We’re getting ready to send our child to school this Monday. It’ll be his first day of kindergarten and we’ve been buying uniforms and supplies. We’re still not done with all of our purchases. If you recall, on this blog post, we grappled with sending our son to public or private school. We decided to send him to a private Christian school. I tried to talk to the public school about the curriculum and to the new kindergarten teacher….but all I got was the runaround! 🙁

I was already having trouble with the public school and our son wasn’t even enrolled yet! I couldn’t imagine what would happen once he was a student – I was already frustrated enough! 🙁

So far, I’m pleased that this school has answered my questions and has shown me their curriculum. I was satisfied with what my son would be learning during his first year of school. His first day is this Monday, August 23.

I have some books that I need to review for this blog. I’ll be doing that soon.

~Cecelia Dowdy~

Today’s my birthday and tomorrow is our son’s birthday! He’ll be turning five! We’ll probably go out to dinner this weekend to celebrate!

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I saw this movie yesterday with my husband and all I can say about it is, you have to pay attention.

One thing I didn’t like was that they used the Lord’s name in vain a lot, and that didn’t set too well with me.

I did find the story intriguing, especially since they had the dreams in four layers, a dream within a dream within a dream…

Cobb just wants to see his kids again, and he can’t go home because he’s WANTED. However, a project comes along, a very intriguing and difficult project involving the subconscious and if he’s able to complete this project successfully, he’ll be able to go home to his kids, whom he hasn’t seen in a long time. It’s kind of cool to see people dreaming and how they see their longings in their subconscious mind. It’s also kind of weird to see the dream and then to see others “interrupt” your dream since they’re not supposed to be in that private part of your mind.

I’ve always been intrigued by dreams and when I was in high school, I wrote a paper about dreams and the subconsious mind.

In the book of Daniel, God speaks to others through their dreams and He provided vivid messages while Pharoah was asleep.

It’s hard to talk about the movie without giving spoilers. If you’ve seen this movie, I’d like to know what you thought about it. I’d like to see it again to make sure I didn’t miss anything. I think I got the whole story.

This is definitely a guy flick. I could imagine that a lot of females wouldn’t care for this movie.

Can you imagine being caught in a dream for fifty+ years? Frightening! Dreams and reality become muddled and then it messes with your mind.

This movie was very deep and, like I said, you need to pay attention to every word or you might miss something.

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I’ve been too tired to blog since we returned from our trip last weekend. I’ll probably get some more energy this coming weekend. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and I have three books to review. I also have a scripture I’d like to discuss and share.

~Cecelia Dowdy~

In the book that I’m working on now, I’ve got a major emotional conflict involved. When he was a young boy, the hero’s mother was involved in a religious cult, and it ultimately led to her death. The negative experience has colored his view of all religions and he has nothing to do with Jesus as a result of his boyhood experience.

I was wondering if anybody reading this blog has ever been involved with a cult or know someone who has? If you did, what was your/their experience like? How did you/they get out of the organization? If you feel like sharing the name of the cult, that would be fine, but it’s not necessary.

This inquiring mind wants to know…

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I now have over 100 followers on my blog! That’s so cool! 🙂

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I’m taking a blogging break for the rest of the month. I’ve got a proposal that I’m trying to finish. Hopefully, I can have it out the door by June.

~Cecelia Dowdy~

I’m so glad that spring is finally here! My tulips are blooming and the weather was warm last weekend. My four-year-old son and I went to the lake last weekend to feed the geese and ducks some popcorn! After the double snowstorms we had over a month ago, it’s nice to enjoy some warm weather. I also enjoy hearing the birds singing every morning – it just makes the day wonderful! Plus, Easter is on the way, so that’s something to look forward to. When I think of Spring I imagine warm weather, flowers in bloom and picnics in the park, and barbeques!

Do you like it when winter turns to spring? What are some of the things that you like about the spring season?

~Cecelia Dowdy~

The last few times I was browsing around a bookstore, I didn’t make any purchases. Why? Because when I glanced at the price of the book, I knew I could get it cheaper on Amazon.com. Also, if I order at least $25.00 on Amazon, I get free shipping. I believe Borders and Barnes and Noble websites have the same deal – order $25 worth of books and get free shipping.

Amazon’s prices are usually a few dollars cheaper than the bookstores – the only exceptions I see are books that are lower-priced at Walmart. I do purchase books from Walmart occasionally. I also purchase books from the bookstore if they are on the discount rack/bin and I can get a brand new book for just a few dollars.

I wondered if these higher prices in bookstores were a signal that they’re going to be gone within the next ten years?

Also, with e-readers, more people are purchasing their books online. From what I understand, you can store several books on your e-reader – not having to worry about lugging all of those paper books around with you.

How do you buy your books? Do you usually purchase them online or through a bookstore? Do you own an e-reader? If so, do you still purchase print books even though you have an e-reader? Do you think bookstores will still be around within the next ten years?

Answer as many or as few questions as you’d like!

~Cecelia Dowdy~

We just returned from the dealers! What a hectic day, but we needed to get this taken care of before we had another breakdown! Our car was on its’ last legs and it has served me well over the last twelve years. Here are pics of our new vehicle! What a beauty! I just don’t like having that debt to pay off now! I haven’t had a car note in nine years – I purchased my old Honda Accord back in 1998 – before marriage and child and paid it off in three years (still before marriage and child!) Hope you enjoy looking at the pics!

~Cecelia Dowdy~