Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
The weekend!
Well no pics this weekend. Sorry for slacking.
I wish I could post the picture I got from a friend on Saturday. Ella has started a dance class with 2 other girls from school. Last friday the parents got to observe. AND of course, the working mom couldn't attend but my friend Deb took many pics...bless her. On Sat. morning at gym class she gave me this framed photo of the three girls sitting from the back. She did something to it on photoshop that made it look like a painting and it is so beautiful. Precious, even. I wish I could show you.
Molly had her second gym class and she is LOVING it. We do parent/child class while Ella does her class and it is a lot of fun. Jumping (really running) on the trampoline, climbing on cushy structures, rolling down mats, hanging from ropes and bars, playing with hula hoops and parachutes...45 minutes flys by. We just signed up for the next session.
Steve and I are getting re-ramped about our house. I think we needed a little break from all the stuff that needs to get done. But I feel a new momentum building and I am hopeful about having a productive winter. We have some painting projects in mind, as well as finishing up the kitchen and the entry way.
We have made some new friends with kids Ella and Molly's ages. They live 4 turns away...relatively close for our area. :) And they are living the same house dream as us. Their advantage or could be disadvantage is that she is an architect. Jay says it gets a little dizzying sometimes when she gets ideas about the house. Their place is wonderful. Overall a great family I look forward to knowing better. Deb and I were pregnant with our kids at the same time and our post woman kept telling us how we needed to become friends, and then my mom met her mom at the BandB in S. Berwick one Christmas and they both said we needed to become friends and then Miss Sue told us we needed to become friends....so finally we both stopped being stubborn and we have started to become friends. We had dinner at their house last night and it was great fun.
Trick er treating tonight with the MCs. Hope Ella can hang in there. She was awfully crabby this morning. Selfishly she better because I have discovered the beauty of the glue gun and I have made the best fall fairy costume!!! I willpost pics!!! Not sure Molly will be happy tonight. She screamed and cried when we tried on the elephant costume. Oh dear.
Two cars to the festivities tonight!
Happy Halloween!
I wish I could post the picture I got from a friend on Saturday. Ella has started a dance class with 2 other girls from school. Last friday the parents got to observe. AND of course, the working mom couldn't attend but my friend Deb took many pics...bless her. On Sat. morning at gym class she gave me this framed photo of the three girls sitting from the back. She did something to it on photoshop that made it look like a painting and it is so beautiful. Precious, even. I wish I could show you.
Molly had her second gym class and she is LOVING it. We do parent/child class while Ella does her class and it is a lot of fun. Jumping (really running) on the trampoline, climbing on cushy structures, rolling down mats, hanging from ropes and bars, playing with hula hoops and parachutes...45 minutes flys by. We just signed up for the next session.
Steve and I are getting re-ramped about our house. I think we needed a little break from all the stuff that needs to get done. But I feel a new momentum building and I am hopeful about having a productive winter. We have some painting projects in mind, as well as finishing up the kitchen and the entry way.
We have made some new friends with kids Ella and Molly's ages. They live 4 turns away...relatively close for our area. :) And they are living the same house dream as us. Their advantage or could be disadvantage is that she is an architect. Jay says it gets a little dizzying sometimes when she gets ideas about the house. Their place is wonderful. Overall a great family I look forward to knowing better. Deb and I were pregnant with our kids at the same time and our post woman kept telling us how we needed to become friends, and then my mom met her mom at the BandB in S. Berwick one Christmas and they both said we needed to become friends and then Miss Sue told us we needed to become friends....so finally we both stopped being stubborn and we have started to become friends. We had dinner at their house last night and it was great fun.
Trick er treating tonight with the MCs. Hope Ella can hang in there. She was awfully crabby this morning. Selfishly she better because I have discovered the beauty of the glue gun and I have made the best fall fairy costume!!! I willpost pics!!! Not sure Molly will be happy tonight. She screamed and cried when we tried on the elephant costume. Oh dear.
Two cars to the festivities tonight!
Happy Halloween!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
help my sisters
I am going to a wedding in NYC in three weeks. What the heck do I wear???????
Why aren't you both closer so you could go shopping with me????????
It is a swanky night time wedding and nyc...my least favorite place in the world. I feel my insecurity growing as I inch closer along 95S.
Any suggestions?
Why aren't you both closer so you could go shopping with me????????
It is a swanky night time wedding and nyc...my least favorite place in the world. I feel my insecurity growing as I inch closer along 95S.
Any suggestions?
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Out back...
What a day we had today! It was beautiful and we spent the time playing in the leaves and doing a little fall clean up. Wish you were here!
Saturday, October 21, 2006
What a meal!!
The Dunaway RestaurantSteve and I celebrated the arrival of his 34th year on this earth by having the most sublime, gastronomical experience! We went to the Dunaway Restaurant at Strawberry Banke where the chef is a friend of Steve's he has known since he was 6. She was recently named as one of the top 5 best new chefs by Food and Wine magazine and is appearing on Iron Chef on Monday! The atmosphere was only outdone by the food.
