Excited!

So my brother and sister-in-law called me last night to tell me that they are PREGNANT!! I am so excited for them and to be an aunt. I will spoil that little munchkin as much as possible. I cannot wait! This really makes me want to move back to Nebraska a little more. I really miss being close to my family and now even more since little ones are coming. My husband would never go for it though. I'm fairly certain that we are stuck in Kansas for a long while. :(

I have a shelf full of awesome children's books (from when I was a kid) and I have no one to read them to. This makes my heart kinda sad.

Too much technology can kill the imagination of children

As I've been so lucky to be in a job where I work with children everyday I have realized something I really wasn't quite certain of before. Children who are allowed too much exposure to technology tend to have a side effect of a hindered imagination. I work with so many kids who get so irritable and angry when they are bored because they don't have something to do on the computer or tv. Then there are a few of the other children whose parents don't let them spend too much time on these things and those kids become creative with how they spend their time. They are never bored because they can make a game out of anything. I was that way when I was a kid. We didn't have video games or computers. We rarely watched tv, mostly because dad hogged it and we never wanted to watch what he was watching. But I love the memories I have of the imaginative games we would play as kids. I remember this awesome tire swing we had in our yard that went SUPER high and I would pretend it was a flying horse. I would get on it and swing so high and pretend I was flying over the whole world. Or we would play monster in the ditch or monster in the well...sometimes X-men (and I was always Storm, she was my favorite). My friend Brandy would always be Rogue, Johnas was always Wolverine, and I don't remember what Ashley was. haha

I hope I can be a good enough parent to allow my children to use the gift of their imaginations. It is such a beautiful and wondrous thing!