Up, Close and Personal with Meghan

I shamelessly stole this from someone else's blog...I knew Meghan would get a kick out of it. Maybe I'll do Gavin and Addy soon too...

What's your favorite thing to do? Read and write


What's your favorite movie? Any Veggie Tale Movie


If you could paint your room any color, what color would it be? Yellow (which its NOT!)

What do you want to be when you grow up? A writer


Who's your favorite person? Miss Duchemin (her 1st grade teacher)


If you could be called by any name, what would you be called? Mimi (this is her nickname she always called herself when she was 1 and 2 yo. It still creeps in sometimes and we use it :)).


Who's your favorite character in the Bible? Jesus


If you had $5 what would you buy? Make Up


What's your favorite thing to eat? Hard boiled eggs

What's your favorite dessert? Butterfingers (I don't remember her having one but she says she has!)

Who's your favorite person to play with? Addy


What's your favorite game to play? Hide and Go Seek


What's the best kind of cereal ever? Cherrios


If you could go anywhere today, where would you go? California


What's your favorite Bible verse? John 3:16 (and she knows it too!)

So much for 60...

So this morning I went through my usual 7am ritual of checking weather.com for current weather temps (to see if I will be encountering any ice on my way taking Meghan to school-yes I've become quite paranoid these days!) and what do I see? A high of 60 degrees we should reach today with even a little sun! Boy, did that brighten my day! After taking Gavin to speech and running to Target, we came home with not a ray of sunshine to be seen and still about 45 or so! Being the optimistic person I am, I was planning the afternoon outside, doing a little work in the yard, inspecting my plants for any flowers, pulling weeds and letting the kids ride bikes and scooter around! The usual spring activities. I even left the garage door open in anticipation...

Well needless to say, it never hit 60 and it was cloudy ALL day! What a dissapointment, I'm so glad I didn't mention the nice weather to the kids though or I probably would have had to go outside when my heart wasn't in it anymore. I need some sun people!! In my mind I am seriously craving the warmth and heat of the bahamas, the beaches of Mexico, I'd probably go anywhere if it was hot-its really bad. My mom is in Alaska right now and was happy the temps were at 40 so I guess I should consider myself fortunate in comparison. :)

Finally took the plunge....

It sure was easy to set this up, now what?! My favorite second younger sister suggested blogging might be a good *outlet* for me last July when she was here visiting. I'm still not sure what she meant by that and why she thought I could use an outlet. Hmmm...something to ponder. Could she have meant my life is incredibly boring? hehe Could she have meant I needed something interesting to do? Either way, its been on my mind since then since I do love to write and have wanted to have a way to do that. So maybe this will be it for now and we'll see where that leads. My college days were spent dreaming of writing articles for newspapers and even better, magazines! Yet, life had a way of taking me on other roads which has been wonderful and I feel blessed with what God has done in my life.

But now I'm not at a point where I have a little time to myself to put my words down on paper (so to speak-the keyboard actually!) but yet I'm finding myself struggling with this newfound freedom. My life has been pretty *textbook*, graduation high school, get married, finish college, have 3 children, a house and 2 cars. I guess I never took a look at what would come after that if anything.

So this blog will be an outlet for me as my sister calls it, a way to remember all the great and cute things my kids do and a daily reminder for me to enjoy the place I'm at and all the blessings I have. :)