SI2011+June+20+AV

=__**Writing Into The Day **__= =__**List of possible writing prompts: **__= = = List of writing prompts: = = = =
 * 1) My 5th birthday party.
 * 2) My kindergarten teacher telling my parents I was never going to amount to anything b/c I wrote from right to left.
 * 3) Bad luck was when my dad found out I had backed into the neighbor’s car.
 * 4) My first day at West Ottawa High School! I thought they needed street lights!
 * 5) The time that we had 4 flat tires on vacation.
 * 6) The tent …..
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Jess and Josh graduated.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leaving a kid at college.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Falling down the stairs at Tina’s beauty contest.
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My aunt getting her head stuck in a steering wheel.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Going to Marion College.
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Afraid Jess would have to have head surgery.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Celebrations at Aunt Winnie’s house.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talking with my mom.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My wedding 25 years ago.
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having my kids.
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Losing my grandparents.
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My accident 25 years ago.
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning to drive the shift stick.
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having Jim create a surprise rommantic weekend.
 * 21) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Going to White Fish Point for our 25th wedding anniversary.

=Reflective piece:= = = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Though we’ve raised our kids to be independent, I dread the day we drop both of the kids off at Indiana Wesleyan University. It seems like Jessica is starting a new era, as is Josh. Jess is a leader in her fraternity and employment. Josh is entering a new, kind of scary era. Jim and I are not helicopter parents. We want to see the eaglets soar. It somehow seems impossible that only 27 years ago I made the trip to Marion Indiana, where I met and fell in love with the love of my life. = = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I want the same for my kids. I don’t know that Jess and Josh will find their mates at college. There are some wonderful candidates right here in the community. Jim and I only want them to be happy. I pray God’s will be made abundantly clear. = = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I’m excited to learn new things about my husband. It seems like this time of our lives has brought us to a new level of defining the word: “cherish.” Who is that old lady looking back at me in the mirror? Where did all that gray hair come from? (gasp!) Are those wrinkles? Surely not! (sigh) My prince matches my hair and wrinkles---he has earned them as have I. We look forward to another 25 years of happy marriage. How can I describe how this all feels? = = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> My music lays dormant within me. It begs to reach out and express these turbulent emotions within me. How can I shape words to describe the season of releasing my children---stretching the apron strings---leaving a known world--and stepping onto a shoreline completely foreign to me? Music will ebb and flow. Words can be so limiting. = = <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I guess in the scheme of things, a key change might be appropriate to describe this part of my life. The rhythm doesn’t have to slow, but the key might. This would symbolize keeping a part of the past (i.e. same people in different environments). A key change would symbolize keeping some of the past and embracing the bright changes for the future. I want to live a life with no regrets. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

= = =__**<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Writing Out Of The Day **__= <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This was so amazing. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I cannot believe I'm here. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I've learned so very much. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This time will be so dear!

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I've learned some neat ideas. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some new friends I've made. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I can't wait to do all this. <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I see why Delia raved!

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The food and fellowship was great! <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Technology was too <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's time now to say good night.... <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">We'll be back---wa hoo!!!