My dear friend, Christina, posted on her blog about how the media is completely blowing this swine flu crap outta control. And I have to say that I agree. At first, I was pretty scared that it was gonna infect everyone and be like the black plague. Now, I have to say that I agree the media is to blame for all the hoopla! I got a funny text message the other day that said this: 100 people are infected by the swine flu and everyone wears masks; millions of people have AIDS and no one wears a condom! Isn't that the damn truth? I realized then and there that I was completely stupid. This is an outrage about a simple virus that many people live through. Oh well...that's my two sense worth even though no one asked for it!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Quote...My New Life Motto!
I absolutely stole this from someone's comments on Facebook, but it is my new life motto!
Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Love deeply and forgive quickly. Take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you got, and always remember what you had. People change and things go wrong, but always remember LIFE GOES ON!!!
Life is too short. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Love deeply and forgive quickly. Take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you got, and always remember what you had. People change and things go wrong, but always remember LIFE GOES ON!!!
Bedtime...
I saw this comic in the SA Express and cracked up. The little boy in the comic is totally PJ and the baby girl is Chace...I guess that's kinda weird that I'm relating PJ to a little kid, but we all know that he's a BIG little kid anyways. PJ always wires Chace up before bedtime by tickling him. He chases him around the living room on his hands and knees and tackles him with pillows. They have so much fun, while I sit there and think, "How the heck am I gonna get him to calm down?" This father-son time is adorable though and I'm glad that PJ is such a great Daddy!!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Rewind Button
Sometimes I wish there was a rewind button on life. Chace is getting to the point where somethings he does are just hilarious. I want him to do them over and over. And I don't always have a video camera ready. Like last night, he was mocking the cat's meow! We had no clue that it was him doing the "meowing". I thought that it was Yankee, but sure enough it was Chace. Then I wanted the rewind button when Chace climbed in his high chair when we weren't looking. He's been trying for weeks to get into the chair himself when he's hungry. Sunday night, he did it! I'm not sure how and we still haven't seen him with our own eyes.
Life just seems to be flying by so fast and it's heart-breaking. I have been working longer hours and overtime. I'm not home as much as I want to be. I feel like I have zero time spent with him. I just want to hit the rewind button and go back a little bit. When did he grow up to be a big boy? When did he start saying meow? When did he start having so much personality? ARGH...I wanna put a pause button on life now too...
Life just seems to be flying by so fast and it's heart-breaking. I have been working longer hours and overtime. I'm not home as much as I want to be. I feel like I have zero time spent with him. I just want to hit the rewind button and go back a little bit. When did he grow up to be a big boy? When did he start saying meow? When did he start having so much personality? ARGH...I wanna put a pause button on life now too...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Why I Elected to Travel the Road to Certification...
As most of you know, I was accepted into an Alternative Certification Program (ACP) for Teaching. I hope to be finished with my classes and teaching in August 2009. I will try to update my blog with my progress and some of my assignments that I find interesting enough to share with my blog stalkers! This assignment for my first class asked me to write 300-500 words explaining why I elected to travel the road to certification. I received a 3 out of 3...my first perfect score!
As a teacher’s child, I grew up visiting my mother’s classroom and helping her decorate and organize her classroom for the beginning of a new school year. I begged for extra supplies and a “real” grade book to “grade” my friend’s assignments. My friends would come for a sleepover and we didn’t build forts or play outside. Instead we transformed my room into a classroom with all the kitchen chairs. We had a white board and I would teach my friends and give them grades. Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a teacher just like my mom.
As a teacher’s child, I grew up visiting my mother’s classroom and helping her decorate and organize her classroom for the beginning of a new school year. I begged for extra supplies and a “real” grade book to “grade” my friend’s assignments. My friends would come for a sleepover and we didn’t build forts or play outside. Instead we transformed my room into a classroom with all the kitchen chairs. We had a white board and I would teach my friends and give them grades. Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a teacher just like my mom.
Throughout middle school and high school, I found that my strengths were in math and computers. Those areas just made sense to me, they were logical. I worked in daycare for three and a half years through college, but found out that benefits were a complete necessity when I totaled my car in 2005, not to mention the pay was not as high as I needed to be independent from my parents. I quit teaching at the daycare and went to work for “Corporate America” behind a computer. I’ve had the pay and the benefits now for almost four years, but have never had the satisfaction with myself and job as I had teaching children.
Last year, after some long soul searching, I realized that I had had every major life event happen within one year – I graduated from college, got married, and had a beautiful baby boy. My family was complete, but my life wasn’t feeling that way. I needed to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I knew I wasn’t happy behind a computer because I didn’t feel self-worth or that my work mattered to anyone. I realized that the only way for me to be self-fulfilled is to pursue my childhood dream of being a teacher. I want to be a teacher because I want to make a difference in a child’s life. I want to look out at my classroom after teaching something new and see the light bulb go on in a child’s head. Most of all I want to make a difference!
