Life Long Love of Learning

My daughter discovered something last night that she says is better than TV (yeah!!). Something that she wants to share with our younger neighbor Tommy and his brother, something that she wants to share with her mom and something she wants to share with her dad. She started to read!

The first book she read from front to back last night by herself was Biscuit Wants to Play. She was on fire, the light shone from her eyes and she was absolutely beaming. Friday's are show and share days and this morning on the way out the door, she took the stuffed pink chickadee she was going to bring out of her backpack and replaced it with "Biscuit" so she can read to her teacher. We have a few easy readers at home and are making a trip to the bookstore tonight to buy some more "Kindergartner" ones for her.  She very excitedly asked if next week we can get her 1st grader ones and then 2nd grader ones . . . .  heck, we will get her whatever ones she wants.

Her dad and I are so proud of her but even better is seeing just how proud she is of herself. Biscuit Wants to Play and my daughter loves to learn! You go girl!

Tag, You Are It!

I have been tagged by Kimberly Moritz. What does that mean? Well, in my ever expanding knowledge of blogs this means that I need to share five things about myself that readers of the blog might not know, and then tag five other blogs. 

This poses a few problems for me. First off, I am with Kim when she says that the challenge lies in finding five things that will be interesting to others.  Secondly, and this is kind of sad, but I realize how introverted (see #4 below) I have been about this blog  and I don't  have 5 blogs to tag :(  Do I have your sympathy yet?!

Ok, here goes . . . .

1. I went to Airborne School as an ROTC cadet  in college. That means I volunteered to spend a few weeks of my summer vacation go jump out of a perfectly good aircraft not once, but 5 times.  It was a bit surreal flying (falling!) through the air and watching your aircraft fly away. 
2. I am a bit claustrophobic (no Spongebob, that does not mean I am afraid of Santa Claus) and it took my 5 year old going down the body slide by herself at the water park this past weekend to get me inside of the cold, dark, lonely water filled tube.
3. I enjoy snowshoeing in the winter and biking in the summer but don't do it often enough. I fell through the ice into the Mississippi river two winters ago while snowshoeing,  Before you worry, it was only knee deep but I did not know that at the time.  It seems all too often that my daughter points out where mommy fell into the river.
4. I prefer a quiet night with the family, reading a good book or watching a movie to any party, any where, any time.
5. Very early in our dating life, my now-husband and I went snowshoeing around the Hibbing mines and I remember walking behind him thinking that this was the guy I was going to marry. My family keeps me going every day and my daughter is the light of my life.

In regards to the 5 other blogs, here is what I will do. I will tag my sister Karen  who can add 5 more items to her already 20 item long list of "things about me" on MySpace and invite 4 more readers of this blog to either add a link to their blog and 5 things about themselves or to simply list 5 things about themselves in a comment.