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Family Funk
I’m glad I wasn’t there
This video makes me shudder even worse than when I was there for the tattoo she got on her arm. She said it did hurt more than the one on her arm.
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Daily Dose of Cupcakes
The birthday girl came home from an all-nighter to change clothes and get her stuff before heading to school to take a math test. We nudged her into the kitchen to check out her cupcakes and she giggled.
And then she said… “How did you know I love chocolate cupcakes with white icing?”
Errr I have been this child’s mother for 18 full years and I have baked her so many batches of cupcakes for birthdays and other events that it would be impossible for me to NOT know that this is the only kind of cupcake that Michelle likes.
Kids are clueless.
And then she grabbed a cupcake to take with her to school, as I knew she would.
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See mom, I told you
A few days ago my mom called to see if Michelle wanted anything special for her 18th birthday or if she should “just add money to her CD”. I told her to just add the money to the CD because Michelle can afford to buy anything she wants or needs… and she really would appreciate money added to the CD (most often referred to around here as the “Michelle’s down payment for a house when she’s 25 fund”.)
Sure enough, Michelle proved that she can, and sometimes does, buy herself whatever she wants.
This mandolin was purchased by Michelle during her break between classes today – without touching her savings at all.
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Rooterville video
Here’s the first of three (or maybe four) videos from our last trip to Rooterville Pig Sanctuary. There’s another one uploaded at youtube but it’s the last one – the stuff in the middle still needs to be edited or separated into two videos and uploaded. It’s too big for youtube as it is now.
I have a sock
Some of you are aware that TW decided, about a year ago, that she was going to knit me a pair of socks for our “sock day” anniversary. This has brought me no end of amusement because TW did not know how to knit. Heh. Now she does (as do three of the girls) and now I have one sock to show for her efforts.
It’s a gorgeous sock, made with twisted sisters yarn, and I cannot wait ’til I have another one to match. If she knits like an inch and a half everday, I could possibly have it for Valentine’s Day…
Hungry Pigs
RJ and I arrived at Rooterville about an hour before feeding time and the pigs were much happier to see us than on previous visits. Was that because it was a bright sunny day rather than a dull dreary rainy day or was it because it was close to feeding time? Probably a combination of the two and we enjoyed petting pigs for a bit before we set to work raking manure out of a pen.
Then, the fun really started. Those pigs like their fruits and veggies! Here are some more pictures from today’s trip to Rooterville. Video will come once we’ve had a chance to upload and edit.
Work Related Injury
It’s stuff like this that makes me very glad I never worked in the restaurant industry. I also am reminded of how lucky my kids have been to have not had more injuries at work. Of course Chris had that really “odd thing” happen and that was even worse, in a lot of ways, than this burn of Michelle’s. But that’s just weirdness and if you have no idea what I’m talking about – you obviously don’t read all of my blogs.
Anyway, Michelle got this burn on Thursday. I picked her up from work and was on the phone in a conference call and she was trying to show me her arm and I was only barely paying attention because, I was on the phone – and driving. Later that night, she asked for some ointment for it or something and I saw it was a little pink. This photo is what it looks like today.
It didn’t stop her from enjoying her Friday evening but I wonder how in the world she’s going to manage to work tomorrow. It’s really hard to bend her arm because of the location of the burn.
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Our Yearly Shakespeare
Were you here, four years ago, when Michelle came home for school? If you were, then you might have been reading one of our homeschool blogs and realize that Michelle likes Shakespeare. You might also realize that once a year TW, Michelle and I go to see a performance of one of Shakespeare’s plays.
1.Midsummer Night’s Dream
2. Hamlet
3. Romeo & Juliet
4. Julius Caesar
That’s right, we attended our yearly Shakespeare event on Tuesday by attending the Aquila Theatre performance at the Phillips Center (one of the ten good things about living in this town.)
I like Julius Caesar. It’s one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I don’t think either Michelle or TW would consider this one of their top five plays – but since the yearly Shakespeare is a tradition, they went along.
I will admit that I had considerable difficulty with the WW1 costuming. I liked Cassius as a woman. Marc Antony was excellent. I just plain like Julius Caesar.
I wonder what sort of Shakespeare production we will see next year. The yearly Shakespeare is a tradition that should be maintained long after Michelle has left high school and homeschool behind.
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