100th Birthday

Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. President!

They don't make presidents like him anymore...

{Some personal book recommendations}

  

* And, my absolute favorite...

a book containing the love letters 

to his wife.

hibernation

IT is here...the big storm - Snowmageddon!

Schools were dismissed early this afternoon and have been cancelled for tomorrow...

which means NO WORK for me!

I am so pumped; I absolutely love the snow and the idea of a blizzard and

being snowed in thrills me!

No worries either.

 My family and I are completely and totally prepared to hibernate.

We were able to make it out to the store (which was a mad house)

 and stock up on some much needed items.

Our heat is cranked,

we are snug in our pjs,

and we are completely ready to brace the weather, 

from the comforts of home...

So far I have gotten some beading done,

And I am enjoying these niceties :::

Hope you all are enjoying your evening as much as I am;

Happy Snow DAY!

a confession...

So...I have a confession.

Something that hit me last night at a PTF meeting...

Are you ready???

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I

miss

school...

I know it is quite absurd; and  maybe I was just caught up in the moment of listening to the high school choir (who might I add, sounded AMAZING), or saying the pledge, or maybe it was the awards they handed out.  I really don't know what did it for me, but suddenly I felt this wave of schoolsickness sweep over me.

No, I do not miss the tests or the papers and quizzes.  What I do miss is the learning...  Learning from an instructor in classes like Composition, Public Speaking, English Literature, American Literature, Accounting, and Biological Issues. 

I actually am in the process of getting my CDA, which entails going to a 3-4 hour class every other Saturday for 9 months.  But, unfortunately I don't feel as if I am learning anything there.  The teacher is nice and all, but more than 75% of class time is discussion; and truly I would rather hear what she has to say than my peers.  I also am in the middle of a 6 week online photography class; but it still isn't cutting it for me. :)

All this to say that TODAY (who knows how long this feeling will last; afterall I am a girl and entitled to changing my  mind) I miss school.  I have this desire to suddenly pull out my College notes and notebooks I put together and pour over them...is that weird??  

Maybe I should just settle and re-read A Tale of Two Cities or Pride and Prejudice.  I always seem to find some nugget of information in the works of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen...

Ahh...decisions, decisions...

In the Bleak Mid Winter

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January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,

A frost-mailed warrior,

striding a shadowy steed of snow.

Edgar Fawcett

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On days like this...

I overslept this morning.

I stepped outside to see a dark blue sky with gray wispy clouds, and I thanked God for another day from Him; all the while wishing I had the extra time to run back into the house and grab my camera to capture the moment.

A child got a black eye on my shift.

I "played" tug-a-war with a little girl who refused to give up her toy when I told her to.

I had a splitting headache and was exhausted.

Despite the frigid weather, I squinted from the direct sunlight as I drove home on my lunch.

I came home checked my email and discovered a wonderfully encouraging and wise letter from my Daddy.  I read it once.  I read it twice.  And then I read it again.

I realized something...that even on days like this when everything does not go the way Nicole wants that I am encouraged and all the better because of the family the Lord has blessed me with.

And so it is that on days like this God reminds me that He takes thought of me and He used my amazing Father to show me that!

{Sister.Winterize.Senior}

I LOVE that I have gotten to take my littlest sister's senior portraits.

We had been waiting for the weather to cooperate; and yesterday was the 

perfect {winter} day!

We went to a local favorite spot.

 We ran through the snow drifts,

taking pictures, 

laughing, 

and having more fun 

than should be allowed.

Love that girl; love my sister!

{Beautiful}

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