Daily Blog ( Reflection)

Sunday, March, 1st



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Final Blog Reflection



                                      I found this blogging assignment, challenging, eye opening, rewarding, stressful, and eventful.   I  know that's a wide range of words to describe this assignment over our daily blog entry's, but were also supposed to be totally honest in this reflection.   The biggest challenge for me was thinking of topics for each day, some days it was easier because I already had something on my mind.  I think this blog was also rewarding because I feel like my writing has improved, and I'm better now at opening up to write a post, without thinking what will everyone ales want or expect to read.   I enjoyed having control over my daily topics to write about, I feel like I kept my mostly personal or daily events.  Which was comfortable to an extent, but I feel it was rewarding on some of the topics to voice my opinion or reflect on something from the past.  Now, I did have a lot of technical problems with this website when trying to publish my post. I did contact the webpage itself, but the problem was never resolved, I did mention in a "burning question" post the code message I kept receiving.  I had to retype several post, to get them to publish correctly.  This became very time consuming, and stressful.  I understand we needed to use to blogger.com site for this class assignment so our fellow classmates could follow along and do comments etc.  It's a bonus knowing now how to set a blog up, this may become beneficial down the road someday.   I don't like how there isn't security settings to allow permission who see's your post.  I didn't like getting random comments from complete strangers or the idea of my blog being exposed for anyone to see.  I understand this is my personal feeling, and possible it's a benefit for it to be on this webpage.   Iv never had an intent to have a personal blog, so maybe I'd feel different if I did.  I know we have until week fourteen to get our comments down for our ELO's of fellow classmates blogs, I do hope the blogs get posted where everyone can view each others.  Or I feel this will almost have been a lot of timed wasted time.  With the webpage messing up on me, along with having to retype daily blogs, it would have been much easier just to set something up through word, and send you a weekly post.    

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Saturday, February, 28th

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Favorite childhood memory


                My childhood was pretty average, compared to most, I grew up in a small town and my parent worked to support our family.  I didn't come from a privilege family, but I was thankful for everything I did have, along with got to do.  My favorite childhood memory would be the first family vacation we took when I was around 13 years old.  My father had his own business, so it was hard for us to get away, but eventually business was going good, and he was able to hire extra help.  I remember when my parents told us were going on vacation, I figured it was the typical weekend away, but this time it was a whole week.  I was o excited to find out we were going to the ocean.    I remember us three kids climbing in the back eat of my dad's truck (not the most specious room) with our pillows and travel bags.   Every time we stopped for gas, my dad would let us buy whatever snack foods we wanted (special treats indeed).   We slept most of the way during the night, I remember my mom waking me up to look out the window.  I remember seeing this pile of sand along side the road, as my eyes grew with excitement,  I saw the beautiful ocean, and was welcomed with the salty air in the car.  I was so happy, and excited during this whole trip. We spend the day at the ocean, and visited local attractions.  Granted this was fourteen years ago, but I still remember the feeling of excitement, and so appreciated of all the hard work my dad did to make this trip happen.

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Friday, February, 28th


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Family Traditions


                                  I would consider my family close, but we don't have a ton of traditions, like some families have.  My favorite traditions is on Christmas Eve when we go to my Grandparent's house.   I remember this traditions since I was a little girl.  We have all kinds of snacks made, and willl set around the table playing different card games.  It's always a nice evening having everyone together under one roof, before all the gift opening, running around starts.  I'm sure will continue this for years to come.   Unfortunately,  like a lot of families, we get caught up in our own scheduled, and don't make time for more family dinners.   That's why our few traditions are so important to have, because everyone knows what to expect.  

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Thursday, February, 26th


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What's a Hero


                             Do you ever stop to think about what a hero is to yourself? Do they have to save to save a life to be considered a hero?  In my opinion, Hero's come in many different forms.  We have that person that came to our rescue when locked our keys in the car or covered at work for us.  Don't we sometimes use the saying "your my hero" or "you saved me" in these situations.   I think as a child we think of hero's as our parents or loved ones, of course our "superhero's", but as we get older I think we learn who our true "hero's" are.  I think a lot of teachers are hero's, but wouldn't ever think or consider themselves one.  They touch so many lives through there line of work, and sometimes more then they could possible realize.  I believe our military men and women who serve our Country, and keep us safe our Hero's everyday. They never know what's coming, but they do understand what's expected from them.   It brings to mind that group of people during 9/11 who helped take down the terrorist on the plan, and made it crash into a field instead of the original designations are died hero's.   There's so many different situations of hero's I could name. I believe Hero's put other's before themselves,  role models, brave, good hearted, and in some cases willing to put themselves I harm ways.   I think some of these Hero's get token for grated, because we don't give them the respect they deserve or stop and think about what they actually do for us.   So, who's a hero to yourself? Have you let them know what they did for you, and how your thankful? 

