Red Lights: A Record of Life's Defining Moments: Daily Themes...

Friday, April 17, 2009

Daily Themes...

I am going to try doing daily themes for a while. I may not do them every day and I've found this week that sometimes I put together a post that fits in to a theme and then just set it be published on a different day which works too as "silly" and "sentimental" will not always come to me on Saturdays and Sundays ;). I didn't put anything on Fridays as I couldn't think of anything and will just leave it open as a "Free" day... "Free Friday" ;).

Here is my list of daily themes:

Monday Madness - a list of the plans that we have for the upcoming week
Two Cent Tuesdays - because I can't resist adding my two cents when it comes to issues and current events ;).
Wordless Wednesday - a day to share our pictures
Thankful Thursdays - a list of things that I'm thankful for (although at times it might appear to be the same list over and over agian)
Silly Saturdays - the silly things that happen in our life... and there are many of them!
Sentimental Sundays - because I often feel the urge to write about the sappy stuff.

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About the Title "Red Lights"

So many times in this journey of life, I have been frustrated as the light has turned red and I've been forced to stop and wait. As time has gone on, I've come to realize that it is the time spent waiting at these lights that makes up the very essence of what life is supposed to be about!

Mikey had just had his first birthday and we were on our way to Kindermusik class in the car. It had been a busy day with me at work and him at his dayhome all day. We had shared a quick supper and then gotten in the car to drive to his class. When we hit a red light, I turned to check that he was doing okay in his car seat and his face instantly lit up and his little fingers came together to make the motion used when the spider climbs up the spout in the "Itsy-Bitsy Spider". I took his cue and began singing and acting out the song with him and was all too soon interupted by the driver behind me honking his horn to get me to respond to the light that had turned green. As I began pulling forward I had a flashback to a time before Mikey when a red light would have frustrated me simply because of the "wasted time" that took place while trying to get somewhere. The moment and thoughts became frozen in my heart and soul and mind as I knew there was a lesson much larger in it all then just what was on the surface. And so it began...

About Us

I am Monica, single adoptive mommy to 10 year old Mikey who happens to have trisomy 21 (aka Down syndrome). I am currently hoping to add one more to our family through adoption sometime in the next little while (fingers crossed). I teach in a self-contained special education classroom in a small city in southern Alberta. Life is busy, full and wonderful! I have a dream to someday be a published author. One of the books that I would like to publish is a book of the lessons I've learned since I've become a mother. My blog "Red Lights" is meant to be a place for me to begin to organize the thoughts that I would like to someday put in this book as well as a place for me to just post about my day to day life!

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