Say What???

Friday as I was driving into Boise with Miss Magoo in the backseat I heard her singing to herself, which is nothing new for her. But as I started to listen closely to what she was singing I had to laugh. She was singing "Follow the Prophet" and when she got to the chorus instead of singing "follow the prophet and don't go a stray" she was singing" follow the Prophet and just hit a stray.." It made much more sense to her that way she says.

Life

Sometimes it feels like life is a seagull crapping on you. Today it feels like it hit me square in the eye.

My New Favorite Author

I have a new favorite author, Mary Pope Osborne, the author of “The Magic Tree House” series. I’ll admit to never having read an entire book of hers, just a couple of pages here and there. No, my son is the one that reads her books, he’s hooked. His 2nd grade teacher recommended Mrs. Pope Osborne’s books to me at our parent-teacher conference last Sept. She said they were just perfect for his age. And was she right. PJ devours her books, sometimes in one sitting. We recently found the books on cd, and he was in heaven. He pulled out the first book and proceeded to read along with the cd. He loves to tell me all about the latest book that he’s just finished reading, and I love to hear him get so excited about reading. Thank you Mary Pope Osborne for getting my son to love reading, you are my hero!

A New Year

I’ve really debated about if I was going to make any resolutions this year. See some years I’ve made them and haven’t even made it through the end of January before dumping them. And other years I haven’t made them but realized at the end of the year I did good on things that I had wanted to do good on, so good they really should have of been my goals all along. But this year I’ve decided to be simple with my goals for the year.

Be Happy, no REALLY happy

Stress less (which really goes along with being happy)

Smile more, give more hugs

Have more music around the house (just discovered Sirius on our TV, so cool!!)

Sing to my kids more, they don’t care that I can’t carry a tune

Dance with my husband, even if it’s just around the house

Read to my kids more.

Really that’s it, I want a more positive year. At the end of 2009 I want to look back a have some really great memories of the things that I did with my family.