Remembering 9/11- 10 years later

I just finished watching "Voices of 9/11" on the National Geographic channel. I was literally breathless during most of the program. I can't even imagine being a 911 dispatcher during that horrific tragedy.I think everyone 
who was old enough to sincerely remember that day can say where they were,  and what they were doing when they first heard of the attacks.I never felt so American in my life.  I myself was in my 11th grade English class, and I distinctly remember a fellow classmate saying that a plane hit the world trade center. I honestly thought he was just joking. I then arrived to the my next class, Algebra ,and that was when I witnessed the second plane hit the north tower. We watched the television in shock and disbelief as our country was being attacked. I'm usually an over-dramatic person so it wasn't unusual that I had experienced a feeling of impending death upon me that day. I'm sure I wasn't the only that had that feeling. Each time I watch documentaries I just feel sick to my stomach, but I just can't look away. For some reason it just sucks me in. The tragedy and the horror of that day is as vivid as it was 10 years ago. I will never forget that day and my heart sincerely goes out to the families that lost loved ones on that momentous day in our nation's history. 


God Bless America*

25 Random Things about me

Let's be honest, I haven't written a blog post in god knows how long. This summer has been insane and I just haven't had the time to write. My assessment course pretty much consumed my life for the past 5 weeks, but I'm happy to report I got an A!!! Woo hoo! I honestly can't remember the last time I worked that hard for an A. Not only have I been slacking on my blog, but I also took a long break from the nest too. I have been recently posting again and came across "25 random facts about yourself". Feel free to try this yourself! Dig deep!!

1.) I wish I spent less time on the computer/facebook. I am starting to get pain on both of my wrists! Carpel tunnel at 26?! Not good.

2.)  Music completes me. I am a top 40's girls although I love all types of music. I'm always listening to music, singing, or talking about it. Yup, music is my life.

 3.) I feel like a completely different person in the Summer. I despise winter and I'm NOT looking forward to another New England winter. :(

4.) I'm obsessed with cooking and baking. I'm always looking up recipes and new things to try.

5.) I'm currently in a post bach. program for Special Education. When I'm done (in may) I will be a licensed sped teacher (pre k- 8).

6.) My worst pet peeve is when people can't discriminate between your, you are, and you're

7.) I have horrible road rage. I just don't have patience for morons on the road. 

8.) I have a huge phobia of vomit. I honestly don't know how i'm going to have children.

 9.) I have an undiagnosed anxiety disorder.  ( I think)

10.) I love animals and I can't watch those animal abuse commercials that play really sad music. I always turn them off immediately. 

11.) I love the smell of summer rain and fresh cut grass.

12.) My best girlfriend (MOH) lives in FL and I miss her dearly.

13.) I am super close to my mom, she is my best friend, and I talk to her on average 4 times a day and I see her quite a bit too.

14.) My dog, Tucker, passed away unexpectedly last Christmas. Christmas will never be the same now.

15.) My first concert was NSync and I was 12.

16.)  I love to dance. I danced for 13 years up until college. I now go to Zumba class to fill that "void".

17.) I get jealous of people getting married even though I already had my day. I just want to get married every weekend for the rest of my life! :)

18.) I still think about my wedding day constantly (is that normal?)

19.) I judge people WAY to much. I need to take pointers from DH.

20.) I am NOT a morning person at all. If I can sleep until 8 I'm fine.

21.)  I secretly don't know if teaching is the job for me. I really want to go to culinary school, but I'm afraid that I lose the passion I have for cooking. 

22.) I broke my brother's collar bone when I was 8. I felt so awful!

 23.)  I love HGTV and anything that has to do with homes or renovations.

24.) Home Goods is my playground.

25.)  I HATE movies (unless they're lifetime movies :))

Happy one year of marriage bliss!

I can't believe it. We made it! One year of marriage done 50 plus more to go!

Check out our wedding highlight video here!

Leaving on a Jet Plane...

I haven't written a blog post in over a month. In some ways I think I'm just feeling discouraged because I really don't have many people that read/follow my blog. This blog has really just become an outlet mostly just for me to share my thoughts and it has also given me an opportunity to be able to brush up on my writing

The reason for my post today is I'm leaving for Florida tomorrow morning to see my best friend, Ashley. This trip has become a yearly tradition for me for the past 3 years. I'm very excited to spend some time with her and soak up some Florida sun. We really don't have anything extravagant planned other than some shopping & beach time. Cory decided to stay home to take care of Colt because, let's face it, his idea of fun does not entail shopping & tanning for 5 days. I will miss my boys dearly while I'm gone, but I'm confident that they will be fine for a few days without me. :) Hope everybody has a fabulous weekend!


                                                                 Pictures from my trip last year
                               

Ashley's beautiful house

Me in front of Harry Potter Village

Approaching 26....

