Soundtrack

So, if you're like me you love chick flicks. I love how they make you feel. For some reason they just have the perfect way of drawing you in to this make-believe world. I especially love the way I feel when a scene from the movie is set to some cool song. Songs are so wonderful at flooding us with emotion. I have often wondered what it would be like if my life was set to a song. A soundtrack of sorts. You know, like a theme song.

It's been a rather full last few days and my poor family had no food in the house, so tonight, after the kids went to bed, I went grocery shopping. I'm not sure why we attach the word shopping to it because to me that is not shopping. Anyway, I had my ipod in the car and decided to listen to it while I walked through the store. It was like being in a movie! My life, well the part at Wal-Mart, finally had a soundtrack. I picked my playlist entiltled "favorites" and just got lost in all the music. It actually made something that I absolutely loathe, quite bearable. Not to mention, sometimes I forgot I was at the store and would catch myself singing a little too loud.

I'm sure you are now wondering what is this randomness all about. Well, just to say, enjoy the small seemingly mundane moments. It seems like those are the times, if we get quiet, He speaks to us. You see, on my ipod there is a compilation of a wide variety of music and artists, but on my favorites list it's mostly praise and worship music. So my little moment at Wal-Mart was more than just grocery shopping. It was a really neat experience where I watched the world around me happen, but was oblivious. I wasn't tuned in to anything else. So, for whatever it's worth I wanted to share. You should try it some time...I think it was the first time I went to buy groceries and there was zero frustration...I didn't even care that there were only two registers open. That just meant more soundtrack for me!

Psalms 40:3 (MSG)
He taught me how to sing the latest God-song, a praise-song to our
God. More and more people are seeing this: they enter the mystery,
abandoning themselves to God.

Goodbye All...

Title gotcha right? That was the point! Anyway, I started Nursing school this week. It's exciting, overwhelming, impossible, and completely invigorating all at the same time. I am totally loving being in school and learning...I know, big nerd! I wanted to post this to say goodbye to all of you who know me...apparently, this will be my life for the next five semesters. So, I hope you will all forgive me if I don't return phone calls, don't come to events, and have a glazed over look all the time. Those are the signs and symptoms (new phrase I learned today) of a nursing student. Right now, I am just trying to process a lot of information and I am trying to figure out how people do this. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger, right? Those of you who know me, know I am very much a type A person. So yesterday, when my teacher said..."if you are used to getting A's, get over it," I was shocked, disappointed, and scared. What does she mean, get over it? I have always been quite critical of myself when it comes to grades and have rather high expectations. I am trying to let her words sink in...so far they aren't. I don't like it when people tell me I can't do something. Nonetheless, I will try my best to prove this teacher wrong and try to adapt the motto of all my nursing mentors.........RN=C! Not quite Einstein's formula, but one I will have to grow to like. I'll keep you posted.....and maybe I will see all of you again in 2010!

Anyone for a game of cards?

I just had to post this! Yesterday Cole was doing something, don't really remember what, but I was having to get on to him for something. He has been looking forward to a big olympics party tonight with all of his buddies from school and so I told him that he wasn't going to the party if he didn't play his cards right. He then said...."what cards are you talking about?" Of course then the whole seriousness of the moment was gone and Barrett and I roared with laughter. Kids say the funniest things! I love their honesty!

Toys...who needs toys?

So this is what she does. She has lots of toys, I mean lots, but the only time she ever touches them is if she is emptying them onto the floor. You can see from the pictures below what she does. We call her destructo. She moves from one thing to the next "undoing". Not sure what the fascination is, but you can't stop her. Just as soon as you get one mess cleaned up she's on to the next. I only caught her in the act of this first one, but the rest of the pics are what she leaves behind.
She pulls off the letters on the fridge one by one and chunks them as far as she can!
This is the extent she plays with her toys. Notice the basket is totally empty. Usually she is up on her knees throwing the toys over her shoulder one at a time until her mission is accomplished.
She loves electronics. Phones, remotes you name it she's intrigued. Just after I snapped this picture I had to hang up the phone because she had dialed numbers and it was ringing. I hope it wasn't long distance!

First day

So I officially have 2 children in school. WOW! Can't believe I'm that old or is it that just time flies? Either way today Cole started first grade and LB started kindergarten. My how the time has flown. Here are a few pics of the big day! It was nice that Cole already knew what to do and could lead LB around. I asked both of them what their favorite thing about today was. Cole said playing games and lunch. (Gotta love boys and the fact that food is always near the top). LB said she loved the bus because there were no seatbelts! Of all the things that make kindergarten, or really school in general, fun I never would have thought it would be no seatbelts on the bus. So here begins another chapter in the Edgeworth household...

Long Time No Post

Thought I would post these fun pictures of Leah and her first time with spaghetti. Check out the picture of her diaper and all the spaghetti in it!