The three main “Keys to Success” provided me with some great pointers to remember throughout my future teaching career. I understand that as a teacher I will not be able to “save” all children. Remembering this key point will allow me to stay with reasonable expectations each year. Being organized is always important, but even more so in teaching. A child cannot be expected to learn and be organized if the teacher does not maintain organization themselves. Realizing this need will keep me from stressing out and trying to cram everything in to my life at once. Reflection is always something I have struggled with. After reading this point, I am making a goal to keep a journal in my personal life to help me reflect on day to day happenings. I hope to carry this over into my teaching career to help me reflect and stay positive. Keeping all of the “Keys to Success” in mind, I have confidence that I will be a successful teacher.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Prayers Please
Just wanted to ask for everyone's prayers. My mom is having neck surgery next Tuesday, March 3rd. Her vertebrae are crushing her spinal cord and it needs to be corrected before she has paralyzation. So, I ask you to pray for her and our family.
XOXO,
Princess J
XOXO,
Princess J
Monday, February 23, 2009
From the Imagination Prompt Generator...
What is the essential core of friendship for you? 
Friendship is very important to me, as it is to most. I believe that the core of friendship is loyalty and honesty. I constantly worry about whether or not I'm a good friend to those I consider good friends to me. I also wonder whether those people I consider to be my true friends really are.
Good friends are very hard to find. I've realized over the years that a true friend should be treasured. Friendship, like any relationship, requires work. When one person in the relationship is not putting in the same amount of work, the other friend feels neglected. I've had this feeling with many friends throughout the years. Sometimes it is not worth trying anymore. You soon realize that you're trying way harder to keep that friend than that friend is trying to be your friend.
A good friend makes time for their friends. Taking time to be a friend to others means to cancel another commitment to help a friend or be there for them. A friend should make time for the other's significant life events, moments of crisis, and the ordinary life happenings.
A good friend is someone you can trust with your deepest and darkest secrets. Sharing secrets with friends helps you explore what is troubling you and allows you to get an outside version of the situation. Your friends should be people that are trustworthy and keep your secrets from being gossip.
A good friend also cares about you deeply, as if you were family. Without care, friendship is impossible. Caring involves both a person's heart and mind. Care says that whatever happens to you happens to me. When you are sad, they are sad. When something wonderful happens to you, they feel your excitement.
A good friend also speaks the truth, even when it hurts. Honesty is a requirement of friendship. There must be a willingness and acceptance to speak and hear the truth. Friends who do not care enough to confront another may save themselves a little awkwardness in the present, but will end up losing their friendship in the future.
A good friend forgives faults. Every friend you have will eventually disappoint you. Friends are only human after all. That's why friendship also depends on forgiveness. Some slights need only be overlooked and forgotten, but others need profound forgiveness. The friendship may not continue unless there is also reconciliation, which requires that your friend own up to the truth of the fault and see the pain it caused.
A good friend always remains faithful. They shouldn't desert you when you're in trouble, when it costs them something to remain your friend, or when you life changes and you cannot continue to do things you used to. When they do desert you, they weren't true friends in the first place! I've learned this lesson multiple times. Now that we've got a child, it's harder to go out and do things without the baby, because babysitters cost money and one night out could mean $150-$200 when you add a babysitter in the mix. Some friends have just stopped calling and inviting us to do anything...I guess those friends weren't true friends in the first place.
A good friend laughs easily. The old adage goes, "Laughter is the best medicine." A good friend can cheer you up when you are down with laughter. And they should be there to do so. Laughter is also the fuel that keeps good friendships going one they are born.
A good friend is there to help you celebrate success. A defining trait of a good friend is the ability to stick with you in the bad times, but the true test of friendship is their ability to be supportive and hang around for you when things are going well. A good friend will spread your good news (if it's not breaking trust and so long as it doesn't turn into gossip) and be truly happy for your achievements.
I can only hope that I'm a true friend to those I consider my true friends. I try to be the best friend I can be. It's taken me a long time to realize that friends come and go. My mom used to tell me when I was younger that whatever was happening (if I was upset) would not matter in 10 years. And that in 10 years, I'd only have a handful of friends that were true to me. Why didn't I listen to my mom!?! I wish I would've believed her then because I'm finding out now that she's completely right. It's been almost 10 years since I graduated and I can count my true friends from high school and before on one hand.
Good friends are very hard to find. I've realized over the years that a true friend should be treasured. Friendship, like any relationship, requires work. When one person in the relationship is not putting in the same amount of work, the other friend feels neglected. I've had this feeling with many friends throughout the years. Sometimes it is not worth trying anymore. You soon realize that you're trying way harder to keep that friend than that friend is trying to be your friend.
