Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
NKOTB and ME 20 years later!
While I was in the hospital having Ryleigh, Adam gave me an envelope with 4 tickets to the New Kids on the Block concert here in Noblesville! While it has been 20 years since my last New Kids concert, nobody worry, I picked up right where I left off! I still knew EVERY single word to all their OLD songs!
I took my friends, Tanya, Jenni and Amanda (who by the way has been to 3 nkotb concerts in the last few months!)
We saw some doozy fans-girls our age decked out in their finest 80's outfits and some even bringing their own teenage daughters to experience the nostalgia with them!
All and all..it was nice, for a few hours, to be 9 years old again...
I took my friends, Tanya, Jenni and Amanda (who by the way has been to 3 nkotb concerts in the last few months!)
We saw some doozy fans-girls our age decked out in their finest 80's outfits and some even bringing their own teenage daughters to experience the nostalgia with them!
All and all..it was nice, for a few hours, to be 9 years old again...
Monday, June 22, 2009
A lesson in being NICE.
Growing up, there was a girl in my class named Opal Harmon. I went to school with Opal from the time we were in Kindergarten to Graduation. Opal was a very quiet girl, who probably came from a home that didn't have alot of money. Bless her heart, she wore clothes that didn't match and was often sent home due to lice.
The kids in our class were awful to her. INCLUDING ME. We would stand feet away from her in lunch line and coined the phrase "OPAL GERMS" We would purposely leave her off our birthday invitation list-even when we were inviting the entire class. Nobody wanted to sit by her and she was often the BUTT of many jokes.
She never retaliated. She just took it from us.
As I got older, I really felt bad about how I treated her as a child. I always made an effort to speak to her in our later school years. I hoped she had forgiven me. I never told her I was sorry.
Now that I am a mommy-my heart breaks for both Opal and her Mom. I wonder if she went home all those days after school crying and hurt by all the mean things we did to her, and how that mom must have felt defenseless and her heart might have ached knowing kids were being so mean.
I felt compelled to tell Cassity about Opal today. She is about to start Kindergarten and I suspect there will be an "Opal" in her class. I suggested to Cass, that while you don't have to be best buddies with everyone, that it is very important to treat EVERYONE with respect and kindness no matter who they are.
I told her about how Jesus wants us to love everyone like HE loves us.
I do not wish for Cassity to be a bully. I do not wish for her to be bullied. I want her to have a gentleness and a tender heart for everyone!
I hope that Cassity learned a lesson in my story today..and it sticks with her forever!
Maybe I relearned an important lesson today!
The kids in our class were awful to her. INCLUDING ME. We would stand feet away from her in lunch line and coined the phrase "OPAL GERMS" We would purposely leave her off our birthday invitation list-even when we were inviting the entire class. Nobody wanted to sit by her and she was often the BUTT of many jokes.
She never retaliated. She just took it from us.
As I got older, I really felt bad about how I treated her as a child. I always made an effort to speak to her in our later school years. I hoped she had forgiven me. I never told her I was sorry.
Now that I am a mommy-my heart breaks for both Opal and her Mom. I wonder if she went home all those days after school crying and hurt by all the mean things we did to her, and how that mom must have felt defenseless and her heart might have ached knowing kids were being so mean.
I felt compelled to tell Cassity about Opal today. She is about to start Kindergarten and I suspect there will be an "Opal" in her class. I suggested to Cass, that while you don't have to be best buddies with everyone, that it is very important to treat EVERYONE with respect and kindness no matter who they are.
I told her about how Jesus wants us to love everyone like HE loves us.
I do not wish for Cassity to be a bully. I do not wish for her to be bullied. I want her to have a gentleness and a tender heart for everyone!
I hope that Cassity learned a lesson in my story today..and it sticks with her forever!
Maybe I relearned an important lesson today!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
RETRO WEEK
I was looking at my old blog and found some posts I made during my pregnancy with Jared and found myself comforted and entertained by my very own words..
So this week I am going to REWIND and post some of my old blogs...
I hope you get a kick out of them as much as I have!
