Please join me for...

As I was browsing my favorite blogs (yes, I am a big lurker people), I stumbled upon Snapshot's blog and saw this amazing Read to Me 2007 Mission. I decided it was time for me to take action and join this mission.

What is it you might ask? Well, it is an incentive to read to your children more. Yes, I need this because I am ashamed to say that I do not read to my children. I used to read to Emma everyday. I would read 10 or more books to her in a day. Once Timmy came along the reading got cut back to 5 books a day. Then it started dwindling from there.

So now it is time to take action and set some goals.

Goals with Emma:
* To have her pick out a picture book for me to read to her every night.
* To read a chapter or 2 to her every night from a June B. Jones book.

Goals with Timmy:
* To have him pick out a picture book for me to read to him every night.
* To also read a book that I pick out every night.

Both children will probably listen to each other's books which to me is just a bonus. Every couple of days I will list what we have read together. I will use the blog as a journal to keep track of how we are doing.

To further this mission, I will present my daughter's elementary school with a reading program for the children and parents to impliment. Details to follow about that. I am also looking into getting information on Jim Trelease speak for a parents' night.

I will report back on all of the above.

Reading aloud is very close to my heart since in my prior life I was an elementary school teacher. I don't think I even realized what we had lost, but now I look forward to getting it back. Please join me in this mission to read more with your children. Test scores prove that reading to your child (no matter what age) is so beneficial to their growth.

Too much and not enough

So much has happened in my life over the last two months. Some bad, but so much more good. Yes, I would love to share it all with you, but I can't right now. I have something that I would rather write about.

Warning for those reading...If you didn't watch Grey's last night...Don't read anymore until you watch....

So hopefully you have watched the show. If you haven't, go do it now. If you have never watched the show...Seriously, what are you waiting for? The writing is amazing, the acting even better, the character development awesome, the feeling of family and friendship unsurpassed.

So last week I watched and thought Meridith is in the water, huh. Well that is ok because Derek will save her. Derek did save her, well he got her body but did he get to her in time. My problem with the episode...if she isn't dead how will they bring her back and make us believe it. I'm not sure they can.

Let's move on to others...

George - way to go on finding that little boy. How fitting that Callie was fixing him up. He knew the mother would die if he told her the truth, so he lied and then raced like hell to find the boy.

Izzie - What a turn around her character made. I loved the part when she started the drill and the guy made that noise. I loved her reaction to him. She took control of the situation and really showed her strength. What a pivotal event for her.

Alex - Compassion...he showed compassion. I loved it!! Really have you seen Alex like that? Yes, with the death of Denny, but this was for people he had no connection. Way to go Alex. And the exchange between him and Addison...we all know that he would "Notice".

Sloan - I loved the way he helped the Chief and Izzie. He was serious and not cocky. Then the scene at the end. No words just action with Derek. Quietly sitting and squeezing his arm...could that have been any better.

Addison - alone and distant...yet at the end the feeling of love she has for Derek and Mer truly shows the kind of woman she is. How can you not love her?

Christina - Oh man...what will become of Christina? Her sister/best friend is fighting for her life. How will Christina be? What will she do? How will she react? Honestly, when I saw her reaction to the situation, I fell apart. I feel for her.

Derek - What can you say about McDreamy, Mer's Night in Shining Whatever...What a great actor...In his mind he thinks she did this to herself. He doesn't know the guy pushed her. He doesn't know. I just wanted to yell, "This is an accident!!! She didn't do this to herself!"

The little girl...symbolizing Mer and being lost. Does finding her mother at the end symbolize anything? Time will tell.

I love this show!! The writing is amazing and they take chances that other shows wouldn't. I loved seeing Denny and the bomb guy (Kyle Chandler) at the end. I am a faithful watcher of Friday Night Lights (it is right up there with Grey's for me) you might want to check it out. You do need to get used to the filming of it.

So that is my wrap up. I hope to find others that have blogged about it. I love hearing insight from others.

A CONTEST!!

There is a contest over here . You might want to check it out. There are no strings attached, just a change to win a piece of pretty jewelry or a gift certificate. The jewelry is from Alli's Originals.

She has a really nice site. The jewelry is very delicate.