Haiku-ish for Blue is a Circle

Soft blanket of snow
the wind is now in my hair
I love this season

(um, yea, are you smarter than a 4th grader. Didn't comment you Kell if you're reading this. Cuz I forgot what the heck Haiku is. Then it was one of my daughters spelling words...so she wanted to post her Haiku just for you. lol That's the one above. Here's my go.

Blue is a circle
chocolate is two syllables
according to you

yea ok, well I"m not too good at this...lol

OK, another from my girl:

Ears ringing loudly
love the sound of good music
rap is not my thing

one more from me:

music speaks to me
takes me away from it all
or brownies will work

Haiku master dorks Kaleigh and Julieout

I like basketball...who knew...and hot tubs

Well, I guess I always knew...but never acted on the hunch. Too busy socializing :) Anyhow, a neighbor recently donated his basketball goal to us. Yay! So, me and my girlie have had a pretty good day. We started in the hot tub. Duh, that thing sits there everyday, why hadn't I done that in like...forever. Mental note...make a date with the hot tub each morning after dropping off kids. (Yea, rough huh). Anyhow, we stayed in there until we decided we were light headed and got out. Then after cooling down we decided to play ball.
That was fun. I'm not as horrible as I should/could be for not having played...ever really...or picked up a ball in a million years. And I kinda know HOW to hold the ball, shoot the ball, some rules to the game. I was able to share with my girl and she really started picking it up. Before long she was making most of her shots. We worked on some passing and she's not scared of the ball so much now. (Almost jammed her finger...I remember as a kid, this guy Khris Brane lived down the street and we'd play ball at each others houses...I broke my finger when he passed it at me. OUCH. Had a flashback.) Anyhow, it's been a good day. I actually felt like I was teaching my girl something. She's 10, so she already knows EVERYTHING. But today she learned something new and I had a great time hanging out with her. The last bad rebound ended up with the ball rolling about 2 blocks down the street...so yea, we quit after that.
Now we're gonna paint our nails and quit doing boy stuff :)

Friendly suburbia walks

Who new there were so many creepy critters and bugs galavanting around our suburbian neighborhoods in the dark of the night. My neighborhood to be precise. I thought I'd go for this power walk tonight right. I was hustling too, so I have no idea how I noticed all of these things. The only thing I know is that if I saw all these things at the pace I was going, I'm pretty sure there was lots I missed.

I saw a centipede that looked like it should live in Africa or something. I saw about 6 toads. I saw a spider that crawled right at me thru a crack. Looked like a freakin beast. But the real kicker...a snake. Oh yea, almost stepped right on him until I started my mid air walk. Put Jordan to shame. I think only a few people heard me scream. (It was a small snake, but does it really matter? It was a snake!)

I need to walk in the mornings.

Rollercoasters

Life is like riding a rollercoaster. Isn't it? I mean, I don't mean to sound all cliche' but it's true. And sometimes I'm not sure how much I like rollercoasters. But it's pretty common knowledge that if you're too afraid to ride one, you're a wuss. SO, I've ridden. I'm not a wuss.

I don't dislike all parts of the roller coaster. Sometimes the anticipation of what's to come is a thrill that makes me jump in line (You know, the part where you're going up up up for what seems like a million years and you feel brave during that part!). But there's no way of knowing exactly how the ride will make you feel afterwards. That's the part that makes me "shake" while I'm in the line.

I remember as a kid going to Worlds of Fun in KC and riding the Orient Express (I know, it's a kids ride now probably, but back then, it was THE ride.) I wasn't sure I wanted to ride. But everyone else was. I remember thinking everything thru in the line. Analyzing the curves and how high it went and how far it FELL! Then there was the upside down part. I just closed my eyes during that. It was kinda fun though. I just didn't like the uncertainty of how it would make me feel AFTER the ride. Sometimes I'd be sick feeling after the ride. And sorry I'd ridden. Sometimes I was on a ridiculous high that made me giddy and I wanted to go conquer the world. That's rollercoasters...That's life.

The unknown can make you hesitant or it can drive everything in you to go forward. I guess it's in attitude. I've learned too that it also depends on what part of the roller coaster you're on. I'm on the part where my hands are gripping the bar so hard that my knuckles are white and I've got the whole ride in front of me and it fills me with a million emotions.

But...I'm riding.