Thursday, 06 April 2006
i think i might have stolen $10.01 in gas from the shell station. i swiped our debit card, it asked me debit or credit, so i hit the debit button, and it didnt work, then i hit the credit button to see if it worked...it did but it took forever! so i got my gas, and finished and it asked me if i wanted a car wash...i hit no, and of corse it didnt work, so i started hitting yes and then i just hit cancel. NONE OF THEM WORKED....i just stood there looking at the pump. all of a sudden it all cleared...so in the moment i thought "oh it must have went through" and got in the car and drove away.
the more i think of it the more i think that maybe the cancel key worked and just cleared what i did, and that maybe i should have went in and checked with the cashier...i have worried all night about it. adam says they wont arrest me for 10$ in gas--but cant you just see it now..." A PREGNANT WOMAN CLOSELY RESEMBLING BENJIMAN FRANKLIN WAS SEEN FLEEING FROM THE GAS PUMP-IF YOU SEE HER OR HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHORITIES"
Reports have been submitted that she is at the local Dairy Queen eating a Brownie Batter Blizzard...
ah just another day in paradise.
Tuesday 21, February 2006
27 weeks pregnant....got to get to 40 weeks....and im spent! if there is senioritis in pregnancy i have it! and im not even in the 3rd trimester yet (next week i will be) adam and i have started this strict budget with ourselves...it should be interesting! we have specific amounts of money set aside each week and we are trying to see if we can stick to it! yipee! it wont be any big deal to me b/c i only buy groceries and gas...ah the life i lead! (however ill probably start taking a calculator to the store with me to make sure i dont go over....what are the items that i should put back if i go over? swiss cake rolls or eggs...really that is a tough one!)
im going to take cassity to the library today and get a membership--its free! (which is in the budget!) i am thinkin of joining the Rory Book club off the Gilmore Girls website...is that nerdy? probably. seeing as though the last thing i read was probably the great gatsby in JUNIOR ENGLISH class in high school...sadly. here is the deal...anytime i think of reading a book they come out with the movie! then why read it? how is this for lazy--im tempted to buy books on cd --you know where the author reads it to you! that sounds much easier!
i have to share one final thought...kerry sent us a pic of what she thinks our bridesmaids dresses are going to be...the dress is beautiful...(i might wear it to prom this year...oh wait..i mean.....walmartsince that is the only place i ever go) anyway they named it Darlene...my question is how does one come up with a name for a dress...what is the thought process? are there strict standards and guidelines of naming a dress? could you name it after your mom or you favorite teacher...let me know what you think.
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
if i have to go chasing my trash down our street one more time...i think i am going to ram a pen in my eye......i think my neighbors are getting a kick out of seeing me run down my street with adams tennis shoes on.....WHATS WITH WIND TODAY? i think old man winter is on vacation this year...he thinks its spring....i mean to look outside you would think it would be cold...but you'd be wrong...its like a march day! maybe it will just be a mild winter this year...i feel some what cheated...i went to get cass some snow boots thinkin it would be cheaper after christmas...and what do my wondering eyes do appear....FREAKING FLIP FLOPS! has time got away from me? must have.
Go Fly a KITE!
Tuesday, 08 November 2005
well my birthday turned out just magical. it was my first day back at the Y since my OCTOBER OF PUKE made itself known...i did really well...as cassity and i were leaving it hit me like a ton of bricks...I HAVE TO PUKE! i live 10 min. from the Y and thought surely i can make it home....i had the windows down...the radio was blarring...i was taking deep breaths...i made it to our subdivision and to the road i live on and HURLED right there on the side of the road in a O CHARLEYs TOGO bag...who knew trash in your car would come in handy...cassity from the back seat kept saying SICK SICK SICK...MOMMY SICK...its hard to puke when you are buckled and trying to be unabtrusive(sp?)...plus your toddler is crackin you up! we got home and i slept for 3 hours...adam got home and i basiclly went to bed...it was one for the history books...ugh!
tonight was a good gilmore girls...they have been really slow lately...i have been pretty bummed...but tonight changed all of that...i will be tuning in on the edge of my seat from now on!
well its 9 im off to bed...im one crazy party girl...
So this week I am going to REWIND and post some of my old blogs...
I hope you get a kick out of them as much as I have!
