Andrea, In Passing

Last couple of weeks I have really been thinking about this song that I thought would have been perfect for the movie Twilight. I have never made a fan favorite movie before but I thought I might as well give it a try. So I looked online and found some free movie making software that Windows offers and I made this video.

I know that teenage girls are the one who usually make video's like these, especially to the movie Twilight, which is fine. But the part I like best about this whole process and the time spent working on this was the fact that it got me editing again. It's what I went to college for and I forgotten how much I missed it.



So now that I am more comfortable working with the movie maker program I want to make more. I think I want to try and do a compilation movie of all the home videos I have of my son. I'm not sure yet, but one thing I do know is that I can't wait to get started.

Thanks for watching the video and I hope you like it.

5 Years

In five years so much can change in a person's life. I don't know if I would even recognize the person I was before I got pregnant. And at the time I would have never imagined myself were I am today. My son is the one that changed all that. He has become the light in my heart that has made me want to become a better person. A person that wants to make a future for herself.

I had some professional pictures done recently and I just got them back today. One of those pictures is a picture of my son with a beloved monkey named ChaCha. That monkey was also in my son's birth announcement just over 5 years ago. I love them both and I have to share how much my son has grown in the past 5 years.

He has gotten so big, so independent and so remarkable.

Day 21: I am grateful for luck

Mason won a PS3 today from his local dentist. Last Friday we went in for a routine cleaning and they were having a raffle for all the kids that came in that month. So I filled a ticket out and we left. I have never really won anything in a raffle so I was going to through the ticket away but I decided to keep it, just in case.

Well they called me today and told me that Mason had won. I am still having a hard time believing it but they took his picture and they are going to put it up on their website.

I am so excited for Mason but I am also a little concerned. I truly feel that there has to be a balance of good and bad in every one's lives and when you have something really lucky happen to you, you are eventually going to have something really bad happen. I am thinking it will be the possible surgeries that Mason will need to have in the future and not anything that I won't be able to help comfort him for.

But that is tomorrow and so today I am grateful for the luck that Mason received and I hope he enjoys his new PS3.

Day 20: I am grateful for creativity

I went out today and got all the things I needed to make Mason's Halloween costume. He is going to be Peter Pan this year, so I really wanted to represent a lot of nature and green. First I started with a website that shows you how to make home made costumes. I got my inspiration and hit the local Salvation Army.

I a green shirt, knife and belt for REALLY cheap and I got the rest from the local Micheal's.

I think it is coming along really nice. I am glad I did not opt out and got Mason some generic Halloween costume. I grateful that I get to make it and especially that he loves to wear it.

Day 19: I am grateful for poetry

I borrowed "The Best Love Poems of the American People" from the local library and I have not been able to put it down. I forgot how much I loved poetry and the emotions it can build within you. Here is one of my favorites so far:

"Our Heroes"
Here's a hand to the boy who has courage
To do what he knows to be right;
When he falls in the way of temptation,
He has a hard battle to fight.
Who strives against self and his comrades
Will find a most powerful foe.
All honor to him if he conquers.
A cheer for the boy who says 'No!"

There's many a battle fought daily
The world knows nothing about;
There's many a brave little soldier
Whose strength puts a legion to rout.
And he who fights sin single handed
Is more of a hero, I say,
Than he who leads soldiers to battle
And conquers by arms in the fray.

Be steadfast, my boy, when you're tempted,
To do what you know to be right.
Stand firm by the colors of manhood,
And you will o'ercome in the fight.

"The right," be your battle cry ever
In waging the warfare of life,
And God, who knows who are the heroes,
Will give you the strength for the strife.

- Phoebe Cary

This is dedicated to the young men who ended their lives because of bullying, before they realized how much of a hero they were and how much more there is to living.

Day 18: I am grateful for the thrill of finding a solution to a problem

Short and sweet. I am grateful for finally finding out why TV has not worked for the last two and half months. The only thing I am not grateful for it the knowledge that it was my fault it was not working, not because a defective video card.

Sorry for all the hate Polaroid. But at my defense....I sent you the the A/C adaptor both times I shipped the TV and your repair guys never once looked at it to see if the adaptor was the problem or not. So it was partly your fault as well but I hope we can still be friends?

Day 17: I am grateful for lazy Sunday afternoons

I am grateful for just what I stated, lazy Sunday afternoons where it is just me and Mason. Ending a perfect weekend with some play time at the park. Could any mother be so lucky.