The things I learned from daytime television today.....
-If your twin's boyfriend gets you pregnant make sure you take everyone involved, yet clueless onto the Jerry Springer show to solve said problem.
-Aliens will shortly be taking over Los Angeles via networking of Catalina Island. However, these beasties aren't in UFOs, they are in USOs. (USO = Unidentified Submerged Object, aka, Alien Submarines)
-Serial killers don't make good bank robbers.
Why am I watching daytime television????
Because I'm sick.....and have been for almost two weeks.
I dunno, I'm BASICALLY better, just not 100% yet.
I'm getting rather tired of being sick. I work work work Monday, Tuesday, crash Wednesday because I don't have pre-school, and then work work the rest of the week. That's been my pattern as of late.
I'm convinced that I just need to get more rest, but rest is hard to come by. That's why I've forced myself to do so today..........as a result I watched a whole bunch of great television.
Anyways, enough of that ridiculous stuff.
Jeff and I have officially been married for a year! Woo hoo!
As of two days ago actually...
A year ago today we were hanging out in San Diego enjoying our honeymoon. :)
This past weekend we went and stayed overnight in Salt Lake. It was really fun!
I love going to temples I've never been to before so we went and did a session at the Draper Temple on Saturday. I've done baptisms there, but neither of us had gone through before so it was fun. Such a beautiful temple! I love how perfect temples are.
After that we checked into our hotel and then went and saw The Hunger Games at the Gateway! It was super good! I really want the next movie to come out now....I hate how they always leave you on a cliffhanger.
Next we went and checked out the new City Creek Center in downtown Salt Lake. It was CRAZY!!! Absolute ciaos! Ha ha! We were thinking we were going to be able to go shopping for some stuff, but it was so packed! Granted we probably could have gotten some shopping done, but I was a little too overwhelmed by the large number of people, ha ha.
They have a Disney store there which I was really excited about, but the line to get in was huge so we didn't even try. (someday I'm sure I will get to go in!)
Although there were tons of people it was still a WAY cool place! If I ever live in downtown, or Salt Lake for that matter, I want to live there! Seriously it was way neat! They have apartments everywhere, it's a full on community with everything you could ever need.
We then went to Applebee's for dinner (my favorite)! It was a pretty spectacular day! I love that Jeff knows me so well and does things that he knows I'll enjoy.
Being married a year has taught me a lot. It's crazy how life can change so much, be so great, and keep getting better over that period of time.
I think one of the greatest things I have learned from being married a year is exactly how time fits into our relationship and what that really means for the rest of our life with each other.
I have many friends who have been married shorter (in some cases longer) than we have and don't seem to grasp this concept. They need to be graduated from school now, they need to have babies now, they need a house now, they need this NOW!
Like I said, being married for a year has taught me a ton about those things and how it's all going to work out. I think people get so wrapped up in the fact that....wow, we're married so we need this and this and this and that.....
But being married has taught me that really all I need is Jeff and all that other stuff will happen when it's best for us.
God always gives us what we need when we need it. Of course we have agency that can speed up our needs and turn them into wants, but that's our own choice.
I'm looking forward to this year of marriage and all the ones to come! I love being able to learn new things about life with someone next to me. It just makes life that much better!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Harp Drugs
Last night I played my harp for our ward Relief Society birthday dinnner. I guess the Relief Society is 170 years old!
I played Lord I Would Follow Thee....which is pretty fitting for Relief Society because it's all about service, and well, Relief Society is service!
I came away from that meeting with lots of things, but the two main things that I brought out of it was...
1. Learning, talking, and living Relief Society gives the best spirit. I wish I could live in that spirit more.
2. I really really really really wish I could play my harp more. Even to the point where I can be good enough to teach lessons.
Since I've had to play twice this week for things I've been practicing a lot and it's brought a wonderful spirit into my heart.
I had lots of people over the last week from my ward ask me tons of questions about it and say how soothing it is. It's not like other string instruments where you have to play it right to sound decent....with the harp you can just run your finger up it and it sounds pretty.
