The Last Lecture....

I read a book that my mom read. It was called the Last Lecture. Many of you may have heard of the man who gave the 'last lecture' or you may have read it already. I just wanted to put it out there that it was an excellent book. The ideas in the book that he gives of ways to be better or things to do in your life were very inspiring for me. There is a handful of the things that he talked about that he did that I have already applied in my own life. He was very inspirational. I will warn, if you haven't heard of it and you don't know about this man. He has cancer and knows he is going to die and is giving this last lecture. So its possible that you may cry and that's okay. I bawled my eyes out the last chapter. It's because if you also don't know, he has died as of today, which makes reading the book that much more intense. I felt the whole book was very inspirational and the last chapter was just a clincher of emotion and I bawled the whole way through it. I do recommend it since I was able to get so many things from the book. Let me know your thoughts if you have read it, or think about reading it, or are not going to read it and why?

The Twilight Series

Okay, I am doing this post especially for all those Twilight lovers out there! I read all 4 books. I completed them. I read the first 3 in I think it was 8 or 9 days. I can't remember. But that is a world record for me. That was the fastest I read any book and to read 3 in that amount of time. Whoa! So, I wasn't working and i could read in the daytime and the night. I had borrowed them from the library and I got the second book first and then when I got the first I had to read it quick in order to avoid having to return the second book and wait again forever for it. So, then I was wanting to find out what happened in the third book and got that right as I finished the second book and so I read it quickly as well. Phew! So then I had to wait like a week and a half or something for the last book. But I read them. I have meant to put up this post right when I finished them, but I didn't get around to it and then I started school. So, sadly for all you who are obsessed over it. I thought it was interesting and kind of a new twist to add to a love story. But honestly I didn't LOVE them. As cute as the Cullen's appear to be in the movie they were just okay for me. Its possible that the authors style of writing didn't just hit me or that those who followed it along as they came out or whatever the reason I didn't just love them to death (by a vampire...ha, ha, ha. I'm kidding, I thought that would be funny right there though!) I will talk about it and be excited for anyone that wants me to be about the movie coming out and whatever else. Just being honest with you all though, I didn't LOVE the books. :$

School, school, and more school

Well, I have been at work now for 3 full weeks. So far it has been very interesting. I am still adjusting and getting used to things. I have had some interesting encounters with the teacher, funny enough, more than with the kids. My schedule is good. It's 7:30 to 3:30. Normally, I don't think I would be real hyped up about the idea of getting up to be at work by 7:30. For anyone who doesn't know, I am NOT a morning person, in the least. Lately though I have not struggled as much with getting up earlier. So, it works out to get up and get to work and then finish with time left in the afternoon. The next good thing is that work is only 6 min away. From the time we leave the house to the time I get out of the car. (I still can't drive and so Stephen is dropping me off.) So, its nice that travel time is less than 15 min for the whole trip. Also, it works out that since I can't drive and Stephen is not always able to pick me up, I am able to put in my exercise time and walk home. It takes about 40 minutes for me to walk it. So that's great! Now there is a morning class and an afternoon class. The morning class they are only 3 years old and the afternoon class is 4 year olds. There is only 4 students in each morning and afternoon. So 8 total kids that we work with. The morning class is farther behind, since they have not been in a school type setting for a year which most of the 4 year olds already have. I think all the kids are so cute. Its nice that there is only 4 at a time to work with so you get to see there personalities more and there cuteness is more apparent then it possibly would be in a bigger group. Its been a lot of fun to work in a school setting. This is my first time working in a school setting and its been fun. Its interesting going from working with the parents and how they are treating the kids to just getting to work with the kids. My job is also, more of the play with the kids and get in there in the middle of it. So, its been fun in those ways. There's the added aspect of the focus being getting the kids to talk and saying things so you can understand them. That's also a fun aspect. I'm enjoying all the time and efforts and experiences that I'm getting with the kids. Like I said the interesting encounters are with the teacher. Hopefully with time these encounters will lessen. For the time I try to focus as much as I can on the kids. :)

Its been a LONG time!!!

Well, its been sometime now since I have been on our blog. I haven't been on in some time that Stephen has put posts and I didn't know it and was shocked when I saw them today!!! I thought I would give some explanation to the first post he put.



So the big pocket! I borrowed some sewing books from the library a while back and I finally decided to see if I could figure out how to use my sewing machine. The books were really old and they were not helping. I ended up realizing I had an instructional book that came with my sewing machine. I hadn't looked at it very closely in the past and so this time I did. It helped me get my sewing machine so I could sew.
A long time ago a friend gave me some scraps of fabric she had and was not going to use. So I picked out 3 little pieces and just started sewing. I was trying to put it together so it would end up looking like a bag. Well, Stephen walked over to me and simply said, "Are you making a big pocket." I started laughing and told him what I was doing. I decided to go ahead and just call it a pocket. Since it was so cute of him to think I was making a big pocket. I was very proud of myself that I was able to put some pieces of fabric together and have it come out somewhat like a bag. If you look close enough the sides ended up where the 'insides' are out. So the 'pockets' not perfect, but it could hold things and Stephen was proud of me! So its now on to my next sewing project. :)



What a darling pocket I have!!!