Amy J. Bennett

As planned, I dropped the kids off at school and headed to Panera Bread for some alone time with my laptop.  I literally sat there for four hours only getting up once to use the restroom.  It was a slice of heaven.  I caught up with emails, blog, Twilight interviews, listened to some music, chatted wtih some folks and did some writing.  It really was so relaxing.

The rest of the day wasn’t bad either.  I picked Lexi up from school and took her to McD’s.  She thought it was a treat because I took her inside to eat instead of running through the drive thru.  The kids always like to hear “Mommy doesn’t have to work today!”  I did a little cleaning and laundry this afternoon.

This evening was spent entirely at the church.  Our choir sang for our men’s ministry meeting and we all ate BBQ afterwards.  So very Southern of us right?  The kids were whisked into bed when we got home at 9.  Since then, I’ve been doing the whole catching up on emails, blog and Twilight interviews again.  I think I’m going to stay away from the TV tonight and watch House and Privileged later.  I want to write some more and I’ll just pretend I smell fresh bread and hear people chatting away around me.

*Update * WOW Why did I call her Kristen Bell????

This deserves a post all on its own. And to quote a t-shirt…”It’s a Twilight thing”

I’m so excited about my first guest post and proud that it is Sarah that I met in New York for the Hot Blogger Calendar.  Check it out!

There’s nothing like getting a call from the school nurse.  The first words “This is Nurse Nancy from the school and…..” and the rest is heard with a stopped heart.  This time she finished by saying “Emma was in PE and got hit in the face by a basketball and lost two teeth.”  My insides breathed a sigh of relief but I still let out an “Oh no!”  I could see Emma getting upset at one, the attention, two, the blood and three, her lost teeth.  The nurse said she seemed most upset because she wasn’t ready for them to come out.  Scott was already in the pickup line at school and she said to have him come in and get her.  I met them in the driveway and scooped her out just as soon as the van stopped.  A few minute timeout for us in the recliner helped us both and she is off playing again.  I’d post a picture but I don’t have the heart.  Poor thing.

My aunt and uncle came into town Friday afternoon so we were with them for most of the weekend.  Friday night we spent the evening at my Mom’s for dinner.  Saturday morning we met up with them after they did the yard sale thing and did some shopping at Garden Ridge and the mall.  The kids were on meltdown by 3 so we headed back towards home, picking up their birthday cakes on the way.  Saturday evening was all about the birthday parties.  They had a few family and church friends join them at Chuck E Cheese’s for a few hours.  It turned out really well despite Mommy completely dropping the ball on inviting school friends.  I’ve redeemed myself today by scheduling a play date for Emma and one of her best friends from school for Saturday.  Here are a few pictures from the party.

Sunday we had Scott’s family over for dinner as Saturday was his dad’s birthday.  After that, it was spent opening plastic toys all day and we cleaned out their playroom a bit.  We went to choir and church last night and I was SO tired last night.  All my late nights finally caught up with me and as much as I wanted to stay up, I just couldn’t.  I honestly was asleep by 9pm.  I can’t remember the last time I did that.

This morning I minimally helped Scott get the kids ready for school and he took them. I gladly stayed in bed until 8:30.  I’m feeling better today especially since finding out tomorrow I have the day OFF and the kids DON’T.  The plan is to clean up tonight and pay some bills so I don’t have that hanging over my head and then spend tomorrow morning doing…whatever I want.  Scott will be sleeping from working tonight.  Maybe I’ll take Lexi to school and then set up shop at Panera or Starbucks and do some writing/web browsing all morning with some coffee.  Yes!  I already can not wait.

Since finishing the books, I have been in a whirlwind of news, videos, interviews, message boards, etc of Twilight.  With the movie debut within two weeks, there is a lot of buzz happening and it’s been great since I no longer have any more books to read.  I’ve tried not to post too much on it although if you’re my Facebook friend, you’re probably tired of seeing me post on it all the time.  But, I have to do a little post here on all my online Twilight stuff.

First, my favorite avatars.  It’s not like I have time to go change my avatar at all the message board all the time, so why not stare at all of them at once?  It’s almost like a Facebook Flair board.  WARNING…the top right one is a bit spoilerish if you haven’t read Breaking Dawn.  First row, 3rd; Third row, 2nd and 4th all crack me up every single time I read them.

Next is apparel.  I went to Hot Topic (which I don’t think I’ve EVER done) and bought this hoodie today.  It’s super-duper cute, especially when I realized it has Twilight on the bottom back of it.  I can not wait to wear that out and see if anyone says anything.

I plan to wear that and another Twilight related t-shirt to the opening of the movie.  I’m having a REALLY hard time picking a shirt though.  Some of these I wouldn’t really wear on a daily basis.  They’d probably be around the house/movie-going type shirts.  Nonetheless, I need to pick one and soon.  Or maybe I’ll just buy all of them and change shirts for each scene of the movie.

And lastly the music from the SoundTrack.  I have to say I would never have bought most of the music on there but I had to buy the album on iTunes to get Rob Pattinson’s song.  But I have found some really cool songs.

Clair de Lune performed by The APM Orchestra.  This song has been used a lot but it of course takes on new meaning since they’ve shown the clip where it plays in the movie.

Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park It’s weird.  I’ve heard a lot about Linkin Park but this is not what I thought they were.  I really like it.  Very…honest music.

Eyes on Fire Blue Foundation I love the guitar in this song

Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine

Full Moon The Black Ghosts This just seems like it would be cool somewhere in the movie. Cool vibe.

Never Think and Let Me Sign by Rob Pattinson.  I watched Rob asked in an interview what kind of music he played and he was like uhhhh….ahhh…maybe like…i don’t know. That’s pretty much it.  But it’s Rob and I’d love to see him play that live.

And finally, I’ll leave you with the latest promo!

OK, there, my brain is flushed of Twilight stuff.

Emma’s making everyone sing about her getting money tonight.  Lexi is crying first because she DOESN’T WANT TO LOSE HER TEETH…EVER.  She continues to cry and then says through tears IT’S NOT FAIR THAT SHE GETS MONEY AND I DON’T.  I can’t win.  In any case, Emma was scared to death for me to pull it but she said her teacher said to get a wet washcloth and wiggle it.  Since her teacher said it, she trusted her and she let me do it.  Whatever works.