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Happy Mother's Day To Me

So, for my Mother's Day gift, Barrett gave me my note book computer back.   I'm so excited!!!  I've been trying to use an IPAD for the last couple of months, but just couldn't get the hang of it.  It was especially hard to blog on.  I feel bad because Barrett got me an external key board and a IPAD stand to make things easier, but it just felt so foreign to me.. Guess I'm old and stuck in my ways! LOL!  Hopefully, now I can get some writing done.

Hiya

Haven't posted lately. I know I start many of my post like that. Not much has been going on. There are only about 17 days of school left!!!!Yeah, can't wait. That mean 2 months of NO BALL GAMES FOR BARRETT. Lazy days with my little people and fun family nights. I think we may go to Atlanta in June for our Summer vacation. I've never been. We're gonna hit Six Flags, tour the Weather Channel and go see a Braves game, where hopefully Barrett will get to see Chipper Jones play one last time live, as he's retiring at the end of this season. Dalton's excited, Bobbye Sue really wanted to go to Florida and Disney. I would love to take them and go to the beach (haven't been since college). But I just think it'd be a really hard trip for us. I know that God will make it a wonderful trip.

Blogging

OK. Recently, Barrett got thee IPAD 3 and I took overr the IPAD 2. I like it, except I can't figure out the best waay to blog. I love blog spot and don't want to change, but am haveing a really hard time in going back and edditing it. Any suggesstions???

IPAD blogging

So, as many of you know the IPAD 3 came out last week. Yes, Barrett wass in line at midnight last Friday to get it! (Yes, I'm married to a geek!) Anyway, I'm trying the IPAD 2... When he got IPAD 2, I'd tried to use the first IPAD with littler success. But since then I've been using an IPHONE, so I've gotten better aquainted at using it. So, I think I like it. He bought me a key board, so I think I may use it more!

Blogging from mY I

Qoute of The Day

So I came across this quote in the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities:  "Disability is a natural part of the human experience..."  Not sure why, but I find this a bit disturbing.  While I've always been disabled, I don't feel that it is natural.  It's hard to look out into a world where it seams like you are the only one that's not "normal"  and see your disability as natural.    While Cerebral Palsy is not considered a progressive disability; as I age and my life changes the CP affects me differently.  It's dismissed as natural phase of aging.  I understand this; but it's hard to see as natural when you're aging in your mid 30's whenever one around you seams to be in their prime.   It's not that I truly hate being disabled, I don't.  I don't exactly love it, But I do see it as a gift that God has blessed me with.    (Even throughout the bible, many stories of great blessing also include great trails.)    Part of me does see the CP as natural.  It's all I've ever known and I have adapted.  It some ways that's a good thing; you have to face reality.  However, in another way, part of me doesn't want to set my disability as natural.  I don't want  to just accept my CP; I don't want the CP to define me.  I want to constantly strive to do my best and often  when I accept things, I tend not to.     One of the hardest things about being disabled is that strong desire to be independent.  A disability robs you of this; to a certain degree.  And sometimes to accept  it means to give into it.