Happy Halloween

We went tricker treating in down town! It was a lot of fun! Andy loved
walking around and getting free candy. It was fun too because we went
into shops we wouldn't have normally gone into.
We came home and had dinner. Andy has a full gallon size bag of candy on
top of the fridge after having his fill. I also carved the pumpkins!
They came out really happy!
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Loves it!

I got out his costume this morning! He loves it! We can hardly wait
until tomorrow! Happy Halloween!
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Freedom Writers

I worked really hard on this essay and my husband was yelled at while I was writing it, I didn't want it to get lost in a homework is done grave yard. Hope you enjoy and maybe even watch the movie.


The film Freedom Writers is about the conflicts outsiders face. Eva Benitez is a Latino girl forced to attend high school outside of her neighborhood because of desegregation rules for her school distract. Away from the comfort of her scary gang life she faces many of her rival gang's members in class on a daily basis. Eva finds herself in Erin Gruwell's class. Erin is also an outsider. Erin is not supported by the faculty because she has new ideas and passion to back them up.
Eva gets ready for a night out with her gang, only to witness one of her gang's members kill a rival gang member, a friend of one of her fellow classes mates. Eva lies to the police. She says she is "protecting her own." The day in court Eva struggles, right up to the last second. She decides to tell the truth. Eva tells them "Paco did it." The repercussions of making the right decisions was being "jumped" out of her gang in the way she was "jumped" into her gang. She felt very alone. She was an outsider in her world. Eva even had to physically relocate to her Aunts house.
Erin is an outsider to the facility at the school she is working at. She desperately wants to connect with her students. Erin seeks the assistance from Harrington to get books. When she is turned down she asks the other English instructor for support. She quickly learns that there is a strong dislike for her students and their ethnicity's. Erin is finds her self working two jobs to support her classroom with books and field trips to excite her students about learning. Erin is also and outsider at home because she is unable to connect with her husband. She even finds that she is alone the night her husband leaves. She tries to call a friend and only has her father to lean on.
Eva and Erin find peace in themselves when they enter the classroom. Erin even tells her husband that her life makes since when she is helping her students make since of their crazy lives. Eva finds a friend in rival gang members after standing up and telling the truth. The movie does a great job of showing us that we all come from a different place but at the same time we are all the same. When we get ready for a night on the town, we all pick our clothes, put on our make up and maybe even enjoy listening to music. When you don't have a sense of community you are left to feel like an outsider. There is a need to have people around you that have goals and dreams that support your goals and dreams. When there is a feeling that you are the only one it is hard to remember your not alone.

Thomas face

My hubby asked Andy to draw me a Thomas face, and he did!!! It was great
watching him process and draw me this face all by himself!!!
I got him a color book with punkin faces in it, all the punkins now have
faces!
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train ride

We went to the punkin farm last weekend. We had a great time! We even
took a free mini "train" ride!
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Craft show

Well, I went, I displayed and we didn't sell much, but I had a good time.
I hope next time is better!

My Grandpa's work is awesome!!
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Yoga is Community

I have been taking yoga classes for the last year and a half at the Women’s’ Wellness Center. I find yoga to be a community because I have the opportunity to connect with my fellow students, the instructors and the people on the street (when they see my yoga mat), and finally there is the internet yoga community.
What holds this community together is the mindful movements that you feel silly doing by yourself with other people watching you. The exploration of personal fitness, health, nutrition, and freedom of movement brings us each to the class room. This community is about you in an unselfish way. You listen to yourself, your body and what it wants to do with each pose. Your own voices are they only thing that can stop you from coming to class. It is your personal choice to take time out of your day to come to class or the mat for your own personal yoga experience. Once you get to class our instructors aids us in letting go of our busy crazy days.
We Yogi’s share a need to feel better, be centered and have a better quality to our lives. Some of us share the nutritional support to your yoga practices. We also share limitations and when we let go of the “I can’t do that” mentality, we are free to explore a pose which make us stronger and healthier. There is nothing like your first shoulder stand or your first head stand.
I fit into this community in a since that I want to feel better; I want to have more quality movements and be stronger. I want less low back and leg pain. I don’t think I look like the cookie cutter yoga student. I am overweight and I don’t know but that makes me think that other can feel more comfortable in class, because if I can do it they should know they can do it too. In addition to the class room experience I enjoy reading about the yoga poses we do and the effects on my body from these poses. I also enjoy talking to people about yoga and what we did in class and how nice it feels when you do something you didn’t think you could do.

Thoughts on readings

So if you didn't knowest, I am taking an English Class, and I am posting some of my assignments for all of you to read, not just those in my class. We did a reading assignment about two differant women and this a poem that summerizes the reading in my own way.

I am women
I am me
All you weirdoes don’t scare me I am always and forever very much me
Say what you will
Say what you are
For how you say it is all that you are
I will own this
I hope you do to
May our culture live on through this!

The book we are reading out of is called Remix: reading + composing culture by Catherine G. Latterell. So, far all the readings are intresting and definantly thought provoking!

What is in your Wallet?

I see before me the contents of my wallet and my purse. I see that I love to shop. I see that I save lots of little pieces of papers. Receipts and notes. I have business cards mainly for doctors’ offices and others are for random people that I know are my friends.
I see a much worn bank card, and combined with the receipts I see that I don’t carry a lot of cash. The coin compartment is full of coins and one fortune cookie fortune telling me to be creative. The recipes from the craft stores and the local bead store show that I don’t need any help to be creative.
I also find an iron on patch of Jimminy Cricket from Pinocchio. Is this a whimsical spirit shining through? In addition to the patch I find a novelty id for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes a vampire slayer at heart, and overall strong women role model or a strange blond to giggle at. One doesn’t know but will make us ponder.
Wondering into the purse we find several nice pens in multi colors and not one but two small notebooks. One says Tranquility on the outside. Upon review there is no tranquility, there is only a busy life of list of to do’s, ideas to share with co-workers, a hint of the religious beliefs show up here, notes about loved ones in the hospital, notes about a friend’s wedding and of course thoughts and notes for posting for my English class. There are also pages of doodles and plans. The other note book contains private thoughts that ground and motivate me and more serious sketches of things of beauty.
I think someone would find that I am very scattered all though I use my note books to organize my thoughts so that they will make since to others and be easily shared. I am shopping addict in hiding. I keep my receipts too, so it seems like I am spending a lot, but they just pile up in there because I don’t have a lot of time to progress that joy. I think they might wonder what things I create, and if I was any good at creating things. Some people view crafting as crap while others can see the beauty in crafting.
One last major thing is in my purse. It is my digital camera. I have hundreds of pictures of my son, my family and friends on my camera. I would hope that someone would see how much I love my family and how much I enjoy being a mom. I think that the digital camera would say more than all the other things about me. I think that by viewing the pictures they would see part of my life and really feel like they knew me.