Breakfast in bed served by both Ryan and Kate--two meals.
Church
A glorious nap with Thad and Olivia
Birthday party with family & friends
A walk with my friends
Everyone went to bed well
Doesn't get much better than that!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
a special day
Breakfast in bed served by both Ryan and Kate--two meals.
Church
A glorious nap with Thad and Olivia
Birthday party with family & friends
A walk with my friends
Everyone went to bed well
Doesn't get much better than that!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
7 month old & cousins
These are the pictures I tried to load the other day. I guess now it's working. These are some pictures taken a couple of weeks ago when Erin's kids were over to play. They always laugh a lot. It's fun to see Hope and Brady get into the mix of things.Brady turned 7 months old on May 1st. Today I felt his first tooth! He drools like crazy, and gnaws on everything. He is enjoying baby food, sitting up, sucking on things, grabbing everything in sight, sleeping with his mommy at night, and rocks back and forth when on his tummy.
He is such a darling.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
I would like your advice
Thad and I have a decision to make. It is related to taking a family vacation. Here are the options:
1. Do nothing. Use the money to get a new dishwasher & other things that I wouldn't normally buy. (Our dishwasher sucks) Avoid travel stress with infant, enjoy cushion money, take in a Twins game in a few weeks when we return from Iowa, etc.
2. Go to Disney World in October during my fall break. Leave on a Wednesday and return Sunday. The Disney deal at that time is: Kids 9-under stay, play, and eat for free. Ryan turns 10 in December. Catch: I have conferences until 8:30pm Tuesday night. Flying out of Fargo is mucho spendy....Allegiant doesn't fly those dates.
Nice weather there, decent to busy crowds, and we would take in Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party.
3. Go to Disney World in August from the 17th-21. This is a Monday-Friday. It's free dining. That saves us well over $100/day on food. No one has to miss school. Allegiant flies from Fargo those dates...dirt cheap too.
Very HOT, supposed light crowds as much of the U.S. is back in school, rain?
Please advise....
1. Do nothing. Use the money to get a new dishwasher & other things that I wouldn't normally buy. (Our dishwasher sucks) Avoid travel stress with infant, enjoy cushion money, take in a Twins game in a few weeks when we return from Iowa, etc.
2. Go to Disney World in October during my fall break. Leave on a Wednesday and return Sunday. The Disney deal at that time is: Kids 9-under stay, play, and eat for free. Ryan turns 10 in December. Catch: I have conferences until 8:30pm Tuesday night. Flying out of Fargo is mucho spendy....Allegiant doesn't fly those dates.
Nice weather there, decent to busy crowds, and we would take in Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party.
3. Go to Disney World in August from the 17th-21. This is a Monday-Friday. It's free dining. That saves us well over $100/day on food. No one has to miss school. Allegiant flies from Fargo those dates...dirt cheap too.
Very HOT, supposed light crowds as much of the U.S. is back in school, rain?
Please advise....
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Makes you think
Today at school the 10th graders had a lyceum on internet safety. This was probably way more interesting to me than it was them, but they are so much more savvy than us oldtimers. Some of the things they learned about: sexting (sending sexually explicit texts OR nude photos of yourself to someone), chat rooms, the large amount of sexual predators out there, how all these sites are public information, and cyber-bullying.
Who would have thought way back in 1994 when I was a senior in high school that all of these terms would be common language like it is today? This stuff isn't new to Thad. He gets to deal with this kind of yucky stuff all the time. People are being victimized daily by this stuff. It is not uncommon to hear stories about how girls will send a sexy photo of themselves to someone. Pretty soon many, many kids have it. What the kids don't realize is that if they forward it on, they are disseminating child pornography (if they are over 18 even by one day). It's very tricky stuff. Choosing to have the attitude "my kid would never do that" is not an option. It can happen to anyone at anytime.
This afternoon, I was showing my students CNN Student news. It's a 10 minutes CNN news show for kids (duh). Today of all days, there was a feature on how some ladies are suing their former employer for being fired over bashing their bosses on MySpace. They felt that their freedom of speech was violated, and that they were having a private discussion online. FYI: Nothing posted on the internet is private information. It is public...all of it. Anyway posting anything online is fair game for the world to see. Young adults from this generation haven't grasped that concept, because, heck, they have always lived in a techie world. Us old people have not. Once upon a time, young girls wrote in a thing called a diary. Now that was private...or so we hoped! We used to pick up the family telephone to call our friends or boys we liked. We sent letters to family and friends who lived far away.
