if you were anything like me when you were a kid, you always seemed unappreciative around Christmas time or your birthday.I'd open, like my dream gift, and just look at in in awe. I'd be reminded to say "thank you" like I was ungrateful for my gift or something, but spoken words were never my forte. My sister would be screaming her thanks and freaking out in ecstasy and I'd be trying to mimic her … [Read more...]
"Good Stuff Entry" (Re-Posted from Bloggy Book Club)
August 19, 2008 by · 2 Comments
My Book Review on the Shackwhy The Shack is cheese to a good wine. (by which I am a hypocrite because I like a $3 bottle of champagne and cheddar cheese so this analogy doesn't apply to me, but in the worldly sense of people who have good taste I plunge forward with my now awkward analogy.)Good wine is something to relish, to enjoy and savor. The Shack isn't that. It's the complementary cheese to … [Read more...]
Common Disasters
August 15, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Sometimes I feel so inadequate emotionally to handle life. Things that I've gone through this year have seemed so horrible, but the more educated and more time that goes by, the more common I realize my disaster is. When they told me that Summit had major developmental issues and needed therapy so that hopefully one day he may catch up with others his age I was devastated. When my Doctor told me … [Read more...]
the lows.
July 30, 2008 by · 4 Comments
I have done some things on this trip in my hotel room that I have never done before while in a hotel room. "Whooh, Heidi, TMI!" you say, but NO, THAT is not what I'm talking about. I am talking about something much tamer: I have laid on the bedspread. I know! Wild and crazy! I don't ever do that because of lovely 20/20 investigates. Darn that show and the way they make me a germophob! Another … [Read more...]