December 2007

Flipping for Flip Video

2 Comments / Daily Dose, Day to Day /

For the last year or so I’ve been thinking about Flip Video. Not in any serious way just in an I’m sort of interested way. TW’s been thinking the same thing. Nothing ever pushed us into buying one and trying it it out, though. I should have taken one to BlogHer Con. We should have taken one to England when we visited the little kids. But we didn’t. We were still wondering about it and thinking about it.

Around Thanksgiving, I started to see Rosie blogging about Flip Video. Interesting. The woman takes a lot of photos and a lot of videos and here she is raving about Flip Video? I got interested all over again.

Then, we realized TW was going to be in Atlanta on the day of RJ’s holiday concert. I started thinking more about the Flip Video – particularly once I realized I was not going to Atlanta with her and Michelle’s video camera (that I’ve never learned to operate) had been loaned to one of her friends. I went back to Rosie’s blog and looked again at her videos… Flip Video wasn’t going to be the perfect solution to recording the missed moment for TW, but it was worth a try.

So, I headed out to Office Max (where they just happened to be on sale) and grabbed one. And it worked pretty damn well.

Even though I was like 15 rows away from the stage in less than ideal lighting. The sound was really good and the video quality was good enough from that distance that you could actually make out which kid was ours.

Awesome.

I don’t feel like I can post the videos publicly because there are tons of kids in these things who may not want to be blogged so we’ll make some little videos and I’ll share them as we go. In the meantime, if you’re wondering whether Flip Video is for you – check out Rosie’s videos, they’re all being done with the Flip – even this dolphin flick.

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Elissa’s Quest

2007, Books in Bed, Children's Literature, Fiction, Sci Fi and Fantasy, Young Adult /

It took me a very long time to read Elissa’s Quest and it should only have taken a day. It’s a very young book and a very easy to read book but I was distracted by kid activities and a heavy workload. Too bad – otherwise I’d have hopped over to the library to see if the sequels were available. I want to know what happens to Elissa next.

Very nice little girl’s adventure book.

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Advent Calendar Angst

3 Comments / Christmas, Family Funk, Kid Talk /

I said this morning on Twitter that we had successfully decorated the house and tree last night – with all six children (and two extra significant others) and no fights or meltdowns. This was true. But the Advent Calendar Angst has begun – quietly, so far.

I was searching through the last box for the advent calendar and concerned because I hadn’t seen it. Chris informed me that it was already up. Michelle got to it and hung it. This led to quite the discussion between me, Chris and Jenn about the calendar and the mouse and Michelle.

All evening long, the children waged the battle of the mouse. Someone put it in the December 1 pouch (ie Michelle) and someone else came along and moved it to the 24th. It was put back in the 1st pouch and again moved to the 24th. Over and over. All night.

It’s December 2nd and I’m wondering who is going to move the mouse – and which child (or children) will interfere and move it to the wrong pouch. Kids are crazy.

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