The Tao of Pooh

I know it's been a while since I wrote last, life has just been a bit boring. Well I'm going to write once a week from now on. Hal and I were talking about the different personality types that are discribed in Benjamin Hoff's "The Tao of Pooh".  It's a really good short read if you have not read it. We decided that Hal was a Tigger/Eeyore and I was a Pooh with some Piglet. If you know what you are you should write it on my blog! We all need each other to get through our adventure.

A waterfall in my bedroom.......

Yesterday I was helping at my mom's school ,and I was sooo tired by the end of  the school day. My mom and I were talking on the drive home about how we were going to take naps. we'll....... My mom went out side and saw water running down the outside of the house and said, " GO CHECK YOUR APARTMENT!!!" So I went downstairs ,and my bedroom door had water pouring down it. Then I walked in my bedroom ,and water was coming off the ceiling, out of the light fixtures, and running down my closet like a water fall. My mattress was completely full of water!!! Someone was doing laundry upstairs (above my bedroom) and the washing machine never stoped filling up ,and they fell asleep for 2 hours. Then we came home. I'm really learning to laugh at life ,because this stuff just keeps happening to me if I have a bad attitude or not!!!  I'm not mad, life is just way to funny. HEY! I get a new mattress:)

The Choir

BBC has this TV show called "The Choir" ,and every time I watch something makes me cry. I love music ,and the show really helps me not give up on it. It's been so hard since college to remember why I was getting my degree in Music Ed  ,but this show reminds me why. This last episode had a child that had Dyslexia and he was really struggling ,and in the end he was so happy he stuck with it. It reminded me how hard music was when I first started. Now I can play so many instruments ,and sing! I can even play the piano with both hands! That was really hard to overcome ,but I did it. Music was the first thing I ever did that was good ,and I can never give up on it.

I watched the Percy Jackson movie.

I know It's probably not like the book and the acting was a little bit cheesy,but I liked the story. I related to it because I'm dyslexic. I don't see secret messages when I read even though the words and letters spin around. I really liked that it showed just because you don't think and learn like every one else doesn't mean that you are not smart ,but you have a purpose. I know that I am different like this for a reason just like everyone else who was blessed with dyslexia. I say blessed because no one can convince me that Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein , Leonardo da  Vinci ,and so many others had learning "disabilities". I'm very convinced we think this way for a reason that comes from God.

Here is a list of  famous people with dyslexia just for fun :)

Henry Ford
Pablo Picasso
Robin Williams
Kiera Knightley
Orlando Bloom
Tommy Hilfiger
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Disney
George Washington

I can't believe that It's a disability when I read names like that. I hope that I can accomplish everything that God wants me to do. I'm so glad that I have realized that I don't need to be what schools and teachers say I should be. I am smart, even if my grades don't show it. I'm unique and can offer the world something that no one else can. I  love being Dyslexic!

It's Done...........

I created a blog about my life to let family and friends know that I'm alive(because I never check my facebook). Hal is graduating from his school on Monday the nineth!!!!Yea :). My cousin and her family are getting sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on the 13th! My sister in law Amber just had a beautiful baby girl named Paige :)! I started writing in my journal again, and I had an amazing primary lesson. August has been full of warm fuzzys :) I hope it will remain this way.