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holiday 2010 5 by 7

2010-11-16T13:37:00.001-08:00

Hopeful Holiday LIVESTRONG Holiday 5x7 folded card

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Holiday Card 2010!

2010-11-16T13:33:00.000-08:00

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Couldn't resist the offer of Free Cards from Shutterfly! This is a card which benefits LIVESTRONG... also available are cards for American Lung Association and Heifer Int'l.

Holiday Card 2010!

2010-11-16T13:09:00.000-08:00

Received an offer for free cards from shutterfly. Couldn't resist!

the Putt Putt Syndrome!

2010-01-08T05:17:00.000-08:00

I'm listening to Alan Cognata, the Director of the Putt Putt Syndrome, Bates Classmate David Chokachi's new movie... He's being interviewed on 92 Moose in Winthrop ME this morning... The film was filmed mostly in Winthrop... And will premiere there on Feb. 6 which is Alan's wife's birthday... they just had their 5th child!

I'm only getting a chance to listen to it because we had an inch of snow last night here in Fairfax, so we have a 2 hour delay! Otherwise I would be shuttling kids to school... stuck in the Putt Putt syndrome here...

What is the Putt Putt syndrome you ask? It's what happens when you've been married awhile and you just start putt putting along... taking things for granted... going through the motions...

There's a blog for the movie, as well as a Facebook fan page...

chincoteague 2009

2009-08-23T10:33:00.001-07:00

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Ducks in a row...

2009-08-21T06:55:00.000-07:00

Theo is now 2 1/2 and is following in his big sister's footsteps yet again... Around this age, she started lining things up in size order probably due to experience with her nesting dolls and nesting blocks...I even made a book with all the pictures of her with her creations which she loved...

Now Theo has the ordering bug... everywhere i walk, there are different groups of items lined up. When I mentioned this at playgroup yesterday, a couple other moms reported that their children were also lining things up...

Unlike his sister, he will not pose with his creations!

Pumpkins!

2009-08-21T06:46:00.000-07:00

Last fall, Zoe (then 7) put one of our many pumpkins on the ground in front of our stoop with the hopes that it would grow a pumpkin plant in the spring... well, we had a pretty mild winter...

The pumpkin plant has taken over the yard...I just picked three cute pumpkins from it and there are lots more strarting to ripen!

Gotta run...dog is barking to be let out!

How Facebook Saved My Life...

2009-08-10T05:27:00.000-07:00

Ok, that might be a bit of an exaggeration...but not by much...perhaps it should read "how Facebook saved the quality of my life"... Like many people, especially stay-at-home moms, I had been feeling quite alone although I live in a large suburban area and on the face of it my life looks quite busy. I'm very involved in the community but with 2 young kids in tow, there's rarely time to have a meaningful conversation. Plus, as anyone with kids knows, discussing issues related to parenting is like trying to negotiate a minefield. Although everyone supposedly agrees that parenting is a personal thing, everyone feels very strongly about their way of doing things...and i had been feeling pretty poorly about my parenting skills for quite some time. I'm a people person, and lately I'd been feeling a bit deprived of quality people time.

So, I finally joined the Facebook community and, like most people, was shocked and awed to find so many old friends who I had always wondered about...each day brought someone new to my "suggested friends" list...wow! Even now, several months later, people are still crawling out of the Facebook woodwork...

At first I was a little reluctant to make friends with my local aquaintances...I didn't want them to feel like they were getting "too much information" or more information in order to judge me with...

Turns out the opposite has happened...and in actuality, most people are struggling with the same things I am! They're just better at hiding it or more likely we just hadn't had the time to compare notes...Now, in the space of a few minutes a day, I can compare notes and keep tabs on hundreds of people I have cared about during the course of my life...so amazing.

Besides the obvious benefit of finding old friends and keeping up with all friends near and far, I have been also keeping up with what's going on in the world because of my Facebook connection...that's another thing that's hard to do with kids underfoot...I usually have no clue what the weather will be, forget what's happening in the world. Now, when I check in with what's been happening with my friends, I find lots of links to interesting articles and videos I never would've seen...Most of these stories make me feel like I'm not the only one who feels the way I do. Bonus!

A couple other areas which have improved due to my Facebook relationships: exposure to more contemporary music...for the past 8 years, I have allowed kids' music to dominate my world...so while i'm up on all the hip songsters for the preschool set, i have no idea what's been going on out in the "grown up" music world... another thing that has been shelved lately is any kind of exercise. Although I'm starting to do more walking and need to get more active, I'm no longer feeling the need to hire a personal trainer... my active Facebook friends are the best motivators and it doesn't cost me anything!

Well, this is a bit long for a blog post...and the 2 year old needs a diaper change and is crying for his lost police car, so it's time to go for now... although i haven't finished with this topic yet....Thanks for reading!