I will be 26 this Saturday and as you can probably already guess I'm not exactly thrilled about turning another year older. But, as they say age is just a number right? I don't feel old...yet. :) To be perfectly honest, I have made some great accomplishments thus far in my life, however I have also made my share of mistakes. I have to say that I'm fairly content where I am right now in my life. I mean I have no reason not to be happy I have a wonderful husband, a nice home, and an amazing dog. There is only one important piece of the puzzle missing from this scenario...a career. You might say, "I thought you already had a job." Well yes I have a job but not necessarily a career.

Continuously changing my major throughout college effected the outcome of my life tremendously. By the time I graduated college in 2008 I was only one year behind the typical four-year college program. My intentions after college were very simple: attend grad school somewhere down south for speech pathology. Well, that plan was quickly foiled when Cory proposed in July 2008. I now had a tough decision to make. Go to grad school to pursue my dream or stay? How could I flee the state and leave my new fiance behind? Well I of course decided that I couldn't so I needed to come up with something quickly. I ended up taking a job that summer as a speech assistant helping mentally challenged adults.

In the fall of 2008, in order to prevent myself from getting "rusty," I decided to take a few courses in SPED at Bridgewater. The courses that I took that semester really shaped my decision to become a teacher. I was disappointed that I was not able to pursue speech pathology, but all the schools around this area were just not affordable enough for me. Once I figured out my new game plan I took a job as a teaching assistant at my old high school to gain some experience and insight into education.

If you had asked me 10 years ago where I saw myself at the tender age of 26 my description would probably be very similar to my life now with the exception of my job. Its not that I'm ashamed of my job as a teaching assistant its just that I thought I would be making more money than what I am at my age, and I also thought I would of had a teaching job by now. After resenting the first part of my 20's I'm finally getting my life on track. In the Fall of 2011, I will be starting a post bachelor program in Special Education. In addition to student teaching I will also need 10 credits of courses in SPED and then I will have an initial license in sped! I'm hoping that in the next year I can say I'm confident in all the decisions that I have made in my life.

Cheers to 26 years and many more to come!

Leaving you all with this picture of me on my 18th birthday. Throwback..for sure. Geez..I look like a child!

Amazing April Vacation

Today is day 5 of my fantastic, relaxing, shopping-filled vacation. I haven't done anything particularly crazy this vacation besides spending extravagant amounts of money. When I'm bored and have no plans I have a tendency to shop uncontrollably. Its actually a terribly bad habit because since Saturday I have probably spent over $400.00 on clothes, and miscellaneous things for the house(Shhhh..don't tell Cory). It will make a year this Friday that we closed on the house and we still don't have everything we need. Its such a long process. I seriously just bought curtains for the dining room, one year later! This week I have also been able to catch up with friends and do a serious spring cleaning on the house. This week has been great and I hope the next 4 days go by really slow!

I will leave you with a picture of a vase of flowers that Cory surprised me with today. Isn't he just the best? I'll  answer that for you. You bet!

Sick Puppy

My poor baby boy is really sick. It all started about 2 weeks ago when Cory and I left for work one morning and of course left Colt home by himself. When I arrived home I noticed that a plastic cup had been chewed up into pieces and scattered all over our guest bedroom. I'm almost always in a rush in the morning so I left my paper plate and plastic cup there from my breakfast. Guess that that was a bad mistake on my part because Colt thought my plate and cup were his snack. Later on that day Cory found three piles of dried up vomit upstairs so he was assuming that he had ingested some of the plastic cup. A few days went by and he seemed fine until Wednesday afternoon when he started throwing up again and again on Sunday! We had also brought him to his last training session that weekend and the dog trainer noticed that Colt had very loose bowels and blood in his stool. We were really worried to hear of their discovery and we were contemplating brining him to a 24 hour animal hospital that Sunday. I immediately called the vet and they assured me that if he was acting himself and keeping his water down that we could wait until that Monday to bring him in.

Cory brought him in last Monday and they told him that they were sure his food change was the cause of his illness. They gave him fluids and an acid reducer and sent him home. Cory went to Petco the very next day and picked up the previous type of food we were feeding him. He seemed like he was back to his normal self after a few days and everything seemed to be fine health wise with him.

Fast forward to yesterday afternoon..Colt throws up again! Fantastic....just when we thought he was all better. Nope. He was up all night last night with the runs and dry heaving. He was not comfortable at all and you could just tell that he just wasn't himself. I called out of work today and brought him to the Vet. He has been there since 8 this morning and they are still running tests on him. They are not positive what is causing this but they found that his blood cell count is low and that he is dehydrated. The vet told me that she wants to see if she can get a stool sample from him and she is going to get an x-ray of his abdomen to rule out any foreign objects that may be causing his upset. I'm so worried about him. And of course during this whole situation all I can think about is Tucker and the incident that we faced with him. I'm praying that he will be okay.