Not much to report really. This is our busy week... dance for X and I tomorrow night, soccer practice for Glee tomorrow, Brownies on Wednesday, Soccer for Thomas AND Glee on Thursday... should be a jam-packed week!
I spent the weekend working on Halloween costumes. Glee will be Silvermist, one of Tinker Bell's friends. She wears blue and sparkles and has black hair (?!). Why Glee picked her I will never know, but we got a wig, so Glee's hair won't be dyed... The costume is almost done. I am working on the belt, I have to make the shorts to go under the dress and then the wings. I am looking forward to making fairy wings, I've never done that before! Thomas is going to be a FedEx Guy, just like dad. We have a shirt from one of X's co-workers (a small woman!), some shorts, his short white socks, and a baseball hat. We need to make him a powerpad (that's what you sign when you sign for FedEx) and a tracker. He also has a belt holster for his tracker. I have to shorten the sleeves on his shirt, but otherwise he is good to go. We are going to make his trick-or-treat bag out of a FedEx box.
We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday for the yearly photo. I will try to put up the last seven years of pumpkin patch photos at some point... I guess that's our version of a Christmas Card picture!
This morning I get to go help in Glee's class, for Writer's Workshop. Thomas is doing a special art project next Monday and I get to help out with that too. 19 kindergartners with watercolors. Yay!
We are half way through the soccer season... it ends in December. That will be nice. I am done with every Saturday being taken up for a majority of the day with games. I am done going to practice twice a week. I am just plain done with soccer.
Just a couple more weeks of the politics, and then I wonder what I will talk about with some of my friends. Go Obama!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Found this online tonight...
and you all know me, you know my political views... this sums it all up pretty well.
The Spin
Friday, September 12 2008 @ 07:39 EDT
Contributed by: Invictus
(H/T Judy. Thanks.)
Black teen pregnancies? A 'crisis' in black America.
White teen pregnancies? A 'blessed event.'
If you grow up in Hawaii you're 'exotic.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential 'American story.'
Similarly, if you name your kid Barack you're 'unpatriotic.'
Name your kids Trig and Track, you're 'colorful.'
If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're 'reckless.'
A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a 'maverick.'
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review,create a voter regstration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.
If you are a Demoratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an 'arrogant celebrity'.
If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are 'energizing the base'.
If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are 'presumptuous'.
If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a 'shoot from the hip' maverick.
If you are a candidate with a Harvard law degree you are 'an elitist 'out of touch' with the real America.
If you are a legacy (dad and granddad were admirals) graduate of Annapolis, with multiple disciplinary infractions you are a hero.
If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an 'empty suit'.
If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an 'experienced executive'.
If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are 'extremist'.
If you believe in creationism and don't believe gobal warming is man made, you are 'strongly principled'.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years with whom you are raising two beautiful daughters you're 'risky'.
If you're a black single mother of 4 who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention, you're an irresponsible parent, endangering the life of your unborn child.
But if you're a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you're spunky.
If you're a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton, the right-wing press calls you 'First dog.'
If you're a 17-year old pregnant unwed daughter of a Republican, the right-wing press calls you 'beautiful' and 'courageous.'
If you kill an endangered species, you're an excellent hunter.
If you have an abortion you're not a christian, you're a murderer ( forget about if it happened while being date raped)
If you teach abstinence only in sex education, you get teen parents.
If you teach responsible age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
The Spin
Friday, September 12 2008 @ 07:39 EDT
Contributed by: Invictus
(H/T Judy. Thanks.)
Black teen pregnancies? A 'crisis' in black America.
White teen pregnancies? A 'blessed event.'
If you grow up in Hawaii you're 'exotic.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're the quintessential 'American story.'
Similarly, if you name your kid Barack you're 'unpatriotic.'
Name your kids Trig and Track, you're 'colorful.'
If you're a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fully vetting the individual you're 'reckless.'
A Republican who doesn't fully vet is a 'maverick.'
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review,create a voter regstration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor,then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced.
If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia.
If you are a Demoratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an 'arrogant celebrity'.
If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are 'energizing the base'.
If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are 'presumptuous'.
If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a 'shoot from the hip' maverick.
If you are a candidate with a Harvard law degree you are 'an elitist 'out of touch' with the real America.
