In Search of Myself

Easter

So Jake is as spoiled at Easter as any other holiday.  He had an egg hunt at school on Thursday, we spent the day at Nana's on Friday (joined by Zoe, Elauna, Aowyn, and Lorien) coloring eggs and having a hunt, Saturday we went to the church where Jake goes to school for a sunset flashlight egg hunt, Sunday morning there was a brief hunt at church, and Sunday afternoon we were at Nannie and Pa's house where we had yet another hunt.  So . . . yeah.  Jake got plenty of egg hunting in this year. 

A visual

I was sitting here thinking about how different middle Tennessee is from where I grew up.  I now have a SuperTarget ONE MILE from my house.  And yeah, that seems silly to care about, but when you come from here:

and then after 14 years, move here:

you can't help but be struck by the differences, even 11 years later.

(Those two maps show the same area, an inch is equal to 50 miles.)

Name that state

Sometime last year, I bought a workbook about the states from Target's dollar bin.  I figured it was a little old for Jake, so I put it on a bookshelf for later.  Well I was washing my face and doing all that before bedtime stuff on Monday, and I come out to find that Jake was working on the book.  He had just finished a dot-to-dot, and I asked him what he was doing.

"Mama," he said, "this is Texas."

"Oh really," I said.  "How do you know that?"

With a sigh (like, duh mom), he said "Because it's SHAPED like Texas."

Right on, little bro.

Jan. 2008 through Jake's eyes

So I haven't been blogging or scrapping much lately.  Been reading a lot instead.  Well, and sleeping -- I was sick the better part of Jan/Feb, as tends to happen every year.  Almost better now -- still too much teeth sensitivity, and still coughing a bit, but overall ok.

So this is my first scrapbook page thrown together in several weeks.  Total Jake randomness.  Good times.  :)

P.S. Happy birthday to Elauna!  The big 5!!!