My life, lately, has been revolving around making time to read. :) I've been reading the Twilight series and am on the last book, Breaking Dawn. Just in time for the release of the movie this Thursday! My friend Kristin and I are hitting the midnight showing of it! :)
Last week was a little crazy. I had something nearly every night. Mothers club general meeting on Tuesday night, mothers club budgeting meeting on Wednesday night, afternoon playgroup and then Bible study on Thursday night and then Friday afternoon was a reunion for Morgan's original playgroup. It was so cool to see our "babies" all grown up! Some of these kids we've known since they were just a few months old!
Saturday we had soccer in the morning and then I went hiking with some friends in the afternoon. Today was church and then I came home and tried to make up for all the laundry and stuff I have put off during the week while trying to finish reading my books! I've barely started Breaking Dawn, but really want to get through all 700+ pages of it before the movie comes out on Thursday.
Funny story from Friday. I was working in Morgan's classroom, so I got to watch her present her family homework to the class. They had these hands that they cut out and made them into turkeys. We had selected some items from our yard to decorate our turkey. She stands up in front of the class and begins describing her turkey. Something along the lines of "we picked leaves from our yard and cut them into feathers....I used marker to color the front of the turkey....we used pipe cleaner for the waddle....there are some different kind of leaves for the tail feathers....and we used a POISONOUS berry for the eye". The kids all gasp. The teacher gets a big grin across her face and says "we may need to have a discussion about bringing POISONOUS items to school!" and then she starts giggling. Of course, all the kids wanted to see the POISONOUS berry. Which is nothing more than a berry from one of our hedges, that we told her was poisonous because we don't know what kind of hedge it is and we didn't want her to eat it. She never fails to keep us laughing. :)
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
THIS is the life :)
This morning, I had to refrain from too many "don't forget this" or "are you doing that" questions for Lance. He is their parent afterall, and while he may not do everything the same way I do, he is an excellent father. He had planned to take the kids geocaching after the park.
I was able to hang out at the park this morning long enough to get the requisite phone numbers and email addresses and then I headed off to the tennis club. Once there, I ran into some friends and felt no pressure to hurry our conversation since I had all the time in the world. :)
Once settled in, I hit the indoor track and ran a 5k in 30 mins, stretched, changed into my swimsuit and then hit the pool and hot tub. I sunned myself for a little while until I realized that I was actually hungry and then I hit the locker room to shower and get ready. I took a nice long shower, where I shaved not only my arm pits, but also my legs. Yes, both of them. :) I took my time getting ready, half watching the Olympics and half listening to my iPod. Once my hair was dried and flat ironed, I headed over to one of our favorite resteraunts where I ordered lunch and settled in with my book. I alternated reading and people watching, really letting myself unwind.
Once lunch was done, I headed to the bookstore and mindlessly wandered the aisles. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but it was so nice to be able to just check out various sections and books and not have to get interrupted or listen to whining or fighting. After I had my fill of browsing, I settled in at the cafe with my laptop and started three different books. I'm toying around with a few different plots and so I gave a couple of them a good amount of time at the bookstore today, but I'm just not feeling it. They are serious topics, and maybe I'm more of a humor girl. So, the third idea is humorous and I didn't really get very far with that beyond the initial idea.
By this time, I was starting to clock-watch and thought it would be best to head home and utilize the free WiFi at home rather than paying to get connected there. Besides. You want to know the truth? I was missing my kids. I had already called on my way to the bookstore to see how everything was going. They were down for naps and Lance said they had a great time this morning. I'm sorry I missed out on it!
This is an illness I have. I can't be with them. I can't be without them. I guess that's the life of a mom, right? But I also know it's important to take care of myself, mentally, so it's good to have a day off. :)
We're getting ready to leave for a BBQ, so I'll resume my day off tomorrow at around 4pm. I plan to go see a movie. Maybe even by myself. Because I'm all CRAZY like that. :)
I was able to hang out at the park this morning long enough to get the requisite phone numbers and email addresses and then I headed off to the tennis club. Once there, I ran into some friends and felt no pressure to hurry our conversation since I had all the time in the world. :)
Once settled in, I hit the indoor track and ran a 5k in 30 mins, stretched, changed into my swimsuit and then hit the pool and hot tub. I sunned myself for a little while until I realized that I was actually hungry and then I hit the locker room to shower and get ready. I took a nice long shower, where I shaved not only my arm pits, but also my legs. Yes, both of them. :) I took my time getting ready, half watching the Olympics and half listening to my iPod. Once my hair was dried and flat ironed, I headed over to one of our favorite resteraunts where I ordered lunch and settled in with my book. I alternated reading and people watching, really letting myself unwind.
