Elijah the reader

I have to admit that I am loving Elijah's reading skills and love of reading right now. The other night I caught him after bedtime still awake and reading, using what sunlight was left in the day peeking around his curtain for light. The mom part of me had to tell him to go to sleep. The reader part of me was doing a little happy dance in the hall after I left his room. That was exactly what I would have done at his age. He's also started bringing books into the washroom with him, reading in there. Yesterday was a dream come true and beautiful memory for me. The two of us snuggling up on the couch, both engrossed in our novels. *sigh*

Friendship is the way to go

I have a friend who comes from Pakistan. She moved to Canada about a year and a half ago. She is Muslim, but not the extreme wearing a burqua sort. She doesn't cover her hair and I don't think she eats Halal. What has been very interesting (for me) is that she has asked me about different Christian celebrations, their meanings and the symbols that accompany them. It first happened when she was over for tea around Christmas time. She has never been in a home where there was a Christmas tree before. It was all new to her. This morning she asked about the symbolism behind the eggs with Easter. She didn't know anything about the Easter story. So I told it to her. She was really interested. What's great and a good point to remember for me is that I have never thought to openly evangelize to her. This all has just happened as our friendship has unfolded. She obviously feels comfortable enough with me to ask. I didn't have witnessing in mind when we became friends, she is just someone I like and whose company I enjoy. This part is an unexpected bonus.

AFI's 100 Greatest Films - 2007 List

I found this list online and wondered how many of these movies I'd seen - 35 out of 100. I'll admit there are a few I've never heard of and a few I don't have any intention of seeing - but a great list in case I'm ever in the mood for a well made movie (I've put a * beside the ones I've seen)

AFI's 100 Greatest American Films - 2007 List See also AFI's 100 Greatest American Films (original, 1998)
1.	Citizen Kane (1941)	51.	West Side Story (1961)
2.	The Godfather (1972)*	52.	Taxi Driver (1976)
3.	Casablanca (1942)*	53.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
4.	Raging Bull (1980)	54.	M*A*S*H (1970)
5.	Singin' in the Rain (1952)*	55.	North By Northwest (1959)
6.	Gone with the Wind (1939)*	56.	Jaws (1975)
7.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	57.	Rocky (1976)*
8.	Schindler's List (1993)	58.	The Gold Rush (1925)
9.	Vertigo (1958)*	59.	Nashville (1975)
10.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)*	60.	Duck Soup (1933)
11.	City Lights (1931)	61.	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
12.	The Searchers (1956)	62.	American Graffiti (1973)*
13.	Star Wars (1977)*	63.	Cabaret (1972)
14.	Psycho (1960)	64.	Network (1976)
15.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)	65.	The African Queen (1951)*
16.	Sunset Blvd. (1950)	66.	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)*
17.	The Graduate (1967)	67.	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
18.	The General (1927)	68.	Unforgiven (1992)
19.	On the Waterfront (1954)*	69.	Tootsie (1982)*
20.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)*	70.	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
21.	Chinatown (1974)	71.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)*
22.	Some Like It Hot (1959)*	72.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)*
23.	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)	73.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
24.	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)*	74.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)*
25.	To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)*	75.	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
26.	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)*	76.	Forrest Gump (1994)*
27.	High Noon (1952)	77.	All the President's Men (1976)
28.	All About Eve (1950)*	78.	Modern Times (1936)
29.	Double Indemnity (1944)	79.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
30.	Apocalypse Now (1979)	80.	The Apartment (1960)
31.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)*	81.	Spartacus (1960)
32.	The Godfather Part II (1974)*	82.	Sunrise (1927)
33.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)	83.	Titanic (1997) *
34.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)*	84.	Easy Rider (1969)
35.	Annie Hall (1977)	85.	A Night at the Opera (1935)
36.	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)	86.	Platoon (1986)
37.	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)	87.	12 Angry Men (1957)
38.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)*	88.	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
39.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)	89.	The Sixth Sense (1999) *
40.	The Sound of Music (1965)*	90.	Swing Time (1936)*
41.	King Kong (1933)	91.	Sophie's Choice (1982)
42.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)	92.	GoodFellas (1990)
43.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)	93.	The French Connection (1971)
44.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)*	94.	Pulp Fiction (1994)*
45.	Shane (1953)	95.	The Last Picture Show (1971)
46.	It Happened One Night (1934)*	96.	Do the Right Thing (1989)
47.	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)*	97.	Blade Runner (1982)
48.	Rear Window (1954)*	98.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
49.	Intolerance (1916)	99.	Toy Story (1995)*
50.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)*	100.	Ben-Hur (1959)