I wish I wasn't so busy with school and work that I could play more.
Honestly, I probably could play more, but after a long day it's hard to put forth effort in anything but relaxing. Especially since my days generally don't end till 8:00 or 9:00 when I get all my homework done.
Pretty much the conclusion I've come to is I'll play more once I'm a stay-at-home mom. Although motherhood is a daunting thing and I in no way think I'll have all the time in the world, I definitely will have more time than I do now to do things like that.
It's no wonder to me sometimes why so many women go through post partum depression, especially people in recent generations. In the past couple of decades it's almost been mandatory/expected that women work and go to school and achieve all sorts of greatness before they have kids. Going from running around like crazy for several years getting a college degree to being at home full time....I guess it just makes sense.
Another cool thing that happened last night was I was able to sit by a couple of ladies in my ward who....after some discussion.... I found out are inactive.
I have to attribute this experience all to God, because when I walked into the room I saw a table full of primary ladies that I am friends with/feel comfortable around....so as I was walking to sit by them I noticed this lone sister sitting at another table and the spirit told me to go sit by her.
I'm really glad I did because not too long after that her daughter came in and sat down and I quickly realized if I hadn't sat there nobody else would have.
They told me about their lives and I told them about mine and they seemed so geniunely grateful that I had sat by them.
They talked about their struggle with coming to church and I think although they were justifying some things it made them feel better to tell me.
I'm grateful to be a member of the Church. I love that I know the truth and can guide my life around it to be happy.
I look at the situations that my students are in at school and wonder how they would be different if their families were members. One little girl in my class has gotten left on the bus twice this week because her mom has forgotten to come out to get her for over an hour. Even though the bus driver calls the mom and what not she still doesn't come out.
Our administrator of the pre-school said that if that happens one more time the bus driver has to take the little girl directly to child services and leave her there. The thought of that to me is frightening because this little girl has some extreme behaviors.
In the end, this situation is the way it is because the mom is abusing drugs. That's actually the reason her daughter is disabled because she did drugs while she was pregnant. It's so sad when moms do drugs pre-natally. Most children in that situation usually come out to have "autistic tendencies". The child doesn't actually have autism, they just get thrown in the autistic class because that's how they act. We have a couple of kids like that in our class.
We have other parents who are neglecting their kids and won't take them to the doctor even though they have severe medical needs. It's just so sad! I wish people had the light of the Gospel in their lives because I know that even though some of these people are living in homeless shelters, the Gospel has the power to lift them up and out of those bad situations.
It just makes me so sad to see kids suffer from their parents decisions.
I am grateful to be sealed to my husband for almost a year now and to know that even though life is difficult at times, it's never more than we can't handle with having the Gospel in our lives.
I played Lord I Would Follow Thee....which is pretty fitting for Relief Society because it's all about service, and well, Relief Society is service!
I came away from that meeting with lots of things, but the two main things that I brought out of it was...
1. Learning, talking, and living Relief Society gives the best spirit. I wish I could live in that spirit more.
2. I really really really really wish I could play my harp more. Even to the point where I can be good enough to teach lessons.
Since I've had to play twice this week for things I've been practicing a lot and it's brought a wonderful spirit into my heart.
I had lots of people over the last week from my ward ask me tons of questions about it and say how soothing it is. It's not like other string instruments where you have to play it right to sound decent....with the harp you can just run your finger up it and it sounds pretty.
I wish I wasn't so busy with school and work that I could play more.
Honestly, I probably could play more, but after a long day it's hard to put forth effort in anything but relaxing. Especially since my days generally don't end till 8:00 or 9:00 when I get all my homework done.
Pretty much the conclusion I've come to is I'll play more once I'm a stay-at-home mom. Although motherhood is a daunting thing and I in no way think I'll have all the time in the world, I definitely will have more time than I do now to do things like that.
