a home on the field.

I have finally found my home on the field. Metaphorically. I have obviously always considered Charlotte my home...I've never seen it as my field in which I could win though. My field was always Boone. ASU to be more precise. Charlotte my home, ASU my field. The book that I am currently reading is called A Home on the Field lent to me by Corey. It's title has always been appealing to me but it just kinda fit this way for me too. I get to go back to my field this weekend and I am very excited. I was rereading some of my previous posts and I forgot about my oldest blog...livejournal. So I decided to revisit that as well...those posts were the story of the best days of my life in Boone. Sure, I am still living some of the best days of my life now, but those were so nice and it's so obvious when you read them. If you want to check out 2009...please feel free to!
Anyway, the past few days have been great. I've sucked this lent thus far but it has been so hard. But I've kinda enjoyed it. I have had the best support group and honestly I feel like all my friendships have gotten so so so much stronger. For example, I hung out with Natalie, Kathryn and Christine so much this weekend doing petty little dumb things...but it was so worth it. Or like caribou with Katie these past 2 weeks...amazing. I am just excited to see everyone else this weekend. Life is coming back into place and my kids are still all are prevalent as ever. Especially my middle schoolers. And as a side note...Dr. Seus is the bomb.



Suddenly you're not playing dressup anymore...

turn away from sin.

Happy Ash Wednesday!!
So today marks the beginning of lent. I am very excited for this to start. Today was a pretty good day overall. I was able to run outside (you know how it feels when it's about to rain-windy, warm, cool, slightly dark and calm? ) right before it started raining and it felt wonderful. I hung around the house with mom until mass this afternoon and then we went shopping for Eli's birthday presents. I love and hate shopping for my brothers. I love that it means I can pick out their clothes but I hate deciding what to buy. Speaking of buying...mom and I were at Southpark and Borders so you can only imagine how tempting everything was for me to buy. Still, I remained strong! Only 39 more days to go...right? I also went to work and yes I went to work with ash on my forehead. I love to see other people coming in to eat with ash all over their forehead too! Catholics!! I wanted to take a picture right when I got it but that's when we went shopping and then after changing into my work clothes, forgetting it was on my forehead and walking in the rain, the ash kinda smeared and was not as noticeable. This is what was left. Sorry! You can still kinda see it.. While I was doing all that, Kathryn has still been living the life in New York. That sneaky little lady knows that one of my favorite artists is Jackson Pollock and guess what my she did? While at the Museum of Modern Arts check this out:
Anyway, it is time that I begin a new book, time to go to bed, feed Carlisle and time to do lenty stuff.

"In any endeavor, one simple truth is all you need: one day at at time"

i'm not your slave.

I apologize for the lack of posts. Nevertheless, here I am. So...biggest news of the week has been that I finally reading all 7 of Harry Potter's marvelous books. Let me just tell you how much I absolutely adore them all. I am kicking myself over and over for not having read them before but I will say that I am almost glad I waited till now to read them because I cannot wait for the Deathly Hallows part II to come out! After the epilogue I had no idea what to do with myself. I had always just gone to Barnes and Noble or Blackbear Books(support your local bookstores, please) to buy the next one after I had finished a book...now what the hell?! I tutored two of my kids today and I decided to ask them what I should read next. I have come up with quite a listof books to read. Please tell me if I should add one of your favorites!

New Books To Read:

• The Giver
• Water for Elephants
• Peter and the Starcatchers
• A Home on the Field
• Eat, Pray, Love
• GRE study books...hehe

Books To Reread:

• Twilight
• The Art of Possibility
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Ramona Books

Meanwhile, as I anxiously await my next book to crack open, Lilly and I have been reading

Sideway Stories from Wayside School. This book is probably my all time favorite and still makes me cry from laughing so much. Today we started the second part of the series Sideway School is Falling Down and it is so much fun. Anyway, enough talk about reading.

Here's a secret about me. I wait for no other week more anxiously than I do this week. It's the beginning of Lent tomorrow!!! I don't know what it is about the lenten season that makes me so happy but I cannot wait. I have decided...drumroll please...to give up buying anything for myself, going out to eat and facebook for lent. I am very happy about my decision thanks to some peptalks I got from Kathryn yesterday. I always start off this week with a bang so I did just that. I helped my poor Christine through the torment of getting her wisdom teeth out, I ra

n my fastest 5K, and I went on a shopping spree with Kathryn!!! I also worked with Chris and got Yoforia. What a perfect day. Kathryn is finally home for Spring Break so we decided to go out to NEWKs, Borders, Old Navy, Target, Ulta and to look at some new TOMS. It was so so so much fun. However, today she left for NY. That bitch. I was actually not too upset because guess what she did? That dumb girl wound up facebook messaging me and sending me pictures while on her flight. What a surprise!!!

Isn't this amazing?!

So...tomorrow I will go to mass and get some awesome ash smeared on my forehead. As a sidenote: don't make fun of all the Catholics with ash on their foreheads tomorrow, please!

40 days and 40 nights.