ShannonAlbert.com - June 2009

Car window memorials are quite the trend here. Snapped a pic of this on the way home. Sad for their loss but not sure this is the best way to memorialize the death of their child.

Update: the last line of the decal says "died at 3 so horribly." So sad but so odd.

Payton and her classmates were assigned characters from the 50s and while she hoped to get Audrey Hepburn, she ended up being assigned Dale Evans. Today, they dressed as their characters. Cute as always.

Email from me to domain name owner: It doesn't appear you are using this domain name. Are you willing to sell it?
Email from domain owner: Sure, it's $878,000.
My reply: Do you accept PayPal?

Went to KC this weekend with the kids (Andy had other things going on) and got to see Casey and family for the first time in 2 1/2 years(!). They just moved to KC and already have their house livable and unpacked. Our boys played for 6 hours non-stop and have asked to have a sleepover. Mommies drinking wine all night and kids happily playing. Yes, please!

On Saturday, Blake and I went to see new baby William. He is very cute and looks like a combination of his older brothers. The sweetest thing was seeing how Isaac and Joey interact with him. They are sweet older brothers.

On Sunday, I made lunch for my mom and I. Caprese salad, fruit salad, tuna waldorf sandwiches and strawberry soup (for real and so good) with pomegranate black tea to drink. So yummy and fun to make stuff my mom and I like.

After the last weekend where I took the kids to KC alone, I came home and bawled. I was so sick and Blake had made it a very difficult weekend. Happy that this trip was much better and a fantastic way to spend Mother's Day!

Sure, our itinerary got revised due to Swine Flu and layoffs are heavy on our minds and the economy sucks but....

We won't remember any of it when our view is of the ocean for 7 days straight. As Andy said, it's nice to have something to look forward to.

I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

- Tim McGraw, "Live Like You Were Dying"

I don't plan to skydive or rocky mountain climb but I AM making a list of things to do in this lifetime. I've known of some people whose lives were cut short due to illnesses or accidents that won't get to do all the things they wanted to do. I think we all hope and expect to live until 80 or more and think we have plenty of time but we may not!

I got this book called "The Wish List" by Barbara Ann Kipfer which has nearly 6,000 ideas for what might go on your Life List. I plan to whittle it down to 100. It's been pleasing to see that many things in the book are things I have already done but there's so much I haven't done and I can't wait to get started on my 100 item list.

I plan to post my list once I have it assembled. What's on your list?

From an ebook I'm reading:

For example, on a train ride between Slovakia
and Hungary a couple of years ago, I figured out that the cost of visiting 100 countries would be roughly equal to that of buying a new S.U.V. When I saw how relatively little that was, I felt encouraged.
I gave up the hypothetical large vehicle and received the world in return.