It's no wonder to me sometimes why so many women go through post partum depression, especially people in recent generations. In the past couple of decades it's almost been mandatory/expected that women work and go to school and achieve all sorts of greatness before they have kids. Going from running around like crazy for several years getting a college degree to being at home full time....I guess it just makes sense.
Another cool thing that happened last night was I was able to sit by a couple of ladies in my ward who....after some discussion.... I found out are inactive.
I have to attribute this experience all to God, because when I walked into the room I saw a table full of primary ladies that I am friends with/feel comfortable around....so as I was walking to sit by them I noticed this lone sister sitting at another table and the spirit told me to go sit by her.
I'm really glad I did because not too long after that her daughter came in and sat down and I quickly realized if I hadn't sat there nobody else would have.
They told me about their lives and I told them about mine and they seemed so geniunely grateful that I had sat by them.
They talked about their struggle with coming to church and I think although they were justifying some things it made them feel better to tell me.
I'm grateful to be a member of the Church. I love that I know the truth and can guide my life around it to be happy.
I look at the situations that my students are in at school and wonder how they would be different if their families were members. One little girl in my class has gotten left on the bus twice this week because her mom has forgotten to come out to get her for over an hour. Even though the bus driver calls the mom and what not she still doesn't come out.
Our administrator of the pre-school said that if that happens one more time the bus driver has to take the little girl directly to child services and leave her there. The thought of that to me is frightening because this little girl has some extreme behaviors.
In the end, this situation is the way it is because the mom is abusing drugs. That's actually the reason her daughter is disabled because she did drugs while she was pregnant. It's so sad when moms do drugs pre-natally. Most children in that situation usually come out to have "autistic tendencies". The child doesn't actually have autism, they just get thrown in the autistic class because that's how they act. We have a couple of kids like that in our class.
We have other parents who are neglecting their kids and won't take them to the doctor even though they have severe medical needs. It's just so sad! I wish people had the light of the Gospel in their lives because I know that even though some of these people are living in homeless shelters, the Gospel has the power to lift them up and out of those bad situations.
It just makes me so sad to see kids suffer from their parents decisions.
I am grateful to be sealed to my husband for almost a year now and to know that even though life is difficult at times, it's never more than we can't handle with having the Gospel in our lives.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Pushover
I just finished one of the best books I've ever read! I highly recommend it/if I was a Communist I would make everyone under my power read it. :)
Ha ha.
It's called "Out of my Mind" by Sharon M. Draper.
It's about a girl who has cerebral palsy and it's seriously such a fantastic book! I won't tell anything else about it, because you just have to read it.
I guess the reason I loved this book so much is because it shed a wonderful light on people with disabilities.
I love working with special ed. kids! They remind me everyday that I'm a daughter of God. They constantly remind me that there will always be millions of people that have it a lot harder than I do. They help me realize how critical knowledge is to progress and make me very grateful for my education.
And they do all of this without even talking! Out of my Mind touched my heart so much because the girl in it doesn't talk. She CAN'T talk because of her disability. That hits home for me a lot because the majority of the autistic kids I work with can't talk very well, if at all.
The other day one of my co-workers and I had to go to a training for the first two hours of work so we missed the first little bit of class. When we went back to class and walked through the door one of our students (who is one that has a hard time talking, but is very smart) yelled "Teacher Amber's here!!!!" clear as a bell, ran over and hugged me. Ha ha ha. It made me want to cry so bad! He very rarely says peoples names. It kind of melted my heart when he said mine.
Cute cute cute kids. I love them.
Last summer when I was looking for a job for the school year I kept getting turned down by lots of other jobs because the timing of my school schedule and when they wanted me to work didn't match up. I was super frustrated because I've never not had a job and I didn't get the one I have till right before school started. Now that I look back at it I think God knew I needed this job that I have now because it has taught me so much.
Working with children with disabilities is so rewarding. It teaches you a lot about yourself and what your own abilities are.
It teaches lots of patience and forces you to put yourself in other peoples shoes.
I think everyone should have the experience of working with disabled kids at some point. It's a very humbling experience and although I've been doing it for almost a year now, I'm still getting humbled.
