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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
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A Little Magic Would Go A Long Way
Do you ever wish that you could just pick up your house and shake it out like a dusty rug? And that all the crap and clutter that you don't want or need anymore would just roll on out the doors and windows and line itself up in the gutter? But I suppose that's not a very green thing to say. I guess it would be better if the stuff just disappeared into thin air, without polluting any part of the environment.
Yeah, I need a little twinkle of the nose, a la Samantha on Bewitched. If only.
Thursday, 05 November 2009
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At Home with the Kids
Check out this quote from our son. I'm not sure if I should be offended or not:"Mommy isn't a lady -- she's a woman."
I can't remember the context of the conversation, but there was a lot of giggling going on, for sure.
Our daughter has been asking me about how to type. I asked her teacher at what age they start learning keyboarding in school, and she said she thinks it is introduced in 3rd grade (next year) and covered a lot in 4th grade. She gave me a link to a BBC website that teaches kids how to type, though, and our daughter is loving it and doing great! Also, after swim practice today she decided to entertain herself by "thinking of really hard words and trying to spell them correctly." For fun. There is no question that this girl has my DNA.
Words she spelled correctly:
-hurricane
-membership
-realize
-district
-security
-educational
Words she spelled cutely:
-superuoir (superior - she's learning about the Great Lakes)
-librayin (librarian - heroes to a couple of bookworms like us)
She also climbed up onto the chair I was sitting in earlier this evening and positioned her head right near mine as I was snuggling with her brother and petting the dog. She said she wanted to see what it looked like from my point of view. Smarty pants!
Do you like my rambling posts this week? If not, you can blame the Mr. for a 3 night business trip, leaving me with no one else to ramble at but my trusty Mac and its blinking cursor.
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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Aging and Barking
The birthday festivities are finally finished. The party was Saturday, the real day was yesterday and the school celebration was today. Cake, cupcakes, pizza, pancakes.....just a few of the ways we celebrated the big 6th birthday of our little guy!
He got lots of fun gifts that would keep him busy if he were ever inside long enough to play with them, but he has started to hang out with a pack of boys that play street hockey and he is in heaven. He is the youngest, but there are two boys who are a year older (1st grade) and then a bunch in 4th grade. They play on the opposite cul-du-sac, which is crawling with stay-at-home moms, and everyone looks out for my little guy. Lucky for me, he still wants to snuggle when he comes inside....but he's growing up fast now that he's in elementary school.
I even got a call tonight from the mom of one of his friends, asking if he could go there for a sleepover on Friday night. In Kindergarten? Really? That's not happening for us. I know other families are ok with it, but we have only let our daughter do it once, for a small slumber party at our neighbor's house right across the street, and that was when she was in 1st grade already. Kids are in such a rush to do everything these days -- what is there to look forward to anymore?
On another topic, I need help from the Dog Whisperer. Our dog is so overly protective of me and the kids when the Mr. is not here that he is putting a serious damper on my ability to converse with anyone who comes to my door. I get so embarrassed because I come off like the dingbat housewife who has no control over her household! I even told the painter a few weeks ago, "I have MUCH better control of my kids, I swear."
Seriously, if one neighborhood kid comes to the door and then walks inside to get a cup of water, the dog goes bonkers -- barking, jumping, carrying on for the entire time the poor kid is indoors. But when the Mr. is here, the Chinese food delivery guy can come up to the door without the dog even making a sound. He didn't even bark once as the 15 costumed kids bearing weapons (and their parents) came traipsing in and out of our house on Saturday -- because the Mr. was here. Geez, even I wanted to bark at that crowd.
Sunday, 01 November 2009
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Birthday Party Wrap Up
Things that happen at a Halloween themed birthday party for a 6 year old, with 15 boys in attendance:- It rains. Of course.
- The guests will come bearing weapons. Light sabers, plastic swords, rubber swords, gloves with claws, ninja accessories. This challenges the party chaperones to maintain peace and order.
- The party goers do not stay in the room where the party is taking place. There is always at least one boy wandering freely through other parts of the house, requiring one of the adults to chase him down and drag him back.
- The parents of the birthday boy will begin counting down the minutes until pick-up as soon as the first child is dropped off at the party.
- Stretchy worm toys that the mother of the birthday boy naively thinks they will just hold in their pudgy little hands get thrown onto freshly painted ceilings and brand new skylights and do not fall back down again.
- A boy will initiate his gag reflex with a pair of blue vampire teeth he got as a prize and "blow a chunk*" as he tries to eject the teeth from his mouth. (*Credit for this quote goes to Professor Brother-in-Law.)
- Another boy will not speak for the first half of the party because his own vampire teeth (part of his costume) are too big for his mouth. However, he will successfully eat cake and popcorn before deciding to remove the teeth from his mouth.
- Beating a homemade spider pinata with a baseball bat in the wet driveway will not entirely release all of their sugar induced boy energy. As a result, the pinata smashing will be followed by a pinata kidnapping, whereby the empty pinata will get thrown into the street, ripped apart by bare, sticky hands and ultimately tossed into the neighbor's wet pile of leaves.
- As the party begins to wind down, boys will begin to ask, "Where are the goody bags? Don't we get goody bags?"
- The boys will not want to leave without their stretchy worm toys, but will not understand why throwing them onto the ceiling made this impossible.
Our little werewolf birthday boy had a great time. Some of the boys were great and some were a MAJOR handful. We have officially resigned from the practice of throwing home-based parties for large crowds of children. Retirement is sweet.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
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Michael Jackson
I was a die hard MJ fan in my junior high school years....and really, you never stop being a fan of his once you see him dance and sing live. Tonight I went to see "This is It" with a group of friends and I am so glad that I did. If you're a fan, you really must find a way to go see it.
I thought this song was fitting for the ol' blog -- not the typical MJ dance fest, but a very important and relevant message.
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I am a mom of 2 kids (6 and 4), married for 11 yrs. We are a typical suburban family trying to live a greener life to help protect the Earth. Please read our blog to learn about the ups and downs of turning green (and living life) in the 'burbs!
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