And the countdown begins.....

That first Saturday of September is always sacred for me and my best friend! It begins college football season. She wears her crimson tshirt with pride, and rightfully so seeing as how they did win the National Championship last year, and I wear my black and red in hope that we will have a decent quarterback worth getting us at least to the top 10. I have worn my bulldawg gear every year since birth, my dad is a UGA fan, his dad is a UGA fan, and so on. Christina married into that deep crimson red family, her husband Danny is from Alabama and so is his dad. We are all one big happy rival family. She convinced my son at a young age that "roll tide" was the way to go and he never looked back, my daughter on the other hand yells "go dawgs" even when we're losing. Every saturday we gather at Christina and Danny's house for food, fun, and football. We have Paul, the Notre Dame fan, who joins the mix when his wife lets him off of his leash as well as a few other Alabama and Georgia fans that show up to watch the games. This has become tradition in their household and years ago there was always the possibility of two games being on at the same time while fans of those teams were present. Danny came up with a solution! He added two more T.V.s to the living room for a total of three so we could watch all the important games at one time. We might not have sound if our game is not the popular one of the group, but at least we get to watch it with food, fun, and friends!

Video Games

Its a good thing Ms. Aiken gave me a topic today because otherwise I would have stared at this blank screen until I blogged about the color white. It has been a long day and its only 10:56am. My day started at 2am when a sick child woke me up with a tummyache and a headache. Finally after a trip to Kroger at 3am for tylenol, fixing a few glasses of water, holding her hair, and rubbing her back she fell asleep at 6am. So now I sit here with a blog topic! Video Games! I dont like most of them. I have 2 kids, my son is 9 and my daughter 6. We only own 1 gaming system and its a Wii. On that Wii, we have family sports games that we all play together like bowling, tennis, golf, darts, and lots of others. I dont really classify that as video games as much as I do family time that doesnt cost alot of money. The video games I dont like are the ones that take hours out of your day, days out of your weeks, and weeks out of your month! Many games include forms of violence or foul language or goals that take a year to acheive. There are alot of things kids should be doing besides playing video games. It takes away from family time, gives them a false sense of reality, and can even lead to obesity and laziness. Too many children these days spend all of their time indoors just trying to go up a level in some fantasy world and dont take the time to go outside and experience the world as a kid. Video games are fun and that can be addicting to a kid to the point of everything they do revolving around a game or trying to rush through things to get back to their gaming system. If video game time is rationed and parents moniter the games their children play, they can be used as an educational tool. There are games out there that are geared toward education that can be chosen and used as a tool to increase learning skills. But even then, it doesnt take the place of one on one time with a parent teaching their child. I just dont see a point in exposing children to violent games or video games with no value just to appease them.

6 years ago today

Exactly 6 years ago today and about this time, I was lying in a hospital bed scared out of my mind. I was an hour and a half from delivering my second child. My first had been 24 hours of labor and then emergency surgery, and that was not nearly as stressful as August 24, 2004. This time they told me I would go into surgery as 1 person and come out 2. So there I was scared to death and ready to be a mom a second time. Today my little girl turns 6. In the last 6 years, she has changed so much. She was a good baby, a terrible 2 year old, a whiny 4 year old, and now a dramaqueen at 6 years old. She likes pink camo and glittery mud! She likes fishing and reading, hunting and makeup, guns and barbie dolls. I havent met another little girl with her sense of humor and charisma. She is amazing, so I hope the next 6 years are just as eventful as the first 6, just with less drama!

Who is Brandy Wyatt?

The answer to that question changes periodically. On June 21, 1982 I was baby girl Wyatt in a naval hospital in Patuxent River, MD born to Phil and Delana Wyatt at 12:10am, 10 minutes after Father's Day that year. My dad has never let me forget he had to wait 364 more days to celebrate Father's Day with his first child. Eighteen months later I was a big sister and the definition of who I was went from being an only child to having a brother named Nic. As years went by I have been described as the kid who wore Bert and Ernie bedroom shoes to Kindergarton one day because her mom forgot to pack tennis shoes for the baby sitter, the 4th grade spelling bee champion, the straight A middle schooler, and the girl who started 9th grade with purple hair. Defining who I am has a great deal to do with who I was. To ask me the question now, "Who are you?", generates a much different response than last week, last month, or even last year. As of today I am a 28 year old college student at Macon State College. I am a mother of 2 wonderful children, Damien and Makayla. I am responsible for dinner and laundry and vaccuuming and every other household chore you can imagine. I am an owner of a red eared slider turtle named Nibbler and I guess technically grandmother to 3 fish that belong to my son. I go to PTO and boyscout meetings and we are soon going to add dance and gymnastics to that hectic schedule. I am a loyal girlfriend to an amazing man named Geoff that should one day soon put a ring on my left hand. You can read all day about who someone is, but just have one conversation with them and you will begin to define them in your own words. I define myself as self sufficient, motivated, charismatic, compassionate, generous, smart, and trustworthy. I try to let these qualities define who I am in my daily life and hope that others have the same definition of Who Brandy Wyatt is, but then again, I'm biased!