Unexpected Moments

With the hustle and bustle of a busy morning today, I tried to mentally collect the events of the day thus far, contemplate what's on the agenda for the rest of the day, and find my place all while driving here.  I decided to change the radio station, since the one that was on plays the same 4 songs over and over.  So it seems. Anyway, I began hearing the first few bars of an old favorite song.  Many of you may not have ever heard of it, but it's called "Head Over Heels" by an 80's band Tears for Fears.  I began the concert in my car as I call it where I belt out the words like a superstar, all the while hoping no one hears me at a traffic stop.  All of a sudden, I was overcome with emotion.  The song brought me to tears!! (no pun intended)  I was brought back to a place in time when my oldest son was a baby.  That time was the most incredible time in my life, as being a mother at the tender age of 22 was what I wanted most.  He smelled beautiful, his smile was breathtaking and his eyes were always fixed on mine.  His eyes always sparkled like stars in a night sky.  He was and is the love of my life,(as are my husband and two other children)  What a beautiful visit to a place I haven't been to in a very long time.  Life gets so hectic sometimes, we rarely get moments to reflect on and if it wasn't for the song bringing me back, I may have spent my day looking forward instead of back.  Today my son is 26 years old, living in Manhattan.  We do not get to see one another as much as we would like.  After class, I am going to call him and tell him how much I love and miss him.

My favorite time of the year

Sunday could not have been more perfect.   My family and I went on our annual apple picking trip in Warwick, NY..  We live close to many of the orchards, but still,  enjoy it like it's a trip to a far away place.  After we picked our Macintosh and some Red Delicious varieties, we visited the Farmer's Market.  There we chose our fresh root vegetables in anticipation of our traditional after apple picking dinner.  We make stuffed pork roast, gravy, roasted root vegetables, (all in the autumn colors) salad and homemade apple pie.  It is important to keep up with traditions, even if they are all your own.  My daughter is very interested in this, and she's always the one to remind us what tradition is coming next.  We are a very close family and it is important to me that my children have lots of happy memories to look back on and lots of ideas for traditions they may want to start or keep with their own families.  I once read that if you do something more than once with a child, they will tell others " We always do this"  We've added many new traditions to our family over the years.   If you follow the "do something at least twice" rule and you will create a tradition. 

With all our apples, we make applesauce, apple crisp, and apple dumplings and pie.

Sometimes there is just nothing to talk about, nothing to blog about.  Sometimes we just want silence. 
As I try to come up with ideas to put into a cohesive blog, I realize I have no shortage of ideas or things to talk about, rather  I just don't feel like talking or sharing my thoughts.  Remember when you got home from school and all you wanted was to just get inside and get a drink, a snack, or use the bathroom.  What usually happened?  Mom or Dad would say," How was school today?" or "What did you do in school today?"  Usually the response was "nothing."  No it never meant that you did nothing all day, rather you just wanted not to discuss it.  So today, if I may, I just want to say "Nothing."

Lorrainereflections said...

Well, due to the power, my post went into the save file until I could retrieve it and post it today. Well, it happened!!! Friday morning, I am in the shower at 5:15 when the power goes out. Oh, wait, it was just a surge, Oh, No it's for real, PITCH BLACK! I am full of soap and hoping there is enough water in the tank to be able to rinse. I am set to go to the middle school today at7:oo a.m. for my secondary content class. Thankfully, the coffee maker went off at 5:00 am and was still warm. So, I proceed with the hurricane lanterns, (I own four) and begin the make-up. Well, I have no idea if I look even or not. Now to wake the kids. The school ended up closing since a tree fell, knocking out power in half the town, and knocking out two transformers. The power was out for hours. We used our first snow day! We get 7 per year and often go over the allotted amount.

September 12, 2011 9:39 PM 

How is it, we were spared any damage or power outages stemming from Hurricane Irene, yet experienced a power outage overnight during an average rain storm.  We are used to "roughing it" where I live during storms when the power goes out.  When you live in the woods, any loss of power results in your well not functioning, your septic system not functioning and the overall sound of silence of the 20 or so other electrical items we rely on each day not working.  What made this particular power outage different from the rest was it happened during the night, the night before school starts.  It's hard enough to get back into the 5:15 alarm going off, the worry that the kids may not have everything they need for the first day, but the fear of oversleeping, not having running water, not hearing the alarm, trying to put on your mascara by candlelight or hurricane lamp, well lets just say that one side of the face will turn out better than the other.

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Hello All,

I enjoyed reading the other students blogs.  I think that there is something about each blogger I can identify with.  I am learning how important new ways of learning, using information and communication technologies create new literacy.  Students today are learning at quicker rates, have different modes of gathering information and can increase their academic success and be better prepared individuals in life and in school.  Teachers must learn new technologies in order to help their students learn.  A task, I must admit scares me a little.  It seems that just as I understand something, something new, faster and better has replaced it.

The issues of technology for older students

No matter how much life experience I have acquired in my 40+ years, none of it can be applied to trying to figure out the latest technology.  Ask me how to raise children, make a fabulous meal, even fix a flat tire, and I'm your girl (woman).  I communicate the old fashioned way, via telephone, or face to face interaction.  I don't have a myspace page, a facebook, or even a twitter account.  Now, I am forced to swim or drown in uncharted territory.  To correct the mistakes I am making in this technological realm I now find myself in, requires technology to figure out as well as reading glasses.