If you are a legacy (dad and granddad were admirals) graduate of Annapolis, with multiple disciplinary infractions you are a hero.
If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an 'empty suit'.
If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an 'experienced executive'.
If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are 'extremist'.
If you believe in creationism and don't believe gobal warming is man made, you are 'strongly principled'.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years with whom you are raising two beautiful daughters you're 'risky'.
If you're a black single mother of 4 who waits for 22 hours after her water breaks to seek medical attention, you're an irresponsible parent, endangering the life of your unborn child.
But if you're a white married mother who waits 22 hours, you're spunky.
If you're a 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton, the right-wing press calls you 'First dog.'
If you're a 17-year old pregnant unwed daughter of a Republican, the right-wing press calls you 'beautiful' and 'courageous.'
If you kill an endangered species, you're an excellent hunter.
If you have an abortion you're not a christian, you're a murderer ( forget about if it happened while being date raped)
If you teach abstinence only in sex education, you get teen parents.
If you teach responsible age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Thumbkin
When Thomas was little we took a class called "toddler time" where he got to sing songs like Little Red Caboose (chug chug chug) and Where is Thumbkin. Today I was talking with X and Glee and I remembered when we learned the Thumbkin song, and how Thomas couldn't pronounce Thumbkin. His "th" sounded like "f", and, well, you get the gist. We got him to say all sorts of things, but my favorite was hearing a three year old boy say "I want a funkin tattoo RIGHT NOW!" Every time we had him say it to a grown up we would get looks, and then laughs (if they knew us... and sometimes when we were out at restaurants or in the mall and had him say thumbkin, we just got the looks).
He now pronounces Thumbkin just like you are supposed to. My baby is growing up...
He now pronounces Thumbkin just like you are supposed to. My baby is growing up...
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Raising a boy
I thought I would have to take special care with Glee because she is a girl. I spent a lot of time helping her to build her confidence, her self worth (we are still working on that one) and her empathy. I thought Thomas would roll with the punches. I was wrong. It seems he needs more help with his confidence. He spends a lot of time trying to get people to talk to him. He yells "HI!" to his friends, a lot, almost to the point of being annoying. Last night he had a nightmare and this is what he told me... "I pretended I didn't have anything to play with and no one was my friend!" My pretended he meant that was what happened in his dream. He has a very hard time when people ignore him and there are a couple of kids who know that and do it to him on purpose. One boy does it and I just want to smack him. He does it to his sister to, and it makes her cry and he doesn't care. I need to steer Thomas away from that kid, but now I find that a boy I thought was one of his good friends is doing the ignoring thing to him too! So, dear friends, any thoughts on this? How can we raise a boy's confidence? I may need to go check out some books from the library. He is such a sweet and smart boy, and he is generally kind to others, although he is picking up some habits I don't like. I thought I did a good job preparing him, but I can see kindergarten is going to be more brutal for a boy than for a girl.
The names have been changed...
I never thought, and I mean NEVER that I would be involved in the PTA, much less a party to such drama. Read from the bottom up... also, all the typos were actual typos. I didn't make those up. Seriously. I didn't.
Hi Ladies,
I am sorry to say this but I cannot take this anymore. It is so difficult to try to make deadlines to council and with everything that I do, I can't always be on top of my due dates allthough I think I do pretty good! Please do not rely on me to get things done! I cannot believe that this is the reaction I would get for just trying to do my job. If any of you feel that I am not doing my job as president and think you can do it better, then please be my guest because I am tired of getting my head bitten off for doing my job.
I am sorry to send this out to you like this but I have alot going on outside of PTA right now and I really do not need this!
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, DM wrote:
From: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
To: Jane Smith
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3:45 PM
I don't know what you mean by, "I saw it yesterday." What did you see yesterday?
I know there is a deadline to get it out. I'm using the early bird deadline of Oct. 10th. But, I'm waiting for YOU to confirm or give me the PTA dates that are missing off of YOUR calendar that YOU e-mailed everyone. They are also the dates you said you would get.
I also need YOUR President's theme.
If YOU want it to go out incomplete, I'll send it out now. But, realize, it does not meet PTA requirements when missing the President's Theme.