Development is probably one of my favorite words ever. Especially since I changed my major and have been focusing on little kids. The word development can focus on so many things and for autisitic kids it's critical. They are constantly changing, developing, and progressing, but sometimes only in little unnoticable ways. I love watching little kids' development - watching where they used to be and where they are going - watching the different stages they go through is so interesting.
Love it. Maybe, I'm weird, but it fascinates me. It has to fascinate somebody, right?? Ha ha :)
Well, sadly, but also not sadly to say, I figured out that I'm not going to be able to work at the same place next school year. Since I'll be in my final semester of classes, they are all upper division and only offered at one time so I'll be going to school in the mornings on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.....and in the afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday. Kind of a shame, but it'll be ok.
The reason I'm not WAY sad about it is because it'll be nice to move on to a different atmosphere of co-workers. Ha ha.
Everyone I work with thinks I'm this big shy, pushover, young, naive, etc. girl.
k, maybe to them I am some of those things, but I wish I wasn't. I'm definitely a pushover. Def. I have this huge problem with telling people I can't help them out even when it's seriously ridiculous what they are asking me to do. With my husband or mom/family I would be like.... "Are you kidding me? Do it yourself! Don't make me do YOUR job!" But with anybody else I'm like......"oh yeah....k, for sure I'll do that!"
It's a problem.
It's nobody's problem, but my own, so whatever, but still, it's hard, run-on sentence.
Another thing....I am young, but my co-workers seem to THRIVE on that fact. They are all at least ten years older than me, but they seem to think because that's the case that they are far more aware of the world than I am.
And I guess the final thing that they are correct about me is I am pretty shy. I've noticed that I've gotten shyer in the past couple of years.
Let's blame Jeff.
Ha....
Jk.
No, but from about 9th grade to my first couple years of college I was actually.....outgoing! It was quite great. Somehow I think I'm reverting back, which is fine with me, but I don't like when other people seem to feed off the fact that I'm the way I am.
Yes, you are louder than me....please stop pointing it out. Ha ha. I wish I could say that to people sometimes.
So, in the end it will be good for me to move on, I think. I'll miss the kids like CRAZY, but three of my favorites are going to kindergarten next year anyways so I might as well leave with them.
On a totally unrelated topic, it's spring break this week!
Last Friday I was totally motivated to get all my end of semester projects done this week, but now that it's actually here I'm like......hmmmmmmmmmmmm....sleep?
Yeah, sleep sounds good.
Nah, I do still plan on getting a lot done, but I'm glad I can have a break.
I get to go to my mom's school tomorrow and observe a kindergarten and second grade class! I like observing, it teaches me a lot about what and what not to do in the classroom. My mom has really good teachers at her school though so I'm sure it'll be educational.
Jeff and I are going to his sister's musical/play thing tonight! I love going to plays! She's a really cute actress too so it'll be fun.
Other than that not a lot of happening this week. I get to play my harp for the Relief Society activity this Wednesday! Yay! Ha ha, I should probably practice for that. I played in church yesterday which was fabulous. (I don't think the Relief Society knew I was playing in Sacrament meeting when they asked me to play on Wednesday.....and did I tell them? No. See? Pushover.) I get so nervous though and it's bad news.
I don't get nervous when I play for things like parties, receptions, etc. because even though people ARE listening to me, I don't have a full audience staring at me. I get much more nervous when I'm doing a special musical number rather than just playing in the background of a room.
Well, I best be off to practicing or studying.....or sleeping. Happy Spring Break! :)
Ha ha.
It's called "Out of my Mind" by Sharon M. Draper.
It's about a girl who has cerebral palsy and it's seriously such a fantastic book! I won't tell anything else about it, because you just have to read it.
I guess the reason I loved this book so much is because it shed a wonderful light on people with disabilities.
I love working with special ed. kids! They remind me everyday that I'm a daughter of God. They constantly remind me that there will always be millions of people that have it a lot harder than I do. They help me realize how critical knowledge is to progress and make me very grateful for my education.
