Reading Impressions

Another thing I like to do when I read is write down quotes/phrases/thoughts that make an impression on me while I am reading.

Here is what I wrote down while reading The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith

She was human made up of a will to do good, but also with human failings.

....myth could be just as sustaining as reality- sometimes even more so.

We all wished for places to be made special somehow.

----little rituals (like that) gave life its texture.

There are so many different sorts of tears.

It was a perfect morning, the best sort of early summer morning, and all he felt was love.

A whole new life- a whole new set of possibilities....

....showing the power of small words to do big things.

I love words

One thing I like to do when I am reading a book is to write down the words that I don't know the meaning of so that I can look them up in the dictionary. Most of the time I can guess the meaning of the words from the rest of the sentence but I like to write the words down anyway so that I can look them up and learn more about them. Sometimes I write down words that I think I already know the meaning of but haven't heard or seen in awhile just for review.

I recently finished The Lost Art of Gratitude - by Alexander McCall Smith

Here is my list of words
1 .coruscate
2. leitmotiv
3. solipsistic
4. padantic
5. prevarication
6. parsimony
7. avuncular
8. argot
9. fastidiousness
10. tetchiness
11. dyspeptic
12. incipient
13. upbraid
14. bifurcated
15. durbar
16. usurer
17. emollient
18. hegemony
19. subversion
20. reticence
21. noumerial
22. quotidian
23. feigned
24. propinquity
25. subterfuge
26. papal
27. somnolence
28. anodyne
29 orchitis
30. mowdie
31. vituperative
32.aquiline
33. tawdry
34. banal


My favorite new word that I learned is:

7. avuncular- adj of or relating to an uncle.
suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality

I just like that a word like this exists.

I think that I will use it for my word of the day.

Meet one of the newest members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Not sure that I can even express my feelings about this day. It was one of those days that are so important, so emotional, so full of joy, that words are completely inadequate. My boy got baptized. He was baptized by his father.

He has grown up so much over the last year. He was ready and prepared for this. Gordon has a spiritual side. He has a little boy faith-filled understanding of the Gospel. He often says things that are so tender. He wants and tries to be good. I am so proud of him and feel so honored and blessed to be his mother. He makes me want to do and to be better.

I am grateful for the example Gordon is setting for his younger brother and sisters.
He looks like such a little man in his suit.



Gordon's cousin Tupu (pictured below) got baptized on the same day. She and Gordon were born 10 days apart. There was a big party after her baptism with delicious food and great entertainment. This picture is of Gordon getting ready to do a Samoan dance.

Gordon and Tupu getting ready to perform. They both did a great job. Tupu was so graceful. Just like a Samoan princess.



Here they are on stage.

Year in Review 2

More favs from 09

Year in Review 1

Favorite pics from 2009

Sign #3 that I might have a DIVA on my hands

She's runs through the water like a Baywatch girl.

Sign #2 that I might have a DIVA on my hands

She has her own sense of style. She wants to wear a skirt or dress everyday. She has to pick out her outfits. Anything I want her to wear, simply will not do. She likes crazy color combinations. The more colorful and crazy the better.