Transformers and the beach, a great way to spend a Saturday

Yesterday was a good day. I saw Transformers with my brother and sister which was amazing, then after that I went down to the local beach with my co-workers Nikki and Mary. It was kind of planned last minute and it was crowded, but it was nice to just go somewhere and relax and have fun without worrying about money and such. We all brought our own food, found a spot down away from most of the people and just laid out relaxing.

Our beach is actually a state park, Point Lookout State Park to be exact. It's a penninsula, the southern most point of Maryland. During the Civil War it was the sight of a Yankee fort, named Fort Lincoln, and a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers. There is also a lighthouse that is #5 of the top 5 most haunted lighthouses in the United States. The whole place is considered extremely haunted and the park police actually keep a record or every reported ghost sighting. It's an amazing place and I absolutely love going there. The lighthouse isn't open very often because of it's age and problems they've had in the past (and it used to belong to the US Coast Guard) so I've never been in it, but I always go see the reconstructed Fort and the in construction prison pen. In short I absolutely love Point Lookout.

plants

In April we decided to have our boys plant seeds as part of our Spring theme. We used potting soil, random wildflower seeds we somehow acquired, and Breyer's 100 calorie yogurt cups.

I took craft sticks/popsicle sticks, stuck a foam flower sticker to the end, and wrote everyone's names on the flowers to stick in so we knew whose was whose (because believe me, they asked!) We did this on a Thursday and by Monday morning we had sprouts! And we really weren't expecting anything to happen. Every other day we handed out the plants and the boys counted how many plants they had. After the first time the answers started becoming 100, 2 million, too many, 1001 (I really got this response from one of them!) but they still were actively looking and understanding their plants. Heather and I decided to send the plants home as Mother's Day presents so we replanted them in cheep colored plastic cups from Wal-Mart. The moms really enjoyed them and the boys were proud of what they had done!

new to this

Where do I begin? I'm new to blogging, but not new to the online journaling thing. I've been a member of livejournal for...four years? But blogging just seems different. After enjoying several blogs on here, mostly http://www.flipflopsandapplesauce.com/ and http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/, I decided to try my hand at this thing. We'll see how it goes.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Shannon, I am 21 and live in Southern Maryland. I graduated with honors from high school in 2005. I have two associate degrees, one in elementary education and one in early childhood education. I will be continuing school this fall after taking a semester off in between associates and bachelors. I started at the St. Mary's County Recreation and Parks Licensed Extended Day/Youth Camps in October 2007 as senior staff (now called child care teacher) and worked for one year in the infant/toddler room. On October 1, 2008 I moved to a pre-school room located in an elementary school. My coworker and friend Heather and I are in charge.

I am at that point of my life where I'm no longer a kid (flip flops) but not quite an adult (martinis) even though I will be 22 at the end of the year. I am a mix of adult and child, girly girl and tomboy, naive and experience, weak and strong, and free spirit and responsible worker. Here's my life, my work, and everything else I come across.