And they do all of this without even talking! Out of my Mind touched my heart so much because the girl in it doesn't talk. She CAN'T talk because of her disability. That hits home for me a lot because the majority of the autistic kids I work with can't talk very well, if at all.
The other day one of my co-workers and I had to go to a training for the first two hours of work so we missed the first little bit of class. When we went back to class and walked through the door one of our students (who is one that has a hard time talking, but is very smart) yelled "Teacher Amber's here!!!!" clear as a bell, ran over and hugged me. Ha ha ha. It made me want to cry so bad! He very rarely says peoples names. It kind of melted my heart when he said mine.
Cute cute cute kids. I love them.
Last summer when I was looking for a job for the school year I kept getting turned down by lots of other jobs because the timing of my school schedule and when they wanted me to work didn't match up. I was super frustrated because I've never not had a job and I didn't get the one I have till right before school started. Now that I look back at it I think God knew I needed this job that I have now because it has taught me so much.
Working with children with disabilities is so rewarding. It teaches you a lot about yourself and what your own abilities are.
It teaches lots of patience and forces you to put yourself in other peoples shoes.
I think everyone should have the experience of working with disabled kids at some point. It's a very humbling experience and although I've been doing it for almost a year now, I'm still getting humbled.
Development is probably one of my favorite words ever. Especially since I changed my major and have been focusing on little kids. The word development can focus on so many things and for autisitic kids it's critical. They are constantly changing, developing, and progressing, but sometimes only in little unnoticable ways. I love watching little kids' development - watching where they used to be and where they are going - watching the different stages they go through is so interesting.
Love it. Maybe, I'm weird, but it fascinates me. It has to fascinate somebody, right?? Ha ha :)
Well, sadly, but also not sadly to say, I figured out that I'm not going to be able to work at the same place next school year. Since I'll be in my final semester of classes, they are all upper division and only offered at one time so I'll be going to school in the mornings on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.....and in the afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday. Kind of a shame, but it'll be ok.
The reason I'm not WAY sad about it is because it'll be nice to move on to a different atmosphere of co-workers. Ha ha.
Everyone I work with thinks I'm this big shy, pushover, young, naive, etc. girl.
k, maybe to them I am some of those things, but I wish I wasn't. I'm definitely a pushover. Def. I have this huge problem with telling people I can't help them out even when it's seriously ridiculous what they are asking me to do. With my husband or mom/family I would be like.... "Are you kidding me? Do it yourself! Don't make me do YOUR job!" But with anybody else I'm like......"oh yeah....k, for sure I'll do that!"
It's a problem.
It's nobody's problem, but my own, so whatever, but still, it's hard, run-on sentence.
Another thing....I am young, but my co-workers seem to THRIVE on that fact. They are all at least ten years older than me, but they seem to think because that's the case that they are far more aware of the world than I am.
And I guess the final thing that they are correct about me is I am pretty shy. I've noticed that I've gotten shyer in the past couple of years.
Let's blame Jeff.
Ha....
Jk.
No, but from about 9th grade to my first couple years of college I was actually.....outgoing! It was quite great. Somehow I think I'm reverting back, which is fine with me, but I don't like when other people seem to feed off the fact that I'm the way I am.
Yes, you are louder than me....please stop pointing it out. Ha ha. I wish I could say that to people sometimes.
So, in the end it will be good for me to move on, I think. I'll miss the kids like CRAZY, but three of my favorites are going to kindergarten next year anyways so I might as well leave with them.
On a totally unrelated topic, it's spring break this week!
Last Friday I was totally motivated to get all my end of semester projects done this week, but now that it's actually here I'm like......hmmmmmmmmmmmm....sleep?
Yeah, sleep sounds good.
Nah, I do still plan on getting a lot done, but I'm glad I can have a break.
I get to go to my mom's school tomorrow and observe a kindergarten and second grade class! I like observing, it teaches me a lot about what and what not to do in the classroom. My mom has really good teachers at her school though so I'm sure it'll be educational.
