Silence...what a strange concept!

Day One:
As I start this blog, I am relatively sure that very few people (if any), will actually read it. But, here goes nothing...My name is Brooke. I am a single mom of a kindergartner. It is just us...24/7/365. There are some times when she visits my parents, who live about two hours away, but typically it is just us. Today is one of those rare times when she is gone. So I actually I have the time to start this blog! I consider myself to be a writer and always have, but somewhere in the craziness of my life I have let it fall prey to neglect. Writing has been something I teach others to do, but rarely have time to do myself. I am hoping this blog will change that.

The topic today is...Silence! It is something that I have taken for granted most of my life, but I see now that it is a true luxury that is more precious than diamonds in my daily life. I am a teacher of high school students, so there is absolutely no silence in my work life. My daughter is a chatterbox, so there is rarely a silent moment with her unless she is sleeping. Then, there are my upstairs neighbors, who are the loudest people in the free world. My daughter left yesterday to visit my parents, and I was hoping for some peace and quiet today to finish grading exams, finish Insurgent, and catch up on the How I Met Your Mother episodes on my DVR. So much for that! All day I have had to hear the family upstairs...jumping up and down at 9am, moving chairs (or large furniture...who the heck knows) at 11am, screaming at each other at 2pm, and now as I type this they are stomping around as if they are preparing grapes at a winery with Lucille Ball. They never leave their apartment, especially since both parents are retired and home school their two children. Thus, they are up ALL the time and NEVER leave home. It is the most annoying and frustrating feeling on Earth to want silence so much, yet it is unattainable. Ahhhhh!

That being said, I am so used to constant noise from various sources that complete silence is a bit unnerving. I mean, do we actually ever get silence anymore? We all have the hum of our appliances, the squeak of our recliner as we rock, the fan of the A/C unit, the tap of keys on a laptop....thus, I will stick with my assessment that silence is as precious as diamonds! When you have it, savor every moment.

Well, I still have one more episode of HIMYM in which I am sure at the end of I STILL will not know how said mother was met...pray that the crazies actually go to sleep tonight so I can finish my book! Tata for now!