Times have changed. I have a ways to go before I will feel really educated on all this stuff. I do feel that as a parent, it's my duty to try to stay as on top of this stuff as possible.
Now the other part of my day was also interesting. At the concert the other night, I chipped my back molar. Today I went in to get it looked at. I was ready to set up a date to get a crown, pay $1000 or so on the procedure, and be on with my day. Not so fast. It seems that my chipped tooth is likely caused by my jaw problems. I wear a mouthguard at night. I grind and clench my teeth. My poor teeth are getting tired, thus the 1/4 size of tooth that broke off.
After many photos of my teeth, jaw impressions, teeth impressions, and a partridge in a pear tree, I will likely be told the end of June that I need........braces. UGH.
I wore a back brace for three years. I have served my time with a 'brace.' God blessed me with pretty straight teeth. So let's up the cost several thousand dollars, schedule many more appointments, and hope that I get made fun of as much as I teased Thad. Karma is a stinker huh!?
And to think I was thisclose to booking a trip to Disney World this fall. I still might because maybe I won't need braces. But AJ, maybe you should give me Jimmy's email address to see if he wants to put the Staffords up!
Who would have thought way back in 1994 when I was a senior in high school that all of these terms would be common language like it is today? This stuff isn't new to Thad. He gets to deal with this kind of yucky stuff all the time. People are being victimized daily by this stuff. It is not uncommon to hear stories about how girls will send a sexy photo of themselves to someone. Pretty soon many, many kids have it. What the kids don't realize is that if they forward it on, they are disseminating child pornography (if they are over 18 even by one day). It's very tricky stuff. Choosing to have the attitude "my kid would never do that" is not an option. It can happen to anyone at anytime.
This afternoon, I was showing my students CNN Student news. It's a 10 minutes CNN news show for kids (duh). Today of all days, there was a feature on how some ladies are suing their former employer for being fired over bashing their bosses on MySpace. They felt that their freedom of speech was violated, and that they were having a private discussion online. FYI: Nothing posted on the internet is private information. It is public...all of it. Anyway posting anything online is fair game for the world to see. Young adults from this generation haven't grasped that concept, because, heck, they have always lived in a techie world. Us old people have not. Once upon a time, young girls wrote in a thing called a diary. Now that was private...or so we hoped! We used to pick up the family telephone to call our friends or boys we liked. We sent letters to family and friends who lived far away.
Times have changed. I have a ways to go before I will feel really educated on all this stuff. I do feel that as a parent, it's my duty to try to stay as on top of this stuff as possible.
Now the other part of my day was also interesting. At the concert the other night, I chipped my back molar. Today I went in to get it looked at. I was ready to set up a date to get a crown, pay $1000 or so on the procedure, and be on with my day. Not so fast. It seems that my chipped tooth is likely caused by my jaw problems. I wear a mouthguard at night. I grind and clench my teeth. My poor teeth are getting tired, thus the 1/4 size of tooth that broke off.
After many photos of my teeth, jaw impressions, teeth impressions, and a partridge in a pear tree, I will likely be told the end of June that I need........braces. UGH.
I wore a back brace for three years. I have served my time with a 'brace.' God blessed me with pretty straight teeth. So let's up the cost several thousand dollars, schedule many more appointments, and hope that I get made fun of as much as I teased Thad. Karma is a stinker huh!?
And to think I was thisclose to booking a trip to Disney World this fall. I still might because maybe I won't need braces. But AJ, maybe you should give me Jimmy's email address to see if he wants to put the Staffords up!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Grrr
Is anyone else unable to upload photos to blogger? I have tried the last few times with NO luck. I am very frustrated.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Concert
Thad and I, along with two other couples, went to see Billy Joel & Elton John last night. To describe it in a word, I would say.....AWESOME! The music, the friends, the laughs, etc, we had a blast.
We don't go out enough. I think it to myself each time we do it.
It's not cheap to pay a sitter to watch four kids (and for seven hours mind you), but this one was so worth it. Unfortunately I forgot my camera. Bummer!
Talk about three and a half hours of great music...seriously!
We don't go out enough. I think it to myself each time we do it.
It's not cheap to pay a sitter to watch four kids (and for seven hours mind you), but this one was so worth it. Unfortunately I forgot my camera. Bummer!
Talk about three and a half hours of great music...seriously!
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