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Wednesday, February, 25th


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Where I see myself in Ten years


                                          Ten years seems so far away, but Iv been with my husband for 8 years, and it seems just like yesterday we started dating.  Since Iv became a mother, time seems to go to fast anymore.  Looking into the future, I hope Iv accomplished some of my personal goals.  Ten years from now, I hope going to school has paid off, and I'm running or owner of a restaurant.  It would be nice to have vehicles paid off, we've purchased a house, and living in either Florida or Colorado. We always talked about these too place's in particular, we like the idea of living in the warm climate, next to the ocean.  Then the thought of living in Colorado, with the beautiful surrounding, would be picture perfect.  In ten years, I'll have a teenager and a preteen.  I can't imagine my girls being teenagers, I hope I'm enjoying my grey hair.  I see my oldest driving, involved with the school drama club, cheerleader, and still like school. My youngest one will be the sports player, enjoying school, and I'm sure being jealous of her older sister (that's just normal).   I will admit, the idea of thinking about my girls almost grown up, makes me sad.    Like I said, I hope were financially secure, being able to enjoy those great family vacations, while my husband and I can enjoy our own little trips.   Hopefully, the world isn't too crazy by then, and maybe possible the economy will be still in a decent standing.   Now, I have to wonder what the future will hold along the way.  

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Tuesday, February, 24th

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Writing


                                Iv never been a good writing, and coming up with a subject to talk about is always challenging for me.  I feel my writing has improved over these last few weeks in my English writing class.  If I could only get writing "subjects" to come to me easier, it'd be a lot easier.   You wouldn't think it be so hard to pick something to write, being there always something going on in my life or a topic in the news that interest me.  I think it's just comes down to trusting my instinct and not second guessing it everyone will like it or wonder why in the world I'm writing about this?   I feel like sometimes I find going off topic because something I said reminded me of another subject.   That's why free writing has to be my favorite type of writing, you just write down everything that comes to mind. You don't have to worry about if it makes sense or stays within your subject line.   I find myself struggling writing this essay assignment.  It can be frustrating because you want it to be perfect, so you'll get that A.  It's almost like I'm being to focus to much on the essay itself.  Like I said earlier, writing hasn't ever been my best subject, but I do is improvement since the beginning of my English 101 class.  That's always a good thing! Hopefully, using the resource tools, and the feed back from fellow classmates my essay, along with my writing will improve and be at its best at the end of this class.

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Monday, February, 23rd.

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Heartache


                               I just got done reading the latest new release about the death of a six year old girl in Branson, Mo.   I didn't know the little girl or her family personally, but being a mother myself, It just brings so many emotions.  It's heartbreaking to know, their are people out there, capable of hurting/killing little girls ( or anyone for that matter).  Everyone knows this could happen, but when it dose, it reminds us just what kind of world we live in.  When I read the article, I was reminded this happened almost a year ago here in Springfield.    I couldn't imagine what that families going through, the heartache, and pain is unbearable I'm sure.   I was reading the article/newsfeed on KY3 website, along with all the comments being made. Mostly, they were sending love, prayers, and showing angry towards the older gentleman who did this.  There were a few negative ones, but your always going to have those.    My heart is just full of emotions right now, as a parent you never want to think about something happening to one of your own.  It made me question myself "am I doing enough to protect my children", I find myself  asking my daughter the typical safety questions Iv gone over with her since she went to preschool.  It's a comforting feeling when she answer them all without thinking.    Wouldn't it be nice not to worry about violence or hearing about these horrible crimes being committed?   Tonight, this little girl, along with her family will be in my prayers, and I'll be squeezing my babies extra tight tonight.