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Saturday, May 2, 2009
rainy days and reading
i think most anyone who knows me knows how much i love to read! when i started kindergarten, i was reading on a fourth grade reading level...i just loved books from a young age and i picked up reading quickly. my love of reading has continued all through my life, up to present day. even with life being as busy as it is, i still try to read about one book per week, although sometimes it takes me a little longer if the book is longer. my dad and i go to booksales twice a year and they are always some of the highlights of my year :-) i just tell people that i'm a nerd like that! i honestly don't even know the last time that i bought a book from barnes and noble or a regular bookstore...they're just so expensive there! there is a booksale once a year in atlanta at perimeter mall that has over 100,000 books that are sold. people donate their books all year long at different locations and when the booksale comes around, they are organized by topic and genre for people to search through to their hearts content. there is also one in greenville, south carolina that he and i go to that is basically the same thing. i have just about any book you can think of and i've never paid over $2.00 for any of them. all of my paperbacks are about .50 each. gotta love it!
anyhow...over the past year, i don't even think i can count how many books i've read. i got into the twilight series and read them in no time at all. i don't think i even watched tv for a few weeks because all i wanted to do was read them! i love james patterson and i read his entire alex cross series in a few months along with his women's murder club series. i've read all of jane green's books and just about any other chick-lit author you can think of. i just finished jodi picoult's newest one, handle with care, and it was by far one of her best books, second only to my sister's keeper. today is a rainy saturday, the perfect kind of day to spend curled up on the couch reading! i've been reading angels and demons by dan brown and so far it's AMAZING! such a good story and the kind of book that is hard to put down. i read the da vinci code years ago but i have to say that so far, i like this book better. no, i don't agree with the theological/religious things in the book but that doesn't mean that it makes the story uninteresting to read. brown is a fantastic author!
so...what about you? i'm curious to find out about books that other people read. i'm always up for finding a new author that is good! let me know if you have any recommendations for a rainy saturday! :)
anyhow...over the past year, i don't even think i can count how many books i've read. i got into the twilight series and read them in no time at all. i don't think i even watched tv for a few weeks because all i wanted to do was read them! i love james patterson and i read his entire alex cross series in a few months along with his women's murder club series. i've read all of jane green's books and just about any other chick-lit author you can think of. i just finished jodi picoult's newest one, handle with care, and it was by far one of her best books, second only to my sister's keeper. today is a rainy saturday, the perfect kind of day to spend curled up on the couch reading! i've been reading angels and demons by dan brown and so far it's AMAZING! such a good story and the kind of book that is hard to put down. i read the da vinci code years ago but i have to say that so far, i like this book better. no, i don't agree with the theological/religious things in the book but that doesn't mean that it makes the story uninteresting to read. brown is a fantastic author!
so...what about you? i'm curious to find out about books that other people read. i'm always up for finding a new author that is good! let me know if you have any recommendations for a rainy saturday! :)
Sunday, April 19, 2009
springtime fun!
have i really not written in here since almost a month ago? time just flies and i look at this and i realize how long it has been since i updated! oops.
this has been a busy and a fun spring so far! easter was really nice with my family. it was so nice to spend the day together as a family. we all went to church together and had lunch together afterwards. my mom bought my brothers and i some treats for easter, as she always does :) i love that she still does that! later that afternoon, my dad and i drove up to the school that i will be attending for graduate school. i have a meeting with my advisor this coming tuesday so i wanted to know where the buildings and offices will be that i will need to go to. it was such a beautiful day so he and i walked around together and explored the campus. it was such a nice afternoon with him and it made me so much more excited for the fall to come and for classes to start! it is going to be such a different experience to go to a school where i don't know anyone. it didn't even seem like i was going to college when i attended tfc. everything was just so easy. i had my dad as my advisor because i could just bring home forms that i needed him to sign and i already knew at least half of the professors because of my dad working there. i already knew my way around the campus and i parked wherever i wanted because i had a faculty sticker on my car in case my dad drove it to work. haha! so this will definitely be a good experience for me and make me more aware of what going to school should actually be like :) i am very excited.
