Childhood Memories

I was going through a tub of books my mother-in-law had given to my three kids and was so surprised when I found a book that I had read and reread and loved as a child! It's called "Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs". I haven't read this book since I was probably a very young child, at least 8 or 9. But I readily recognized the cover and amazingly as I began reading it to my kids I could vividly remember the pictures and what ones would come next. And then I remembered how the story ended and before I knew it my eyes were full of tears and I was fighting hard to control the emotion.

You see, this book is about a little boy who has a grandmother and a great grandmother and every Sunday he would visit them. He would call his grandmother Nana Downstairs and his great grandma Nana Upstairs because she was very old and couldn't get out of bed. Well during the story Nana Upstairs dies and the little boy is very upset. And there is a picture of the little boy going to his mom in the middle of the night and her reaching out to him.

I'm not for sure, but I think I got this book a little before or maybe after my dad's death and maybe that was my fascination with the book..identifying with the young boy's grief. It is definitely not a happy story, but it has stuck in my heart all these years. It's interesting how it has resurfaced in my life.

Just wondering where God is going from here...

Monday, Monday

I'm not a Monday person, enough said.

I did watch a new movie this weekend, you can check out what I thought on the side bar!

Friday Five!

(Well at least doing this has made me blog on a weekly basis!)

The person who comes up with the questions didn't have time for new questions for this week and so I went back and picked a set of questions at random to answer :)

1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?
Yes I'm organized. Not extremely, but I'm definitely organized more than most people.

2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?
Yes I do. I have a calendar on my computer that I update almost daily and I also have a calendar in my notebook for work that I keep updated. I would forget everything if I didn't have these two things. And I constantly make "to do" lists for home and work.

3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?
Organized--yes. Here is the stack for bills, here is the stack of things that need to be put away and here is a stack of things that haven't been gone through and here's a stack for my hubby to go through..etc you get the picture. (I may be organized, but I'm not very neat)

4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?
My CDs are not alphabetized, but probably because they are just stacked on a shelf that is hard to see. My movies are all alphabetized. (which is no easy task when you have 3 kids under the age of 7 who really don't care that Care Bears starts with C and needs to go on the top shelf..lol)

5. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to organize?
Girl Scouts! I don't know why, but I'm having a hard time getting it together. I think it's because it's new and I really am lacking time lately to get it done.