been one of my best friends and more so since 2008 when Grandma B passed away. She always took me in she made me feel like I mattered. I always wanted to be like her. She was the one that I looked up to and was like I am going to be as amazing as her one day. The day we heard they were moving was that day my heart broke. We all knew it was coming but we all secretly hoped it wouldn't.

On July 23rd, I went over to Grandma Yomer's to have Austin help me with my timeline because he is history smart and I just looked at those 25 pictures for 9 months praying they would just put themselves in order well clearly we all knew that would not happen but I was very hopeful didn't happen so therefore I had to ask for help and I am not one to ask for help because that is a sign of weakness I have always been taught that. I asked Kirstie and she asked Austin and he put them in order in less than 3 minutes and I was just amazed! 

I asked Kirstie before he put my timeline together if they could come to dinner and she said we are moving soon I said I know. My mom wants to have a family dinner before you leave. Everyone came except Uncle Gary who had prior engagements to attend. It was so fun to have one more family dinner before they move. I never knew how much I loved them. I invited myself over to Florida in February I didn't give them a choice I asked if they accept visitors and she said yes always. 

I watched them drive away and my heart hurt. Not because they were leaving but because I knew it would be a long time before I get to see them again. I will miss the random coke runs and the black Friday working. Kirstie and I are the only girls in the mix of the boys. I am going to miss them as they go start their new adventure! Good Luck in Florida my friends. You will be missed but you are always loved and have a place in Brigham! Never forget where you come from and don't ever turn your back on the one who loves you the most! Keep your chin up and Keep the Faith! 

Off to my next adventure. Peace Out Cub Scout. See you soon to some amazing people! Work hard, play harder and RUN YOUR HEART OUT! Keep the Faith! Over and out!