I love to live.

Each breath is a new start.

Brushing my teeth is the best.

Getting e-mails from my cousins on their missions isn't bad either.

I love it when my mom makes dinner.

Laughing so hard, I almost throw up.

I could watch Honey Boo-Boo all day.

Every morning I can forget the last.

Summer nights swimming in the pool is super fun too.

The best is holding a new born sleeping baby.

Scaring the crap out of someone and laughing until you die.

The most amazing feeling in the world is when someone plays with my hair.

I dream of warm chocolate melting cake.

Talking for hours with your best friend about the future.

Going fishing with my family.

Look for the good in each day.

I promise you, you'll love to live.

Live to love.

Learning from Ida B.

The most beautiful thing about writing is that not one thought is the same as the next.  One sentence can be interpreted in a million different ways.  You choose what you want to create, what you want to see, what you want to take and what you want to give.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to hear my words because I feel too much and love too much to not want to share it.

Ida B. has always been a reminder to me of what I want to become.  In my favorite childhood "chapter book", this young adventurous girl is faced with challenges I myself haven't even come close to going through.  I guess Ida B. reminds me of myself when I was little.  I kind of lived in my own world.  Not really sure of anything and didn't really care that I wasn't sure.  All I wanted to do was play pretend and imagine perfect worlds.  Maybe that's why I don't see much bad in the world today.  I don't really know how.

 I want to try and think about her more during the day.  I'll think of a vivacious little girl who loves her family's orchard, and has no siblings.  Who's parents love her dearly and has to live with her mother having Leukemia.  I can't even imagine.  I don't really want to imagine.  That's why I want to remember her and be grateful for the blessings in my life that keep increasing day by day.

Ida B.
By: Katherine Hannigan

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