Finished...almost

Yesterday was the last day of my last class for my Masters degree!!!  I'm done, sort of.  Now I have Comprehensive Exams -- eek!  Thankfully, my English Comps are on a seperate day from my Education Comps.  I think I'd keel over if they were together.  Summer is plugging along.  The kids are loving vacation bible school this week, the library's summer reading program ended last week, and Holdyn's birthday is Sunday. 

I know I've been woeful in my blogging duties this year.  I'm not keeping a very good family journal, nor am I keeping up with my bloggy friends and family.  It looks like I'm going to have to break down and become a "follower."  You know I hate that term -- weren't we all taught to be leaders not followers?  So, I'm going to become a Subscriber instead.  How is that different?  I don't know, just humor me, umkay?

Anyhow, I pledge to better fulfill my blogging duties.  I'll get some pics up this week, too.

Much Love,
-Jennie

I Wish

I am lucky enough to be participating as a fellow in the 2010 JSU Writing Project.  Today was Day 1.  I am so excited to be a part of this project.  My personal goal is to challenge myself as a writer and learn from people who have tons of classroom experience.  For our first teaching demonstration (taught by Melissa Shields) we wrote an I Wish poem.  We began by creating 5 simple "I Wish" sentences like "I wish I had a million dollars".  Then we expanded the sentences by adding conjunctive adverbs (because, consequently, in the event of, etc).  After creating the poem we made our poems into Wordles.  My Wordle is above; click on it to make it bigger.  Here is my poem...

I Wish

I wish for my children to be safe because I cannot always be with them.

I wish my Grandma was still living because I need her guidance, love, and stories everyday.

I wish my house would sell so that we can move to Tuscaloosa and begin our new adventure.

I wish I had a laundry folding machine so that in the event of my death my husband and children won’t be crushed in an avalanche of dirty socks and smelly underwear.

I wish for perfect hips (and tummy and butt) like the ones I had before I birthed three children, including a set of twins.