Pearls or Beads

I really don't have anything important to report. I just thought I would sit down and start typing and surely something will come out of this post. Perhaps, a quotable quote or a pearl of wisdom to be long remembered, you just never know.

The little ones, Jack, Josie and Parker, went to the dentist yesterday and all had good reports. Yes, even Josie, though they gave her a discount since she had fewer teeth than usual! Ha.

Richard and I have been busy planning for the Recreation Program meetings tonight and next week. Hopefully we will have success.

Of course it is possible that I don't have any pearls after all..........just some beads.

Over Time for the Tooth Fairy!!!!

The tooth fairy is going broke! Josie has lost 2 more teeth. She lost one yesterday and one today. She didn't even have loose teeth two days ago!

I will never wear white again

The running joke at my house - besides the fact that I burn all bread (that's another post) - is that if a meal is good, then I will get it on my shirt somehow. Well, today we took the 2 little ones to the Mall just to get out of the house. Since it has been heat index of 110 or so the last few days we have not been able to go out and play so we needed to get out!!!! We walked around the book store, went to see the pets at the pet store and stopped to get ice cream. Well, Josie picked vanilla, Jack wanted cotton candy ice cream, Richard chose blue raspberry shave ice and I picked my all time favorite ice cream - Rocky Road. I should have picked vanilla, but then there is no way I would have gotten ice cream on my pretty white shirt. Vanilla is just not Good to me. But I would have spared the white shirt a huge stain.

By the way I think it was really funny that Richard looked like a 3 year old eating blue candy with his blue raspberry ice. His teeth were blue, his tongue was blue and his lips were blue!

Chances..........

Take a chance! Do something you have never done before this week: try something new, ask questions, or go see someone you have not seen in years. It expands your horizons and broadens your mind. It makes you able to see the differences in people and enables learning. Read a book with a child and you will learn something from that child that you never knew before – I know, I have 3 children under the age of 9 at my house. We always are learning something new, like “Mama, Jack put 12 DVDs in the TV and now it won’t work.” By the way, I learned that you can get 12 DVDs in the TV – you can also get them out and the TV will still work. So try something new, learn something new - just don’t put 12 DVDs in the TV!

Smiling Dog

We have this silly dog, Coco, that grins when we call her. Anytime she is excited to see us she smiles. Just thought I would share. She cracks me up!

Facebook

I have been talking to many people about Facebook. It appears to have a huge following, but I don't understand this. Why would you want soooooo many people to know all the information about you? It seems like an extension of High School to me. "I have more friends than you" type thing. Maybe I am misunderstanding it, but I just don't GET IT. I went onto Facebook to look a couple of months ago and found out you can't just visit as a guest, they have to know who you are, email address and all. I found that disturbing, like you have to commit to something without even knowing how it works. So, needless to say, I did not get to navigate the site because I refuse to share my identity without knowing how they will use it. Maybe I'm too private, but I don't think so since this blog is out there for everyone to see. Maybe I'm just afraid I won't have any "friends".......yeah, that's probably it.

Book Club

The first book is :The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Transformed Their Lives by Cheryl Jarvis (read by July 2nd meeting)
The second book is: Night by Elie Wiesel (read by August meeting)
The second meeting of the book club will be July 2nd at 6:00pm at the Calhoun county Library.

We will have a blog for the book club at http://www.edisonreaders.blogspot.com/ where you can follow and comment. Comments and questions are encouraged in order to help move the discussion along when we meet.

I had fun and I will see you all in July....Sandy

Book Blogging

Well, I believe that I am going to be blogging about the book club that I am starting on Thursday. Each month we will read a new book and have a discussion about it. I will blog about the book some each month and that way those who cannot attend the meeting can read the blog to keep up. However, if no one shows up to the meetings, then we won't have a book club so I encourage everyone to attend in person.