Wow, what a great blog entry!

I just read this and it amused me so much that I want to post it on my blog for others to see. So visit this site for fabulous advice on how to make friends. I plan to follow this advice post-haste!

http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2007/10/12-ways-to-make-friends.html

I’m getting sick. I’ve been getting sick for the last three weeks. I hate when this happens because when I do finally get sick, it’s REALLY bad because I’ve been worn down for ages beforehand. And then I might as well be dead for the amount of energy I don’t have. Alex has a cold-slash-allergies. One of these days I will take him to the doctor and remember to ask if I should be concerned that my two year old snores louder than my husband. And then maybe we will discover that Alex’s runny nose and sneezing at certain times of the year is a result of allergies. Until then, Benadryl works well to get him to fall asleep and not worry about the runny nose. J

Lots of people in my life have/had laryngitis too, and seeing as how my latest self-induced challenge is to see how much I can talk in an 80-minute period (that’s how long I have a group of students at any given time during a school day), not having a voice would be terribly inconvenient.

I am in the process of reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. It is a goldmine! It’s so powerful (like The DaVinci Code also was for me) that I can do nothing but read and consider the adjustments I need to make (and even those I don’t need to make) within my life. It makes me think!

***I just realized I have started three sentences in a row with the word “it,” and I think that perhaps my writing is being negatively affected by the oversimplification of speech that happens at my house so that Alex can learn to speak English . I mean, what I typed just a few sentences ago is how I think these days. It is ----. It is -----. I am ---. You are ----. Once again, I am humbled by the far-reaching, life-changing effects of motherhood.

Lyndsey Lovelace-Jarvis, if you read this will you please send me a note so I know that you, Dan, and the girls are okay? I heard from a San Diego friend that Oceanside was not affected by the fires, but I will feel better and not worry about you when I hear from you. Thanks! J