A good friend makes time for their friends. Taking time to be a friend to others means to cancel another commitment to help a friend or be there for them. A friend should make time for the other's significant life events, moments of crisis, and the ordinary life happenings.
A good friend is someone you can trust with your deepest and darkest secrets. Sharing secrets with friends helps you explore what is troubling you and allows you to get an outside version of the situation. Your friends should be people that are trustworthy and keep your secrets from being gossip.
A good friend also cares about you deeply, as if you were family. Without care, friendship is impossible. Caring involves both a person's heart and mind. Care says that whatever happens to you happens to me. When you are sad, they are sad. When something wonderful happens to you, they feel your excitement.
A good friend also speaks the truth, even when it hurts. Honesty is a requirement of friendship. There must be a willingness and acceptance to speak and hear the truth. Friends who do not care enough to confront another may save themselves a little awkwardness in the present, but will end up losing their friendship in the future.
A good friend forgives faults. Every friend you have will eventually disappoint you. Friends are only human after all. That's why friendship also depends on forgiveness. Some slights need only be overlooked and forgotten, but others need profound forgiveness. The friendship may not continue unless there is also reconciliation, which requires that your friend own up to the truth of the fault and see the pain it caused.
A good friend always remains faithful. They shouldn't desert you when you're in trouble, when it costs them something to remain your friend, or when you life changes and you cannot continue to do things you used to. When they do desert you, they weren't true friends in the first place! I've learned this lesson multiple times. Now that we've got a child, it's harder to go out and do things without the baby, because babysitters cost money and one night out could mean $150-$200 when you add a babysitter in the mix. Some friends have just stopped calling and inviting us to do anything...I guess those friends weren't true friends in the first place.
A good friend laughs easily. The old adage goes, "Laughter is the best medicine." A good friend can cheer you up when you are down with laughter. And they should be there to do so. Laughter is also the fuel that keeps good friendships going one they are born.
A good friend is there to help you celebrate success. A defining trait of a good friend is the ability to stick with you in the bad times, but the true test of friendship is their ability to be supportive and hang around for you when things are going well. A good friend will spread your good news (if it's not breaking trust and so long as it doesn't turn into gossip) and be truly happy for your achievements.
I can only hope that I'm a true friend to those I consider my true friends. I try to be the best friend I can be. It's taken me a long time to realize that friends come and go. My mom used to tell me when I was younger that whatever was happening (if I was upset) would not matter in 10 years. And that in 10 years, I'd only have a handful of friends that were true to me. Why didn't I listen to my mom!?! I wish I would've believed her then because I'm finding out now that she's completely right. It's been almost 10 years since I graduated and I can count my true friends from high school and before on one hand.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Dave Ramsey - FPU
Thanks to a wonderful gift from Chrys, I have the opportunity I've been wanting to start for a long time. I've listened to Dave Ramsey via podcasts for over a year now. I've always wanted to get into his Financial Peace University (FPU), but never had the money to fork over to pay for the program! Chrystal got in just a few weeks ago and gave me her login and password to utilize the program! I'm so excited. This is going to be a complete makeover for our family. I am going to burn the audio lessons to CD so that PJ can listen in the car! Then we'll both be on the same page! I can't wait.
Lesson #1: Super Saving
We need to complete Baby Step #1 - Save an Emergency Fund of $1,000
I hope to have this complete this weekend with our tax return.
Lesson #1: Super Saving
We need to complete Baby Step #1 - Save an Emergency Fund of $1,000
I hope to have this complete this weekend with our tax return.
Monday, February 9, 2009
New Blog...Jots, Journals, & Junk!
So, my goal is to actually keep up with this blog. The thing that has always held me back from daily blogging is that I don't know what to write about. So, here goes nothing...this blog is titled "Jots, Journals, & Junk - From the Jefferson's". Just so you know, that's what you're getting into...just me jotting down my thoughts, writing to my journal (mostly on bad days), and junk (could include photos or videos or whatever I feel like)! I'm not promising to write daily or keep you stalkers up-to-date on my family (which I would love to do, but promises are always broken). Please don't be upset when I don't keep up with this. I will try my damnedest to do this at least weekly...bi-weekly...monthly...who cares...like anyone reads this crap anyways!
I actually found an "Imagination Prompt" generator that will generate something for me to blog about! This is great...now I won't get stuck. The con is that you are stuck reading whatever the generator has in store!! Too bad for you...you either want me to blog or you don't, right? So...here's to Jots, Journals, & Junk from the Jefferson's! ENJOY!
XOXO,
Princess J
I actually found an "Imagination Prompt" generator that will generate something for me to blog about! This is great...now I won't get stuck. The con is that you are stuck reading whatever the generator has in store!! Too bad for you...you either want me to blog or you don't, right? So...here's to Jots, Journals, & Junk from the Jefferson's! ENJOY!
XOXO,
Princess J
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