Why Spelling Matters

Meeting with Parents

I survived my first night of conferences. My conferences went well...and I only have one more day of conferences left. These days take a lot out of me.
Glad to be home now.
Back to work in a few hours.

Ouch

I'm in a part of my story that is now beginning to be painful to write.
I wasn't prepared to feel these things.
I knew it would be cathartic to write this book, but I wasn't ready to start feeling things just yet.
This book might just turn out to be something that heals at the same time!

Like Sour Cream

I keep checking books out of the library.
There are so many amazing books that I want to read.
I go once or twice a week to the library and pick up the books that have come for me.
HOWEVER...I don't have time to read them.
I used to have a thing about buying sour cream. I would buy sour cream each week from the milk man. When it came time to clean the fridge there would be 5 to 8 containers of sour cream that had expired. I loved the idea of having sour cream in my house, just in case.
This is what books are like for me.
I WANT to read these books, and just in case I find a minute; I want to have a book on hand.
However, like Angela just told me, books are sour cream for me right now.
It's a bummer!
BUT...for right now I have too many professional books to read. If I have any spare time, I need to be writing. No time to read for pleasure.
Books are my sour cream!

just thinking

I know I have too much going on right now.
I have so much going on at work. I am involved in many committees, and very excited at the possibilities ahead of me in my career.
I am also very overwhelmed in my schooling right now. I absolutely LOVE going to school and learning new things. This is why I keep going back. I am working on my Reading Specialist License, and have only 2 classes left. I should be done in early summer.
I am also becoming very passionate about my writing. Any time I can find a few minutes, I pull out my notebook and my pen and get to work on that.
I would really just like to not work and sit home and do this.
I was telling Angela it would be fantastic if we went away for a weekend to a cabin or something, and just wrote. Unfortunately we can't go to my parent's cabin, so that leaves us at home. ( I don't want to spend money to get away to write.)
Maybe when we are in Florida I can get some writing done.
The task keeps getting bigger and bigger the further I get into it.
I am so energized by this task, and depleted at the same time.
I love the fact that I have this dream, it's out there, it's something I can reach for....and have the ability to make this dream come true...in some way!

Writing

I wrote for hours yesterday. I was enjoying the part in the story where I was.
AND...the best part....is that Angela picked up a pen yesterday and wrote some of the most beautiful stuff. She TRULY has a gift for writing...what a gift.
I am wishing I would have written this stuff down when it was fresher in my mind.
I remember things, but I am having to work a bit harder, and am probing Angela's mind to help me remember things.
I am so excited about this book.
I have joined a writer's group which will meet once a month at the local library. The group is just beginning next month, and I feel very blessed to be working on our book at this time!

Writing My Book

I started writing my book last weekend.
I started it several years ago, and got so far as a Prologue and the first chapter.
Last weekend I went to a Writing Workshop seminar at the library.
It was just the push I needed.
My story, while very complex at times, is worth writing down. Even if it never goes anywhere....
I will have written it all down as a way of remembering it as well as a way of healing.

Isaiah's Birthday

Today is Isaiah's 15th birthday!
We are going to Grand Slam at 9 PM!
Hope I can stay awake!

HD/DVR

We recently upgraded our cable.
In fact, we got rid of cable, and now have Direct TV.
We now have a dish on the side of our house, and HD is a new way of looking at our screen. Don't even get me STARTED on the DVR.
I have now changed the way I watch television.
It is AMAZING!

Jennifer Hudson singing National Anthem @ 43rd Super Bowl BMF

How amazing was this?
There were many damp eyes at our house after this was over.
What a voice.
Honesly....I think it was better than Whitney!!
WOW!!!

Super Bowl Sunday

Hoping it will be a good game!
I have to say I am rooting for the Arizona Cardinals!
We are having a bunch of the neighbors over for a big pot of chili, and many other fun treats!
Jennifer and Terry are coming over too, and Ryan and Isaiah will be here too!!
I hope it's a fun time!