dinner & a movie

i woke up this morning with every good intention. the goal:have a wonderful day.

after a night of baking cookies and studying for my bible study lesson i was already pretty groggy, but i pressed on.

i could write about my exhausting day . . . but i'd rather write about my peaceful Tuesday night.

Deciding what type of sushi roll to devour can sometimes prove to be tricky. I had already decided last week, when i originally made my date to meet up with a good friend for sushi and a movie that i was going to partake of a Sweet Heart Roll. YUM!! now the dilemma was deciding if i wanted gyoza or shumai and what roll would compliment my Sweet Roll on my bamboo platter. i ended up enjoying a Sweet Heart Roll, a Crunchy Roll and Shumai. i can taste it now . . .

After dinner we went to see "The Secret Life of Bees"
Fantastic film. i laughed . . . i cried . . . i talked to the screen. Teen Dakota was amazing. Jennifer Hudson did an incredible job in her second film, if her Oscar wasn't proof enough that she is going to be around for a while, this movie definitely did. I was so proud of Alicia Keys and her diesel portrayal of June Boatwright. I want to know how they made her bald though. It really looked like they cut her hair. Finally Queen. Oh Queen. She was great.

So i give the Secret Life of Bees a FIVE out of 5 buckets-o-popcorn.

=)

Jan loves the kids!

ok, so i'm trying to meet my blog-a-day goal that i set for myself that i am starting to think was slightly unrealistic. but here we go.

my thought for the day is . . . "cherish the time you have with your children."

i know that seems simple and cliche, but as i was dropping my kiddies off at school this morning and we performed our morning ritual: Devyn kisses me on the cheek and throws his arm around my neck and says, "bye mom. have a good day." and i say i love you! have a good day devyn." then comes little Ari in her mousy little voice, "i love you mommy. have a good day. bye! i love you!" and she kisses me on my cheek, then she shoves her cheek into my mouth for a kiss. i suffocate a little. then they both hop out of the car and hit the sidewalk. one rolling a back pack, the other struggling with a back pack that is as big as she. Ari stops and turns around and waves at me then she blows me a kiss and blow her one back. and then all of a sudden everything just stopped.

it was as if the earth stopped spinning. the wind stopped blowing. and even for a second my heart stopped beating and i felt a sadness. i felt time leaving me. i caught a glimpse of my family watching Ari walk across the stage and receive her high school diploma and i was wondering where time had gone. where their lives had gone. how it all just flashed by me in an instance. and just a tear was about to cascade down my cheek . . . i snapped out of it.

i wanted to jump out of the driver's seat, run and grab my babies and squeeze them and never let go so that they would stop growing. i managed to keep it together as they walked into the building.

we might be watching a stupid kiddie movie or awful disney program together tonight though. all of us on the couch . . . under one blanket. =)

my blogging Goal

well the purpose of this blog was to flex my writing muscles because i have been out of practice for almost 10 years now. that's so crazy to say. but honestly i have. i have whipped out an poem here and there, but nothing super serious. so if i am going to take this writing a book thing serious then i need to buckle down.

my new blogging Goal is to blog everyday. i know you're thinking i am crazy because my current frequency is like once every two or three or four weeks! yikes! but i am going to do it.

My plan is either to write first thing in the morning, or last thing before i go to bed at night.

so this may mean that i can't get on facebook or youtube first thing or that i may have to stop playing Diner Dash 10 minutes earlier, but i AM going to do it!

I CAN DO IT!!