A Drive to Iowa

Good morning.

I feel like I’ve just officially become a true English major.  I read To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time a couple months ago.  I am also currently reading Fahrenheit 451 for the first time ever.  I have been curious about this book ever since I saw a Famous Jett Jackson episode about it.  I always wanted to know what it was about after watching that.  

Turns out it’s about a time, probably around our current time, but was written in the 50s.  In this particular time, books of all kinds are illegal, and although houses have been fireproofed, the civilization has kept firemen around to burn books.  (Maybe it’s silly that I’m giving you background about it- I may be the only one who didn’t know what it was about. Haha.)

So I started thinking about what would happen if books were illegal now.  Yikes.  What a terrible world.  Honestly, it already makes me sad how much reading and writing has been replaced with new technology.  I mean, real writing, with a pencil and paper.  Did you know that a bunch of schools have stopped teaching cursive?  And several are taking out spelling??  Are you kidding me?  

It’s not enough that they are cutting down on art and music classes in smaller, poorer schools, now we have to take away some English fundamentals too?  I don’t care if we have spell check now- we should still know how to spell.  Just because we have fantastic technology doesn’t mean we should sacrifice education in the most basic communication areas.  Golly gee.

Enough soap box.  Currently, Jered and I are driving to Iowa with the windows down, listening to Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing, talking about living in this fresh country air, and anticipating meeting little Lily.  (In case you were wondering, I wrote this a little while before I posted it.)

I’m seriously wishing I hadn’t forgotten my camera at the wedding a couple weekends ago because then I would treat you to a picture of my newly clean cut looking husband.  He looks incredibly handsome, although I do miss his curly locks.  Plus I wanted to take about a billion pictures of Lily this weekend.

I don’t really have anything else to tell you right now, plus the sun just came out, making my computer screen impossible to read.  I’m writing blind right now.

So until next time- hope your weekend is marvelous.

Aim

P.S. (I'm writing this part after spending our first night at Molly and Jacob's.) We met little Lily last night, and let me tell you... Wow.  She is absolutely perfect.  It's pretty safe to say that Jered and I are in love with her.

(This is Molly's picture... I stole it.)

Ok, that's really all.

Talk to you later.

Aim