Jeff and I are going to his sister's musical/play thing tonight! I love going to plays! She's a really cute actress too so it'll be fun.
Other than that not a lot of happening this week. I get to play my harp for the Relief Society activity this Wednesday! Yay! Ha ha, I should probably practice for that. I played in church yesterday which was fabulous. (I don't think the Relief Society knew I was playing in Sacrament meeting when they asked me to play on Wednesday.....and did I tell them? No. See? Pushover.) I get so nervous though and it's bad news.
I don't get nervous when I play for things like parties, receptions, etc. because even though people ARE listening to me, I don't have a full audience staring at me. I get much more nervous when I'm doing a special musical number rather than just playing in the background of a room.
Well, I best be off to practicing or studying.....or sleeping. Happy Spring Break! :)
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Presentations and Chick Flicks
The other day I started typing up a blog post about how I never have any homework, life is so mellow, and how I have all the time in the world. Then for some reason the next 4 days were crazy busy and I had two projects, three presentations, and a test to get ready for. Ha ha.
Life.
Oy.
Needless to say I didn't submit the post I started writing because I got too busy.
Yesterday in my "Birth to eight year old" class (yes, that's the actual name of the class, we learn about birth......and children till they are eight years old) my friend and I gave a presentation on "Stay-at-home Mothers Vs. Daycare".
It was very.....interesting.... how people reacted.
We had done research (scholarly articles, FTW) on why having the mom at home is better etc. etc.
There are lots of statistics of why that's true, but I won't bore you with that. Basically, having the mother at home creates a more nuturing environment for the child, they have more secure attachment, there is lower stress and emotional health issues in the family, and economically it's better for a nuclear family to have the mom at home rather than in the workplace. I read an article that said families actually lose more money sending the child to daycare than if the mom would just stay home.
Obviously, THAT point is not true when we're talking about single mothers because they are the only source of income (usually).
Anywho, Kayla and I sold the topic pretty good I felt like! Ha ha! But it's still funny to see how people respond.
About ten times in our presentation I said "it's very different for single mothers, because they really don't have a choice whether to work or not", but we still had a lady raise her hand at the end and say: "I was a single mother for 5 years and..." etc. etc. she kind of went off on her struggle and how we were wrong. Ha ha.
People are kind of funny when you indirectly (or maybe it was directly) attack their situation. We had a couple other girls raise their hands and speak out about their strong feelings on the subject, but overall it wasn't too controversial.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is doing this project and presentation has made me extremely grateful for my husband.
There are so many women that have to raise their kids alone and it makes me so sad! I'm grateful that Jeff is getting a super resourceful/potientially very successful degree and that he is determined to let me be a stay-at-home mom.
Another article that I read for this project described the struggle many mothers have with parental responsibility and being in the workforce. A lot of the mothers that were interviewed for that article said things like "I would much rather go to work everyday than stay at home with my kids and do nothing."
Especially now that I've been taking Early Childhood classes the past couple semesters I can definitely say that raising babies and young children is far from doing nothing. There is so much going on in the development of little kids that is important for a mother to witness and assist with as the child grows up.
Well, now I'll TRY to get off my soapbox. Ha ha! This subject has just been on my mind for the past couple of days because of my presentation. :)
Now on to other things that have been on my mind.
Jeff and I are super exciting so last night (Friday night), he studied statistics all night while I watched a chick flick. As I was watching this movie I said to myself, why are chick flicks ALWAYS like this? Why do they start out hating each other, break up with the person they are dating currently, and then end up together? Why? That's so dumb. That's like.....ridiculously dumb. I never fight with my husband so I can't really determine why this is so appealing to people.....
THEN...
As I was sobbing through the last ten minutes of the movie where the climax happened, they ended up together, and it was all good....I said to myself.......
Ok. This is why it's appealing.
But really, I've never understood why these movies have the people start out hating each other? Probably because if they didn't their wouldn't be any drama.
