Where oh Where

has the time gone? I mean, it is August already. I know that the thermometer outside definitly says that we are in the midst of HEAT, but come on.....100+ degrees everyday? Please send some relief sometime soon!

On to something better. Dad is home and doing well. He needs a little bell or something to keep track of him sometimes, but for the most part he is behaving. He still looks pale and a little lost at times, but he is getting more active and taking advantage of the pool. His sugar levels are staying okay if he stays off the sweets he has for "just in case it gets too low" and I think that he is overall feeling alot better.

The girls are into their first full week of school, and so far so good on the liking teachers and stuff. Tori has the same teacher twice for her 2 math classes, so she does have homework every night, but it is the first time in several years that she has had homework at all. She really likes her English teacher and her Social Studies teacher. Spanish may be a little hard on her. She keeps hearing from her friends how much they are learning, and she isn't there yet. Guess the teacher arrangement has to do with the "track" that they are in.

Emily is liking her teacher Mrs. White, and is willing to put up with Andrew. Next year I am going to not only try to get the teacher, but also get that kid put into a different class. He is disruptive and annoying. Seriously needs some ritalin I think.

Hot, hot, hot and dry, dry, dry are the words of the day again. May break or at least meet a 17 year old record today. 102 is the projected temp in Nashville today. Damn hot is what I say. Went out at 5:30 this morning to get chores done and it was already 80 degrees out. I decided that I was not going to do more than I had to outside today. Would get somethings done in the house. So far though, I have vacuumed up cat hair from 2 rooms and that is it. Need to get the laundry downstairs and started. Didn't get any done over the weekend.

Two weeks until I head to Nashville for CKU. I am excited, and nervous. I need to sit down an make sure I have everything rounded up I need to take for classes and then just plan on packing my suitcase Tuesday or Wednesday. Will, Tori, Nichole and I went to Clarksville on Saturday to meet my roomie, Beth and her husband Steve so that we would know who to look for on Wednesday when we get there. It was fun.

I started reading a book called "Living Artfully" yesterday while we were waiting to pick up Tori after school. It has made me really stop and think about what my own personal definition of "creative" is. I am only into the second chapter and already I am seeing some differences in what I thought and what I want to think. I do know that I want to "create" something every day, not just a scrapbook page per say, but anything, and not feel like I am not doing it right. I need to learn to just let go and do it and forget what that inner critic says all the time.

I see so many creative people when I read the blogs I read, and am constantly thinking that I could do that if I had their creativity. Well, I do have it, I just don't use it to its fullest extent. I need to really try to get that part of my life going. Maybe I wouldn't feel so "unfinished" each day.

So here is to living a creative and artful life each day!