Once lunch was done, I headed to the bookstore and mindlessly wandered the aisles. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but it was so nice to be able to just check out various sections and books and not have to get interrupted or listen to whining or fighting. After I had my fill of browsing, I settled in at the cafe with my laptop and started three different books. I'm toying around with a few different plots and so I gave a couple of them a good amount of time at the bookstore today, but I'm just not feeling it. They are serious topics, and maybe I'm more of a humor girl. So, the third idea is humorous and I didn't really get very far with that beyond the initial idea.
By this time, I was starting to clock-watch and thought it would be best to head home and utilize the free WiFi at home rather than paying to get connected there. Besides. You want to know the truth? I was missing my kids. I had already called on my way to the bookstore to see how everything was going. They were down for naps and Lance said they had a great time this morning. I'm sorry I missed out on it!
This is an illness I have. I can't be with them. I can't be without them. I guess that's the life of a mom, right? But I also know it's important to take care of myself, mentally, so it's good to have a day off. :)
We're getting ready to leave for a BBQ, so I'll resume my day off tomorrow at around 4pm. I plan to go see a movie. Maybe even by myself. Because I'm all CRAZY like that. :)
Sunday, July 6, 2008
A good, albeit lazy, day
This morning was my morning to sleep in, but when the kids woke up around 8, I couldn't go back to sleep. Lance got up with them, but I lingered in bed. I let the day warm me up and opened my eyes slowly. I looked over to my nightstand and saw the remnants from the night before.
You see, I've been reading the book Maggie, by Charles Martin. It's the sequel to his book The Dead Don't Dance. The differences between the two books is startling. I would liken the first book to something written by Nicholas Sparks. Now, I really like these kind of books. They are typically rather introspective and tender. That's how The Dead Don't Dance was, for the most part. But his sequel, Maggie is like this tender romance, but also much more along the lines of a suspense novel. As I was reading, it seemed that the next thing that happens was always worse than the one before, and never expected. Put simply, it was just non-stop. I started the book last week and have really had a hard time putting it down. Even with my busy life. So, that says something right?
So, I peek over and see that I've got maybe like five chapters left. And all I want to do is finish it. I feign sleep, curl up in bed and finish my book. I haven't done this in YEARS, people. It was heavenly!
After finishing the book, I got up and got breakfast and got myself and Morgan showered. We headed off for church. After church, we had a "girls day" and went to lunch at this very cute Bistro downtown and then went to the movie theater across the street for a 1:30 showing of Kung Fu Panda. Morgan was cracking up most of the way through the movie, so I could tell she was enjoying herself. We didn't get home until 3:15 and then I plopped down on the couch, put my feet up and started checking email.
People - my house is a disaster!! Lance has been home for a solid three days now and the toys are strewn all about, the kitchen is a mess and -- here's how you KNOW I'm being lazy -- my bed is NOT MADE! :) Yep, I'm having a lazy, enjoyable day.
I need it before the crazy week ahead. Morgan has camp every day from 12:30-4:30, she starts soccer this week, it's Lance's birthday, our anniversary, etc. and etc. We're gonna be busy. This is just the calm before the storm. :)
You see, I've been reading the book Maggie, by Charles Martin. It's the sequel to his book The Dead Don't Dance. The differences between the two books is startling. I would liken the first book to something written by Nicholas Sparks. Now, I really like these kind of books. They are typically rather introspective and tender. That's how The Dead Don't Dance was, for the most part. But his sequel, Maggie is like this tender romance, but also much more along the lines of a suspense novel. As I was reading, it seemed that the next thing that happens was always worse than the one before, and never expected. Put simply, it was just non-stop. I started the book last week and have really had a hard time putting it down. Even with my busy life. So, that says something right?
So, I peek over and see that I've got maybe like five chapters left. And all I want to do is finish it. I feign sleep, curl up in bed and finish my book. I haven't done this in YEARS, people. It was heavenly!
After finishing the book, I got up and got breakfast and got myself and Morgan showered. We headed off for church. After church, we had a "girls day" and went to lunch at this very cute Bistro downtown and then went to the movie theater across the street for a 1:30 showing of Kung Fu Panda. Morgan was cracking up most of the way through the movie, so I could tell she was enjoying herself. We didn't get home until 3:15 and then I plopped down on the couch, put my feet up and started checking email.
People - my house is a disaster!! Lance has been home for a solid three days now and the toys are strewn all about, the kitchen is a mess and -- here's how you KNOW I'm being lazy -- my bed is NOT MADE! :) Yep, I'm having a lazy, enjoyable day.
I need it before the crazy week ahead. Morgan has camp every day from 12:30-4:30, she starts soccer this week, it's Lance's birthday, our anniversary, etc. and etc. We're gonna be busy. This is just the calm before the storm. :)
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