I've never liked movies like The Notebook (that's not the one I watched last night, but it was very similar in story line). They seriously can't stand each other, but they're in love. Extreme, crazy, unrealistic, and perfect love. (???) I have friends who have said that they want their love life to be similar to Noah and Allie's. I guess I just don't understand the appeal to that either.
Anyways, I'm glad Jeff's always liked me. I'm glad I've always liked him. And I'm really glad that we've never screamed at each other in rage on a boat dock in the middle of a thunderstorm.
I guess I'll never understand chick flicks, but I'll continue to watch them and cry at the end like I'm supposed to. :)
Life.
Oy.
Needless to say I didn't submit the post I started writing because I got too busy.
Yesterday in my "Birth to eight year old" class (yes, that's the actual name of the class, we learn about birth......and children till they are eight years old) my friend and I gave a presentation on "Stay-at-home Mothers Vs. Daycare".
It was very.....interesting.... how people reacted.
We had done research (scholarly articles, FTW) on why having the mom at home is better etc. etc.
There are lots of statistics of why that's true, but I won't bore you with that. Basically, having the mother at home creates a more nuturing environment for the child, they have more secure attachment, there is lower stress and emotional health issues in the family, and economically it's better for a nuclear family to have the mom at home rather than in the workplace. I read an article that said families actually lose more money sending the child to daycare than if the mom would just stay home.
Obviously, THAT point is not true when we're talking about single mothers because they are the only source of income (usually).
Anywho, Kayla and I sold the topic pretty good I felt like! Ha ha! But it's still funny to see how people respond.
About ten times in our presentation I said "it's very different for single mothers, because they really don't have a choice whether to work or not", but we still had a lady raise her hand at the end and say: "I was a single mother for 5 years and..." etc. etc. she kind of went off on her struggle and how we were wrong. Ha ha.
People are kind of funny when you indirectly (or maybe it was directly) attack their situation. We had a couple other girls raise their hands and speak out about their strong feelings on the subject, but overall it wasn't too controversial.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is doing this project and presentation has made me extremely grateful for my husband.
There are so many women that have to raise their kids alone and it makes me so sad! I'm grateful that Jeff is getting a super resourceful/potientially very successful degree and that he is determined to let me be a stay-at-home mom.
Another article that I read for this project described the struggle many mothers have with parental responsibility and being in the workforce. A lot of the mothers that were interviewed for that article said things like "I would much rather go to work everyday than stay at home with my kids and do nothing."
Especially now that I've been taking Early Childhood classes the past couple semesters I can definitely say that raising babies and young children is far from doing nothing. There is so much going on in the development of little kids that is important for a mother to witness and assist with as the child grows up.
Well, now I'll TRY to get off my soapbox. Ha ha! This subject has just been on my mind for the past couple of days because of my presentation. :)
Now on to other things that have been on my mind.
Jeff and I are super exciting so last night (Friday night), he studied statistics all night while I watched a chick flick. As I was watching this movie I said to myself, why are chick flicks ALWAYS like this? Why do they start out hating each other, break up with the person they are dating currently, and then end up together? Why? That's so dumb. That's like.....ridiculously dumb. I never fight with my husband so I can't really determine why this is so appealing to people.....
THEN...
As I was sobbing through the last ten minutes of the movie where the climax happened, they ended up together, and it was all good....I said to myself.......
Ok. This is why it's appealing.
But really, I've never understood why these movies have the people start out hating each other? Probably because if they didn't their wouldn't be any drama.
I've never liked movies like The Notebook (that's not the one I watched last night, but it was very similar in story line). They seriously can't stand each other, but they're in love. Extreme, crazy, unrealistic, and perfect love. (???) I have friends who have said that they want their love life to be similar to Noah and Allie's. I guess I just don't understand the appeal to that either.
Anyways, I'm glad Jeff's always liked me. I'm glad I've always liked him. And I'm really glad that we've never screamed at each other in rage on a boat dock in the middle of a thunderstorm.
I guess I'll never understand chick flicks, but I'll continue to watch them and cry at the end like I'm supposed to. :)
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