Thoughts:

I haven't used my blog as a means for writing for a long period of time. Writing (for me) usually means putting things onto paper that rarely make sense to me, let alone to all of you who stumble upon my blog. For this reason I have chosen to use my blog as a collection of photos for my friends and family to view. However, I have a confession to make. I have been reading an overdue (two days, overdue) book for the past four hours. First of all, I really should have returned this book to the library on Friday when it was due, because there are approximately 60+ people waiting to read this book. So, I did a bad thing when I decided to keep it and finish it. But, I also neglected my wife/mother responsibilities to finish reading it as well. As we speak, Corey is taking a nap (by himself), and Adelynn has FINALLY fallen (literally) asleep on the floor in her room with a nasty smelling diaper on. Despite these details, I wanted to tell you a little about one of my new, favorite authors.
About two years ago Corey and I found a copy of the book, "Eat, Pray, Love", by Elizabeth Gilbert on CD at the library. Every time we got in the car we would listen to this ladies intimate description of her travels around the world. (There is a movie coming out based upon this book, with Julia Roberts as the main character). Let me proceed with saying that I LOVE reading memoirs, real life stories are my kind of thing. So much that I took a class in college about how to write my own memoir, and started a fifteen page story of my life. In fact, those fifteen pages ended up being mostly about my struggle into adulthood. Which to someone who doesn’t know me would be a rather boring read. Which is what makes writing a memoir such a hard task to undertake. So, what I am trying to say is that I admire this wonderful writer, Elizabeth Gilbert. She came out with her second book in January of this year, and it is titled, "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage". Since I was already invested in this woman's life, having read her first book, I decided to see what she had to say on the most touchy subject of marriage. She discusses the history of marriage, the reasons marriages succeed/fail, feminists, and her own liberal views of marriage roles. While discovering all of these topics she throws her own story of being "sentenced to wed" by the U.S. government into the mix. Parts of this book are historical and boring, but overall I enjoyed her views on marriage. I just realized this sounds like a formal book review/report you might hand to a teacher. So...I will end this crazy post with a quote from this thought-provoking book. "There is no greater risk than matrimony. But there is nothing happier than a happy marriage." -Benjamin Disraeli

P.S. Do I think you should go out and buy this book and read it. No,because you probably wouldn't appreciate it as much as I did. I just wanted to share my energy for writing and reading today.