Thursday, 06 April 2006
i think i might have stolen $10.01 in gas from the shell station. i swiped our debit card, it asked me debit or credit, so i hit the debit button, and it didnt work, then i hit the credit button to see if it worked...it did but it took forever! so i got my gas, and finished and it asked me if i wanted a car wash...i hit no, and of corse it didnt work, so i started hitting yes and then i just hit cancel. NONE OF THEM WORKED....i just stood there looking at the pump. all of a sudden it all cleared...so in the moment i thought "oh it must have went through" and got in the car and drove away.
the more i think of it the more i think that maybe the cancel key worked and just cleared what i did, and that maybe i should have went in and checked with the cashier...i have worried all night about it. adam says they wont arrest me for 10$ in gas--but cant you just see it now..." A PREGNANT WOMAN CLOSELY RESEMBLING BENJIMAN FRANKLIN WAS SEEN FLEEING FROM THE GAS PUMP-IF YOU SEE HER OR HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHORITIES"
Reports have been submitted that she is at the local Dairy Queen eating a Brownie Batter Blizzard...
ah just another day in paradise.
Tuesday 21, February 2006
27 weeks pregnant....got to get to 40 weeks....and im spent! if there is senioritis in pregnancy i have it! and im not even in the 3rd trimester yet (next week i will be) adam and i have started this strict budget with ourselves...it should be interesting! we have specific amounts of money set aside each week and we are trying to see if we can stick to it! yipee! it wont be any big deal to me b/c i only buy groceries and gas...ah the life i lead! (however ill probably start taking a calculator to the store with me to make sure i dont go over....what are the items that i should put back if i go over? swiss cake rolls or eggs...really that is a tough one!)
im going to take cassity to the library today and get a membership--its free! (which is in the budget!) i am thinkin of joining the Rory Book club off the Gilmore Girls website...is that nerdy? probably. seeing as though the last thing i read was probably the great gatsby in JUNIOR ENGLISH class in high school...sadly. here is the deal...anytime i think of reading a book they come out with the movie! then why read it? how is this for lazy--im tempted to buy books on cd --you know where the author reads it to you! that sounds much easier!
i have to share one final thought...kerry sent us a pic of what she thinks our bridesmaids dresses are going to be...the dress is beautiful...(i might wear it to prom this year...oh wait..i mean.....walmartsince that is the only place i ever go) anyway they named it Darlene...my question is how does one come up with a name for a dress...what is the thought process? are there strict standards and guidelines of naming a dress? could you name it after your mom or you favorite teacher...let me know what you think.
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
if i have to go chasing my trash down our street one more time...i think i am going to ram a pen in my eye......i think my neighbors are getting a kick out of seeing me run down my street with adams tennis shoes on.....WHATS WITH WIND TODAY? i think old man winter is on vacation this year...he thinks its spring....i mean to look outside you would think it would be cold...but you'd be wrong...its like a march day! maybe it will just be a mild winter this year...i feel some what cheated...i went to get cass some snow boots thinkin it would be cheaper after christmas...and what do my wondering eyes do appear....FREAKING FLIP FLOPS! has time got away from me? must have.
Go Fly a KITE!
Tuesday, 08 November 2005
well my birthday turned out just magical. it was my first day back at the Y since my OCTOBER OF PUKE made itself known...i did really well...as cassity and i were leaving it hit me like a ton of bricks...I HAVE TO PUKE! i live 10 min. from the Y and thought surely i can make it home....i had the windows down...the radio was blarring...i was taking deep breaths...i made it to our subdivision and to the road i live on and HURLED right there on the side of the road in a O CHARLEYs TOGO bag...who knew trash in your car would come in handy...cassity from the back seat kept saying SICK SICK SICK...MOMMY SICK...its hard to puke when you are buckled and trying to be unabtrusive(sp?)...plus your toddler is crackin you up! we got home and i slept for 3 hours...adam got home and i basiclly went to bed...it was one for the history books...ugh!
tonight was a good gilmore girls...they have been really slow lately...i have been pretty bummed...but tonight changed all of that...i will be tuning in on the edge of my seat from now on!
well its 9 im off to bed...im one crazy party girl...
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