Archive for October, 2005

Yesterday, my son’s first grade class took a field trip to the pumpkin patch. I volunteered to help out, and took my younger son with me so he didn’t feel slighted that he was without pumpkin and field trip. LOL. Since it’s nearing the end of pumpkin season, the owner said the children could take whatever pumpkin they wanted as long as they could carry it. Let me tell you, it’s pretty funny watching a group of first graders try to lug huge pumpkins back to the bus.

Of course, since I was there, guess who got stuck carrying my son’s pumpkins? Yep. You guessed it. Me. At the time I didn’t mind, but today, my arms are so sore! I should go weigh those suckers and find out how much weight I was carrying in each arm.

The next few days are going to be hectic. My son’s preschool halloween party is tomorrow and I’m the party mom for it, so I’ll be spending today baking, putting goody bags together, and cutting out a gazillion shapes from construction paper for the construction paper ‘shape’ scarecrows I was planning for their craft. I always say I’m not going to go overboard…but then I somehow forget that. :)

Monday is halloween, of course, and my other son’s first grade halloween party, where, yes, once again, I’ve volunteered to help. So, more of the same over the weekend for me.

And nope, I still haven’t done any writing….

My 4 1/2-year-old son woke up this morning crying. He said he had a bad dream. When I asked him what it was about, he said, “I had the moon and it made me sad.”

In my head I have this image of my son holding the moon and it reminds me of that Eric Carle book (the man who authored/illustrated ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’), Papa Please Get the Moon for Me. I have no idea why this would make my son sad, but it was obvious that it upset him quite a bit.

For some reason, as my son got older, he developed a fear of the dark. Many times in bed, he whispers to me about shadows…and how he sees monsters, and I constantly have to reassure him that monsters are pretend, and that mom and dad will always be there for him.

But sometimes, I have this uneasy feeling that one day my boy is gonna whisper, “I see dead people.” Weird.

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I added some new tunes to my player:

Josh Gracin’s “Stay With Me (Brass Bed)”
Gary Allan’s “The Best I Ever Had”
Michael Buble’s “Home”
And I left the Steven Curtis Chapman ones up.

Currently, these are some of my favorite songs. Go ahead, give ‘em a listen. You know you want to.

I just couldn’t help myself. Check out the cool new music player in my sidebar. And, yes, I know I should’ve been writing!

But, I wasn’t…So, I uploaded a few of the songs from my current WIP’s “Soundtrack”:

1. Howie Day’s Collide: I have no idea what other songs he sings, but I like the sound of this one and it fits the overall feeling my characters have of their worlds colliding beyond their control.

2. Steven Curtis Chapman’s Soldier: This one comes from the “We Were Soldiers” soundtrack (the movie with Mel Gibson), and it’s for my hero.

3. Steven Curtis Chapman’s When Love Takes You In: This is the song I mentioned in my Resonation post, and I couldn’t resist letting you all have a chance to hear it. It’s so beautiful, it makes me want to cry every time I hear it. I love it. And I also love Steven Curtis Chapman’s voice…it’s kind of what I imagine Tucker (the hero from my last ms, THIS DARK PLACE) sounding like when he sings.

What do you think? Of the player and the songs?

Enjoy!