Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

in choosing books to read, cause you know you can't judge a book by it's cover.....this is how my luck has gone so far this summer.

Say you are one of them...didn't finish this one. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what it was..It was all bad things happening to children. I'm all for giving a story it's due, especially if someone had to live through it and most likely someone somewhere may have had similar stories, but something I read about the author gave me the feeling he hadn't seen, heard or even come close to experiencing these horrid situations. Probably I'm wrong, but I didn't want to put my emotional energy into reading them. There are five different stories. I read the first two, investigated the book and decided I wasn't going to finish it, but then I thought I should at least read the last story that held the book's title...I wish I hadn't. There's my 2 cents...

Fairest - a twist on Snow White, Cole and I read this together, it was pretty good, there are others by the same author, putting twists on other fairytales, we're going to try those as well

This was on Cole's summer reading list...it is def. a tween book, but a nice quick read that's cute.

Eleven, this was also on Cole's reading list and I didn't enjoy it very much, the blurb (?) led you to expect more from the story...just kind of boring.

And the one I finished today, the kind of book that makes you wish there was more...sort of. It's science fiction and I'm usually not a big fan of that, but a friend recommended Scott Card a few years ago so I decided to give it a go. It's def. not a warm and fuzzy book, kind of the opposite, but you are endeared to the character and there are twists and it was a couldn't put it downer.

I'm moving on to more of Cole's summer reading and there are other's I've read and can't recall right now, but if I do I'll blog-u-ment them ;).

more food for thought

just coincidental, but Tricia P. let me borrow her very cool collections of quotes and there are a few I really liked and this is a safe place to put them, not to mention all the sweet souls who read the blog get to enjoy them too :). the bottom two are hard to read, but I think you can click on it and enlarge.






















My favorite so far, I found this one many years ago but had forgotten about it, so glad to find it again...

Food for thought

http://thepolishedpickle.blogspot.com/2010/06/beauty-marks.html

Princess and the pea

Cole was in the school play, The Princess and the Pea. He played the role of Young Harry (the prince) during a flashback. He wasn't on stage long, but did a really good job. He got the biggest laugh of the night because his opening line he was supposed to be out of breath and it was a really exaggerated out of breath. We're trying to figure out how to get our outdated video camera footage put on the computer, if so I'll post video. Til then here's pics.

Young Harry













Young Harry and the Peasant Girl
I think his line was "You wouldn't understand"













Curtain Call, taking a bow













after the play with two of his favorite things,
candy (bouquet) and David

Who I married...

the most magnificent man on the planet...we coasted in on fumes from Savannah yesterday and he called this morning to tell me I didn't need to leave early for school cause he'd already gassed up before he left for work. Love. It. and him.

Who I birthed....
If I start to put the window down Hannah says, put it all the way down mommy, turn the musikit (music) up and put your elbow on the door....I swear I have not done this enough for her to ask for it every time....who is this child ??

One more...
Yesterday Hannah said on the way home... Happy Mother's Day...Daddy, genius.

Life is good.

Savannah/Tybee Island

A couple of weeks ago we decided to meet my very pregnant sister, in the middle, from her home in Charlotte and Savannah was the place. We wanted the beach so we stayed on Tybee Island, little rinky dink, but it was the beach. We had a lot of fun. We all loved feeling Melissa's baby move (priceless since that won't be happening for us again). Fun fun on the beach, with the exception of the jellyfish that were abound aplenty. We went back to Savannah for lunch on Saturday. Relaxed and enjoyed each other. Here are pics from the weekend. These are not in order, because I'm blogger picture post challenged.

Totally in her element, she said Mommy, I really really really want to very very bad bad bad stay at the beach all day. I think it's not fair that her skins starts to burn at the thought of stepping in the sun no matter what we do :(.

At the top of the Tybee Island lighthouse, all little ones and bout to deliver a little one people walked all the way up!!!!

Tybee Island Museum, totally in his element

Anya loved Cole and apparently all boys according to her mom, Cole ate it up.

See

Typical Anya

at the top of he lighthouse. Hannah's wondering why Melissa was clutching the side of the wall. It was a little scary, but very nice too.

Loved driving down this street in Savannah, lots of big old beautiful houses with big old beautiful trees.

out last day, very windy, cold, sandy flying, while Hannah, Cole and I headed back to the car...Laura could have cared less, I swear that girl is a fish

We got ice cream at Leopold's...it was family owned from way back, but the son of the original owners went on to be a big hollywood producer and many stars have passed through here...apparently Forrest Gump was filmed in Savannah, a picture of Forrest sitting in Savannah was on sale for $300...I think I have that same picture on my VHS cover.

Hannah got chocolate, but there were other very cool flavors, Brandon and Cole got Japanese Cherry Blossom ( I have lotion of that scent and it tasted a little like my lotion, still good). Laura got rose petal and it tasted just like a rose, but not so much that it wasn't good. Melissa got a vanilla shake (boring .... but very delicious)

Awww, couldn't resist :)

more to come, keeps not letting me upload....

Today's tender mercy

a much needed fresh perspective...