twenty-eight

Always remember to...Be patient, take a deep breath and then react.

I try really hard not to yell at my kids. I don't like yelling and I don't think it helps. Really, I think it just hurt their feelings, which is not the outcome I want. Yet on some days I am so overwhelmed that I have to try really hard to keep my patience and not yell. Today was one of those days. I took a deep breath, put on my "fake it" voice and reacted. I was yelling inside, but being patient on the outside.

Memories to Write About

1 - Getting a kiss rock from grandpa spitzer

2 - Phoenix: apartment, friends, scorpion, eva, santa, moving home, myla

3 - Derek giving me his homerun baseball

4 - staying overnight, night after night, with dawn

5 - Listening to cars drivng up and down main in wilton after basketball games

6 - Cheering with the cheerleaders when I was little

7 - watching the bears win the superbowl while I lived in phoenix

8 - arguing with my grandma spitzer about taking naps

9 - going to Moorhead with Sonja to see auntie bon

10 - myla: monsters in the ceiling, cookies, toe soup

11 - being at quentin and joyces with collette and listening to 80's music on earphones that I thought were the coolest things ever...give me a sec and i'll remember the song, something with a yo yo i think

12 - going to disneyland with sammy gayle and samper duane in the rain

13 - watching all the semis drive down the highway and wondering if any of them were my samper duane and if he knew where i lived so that he would stop and see me if he had to drive anywhere close

that's a good start, i'm sure i'll add more later.

Bucket List

I haven't actually seen the movie Bucket List but get the idea. Here's my bucket list, in no particular order, of things to do in the next year. I'm giving myself the freedom to add as I wish and will only cross them off when they are fully finished.

1 - Finish Jeff's baby book

2 - Get caught up on Jeff's snapfish album

3 - Start Macy's baby book

4 - Make a list of stories from my childhood to write about

5 - Run a full 10K

6 - Lose 30 pounds

7 - Take a family vacation

8 - Learn more about using my camera

9 - Read at least 3 classics

10 - Do more art projects with my children

twenty-seven

always remember to...write down things that are important to you.

I started blogging when Jeff was little so that I could always remember the cute things he did. I tend to vaguely remember stories, but never clearly. Words help. Pictures help. I love to write and I love to take pictures. I read a lot of other blogs to enjoy hearing others stories and to stay inspired. Today, I read this blog entry and was inspired to write down stories I remember from when I was little. So today, I decided that I would work on doing the same. I'm putting it on my "bucket list" of things to do in the next year. (I decided earlier this week I was going to make a bucket list, but haven't got to it yet. Maybe I should just do it now.)

twenty-six

While reading The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks, I found this:

Always Remember..."she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."

Poetry 3

Haiku - (To Tyler)

before I met you
I knew you from my dreams
now it's us always

Poetry 2

I've seen several variations of the Diamond Poem format, but this is the one we choose for HS Applied English.

single
alone curious
scrapbooking exercising traveling
pets friends husband children
cleaning cooking diaper-changing
together content
married


The Diamond Poem

Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Two adjectives that describe the noun in line 1.
Line 3: Three verbs that end in “ed” or “ing” that
relate to the noun in line 1.
Line 4: Write four nouns. The first two relate to line 1.
The last two suggest change and go with line 7.
Line 5: Three verbs ending in “ed” and “ing” that
relate to the noun in line 7.
Line 6: Two adjectives that describe the noun in line 7.
Line 7: Noun that is opposite of noun in line 7.