Wondering....

So I tried three times today to tell someone I love them.  Simply because I do.  But I have found that I deleted the text time and again, because I felt that it was not acceptable to tell this person that I loved him.  Yet I love him.  Why have we as individuals allowed love to become a "bad" thing.  Something that can only be associated with sleeping with someone?  

Just a bit about my life. :)

Today was a wonderful day.  I got up early for church this morning. I went to  Sunday School with my daughter.  The teacher talked to us about the essentials of Salvation.  She also spent some time telling us all about her shoe collection.  It was a fun class.  After SS we went to church.  At church the preacher talked about what it was like to have a real Pentecostal experience.  I totally agreed with the preacher.
After SS we went to lunch with my mom and my cousin.  We enjoyed some quality family time, then went back home.  After we arrived home, Sami and I read her newest book, "Who was Helen Keller".  After reading she practiced her violin.  When she was done practicing she gave me my violin lesson.  It is quite fun to play the violin.   I'll see if I can get a picture or video on here of us playing. :)
Sweet dreams!
Sandy

Book Review on Deborah Heal's new book.

I realize that the book "Time and Again" by Deborah Heal is a novel for young adults.  I also realize that I am not so young anymore.  But I do enjoy reading a good book even if it is for a different age group than I am currently.  I met Ms. Heal today and really enjoyed her company and her knowledge of the area and time period about which she was writing.  I had decided that I was going to like this book before I even read it.  That decision was based on her personality and her disposition.  

Then I read the book.  By page 2 I was hooked.  I didn't want to leave the library where the book signing was being held because it was good and I knew I wouldn't have a chance to read it again for awhile.  So I read as much as I could before I left the library, then I went home and continued my daily business as quickly as possible so I would be able to read more of the book. I finished everything and then sat down to watch football and maybe read during the commercials.  That didn't happen, I read the book and watched the highlights of the football game.  

I loved her writing style.  She is not superfluous. She is very descriptive and I believe that I know exactly what the house in the story looked like.  She described the house as having "soul".  I connected with the book at first because the child in the story was so difficult to get along with. I am facing that very thing in my life right now.  I enjoyed getting the view point of the child in this situation.  It made me open my eyes and see why a child might act the way they act to a stranger. Even if that stranger is their caregiver.  I also enjoyed the fact that she brought the characters to life.  She talked about their experiences at the snow cone place in their town.  She explained how it felt to get lost in a small town. She brilliantly described how it felt to meet a tall, dark and Handsome stranger.  I know exactly how the teacher in the book felt about not wanting to get involved while she was working.  

You can find this author and her work at www.deborahheal.com

She is also on facebook.  

Thanks for reading.

Sandy

I had a Great day today.

I went to the library today and I got about 67 books for 5 dollars.  I also downloaded a new app for my Iphone.  It records all of my books.  It is such a simple app to use.  I scan the ISBN barcode on my books and it automatically (99% of the time) enters information about the books.  I am simply excited about this new app.  I have saved over a hundred books today in less than an hour.   I have been trying to do this for years. Handwriting all the books and the authors and trying to get them in alphabetical order... oh my goodness I would start and then stop and then start again with some lost books... I can't wait to have more free time to be able to work on this again.  

To Thine Own Self Be True?

Shakespeare's saying has been much debated over the years about what it needs.  I do not know the meaning or the reason that Shakespeare wrote these words, but I do know that today I do not feel as if I am being true.  I know, that I have to make some major decisions about my life and I have to make them soon.  I put in an application today.  Not at a school as I had hoped to do, but at Edward Jones.  I also signed up to college at SWIC again.  It was not an easy decision.  I have to have a better job, and soon, but I was hoping that it would be in a school.  I cannot imagine liking a job working at Edward Jones. I feel as if I am walking away from a dream. Mom says I will really like working at Edward Jones and I should give it a try. Maybe she is right. 

Three Wooden Crosses

I was listening to The song by Randy Travis the other day, called Three Wooden Crosses. This song has always seemed a "bit" strange to me, but I still like it. I like the line about it not being what you take when you leave, but what you leave behind. That has always struck a cord in my heart. But as I was listening to the song, I realized the line about the teacher leaving her wisdom in the hearts of little children and doing her best to give them a better start really reached out to me today. I am praying that I do that for each of the children that I am privileged to teach. I know that I cannot teach them directly from God's Word, but I can teach them that their is more to this life than just knowledge. A person can give you knowledge, but it is very difficult to learn Wisdom and Understanding. This is what I want to leave for my children. Wisdom and Understanding. We read in Proverbs 4:7 KJV "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." So to me this getting of wisdom is very important. The getting of understanding is also very important.

I pray that God will help me impart this to my children in a very special way.

Sandy

I had forgotten

Wow I had so forgotten about this blog. :) I guess I need to keep up with it a little more. I am back in college now. I LOVE it. Can you imagine anyone liking school as much as I do. I am well on my way to becoming a Special Education Teacher. I will have a MAT in the summer of 2011. It is so close now I am a bit afraid of it. I found a new web site tonight that I really really like. It is http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html This site has some really really amazing things for teachers on it.

Some Sami pictures.

We went for a walk today on the bluff.
Sami was playing airplane with Dad