Week 1, Project 365

I am so excited about this project! It really embraces my feelings of wanting to capture each day and store them in my heart. A new year and 365 days of memories to fill.

This past year my letter of the year was "W" and words like "wonder", "why", "wisdom", "well" and "willingness" became a part of me.
Now, since I'm going backwards in the alphabet one letter a year, 2009 is the letter "V". Usually the word of the month just pops out to me; "Vitality" and "vamoose" are particular favorites this month. While looking through the dictionary these words seem to hold significance to me: vivacious, valiant, validate, value, visualize, verve, and verily. This way of focusing my attention on one word has helped remind me reach beyond my limits in little ways and try harder to be better. Here's to 11 more months of verve!

Teething Today

Princess Pea's teeth (teeth: E,F,O and P)have decided to start erupting today. It is not a happy day. She is so distraught with the pain. Oragel works, but she hates the numb feeling. Tylenol works for a while but until it was absorbed into her system, I had a screaming child on my hands for an hour. We tried a walk in the bitter cold around the neighborhood. That didn't work other than having neighbors think that I was an uncaring mother! A genius thought came though: Finding Nemo. So, we currently don't have television in our home. To get any reception to our home we need dish. We are cheap and like the peace. We watch what we want on the internet or rent movies. It is nice to focus on the little one too. So she hasn't had much exposure to the wonderful world of Disney or the like. "Finding Nemo" was a hit - at least for the first 20 minutes and then she went to sleep! Here's what I did during her short little nap:

Doing Lately