A Symbol in Revelation!

In Revelation, there are several symbols. One symbol in particular is the stairs leading up to heaven, It is symbolic to Jacob ladder in the  Bible

This Week Random Blog - WEDDING PLANNING BLUES

This week we have a blog that could be about anything. So I guess I can talk about my wedding plans. I am currently married. I have been since August of last year. My husband proposed in December 2013 and we decided on December 2014 wedding date. Gave us a year to get ready! Surprise happened in March when I found out I was a few months pregnant. The baby was due in August so we still was going ahead with wedding plans for out December wedding.  Things got HECTIC. I never in a million would have thought that wedding plans was this crazy. No one could have told me this. There are so many little things that are involved. I never wanted a big wedding. I have never had the desire for a big Cinderella dream wedding. Never planned a wedding in my head. I wanted to go to the courthouse. I was fine with that. However, my dad is a pastor, and I was his first of four children marrying, and I realized I DID want my dad to marry us. That meant something to me. So we decided on a small beach wedding of 50. I was determined not to let the wedding plans get me stressed out. After all, I am pregnant, and big during the hot spring and summer months.

So many things was happening at once. We needed a bigger place, I was tired of renting, new daycare fees, my 3 year old needs love and attention, and my pregnancy was kicking my ass. I was talking to my realtor about finding us a new place to rent, preferably a home, and she started telling me that I should buy. It was the last thing on my mind. I hadn’t thought about buying a house for another two or three years. So I was like well tell me what to do. Next thing I know I am buying a house, carrying a baby, planning a wedding, and trying to make sure my 3 yr. old feels the attention and love he needs. He started acting out a bit when I got pregnant. On top of all this, I am still working full time at the Attorney General’s office.  I AM exhausted at this point. My plans for no stress went out the window the moment I made it. Me and my husband finally set down and decided that we wanted the house more than we wanted the wedding. So we pushed the wedding plans back to June 6, 2015. Baby was coming in August, and my husband still wanted to be married before we had her so he asked if we could do something, just us to, at the courthouse. I was fine with that. BUT what about our parents??? We decided to keep it a secret. So we went and got married on anniversary date 8-7-14, at the courthouse. To this day, no one knows we are married but he and I. Baby came end of August. We moved into our house in November.

We got back on track with the wedding planning in Feb 2015. This stuff is till hectic. I am doing something wedding oriented every single weekend. I am so ready for the day to come and go!!! It is in 18 days and I cannot wait for it be over! I more excited about the day after the wedding than the actual day .Yes I know I will enjoy this day and cherish it our memories forever, but OMG....   Wedding planning SUCKS

Critical Perspective...

Critical Perspective is essential when reading. Everyone's critical perspective can differ from one another. Critical perspective is how you see, interpret, and understand the material. It’s basically what you understand the material to be and what you got from what you just read. It goes hand in hand with comprehension.

Poem Blog

Blog #13

One of my favorite writers/poets is Shel Silverstein. I have about 5 of his books. My favorite book by him is Where the Sidewalk End. I have memorized each poem in the book. I’ve had it all my life and I read it to my son and my daughter. Shel Silverstein was a great poet. One of my favorite poems in the book is Sick. It’s about a young girl who wants to stay in bed and not go to school because she is sick. She describes in depth how she is near death throughout the poem. She has every disease she can think of. Once she nears death near the end of the poem, she learns its Saturday. She is suddenly miraculously healed and wants to go out and play. I love them poem because we can all say we have tried it as well. I know I can. I have come up with some fevers and “sore throats” to try to get out of school. It never worked with my mom, but I sure tried it. If you ever get a chance, brag the book it is a GREAT book.

 

Sick

by Shel Silverstein 

Sick "I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more - that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue -
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke -
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb,
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my spine is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is -
what? What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is ... Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

Women Writers....

There are so many women writers in the world of Literature. I love to read so I come across many! I will say that some of my favorite writers are male. Harlan Coben is my absolute favorite. I have read EVERY book he has written, and I am at the bookstore when he releases a new one. One of my favorite women writers is Jackie Collins. She is great, and her stories are so captivating. Her Lucky Santangelo novels are the best!! She has written about Lucky over the years. I feel like I know her and her family life.

              Since being in the class I have studies a lot of Flannery O’ Connor’s work and I must say I enjoy reading her short stories. I read Revelation for class assignment purposes only. Once I started researching her for that particular assignment, I came across other published works of her, and really enjoy her stories. Her collection of short stories in the book, A Good Man is hard to Find, are fantastic. I read them all. The Artificial Nigger and The River are the best out of that collection.

 

            I have read other women writers. Women writers have written compelling stuff. From Flannery O’ Connor to E.L. James and her Fifty Trilogy. From J.K. Rowling to Zane. There are so many out there! I get to them one page at a time.