Happy Birthday Again
Happy Ninth Birthday to my beautiful Tyler!
Almost exactly three years apart - minus a hour and a half.
August 31, 2007
August 30, 2007
Happy Birthday
Happy Sixth Birthday to my beautiful Joey!
Just had to get that out!
August 16, 2007
Yeah, We like the Doctor
Tyler drew this before Christmas last year. Too cool.
July 21, 2007
Trippin' down the lane of memory
Old photos turn up in the strangest places.... One day, my past in photos will be organized. Until then… remember when?
July 9, 2007
Happy Birthday
My extraordinarily beautiful daughter (she had to have been switched at birth!) turns four today.
Yeah!
Happy Birthday!
March 16, 2007
Super Husband
March 14, 2007
9 Years
Happy Anniversary
Happy Anniversary
Happy Anniversary
January 1, 2007
Happy New Year!
Happy Birthday, to my wonderful, supportive, handsome husband, Thomas!
Resolutions? We don't need no stinkin' resolutions!
December 24, 2006
There is a Santa...
When I was little the most traumatic thought for me was not that there wasn't a Santa Claus ('cause really, how many kids figure it out all on their own before the age of six?).
No, my horror was losing the magic of being a kid. Once you grow up, you lose the ability to imagine, to play, to see the fairies, to be filled by an indescribable magic...I want to see the fairies all of my life.
I’ve seen enough magic in my life to believe and to never stop. I have enough faith in my religion to not question the existence of miracles. And on some level, not only do I hope that I will never truly grow up, but I also hope that everyone will retain a little childishness deep within. Because when you lose the child, you lose the fantasy, the belief, the faith…you lose the fairies...
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
January 13, 2006
Happy Friday the 13th
Despite the superstitions, Friday the 13th has been good for my husband and I since we met.
So here I am wishing everyone good luck on this usually unlucky day.
May you be blind to the bad little things in life and open to the good little things that find you.
You know, great parking, being on time, green light instead of red light, finding something you thought you'd lost, the smile of your child, the touch from your spouse, rain if you need it, sunshine if you don't...all these good things are what you should be seeing today.
All the bad things...should be ignored.
January 7, 2006
Learning new stuff even when not in school!
Sweet!
I just figured out how to schedule posts or save them to publish later. (Actually, I figured it out last week!) It pays to play around. Especially when you're not as computer savy as the rest of the world. So while I'm supposed to be catching up on my cleaning before school starts, I'm scheduling future posts so I can give the appearance of being on top of things.
I wonder when I'll get to updating the family website...
January 5, 2006
THANKS KEVIN!
By the way, Kev. I do want to thank you for helping me change the look. I love this purple one. I feel so computer illiterate sometimes. But you are awesome! Thanks.
January 1, 2006
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I first have to wish my husband a Happy Birthday! Yep, he was born on the first day of January.
Sidebar: I (and some others apparently) think my husband has a striking resemblence to Val Kilmer. So when we first got married I checked out the famous guy. What we think is interesting is that Val was born on December 31 exactly ten years before Thomas.
Now for the New Year part...
I don't post very often generally because I don't have a lot of time to just type. Usually when I'm on the computer, I have my 2-year-old daughter on my lap begging for attention. I usually have to wait until my husband comes home to do actual work.
Yet the deeper reason is because I know that very few people read this anyway. And that's my fault. I haven't really "advertised". I think that the past year was merely cracking my shell rather than coming out of it.
So...here's one New Year's Resolution: Actually tell people that I have a blog and I don't mind them reading it.
Of course, I think that my first step will be small and simple. I will put the link on my email signature and find out if that actually works.
Wish me luck.
December 16, 2004
Dull, boring, school report
Just have to update: I got word from my math teacher. "Drum roll please" I got an A as the final grade. GPA went up! Talk about celebrating now! I passed math with an A. I'm just way too excited.
Yeah, finals are over! I'm totally celebrating because after almost ten years out of school and a very lackluster gpa when I did go, (as of right this minute before the math grade is posted) I have a 3.5. Even after my English teacher ripped me a couple of new ones in the last few weeks (the first time in my life that's ever happened! I cried for an entire morning the first time!-what's with the actual caring? I never cared before.) I still pulled a B in her class.
As for math: well, those of you who know me, know exactly how I feel about math. I've tried three times to take the basic college algebra core course. This time I stuck it out with a very cool teacher who explained things on a level which I could understand. The final exam will only determine whether I have an A or a B. (so much more than I had hoped for) How's that coming from a 57 on the first of four tests this semester! To the math gods from hell and especially the algebra demons, a very haughty HA! I never have to take another math class again! That knowledge is a very special high point in my life.
I don't know if I can thank my husband enough. He's exhibited a level of patience previously unknown to him and a level of support I don't deserve. He's inspired me to do this and maintained such a positive attitude I don't know if I could have kept this up without him.
So my first semester is finished and if I keep it up, I can have a couple of degrees and be on my way to a doctorate in less than 5 years. So yes, I will celebrate each little success. I've been a college drop out and (only) a stay at home wife and mother for too long. Now it's so time to take care of me. Besides in the long run it benefits the family. I only have to determine how much of this is for me and how much of it's for them. Because, as I told my husband, I have everything I've ever wanted out of life. Education for me is only the icing. That I can do this is a gift that I'm not going to return.
Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas and every other thing being celebrated at this miraculous time of year.