Even though technically I walked about 100 meters of this run I'm counting all five simply because I'm pregnant and I can. My eyes are tired today...I was crying over everything yesterday...I had to run late because I had crazy things to do in the morning that had to be done first thing...the wind was TERRIBLE...and from all directions. I just couldn't stand it on the way back so I stopped to walk for a bit to deal with being tired and pregnant and in horrible wind. I wrote a story. It's called Rose. I had a dream about a girl with a terrible burn on her face who grew all sorts of beautiful flowers. I wrote it all down when I was on our trip to St. George. I just have one more paragraph to write and then I'll be done with my first short story ever...My friend Sarah Barlow has been inspiring me to write. She is into poetry and writing novels. I love telling stories to my kids and have made up an entire series of stories that I tell to them on special occasions(meaning mommy's not too tired or creatively drained that day ) In these stories there are some little kids that have stumbled on a special golden ball that can take them anywhere in the world...or anywhere they can imagine(my kids get to decide sometimes where we go and we've been to appliance world, paper world...you get the idea). Once they are in this place they have to find a forest and sing a special song to see if any of the trees are talking trees. (we used to walk past a tree every day and I would pretend it could talk for my kids). If they find a talking tree then they get to hear a story. The little girl writes them down and the little boy illustrates them. They take the stories home and share them with the children of the world. It's been a great way to teach my kids about creative thinking, geography, history..mostly I just make up crazy stories though to make them laugh..or make me laugh..it's fun.
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