Those are the scallops I had for an appetizer. Steve had a salad that was out of this world with figs, goat cheese and greens. For dinner I had Irish Organic Salamon with Lobster, corn and potatoes-made me giggle it was so good. Steve had a ribeye that melted in your mouth. Mary came out after our dessert. We had ordered the brownie with raspberries and Mary gave us her key lime dessert that is named after her father to try. Both were amazing. Mary is a talented chef for sure. Steve was happy to connect with her again and hear about her life and accomplishments. Go, Go, Go all the way to the Dunaway!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Let the toilet training begin!!!
At bathtime I got Molly out of her diaper and she went over to the potty and VIOLA!!!! She was very freaked out but Ella and I were really excited!!!
Is that really an appropriate blog entry....Oh well...got to keep people in my profession in business!
Is that really an appropriate blog entry....Oh well...got to keep people in my profession in business!
Monday, October 16, 2006
Pass the 4th Grade...oh boy
http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf
Click on the link to see if you can put all the states in their right place by the time alloted. I have yet to finish in time. I am still in the third grade...
Those Bible belt states are hanging me up...
Click on the link to see if you can put all the states in their right place by the time alloted. I have yet to finish in time. I am still in the third grade...
Those Bible belt states are hanging me up...
Going to Florida
We just put a deposit on a condominium in this building in N. Redington Beach, Florida for our week of vacation in February. Looking forward to a little more temperate weather for a week in the middle of the cold New England winter. We are going to the Ram Sea. Stayed there when I was a youngster. It will be fun to take the girls to a place I loved to visit when I was little.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
The Nasons hit Portsmouth
We had a great night with the Nason clan in Portsmouth on Sat. Night. Met up with the Dover Nasons and the Somerville Nasons at Flatbread Pizza Co. for yummy organic pizza and beer. What a great place. Just heard tonight that the Co. is opening one in Hawaii in an apartment building. They are encouraging their employees to spend three months living and working in Hawaii doing an exchange...Housing is included. May have to switch up careers and return to life of waitressing. Cute pics of the girls from the half hour playing on the stairs outside Breaking New Grounds.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
Apple Picking
We spent this beautiful day, actually enjoying it! That was a treat! We went apple picking. Included the obligatory Hay Ride with actual Hay. We picked out some pumpkins and some yummy apples. But really the highlight of the trip was the bag of apple cider donuts we finished on our second field of apples. These doughnuts were out of this world incredibly delicious. I am so happy they came into my world. And just to clarify they were do-nut holes...
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Sandwich Fair
We had a beautiful day and time at the Sandwich Fair with the Chapman Family! Pigs, Goats, Cows, Oxen, Real Cotton Candy On a paper cone, french fries, tractors, and a merry-go-around. 
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Parent License and the education system
Is that a completely crazy idea? I almost believe it is a good idea.
Working with a student today only renews my belief. How do we expect kids to meet standards set by a system that in order to be successful you need certain conditions met? Our educational system is set to work for a small minority of students. It is not meant to mirror the real world. It is as fictional world that means nothing and does little to prepare our kids for the future and support our kids in the present. There are fabulous teachers in the educational world and it is not their fault. Something bigger needs to happen to cause a whole paradigm shift. I hope I live to see a new system, a healthier system.
If we can't prevent people from having children that shouldn't have children. Parents who supply their children with marijuana and alcohol. Parents who as role models are in jail, sleeping with mulitple partners, not working, spending their minimal paychecks on video games, labelled clothes and sneakers, and junk food the latest trend. If we can't as a country and society start to remember that children don't ask to be born, don't ask to be sold and marketed to, and need US to be adults and not their friends. Then schools will have to continue to change to become the parents these kids need. And someone-some entity needs to be that voice in kids ears that is telling them how to be their own successful, happy, individual.
Working with a student today only renews my belief. How do we expect kids to meet standards set by a system that in order to be successful you need certain conditions met? Our educational system is set to work for a small minority of students. It is not meant to mirror the real world. It is as fictional world that means nothing and does little to prepare our kids for the future and support our kids in the present. There are fabulous teachers in the educational world and it is not their fault. Something bigger needs to happen to cause a whole paradigm shift. I hope I live to see a new system, a healthier system.
If we can't prevent people from having children that shouldn't have children. Parents who supply their children with marijuana and alcohol. Parents who as role models are in jail, sleeping with mulitple partners, not working, spending their minimal paychecks on video games, labelled clothes and sneakers, and junk food the latest trend. If we can't as a country and society start to remember that children don't ask to be born, don't ask to be sold and marketed to, and need US to be adults and not their friends. Then schools will have to continue to change to become the parents these kids need. And someone-some entity needs to be that voice in kids ears that is telling them how to be their own successful, happy, individual.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Herman Dune makes me smile...
Check out his myspace and song...
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=53122585
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=53122585
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