if you know me, you probably know how much i love to play trivia! my friends and i go at least two thursdays a month to one of the local restaurants to play trivia. we never really do very well but it is just fun to go and play! my brother andrew came down this past thursday and we went with about six of my friends from work....and lo and behold, WE WON! there were about fifteen teams playing and somehow, we managed to beat the team that has beaten us every time for the past year and a half. we cheered so loudly when we won! the final question was this: since the opening of the first waffle house until 2006, put the following menu items in order from the most served over all of those years to the least served. waffles, hashbrowns, pie, eggs. have fun and check back in my next entry for the correct answer. and by the way, this is the question that we got right and that put us in the number one spot! and this is especially good for me, considering i've never eaten at waffle house! i'm not a big fan of greasy food. yuck.
my brother andrew leaves on may 12th for the air force so i have been trying to spend as much time with him as possible before he leaves. he came with us for trivia the other night and then the next night, he and i went to a late showing of the 4th installment of the fast and the furious movies. i LOVE those movies and he and i saw the very first one together so it was fun to watch this one together. i hate that he is leaving for the air force but at least he will be back for good in late october. i'm so proud of him and so thankful he's my brother!
so all in all....life is going well, just busy busy busy! i do like being busy though...although since it is sunday afternoon, i'm going to enjoy it and relax! my mom stayed the night with me last night because she flew in last night from her arbonne conference in las vegas. i made yummy chicken and cheese enchiladas for lunch today and they turned out so good! now off to do laundry and catch up on a few television shows. hope all of you are having a wonderful saturday!
here are a few pictures of me and my family from this spring....they are the best!
this has been a busy and a fun spring so far! easter was really nice with my family. it was so nice to spend the day together as a family. we all went to church together and had lunch together afterwards. my mom bought my brothers and i some treats for easter, as she always does :) i love that she still does that! later that afternoon, my dad and i drove up to the school that i will be attending for graduate school. i have a meeting with my advisor this coming tuesday so i wanted to know where the buildings and offices will be that i will need to go to. it was such a beautiful day so he and i walked around together and explored the campus. it was such a nice afternoon with him and it made me so much more excited for the fall to come and for classes to start! it is going to be such a different experience to go to a school where i don't know anyone. it didn't even seem like i was going to college when i attended tfc. everything was just so easy. i had my dad as my advisor because i could just bring home forms that i needed him to sign and i already knew at least half of the professors because of my dad working there. i already knew my way around the campus and i parked wherever i wanted because i had a faculty sticker on my car in case my dad drove it to work. haha! so this will definitely be a good experience for me and make me more aware of what going to school should actually be like :) i am very excited.
if you know me, you probably know how much i love to play trivia! my friends and i go at least two thursdays a month to one of the local restaurants to play trivia. we never really do very well but it is just fun to go and play! my brother andrew came down this past thursday and we went with about six of my friends from work....and lo and behold, WE WON! there were about fifteen teams playing and somehow, we managed to beat the team that has beaten us every time for the past year and a half. we cheered so loudly when we won! the final question was this: since the opening of the first waffle house until 2006, put the following menu items in order from the most served over all of those years to the least served. waffles, hashbrowns, pie, eggs. have fun and check back in my next entry for the correct answer. and by the way, this is the question that we got right and that put us in the number one spot! and this is especially good for me, considering i've never eaten at waffle house! i'm not a big fan of greasy food. yuck.
my brother andrew leaves on may 12th for the air force so i have been trying to spend as much time with him as possible before he leaves. he came with us for trivia the other night and then the next night, he and i went to a late showing of the 4th installment of the fast and the furious movies. i LOVE those movies and he and i saw the very first one together so it was fun to watch this one together. i hate that he is leaving for the air force but at least he will be back for good in late october. i'm so proud of him and so thankful he's my brother!
so all in all....life is going well, just busy busy busy! i do like being busy though...although since it is sunday afternoon, i'm going to enjoy it and relax! my mom stayed the night with me last night because she flew in last night from her arbonne conference in las vegas. i made yummy chicken and cheese enchiladas for lunch today and they turned out so good! now off to do laundry and catch up on a few television shows. hope all of you are having a wonderful saturday!
here are a few pictures of me and my family from this spring....they are the best!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
be my everything
we sing this song at church a lot and it has become one of my all time favorite songs. the words are so beautiful and i just had to share them with all of you. it is such a beautiful prayer to the Lord and it's definitely what i want my life to be like.
