You go Jack Johnson! You shape the young minds of today!!

I was trying to think of music to put on cd's for the kids in Africa and I hit an epiphany of amazement! The Curious George Soundtrack!! Thank you Jack Johnson for giving me the perfect songs to teach these kids that are helpful and fun! I think this song and the quote "Be the change you want to see in the world" by Ghandi are really inspiring me to do as much good as I can on this trip!

With My Own Two Hands by Jack Johnson

I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make it a better place
With my own two hands
Make it a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

I'm going to make it a brighter place
With my own two hands
I'm going to make it a safer place
With my own two hands
I'm going to help the human race
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

I can hold you
With my own two hands
I can comfort you
With my own two hands
But you've got to use
Use your own two hands
Use your own
Use your own two hands
With our own
With our own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

Annie??.... in Kenya?

These poor orphans I will be visiting next week in Kenya have no family, no home, and in this case they don't even have room to play! This is their play room, all 105 kids stuffed into this little room! Can you imagine it!? Alright kids time to play dodge ball! This makes me so sad and it made me think of this song from Annie the musical, hopefully this will make us all more appreciative of the things we have no matter how small or few. My main goal for this trip is to make these kids feel loved, I don't want them wanting to sing the last 2 lines in the song by the time I leave or I will fail!



It's the hard-knock life for us!
It's the hard-knock life for us!

'Steada treated,
We get tricked!
'Steada kisses,
We get kicked!

It's the hard-knock life!
Got no folks to speak of, so,
It's the hard-knock row we how!

Cotton blankets,
'Steada of wool!
Empty Bellies
'Steada of full!
It's the hard-knock life!

Don't if feel like the wind is always howl'n?
Don't it seem like there's never any light!
Once a day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?
It's easier than puttin' up a fight.

No one's there when your dreams at night get creepy!
No one cares if you grow...of if you shrink!
No one dries when your eyes get wet an' weepy!

From all the cryin' you would think this place's a sink!
Ohhhh!!!!!!!
Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

Santa Claus we never see
Santa Claus, what's that?
Who's he?
No one cares for you a smidge
When you're in an orphanage!

One Of The Guys

Not even close to talking about sex change or anything here but man sometimes I would like to just be a guy for a day. Not to deal with my hair in the morning, not to deal with raging hormones and moodswings, not to deal with the stupidest kind of drama only girls seem to come up with, and don't even get me started on the whole monthly package and pain of childbirth thing. If I had to have that much pain for eating a freaking apple, I would rather be fat and never eat a healthy thing ever again! I'm just feeling really sick of it lately!! SO...in honor of my anger and jealousness of being able to roll out of bed and throw some clothes on and be ready, being able to have a fight with your guy friend wrestle it out for a bit and then be over it in a matter of minutes, and ESPECIALLY being able to pee literally ANYWHERE ANYTIME...ugh...so not cool especially when camping/hiking!!!


One of the Guys By Kellie Pickler

Every single day it's the same old thing
Wake up every morning do the same routine
Paint my nails and get my hair to curl
Lord it's hard being a girl
I love getting all dressed up to the nines
But sometimes it's fun to be one of the guys

Somethin' bout old blue jeans and a baseball cap
Fellas I get it and I admit it
It just don't get any better than that
Chicken wings, NASCAR, and football on Monday nights
Sometimes it's fun to be one of the guys

I like to put my hair up in a ponytail
Climb up in a pickup and raise some hell
Have a four-wheelin mud boggin' real good time
Then go home and play poker all night long
I still love chick flicks and a real good cry
But sometimes it's fun to be one of the guys

Somethin' bout old blue jeans and a baseball cap
Fellas I get it and I admit it
It just don't get any better than that
Chicken wings, NASCAR, and football on Monday nights
Sometimes it's fun to be one of the guys

Somethin' bout old blue jeans and a baseball cap
Fellas I get it and I admit it
It just don't get any better than that
Chicken wings, NASCAR, and football on Monday nights
Sometimes it's fun to be one of the guys
Sometimes it's fun to be one of the guys

FIRST POST!!

OK so for my new blog I thought I would start on a good note! I recently got invited by my Dad to go to Nairobi, Kenya to help do physicals at an orphanage down there. I'm really excited to go and spend some quality time with my Dad, and even my Mom who is tagging along. So here is my going on a trip and being excited song! (Ok it says two of us and there is going to be three of us but JUST GO WITH IT!!)


Two of Us by the Beatles

Two of us riding nowhere
Spending someone's
Hard earned pay
You and me Sunday driving
Not arriving
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

Two of us sending postcards
Writing letters
On my wall
You and me burning matches
Lifting latches
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing solo
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead

Two of us wearing raincoats
Standing solo
In the sun
You and me chasing paper
Getting nowhere
On our way back home
We're on our way home
We're on our way home
We're going home

We're going home
Better believe it