Well, it is the time of year where I begin to slow down and think about what is really important. To reevaluate life and what I am here to do. I don't know why it takes spring time maybe due to the newness of everything around.
The girls and I enjoyed today-- a Mother's Day Weekend!!! We went to the pool at the rec. center than all four of us went for a walk around the neighborhood. It was great to be out and slowing down to enjoying one another. I love being a mom and a wife I think more than anything on this earth. I know that I am not the best mom in the world but I do know that I give it my best and I love my girls.
Chris and I ran over to Publix to get me whatever I wanted to eat for dinner- I went through enjoying myself as if I were a child in a candy shop. I got a fresh salad, blackberries, seafood salad and cheesecake:) I didn't need the cheesecake but it sure is good - I am eating it right now! He asked if I wanted to go out, to go order, or what!! I just wanted to get hodgepodge of fresh foods and enjoy a night at home.
What am I reading right now? I have finished Pride and Prejudice (I think I could read it again) and I have started on Sense and Sensibility. I watched The Jane Austin Book Club the other evening (I should say night). I want to see Becoming Jane but it has not been returned to the library yet. I have it reserved so when it comes in I will get to watch it. I can't believe that I like Jane Austen's books. If you would have asked me twenty years ago to read this I would have laughed at you. I have a lot on my reading list this summer for enjoyment and professionally. I love reading and I owe all of that to my grandmother, my dad, and my sister's (for our walks to the Pineville Library which is one of the best memories I have of growing up). My grandmother and I use to drive to a trade bookstore in Pineville and load up on books!!! I now give her my books each summer when I get finished with a bunch of them. What a wonderful gift-- maybe that is why I love teaching others to read.
I have to share with you what one of my Reading Recovery students said to me the other day. We are finishing up the year and I was doing some assessments on him and telling him that soon he would be graduating from my class because he had become such a great reader. He looked at me with his great big blue eyes and said NO!!! With astonishment I said-- why NO? He said because he loved coming to me and reading-- It was such a great feeling!!!
Fun-- not that is what reading is no matter what kind of reading we are doing
Can you believe that it has been 4 years since we have moved up here!!! I am amazed!! We love it here. This was a good decision for all of us. Four years ago when we were preparing to leave Jasper, Kristin would have jumped out of the car and ran back to Jasper. Now you ask her or Hannah if they would like to return to Jasper and live and they say no way!! (that isn't a slam on Jasper- just a description of how much we have adjusted to being her). Kristin is finishing her last two weeks of middle school-- I am going to have a High Schooler - breathe, breathe, breathe!!! I will make it but it will only be with God's help. I wish I could back up time. I want her to be four again!!
Okay, enough before I start crying!! I am having hard enough time with my allergies so crying isn't going to help any. Well, I am going to leave you all for now. I think I will go crawl in the bed and read with the girls. Chris is watching the NASCAR race and I am needing some mommy time from my girls.
Prayer List: (these are some of my prayers lately) friends moving to be missionaries (that their house will sell and they can get their finances ready), an old friend desiring to have another child (she has one child but her heart is yearning for another), Miss Beasley's hip, God's hand in the future, and His blessings.
Love all of you!!!
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