Showing posts with label janie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label janie. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Teenager Janie
Your life has changed me. The day you were born was like a new beginning for me too; a change that will forever lay soft upon my heart. Everything in my life is sweeter because of you. The days and fleeting moments with you are only a breath in time. They linger briefly and fly away on the wings of tomorrow. Thank you for making my life so much more than I ever imagined it could be. You are precious in every way; the sunshine in my day, the joy in my soul, and the love of my life.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Short weeks
Some observations from this week…
Short school weeks (Monday was a holiday – MLK Jr. Day) seem
to make for very long weeks….
I am addicted to Netflix. Binge-watching the entire LOST
series has left me kinda sad that there are no more episodes. Hugo is my fav
:)
The Walking Dead is a better show than I ever thought it
could be (here again is an attribution to my Netflix addiction). Thankfully it
isn’t over and it will start again on Valentine’s Day.
The new series Colony on USA overwhelmingly reminds me of
Hitler’s Holocaust and the images I have seen of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The
proxies remind me of the Third Reich. Even the flags that they have hanging in
the government buildings are reminiscent of the Swastika flags of the Nazis…
Janie’s friend Jorja is spending the night with her tonight
and we are taking them to Mobile tomorrow to watch the movie The 5th
Wave. I just watched the trailer for the movie and it looks like it is going to
be pretty good.
Si has been thoroughly acting like a two year old lately
(which makes perfect sense because he is two years old…). It is just about to
push me over the edge. It is hard to tell the difference in his my-stomach-hurts-so-I-am-going-to-scream
scream and his I-am-not-getting-my-way-so-I-am-going-to-scream scream… I am
getting a bit better. He is also hopefully starting to learn that as soon as I
figure out he is absolutely fine and he isn’t hurting or hungry there is hell
to pay…
:)
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Eleven years ago
I found this old entry I wrote when Janie was about 9 months old... Over eleven years ago!!!
10.12.2004 @ 10:57 am
everyday
janie is growing more and more curious every day. she can even stand up by herself now! well, maybe that isn't exactly correct... i have to stand her up, but she can stand there once someone else stands her up. understand?
she is also getting closer and closer to standing on her own literally. she will pull up to her knees. or she will put her hands down in front of her and straighten out her legs so that she is bent in an upside down "v". i keep worrying that she is going to topple over head first, but as far as i know, that has yet to happen.
she is getting more and more beautiful everyday.
Apparently I had an aversion to using any capital letters when I was blogging back then. It is so very strange to look back at entries from my old blog. It goes from 2004 to this year. Thorough the births of 2 children and two marriages. Through 2 c-sections (one very uneventful and another almost too eventful). Through 3 different jobs and a hundred different friends.
There are so many things that are different, but yet so many things are the same... It doesn't make me sad to read through my old entries, but it does make me feel as though I have grown. Grown as a teacher, as a wife and especially as a mother. It has a been an amazing journey so far and I can't wait to see where it goes next!!
10.12.2004 @ 10:57 am
everyday
janie is growing more and more curious every day. she can even stand up by herself now! well, maybe that isn't exactly correct... i have to stand her up, but she can stand there once someone else stands her up. understand?
she is also getting closer and closer to standing on her own literally. she will pull up to her knees. or she will put her hands down in front of her and straighten out her legs so that she is bent in an upside down "v". i keep worrying that she is going to topple over head first, but as far as i know, that has yet to happen.
she is getting more and more beautiful everyday.
Apparently I had an aversion to using any capital letters when I was blogging back then. It is so very strange to look back at entries from my old blog. It goes from 2004 to this year. Thorough the births of 2 children and two marriages. Through 2 c-sections (one very uneventful and another almost too eventful). Through 3 different jobs and a hundred different friends.
There are so many things that are different, but yet so many things are the same... It doesn't make me sad to read through my old entries, but it does make me feel as though I have grown. Grown as a teacher, as a wife and especially as a mother. It has a been an amazing journey so far and I can't wait to see where it goes next!!
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Saturday, March 28, 2015
1300 miles
Day 5: miles 1300 - Bristol, Virginia or Tennessee... Not sure... I am so ready to be back home. Or at least in Alabama. Si has been unbelievably good on this trip. He has a cough that is sounding worse every day though. Pretty sure the day we spent in Louisville out in the cold rain didn't help much. Janie has been an awesome help with Si. I hope she doesn't start to resent helping with him... Jason has needed a couple of attitude adjustments, but overall this has been a really good trip. Our original plans of being gone for 4 days has turned into 6, which means I am already stressing about school on Monday. But it will all work out and be fine ☺
Got to Knoxville later than I wanted to. Unpacked our bags in our 2 adjoining rooms (score for Janie-no couch sleeping tonight!) Jason decided we should go to Texas Roadhouse for supper. We walked in the door at 9:56. By 10:48 we still had no food. Then Jason started feeling sick. Not sniffles/cold sick. Like vertigo/can't see straight/gonna throw up sick. And he did. Throw up I mean. I shoved one of the buckets they serve peanuts in under his face and he filled it up. I almost couldn't stand beside him when he was puking because I was worried I might puke too. Janie scooped Si up and took him to another table away from us. (Yet more proof of how awesome she is). We didn't leave the restaurant until 11:30 because it took forever to get Jason to the truck. Oh and I got to drive the truck for the first time tonight. Not the ideal circumstance... I drove way too slow and almost hit one little white car. That's when the tears started. I was just overwhelmed. Finally got to the hotel and got Jason all the way back up to our room. Janie stayed with Si in the truck because I had to go back out to park the truck anyway. (The truck is now sitting in the far corner of the parking lot all by itself) she had him wrapped in a blanket laying in her lap. She is not perfect but she is as close as she can be sometimes... ❤
Got to Knoxville later than I wanted to. Unpacked our bags in our 2 adjoining rooms (score for Janie-no couch sleeping tonight!) Jason decided we should go to Texas Roadhouse for supper. We walked in the door at 9:56. By 10:48 we still had no food. Then Jason started feeling sick. Not sniffles/cold sick. Like vertigo/can't see straight/gonna throw up sick. And he did. Throw up I mean. I shoved one of the buckets they serve peanuts in under his face and he filled it up. I almost couldn't stand beside him when he was puking because I was worried I might puke too. Janie scooped Si up and took him to another table away from us. (Yet more proof of how awesome she is). We didn't leave the restaurant until 11:30 because it took forever to get Jason to the truck. Oh and I got to drive the truck for the first time tonight. Not the ideal circumstance... I drove way too slow and almost hit one little white car. That's when the tears started. I was just overwhelmed. Finally got to the hotel and got Jason all the way back up to our room. Janie stayed with Si in the truck because I had to go back out to park the truck anyway. (The truck is now sitting in the far corner of the parking lot all by itself) she had him wrapped in a blanket laying in her lap. She is not perfect but she is as close as she can be sometimes... ❤
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