I'm still trying to get used to the Vista operating system, but this is one neat feature that my web developer friend Stacey turned me on to. It's really fun!!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
Good grief Charlie Brown...
We've had a heck of a winter thus far. Oh WAIT - Winter hasn't actually started yet.
Good grief!!!
Just this week we've had two late starts and one early dismissal due to weather, and an another planned early dismissal.
I sincerely hope that true winter does not follow this same pattern. We did find a high school girl to babysit for us on late starts and early dismissals. Unfortunately, she has a ways to drive and today with the fog it was just too bad to ask her to make the trek. I am such a mom - even when they're not my kids.
We've been busy cleaning and organizing, getting ready for the loot the girls are sure that Santa will be bringing. In the organizing, I found a journal that I had started. I've been thinking of getting a guided journal, so this was a fortuitous find. Although it's not guided, per say, it does have quotes on each page that you can contemplate in your entries. I've really wanted to do some writing that will stand as a keepsake for my daughters of who I am. Not the daily events of our lives, although that's good stuff too. I want them to know me, the meat and potatoes of what makes me who I am.
Like I said, I had started this journal already - 10 years ago. 1997. Reading through the handful of passages, I realized that although it feels like so much has changed in the last ten years - really the meat and potatoes of who I am has not changed. It is a little bit daunting to actually lay it out on paper. It makes it somehow permanent. And I must confess that I do worry a bit about what my daughters may think reading it years from now. Maybe they won't like my meat and potatoes... But I think the benefits outweigh any negatives. My meat and potatoes aren't perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with them. I can picture my daughters reading through some day and laughing together - "oh, that's where I get that trait from", or "oh, I so remember her talking like that".
So - that's my resolution for the New Year. To take pen to paper in the journal I haven't touched for 10 years.
We've had a heck of a winter thus far. Oh WAIT - Winter hasn't actually started yet.
Good grief!!!
Just this week we've had two late starts and one early dismissal due to weather, and an another planned early dismissal.
I sincerely hope that true winter does not follow this same pattern. We did find a high school girl to babysit for us on late starts and early dismissals. Unfortunately, she has a ways to drive and today with the fog it was just too bad to ask her to make the trek. I am such a mom - even when they're not my kids.
We've been busy cleaning and organizing, getting ready for the loot the girls are sure that Santa will be bringing. In the organizing, I found a journal that I had started. I've been thinking of getting a guided journal, so this was a fortuitous find. Although it's not guided, per say, it does have quotes on each page that you can contemplate in your entries. I've really wanted to do some writing that will stand as a keepsake for my daughters of who I am. Not the daily events of our lives, although that's good stuff too. I want them to know me, the meat and potatoes of what makes me who I am.
Like I said, I had started this journal already - 10 years ago. 1997. Reading through the handful of passages, I realized that although it feels like so much has changed in the last ten years - really the meat and potatoes of who I am has not changed. It is a little bit daunting to actually lay it out on paper. It makes it somehow permanent. And I must confess that I do worry a bit about what my daughters may think reading it years from now. Maybe they won't like my meat and potatoes... But I think the benefits outweigh any negatives. My meat and potatoes aren't perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with them. I can picture my daughters reading through some day and laughing together - "oh, that's where I get that trait from", or "oh, I so remember her talking like that".
So - that's my resolution for the New Year. To take pen to paper in the journal I haven't touched for 10 years.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
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