Best. sex. ever. I love discovering new things even after eleven years of marriage. I love when he discovers new ways to take care of me and blow my mind even more than the last time.
And I love that this journey took awhile to discover. I definitely remember those early years. Actually, I barely remember them now. But I realize they were there and I realize without them I might not appreciate the mind-blowing sex so much today ;) .
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
My kneescapades
While geocaching with Shawners I managed to poke a branch into my knee and the bottom of my foot. I guess that's what I get for wearing flip flops in the woods. Gotta learn to geocache a bit better! Shawners was my hero and pulled the definitely bigger than a splinter chunk o branch out of my knee after I worked on trying to get it out for half an hour, hurting my back in the process. Then, I'm so stressed from hearing Brando's Mom meltdown/vent over the phone that left her feeling better and left me stressed as heck about her I forgot to walk the way I'm supposed to and overemphasized the way I stress walk because I was thinking that was the way I was supposed to until I realized otherwise tonight thank goodness! Oh yes but not before I realized that I locked my keys in my car. Haha! Today was not my day! Though the door lock kid did tell me I still look pretty without my makeup on when I handed him my license and told him that's what I normally look like, well, with my makeup on instead of my haphazard tennis shoe and dress wearing persona I can't believe I walked out the door in. Ha! I asked Brando if he had something to do with what the kid said ;) . Green lights still love me though since my free week last week I neglected to post about where I got something randomly free every day of the week and green lights loved me all week :) . Any way, to leave you with a little visual of my day today...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Things that make a blogger happy
Blogger has added a new feature to their post home page. A count of the views each post has had. This is such a dorky, stalker blogger thing to be excited about, but I totally am. See that little graph with the squiggly line all the way to the right? That's how many views that post has had.
These are the median figures. Most fall way below and a few that are higher. There was a post about finally succumbing to Pinterest that had 1200 views! Such a dorky thing to be excited about, but I so am. There used to be sites like StatCounter and even more in depth, Google Analysis, that would show you all these stats. I used to track my main blog for a bit, but would lose interest after a month or two, because it was so much work to match up stats and see what was working and what wasn't. I love blogging, but not that much, apparently. At least not that much for traffic, any way. I LOVE that Blogger has now integrated so MANY of these features, with this new blog view count feature at a glance being the latest. Eek! :)
These are the median figures. Most fall way below and a few that are higher. There was a post about finally succumbing to Pinterest that had 1200 views! Such a dorky thing to be excited about, but I so am. There used to be sites like StatCounter and even more in depth, Google Analysis, that would show you all these stats. I used to track my main blog for a bit, but would lose interest after a month or two, because it was so much work to match up stats and see what was working and what wasn't. I love blogging, but not that much, apparently. At least not that much for traffic, any way. I LOVE that Blogger has now integrated so MANY of these features, with this new blog view count feature at a glance being the latest. Eek! :)
Minecraft
I've been in a constant conflict about a video game the boys play called Minecraft. On one hand, it's a video game. On the other hand, the amount of imagination it requires to play the game at all is more than I can come up with in one day. Read the following excerpt from a blog post by a STEM Camp counselor and you'll understand my confliction, especially if you feel the same way about video games that I do. I like how he assimilates Minecraft to Legos. What are your thoughts?
"I’ll probably also be posting a lot about Minecraft, our game of the day (and probably the week). At one point in the seminar, we were watching a film about Notch, the creator, while the game ran in half of the computer screens in the room.
It’s a great game to have running. You have a whole world – many whole worlds, some of which are just gorgeous – where you can explore, mine, break all of the rules, and be creative. I saw chicken bombs, canons, currents – all things that the kids made themselves. It’s like Legos but magic – a glorious exercise for imagination and curiosity, which some say are increasingly lacking in our culture. Oh, and it’s fun – and it gets that much more fun when almost the whole class is playing!"
"I’ll probably also be posting a lot about Minecraft, our game of the day (and probably the week). At one point in the seminar, we were watching a film about Notch, the creator, while the game ran in half of the computer screens in the room.
It’s a great game to have running. You have a whole world – many whole worlds, some of which are just gorgeous – where you can explore, mine, break all of the rules, and be creative. I saw chicken bombs, canons, currents – all things that the kids made themselves. It’s like Legos but magic – a glorious exercise for imagination and curiosity, which some say are increasingly lacking in our culture. Oh, and it’s fun – and it gets that much more fun when almost the whole class is playing!"
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012
Change my ways
Today I realized when I tell Justin "don't push your brothers buttons" when he is a volunteer leader for Shawners vbs group I am essentially telling him that is exactly what I expect him to do. Thank God my sister was on call and available and gave me the words to tell him, "I retract my earlier statement and say instead I trust you to be mature, to be the responsible one, to be the adult, and I trust you to be a good teacher." The beaming smile on his face was worth my fumbling inadequacies as a mother earlier and my own slap in the face realization that I had previously told him, "I don't expect you to do well, I expect you to push your brother's buttons and therefore I am telling you not to." What a world of difference a choice of words makes.
Today I change my ways to tell my boys all the great things I expect of them, but instead of in my mind, outloud, in the form of "I trust you" to do exactly what I expect they will do in my mind. Which is, to be great leaders, to be men of great decision, great character, great morals, gigantic heart. As Brando's Opa once said about Brando, "He is kind in his soul." I believe all these things of my boys, and today I change my ways to tell them so in the form of "I trust you" to do this.
I feel so strange coming to this realization, almost born again. Like a revelation has been revealed to me, a veil lifted from my eyes on how to trust my boys and develop them into the leaders I so desperately fall asleep every night crossing my fingers and toes desiring them to be.
And because I love how Teagan always puts things to songs, these are the two songs that come to mind thinking about this. The first one I thought of immediately when I thought of the title for this post. The second I thought of as I typed the first sentence in the paragraph before this, and also happens to be a song that helped carry me through the last month of craziness.
Mumford and Sons - The Cave
especially:
"I know my call despite my faults"
"But I will hold on hope"
"And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again"
"You can understand dependence
When you know the maker's land"
Florence and the Machines - No Light No Light -
Especially:
"it's so easy,
To say it to a crowd
But it's so hard, my love,
To say it to you out loud"
and
"Tell me what you want me to say
You want a revelation,
You wanna get it right
But, it's a conversation,"
Today I change my ways to tell my boys all the great things I expect of them, but instead of in my mind, outloud, in the form of "I trust you" to do exactly what I expect they will do in my mind. Which is, to be great leaders, to be men of great decision, great character, great morals, gigantic heart. As Brando's Opa once said about Brando, "He is kind in his soul." I believe all these things of my boys, and today I change my ways to tell them so in the form of "I trust you" to do this.
I feel so strange coming to this realization, almost born again. Like a revelation has been revealed to me, a veil lifted from my eyes on how to trust my boys and develop them into the leaders I so desperately fall asleep every night crossing my fingers and toes desiring them to be.
And because I love how Teagan always puts things to songs, these are the two songs that come to mind thinking about this. The first one I thought of immediately when I thought of the title for this post. The second I thought of as I typed the first sentence in the paragraph before this, and also happens to be a song that helped carry me through the last month of craziness.
Mumford and Sons - The Cave
especially:
"I know my call despite my faults"
"But I will hold on hope"
"And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again"
"You can understand dependence
When you know the maker's land"
Florence and the Machines - No Light No Light -
Especially:
"it's so easy,
To say it to a crowd
But it's so hard, my love,
To say it to you out loud"
and
"Tell me what you want me to say
You want a revelation,
You wanna get it right
But, it's a conversation,"
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