Ramblings

I met an old friend at the store yesterday and the first thing she said to me was, "You haven't updated your blog in a long time!" I realized then that I should be better at this than I have been. It seems that life passes me by, but I tell my creative writing students that in order to be a good writer, they should be writing every day. That should be incentive enough for me to write at least every week! I've always told my students I wouldn't give them any assignment that I wouldn't do. So...here's my assignment! I am going to organize my life to be able to follow my own advice. There is so much to do and so little time, but hey, my shows don't start up again for two weeks...just kidding. (Thanks, Latu for my TiVo!)

Quick update--I finally finished the Special Ed classes..yipee!!! I passed every class with an A or A- giving me a 3.88 GPA. Not bad for an old lady! I just need to take the Praxis II (for my teaching license) and the Praxis for SpEd and I will be officially done and certified. My next goal is to get my Master's in English with an emphasis on Reading. I think that will have to wait until next year, though. I was hoping to start this year, but I'm not financially ready to do that.

Speaking of being an old lady...last week I was in the store with Mason and he said to me, out of the blue, "Grandma, why are you so old?" I said "Because I've been alive a long time." He thought for a minute, then said, "I want a new grandma!" He cracks me up!

Can I just say that I LOVE being a grandma! I'm not anything close to the wise, loving, wonderful grandma my mother was (or her mother, for that point), but I love my grandkids. I have had all the materials to make them quiet books for a year and a half. I have not been able to motivate myself to get them done. I finally figured out why. I am so completely OCD (and ADHD and a bunch of other initialisms) that I can't stand the thoughts their quiet books would look "homemade." I am now in the process of making them tote-bags (a job I can reasonably expect will not look homemade) and I will fill it with all the cutesy things I can find and make to keep them quiet during church. This will also serve another purpose that was upsetting me; I can let the t0te-bag "grow-up" with them. I can add more mature activities as they get older.

Well, enough of my rambling. I need to get to work on the tote-bags.
Julie