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Jane Smith wrote:
From: Jane Smith
Subject: RE: Directory
To: DM
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 2:41 PM
Just forget it, I just saw it yestarday. There is a deadline though and you need to get those dates or just put it out as is
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, DM wrote:
From: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
To: Jane Smith
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 9:32 PM
I wish you would have asked a few days ago instead of the last minute. Then, I would have pushed Mrs. **** when I met with her on Monday about the Math-a-thon. I gave her until Friday to give me some dates.
We don’t have a date to put TBA or tentative. Those usually indicate place, not date.
I don’t know when Blue Ribbon Week, Math-a-thon, STAR Challenge, AIA show, and Canned Food Drive is. I estimated when STAR Challenge, AIA show and Canned food Drive are from previous years. I’m also assuming that our Blue Ribbon Week is the same as Other Elementary. That’s the dates I put in.
I also don’t have a president’s theme.
I hate doing things at the last minute and haphazard like this. Please confirm these dates and your theme by Friday so I can print and distribute on time (for the Communicator).
I will have copies of what I have in the office tomorrow morning.
DM
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:54 PM
To: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
Not tenative but TBA?
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, DM wrote:
From: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
To: Jane Smith
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 6:28 PM
When do you need this by? I’m still waiting for dates, you know Math-a-thon, Star Challenge, etc., from Mrs. ***. And, she’s changing her dates for Breakfast – now to be known as Coffee – with the Principal.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:13 PM
To: DM
Subject: Directory
Is the unit Directory finished? I need two copies and the paperwork, if you have'nt finished, maybe I could turn in the "rouph darfts"?
Jane
Hi Ladies,
I am sorry to say this but I cannot take this anymore. It is so difficult to try to make deadlines to council and with everything that I do, I can't always be on top of my due dates allthough I think I do pretty good! Please do not rely on me to get things done! I cannot believe that this is the reaction I would get for just trying to do my job. If any of you feel that I am not doing my job as president and think you can do it better, then please be my guest because I am tired of getting my head bitten off for doing my job.
I am sorry to send this out to you like this but I have alot going on outside of PTA right now and I really do not need this!
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, DM wrote:
From: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
To: Jane Smith
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3:45 PM
I don't know what you mean by, "I saw it yesterday." What did you see yesterday?
I know there is a deadline to get it out. I'm using the early bird deadline of Oct. 10th. But, I'm waiting for YOU to confirm or give me the PTA dates that are missing off of YOUR calendar that YOU e-mailed everyone. They are also the dates you said you would get.
I also need YOUR President's theme.
If YOU want it to go out incomplete, I'll send it out now. But, realize, it does not meet PTA requirements when missing the President's Theme.
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Jane Smith wrote:
From: Jane Smith
Subject: RE: Directory
To: DM
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 2:41 PM
Just forget it, I just saw it yestarday. There is a deadline though and you need to get those dates or just put it out as is
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, DM wrote:
From: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
To: Jane Smith
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 9:32 PM
I wish you would have asked a few days ago instead of the last minute. Then, I would have pushed Mrs. **** when I met with her on Monday about the Math-a-thon. I gave her until Friday to give me some dates.
We don’t have a date to put TBA or tentative. Those usually indicate place, not date.
I don’t know when Blue Ribbon Week, Math-a-thon, STAR Challenge, AIA show, and Canned Food Drive is. I estimated when STAR Challenge, AIA show and Canned food Drive are from previous years. I’m also assuming that our Blue Ribbon Week is the same as Other Elementary. That’s the dates I put in.
I also don’t have a president’s theme.
I hate doing things at the last minute and haphazard like this. Please confirm these dates and your theme by Friday so I can print and distribute on time (for the Communicator).
I will have copies of what I have in the office tomorrow morning.
DM
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:54 PM
To: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
Not tenative but TBA?
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, DM wrote:
From: DM
Subject: RE: Directory
To: Jane Smith
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 6:28 PM
When do you need this by? I’m still waiting for dates, you know Math-a-thon, Star Challenge, etc., from Mrs. ***. And, she’s changing her dates for Breakfast – now to be known as Coffee – with the Principal.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:13 PM
To: DM
Subject: Directory
Is the unit Directory finished? I need two copies and the paperwork, if you have'nt finished, maybe I could turn in the "rouph darfts"?
Jane
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