"Be My Everything" by Tim Hughes
"God in my living, there in my breathing
God in my waking, God in my sleeping
God in my resting, there in my working
God in my thinking, God in my speaking
Be my everything, be my everything
Be my everything, be my everything
God in my hoping, there in my dreaming
God in my watching, God in my waiting
God in my laughing, there in my weeping,
God in my hurting, God in my healing
Christ in me, Christ in me,
Christ in me the hope of glory,
You are everything
Christ in me, Christ in me
Christ in me the hope of glory,
Be my everything
Jesus, you are everything."
here is a link to the video of it on youtube...it is so beautiful. i encourage you to watch it if you get a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIWy42sC6U
"Be My Everything" by Tim Hughes
"God in my living, there in my breathing
God in my waking, God in my sleeping
God in my resting, there in my working
God in my thinking, God in my speaking
Be my everything, be my everything
Be my everything, be my everything
God in my hoping, there in my dreaming
God in my watching, God in my waiting
God in my laughing, there in my weeping,
God in my hurting, God in my healing
Christ in me, Christ in me,
Christ in me the hope of glory,
You are everything
Christ in me, Christ in me
Christ in me the hope of glory,
Be my everything
Jesus, you are everything."
here is a link to the video of it on youtube...it is so beautiful. i encourage you to watch it if you get a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIWy42sC6U
Friday, February 27, 2009
exciting news!
i got some very exciting news about a week and half ago....i found out that i got accepted to graduate school for the fall semester of 2009! i will be attending piedmont college, which is about twenty minutes away from where i got my undergraduate degree. i've been planning to move back home this fall to live with my parents and attend school...but i haven't been able to finalize anything until i knew that i was officially accepted to school. once i finally got all my paperwork in and completed, i received my official letter telling me that i was accepted!
my fabulous coworker jessica and my wonderful coteacher april made me really cute congratulations signs for my classroom door at school. the owner of the school also made me a congratulations sign which was just so sweet! i'm SO excited to start school in the fall even though i am going to miss my job and my kids and my coworkers so much! however, i'm ready for this next phase in my life and i can't wait to see what the future holds!
my fabulous coworker jessica and my wonderful coteacher april made me really cute congratulations signs for my classroom door at school. the owner of the school also made me a congratulations sign which was just so sweet! i'm SO excited to start school in the fall even though i am going to miss my job and my kids and my coworkers so much! however, i'm ready for this next phase in my life and i can't wait to see what the future holds!
we have a winner!
so....remember that entry that i wrote a few entries back...about the mom who was having a giveaway for some baby items? well....color me shocked when i logged onto my blog on saturday and found out that I WON! i honestly don't know if i've ever won anything in my life so i was completely surprised. what a fun surprise to wake up to on a saturday :)
i have a friend who has been trying to get pregnant for about eight or nine months. she was able to conceive last year but ended up having a miscarriage. since then, she and her husband have been trying but have not yet been able to conceive again. she told me that she still does buy baby clothes and random baby things from time to time for when she does have her little one someday. when i saw this giveaway, i thought of her. the cute polka dots on the bib and burp cloth are just totally her. so i wrote her a card and gave it to her as a little gift today and she was just so excited. i know what an amazing mom she is going to be someday and i can't wait to see her get use out of this precious little gift when the time comes.
i have a friend who has been trying to get pregnant for about eight or nine months. she was able to conceive last year but ended up having a miscarriage. since then, she and her husband have been trying but have not yet been able to conceive again. she told me that she still does buy baby clothes and random baby things from time to time for when she does have her little one someday. when i saw this giveaway, i thought of her. the cute polka dots on the bib and burp cloth are just totally her. so i wrote her a card and gave it to her as a little gift today and she was just so excited. i know what an amazing mom she is going to be someday and i can't wait to see her get use out of this precious little gift when the time comes.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
valentine's day party!
i'm sure most of you know that i teach preschool every day. i absolutely adore my job! i love love love making arts and crafts with my kids. i LOVE making cute things to decorate our classroom with and to send home with them for their parents to keep. holidays are by far some of my favorite things so i always go all out for them with crafts and with decorating. when i was working by myself at christmastime and had 18 kids on my own, i still won the holiday decorating contest that my school had. can you tell i make decorating a priority?! valentine's day is always a fun one to decorate for so over the past few weeks, april (my co-teacher) and i have been making tons of things with our kiddos. here are a few pictures from our valentine's day party and a few pics of things we made. i'm so blessed to be able to say that i genuinely love what i do everyday!
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