I portered over my test blog to blogger today and it went very well. As for Slapinions proper, there is still housekeeping to do before the move. As a 'for instance' I'm adding pics to my posts from my time at the Presidential Inauguration in '05, and I need to move over all the comments from the non-AOL comment site I used for a few years. I could do it post-move, but I'd rather wrap it up nice and tidy in a format I'm used to working in.
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On a personal note I'm eating like SH*T - well, not quite. I haven't had a candy bar in two months and I have avoided pizza in recent weeks, but I've hit the brownies and starches hard. Argh, scratch that. At work (where the problem seems to be the worst) I had pizza the other day, nasty greasy eat-it-with-a-spoon pie :(. I also chowed on ice cream cake today, but we'll explain that later on in our program.
I have, however, kept up the exercise, taking the kids out for bike rides even as the weather grows harsher. Today, for example, I tossed the three youngest in the bike trailer and headed out for a brisk 15 minute ride. Hills that used to stop me now fly by with barely a notice, which is great, and I've grown rather fond of the 'burn' in my calves after a bit. Now I just have to find a good winter activity to keep me at a 'reasonable' size .
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Great family night. LuLu, who really enjoys helping in the kitchen, helped Lisa make breaded pork chops and scalloped potatoes. We had to pass the pork off as 'chicken' to the kids, even the assistant chef. They tore it up, but tell them it's anything else and they'd go 'ewwww'.
Afterwards the bike ride and some time in the backyard, where Smiley gently scolded Lump by saying 'Bay beee', which floored me. When I asked him to repeat it he couldn't, but it was clear as day.
Later the whole family (minus the sleeping Lump) cuddled on our bed to watch Project Runway. LuLu is a big fashion nut and nearly every morning it's an ordeal to get her dressed because she wants things 'just so', so we knew she'd love Runway.
YaYa and Lisa rooted for Leanne, Lu and I for Kenley. Both girls wanted Jerrell voted off because of his gender and got their wish, but I'd have kicked Kato (sp?) to the curb myself.
[I was proud of Lu for identifying Kato by saying 'the woman with the dark skin' rather than as 'the black girl'. It seems a miniscule point in print, but out loud it was a nice confirmation that, at least as of now, she views color as a secondary or minor trait.]
During the show Smiley sat fidgeting, bored out of his mind. And then again, out of nowhere, he said 'Bay beee', and this time could repeat it on command. Lisa and I gave him a big hug and told him we were proud of him, and you should have seen the grin on that kids face!
A teacher at the girl's school said Smiley would do fine there next year. I'd have bought the argument if she hadn't gone ahead and said she'd had 'lot's of kids that didn't talk at the start of the year' but wound up jibber-jabbering by spring. I like the woman and she's a fine teacher, but I'm about up to my neck in yahoos writing off his problem as 'something that'll just go away' or that came about because we don't 'make' him talk.
My vote - and Lisa and I differ here - is that he stays where he is, not only because they know him and his needs, but because the girl's school is at times a vain place, and I won't have my son singled out as an 'oddity' by anyone.
We'll see.
I got my email from AOL to migrate my Journals over. One moved over smoothly and the other needs some editing. I'm relieved that they are in Blogger.com.
ReplyDeleteI don't like it as well as AOL but maybe a new attitude is needed on my part. Change is always frustrating and adjusting..................
Hugs, Rose
LOL at passing the pork chops off as chicken. "Hey kids, tastes like chicken!"
ReplyDeleteAs for Blogger...Dannnn...join usssss...come to the dark siiiiiide....
Heh heh heh....
Beth
http://nutwoodjunction.blogspot.com/
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong about things more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong about things more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong about things more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong about things more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I just have to say, with regards to your children, well and anything else, really, you really have to go with your gut and what you feel is right. No one knows your kids like you do. As the mother of three kids, ages 6-almost 13, I have seen teachers, directors and principals be wrong more than once. Oh, and I have worked in several schools as a school counselor, and well, like I said....
ReplyDeleteI always say, the biggest mistakes we will ever make is to go against our intuition/ our gut.
Laura
saywhat911.blogspot.com
I agree the parents know the kids better than teachers....The teachers can let the parents know what is available and what they have seen...
ReplyDeleteBut Smiley is just a good kid and so happy no vain school will work for him right now....
An of course I have been one to say that he will out grow the talking problem....But of course where were the doctors , they should have know....
Nice that LuLu likes to help in the kitchen,
Such a nice evening....You could go to the appartment gym with me in the winter, help me loose some weight too :)
Jeanne
Sounds like you're doing ok with the kids. Most of them mature with minimal output from their parents, but the amount of love you and your wife are putting into their upbringing certainly shows.
ReplyDeleteGood on you for keeping up the biking. All that exercise will soon have you able to tell the biking mom at the girls' school that she "ain't seen nothing yet."
Hey, your blog is a class act, so take your time in moving the work to blogger. We'll wait for the Grand Opening.
;^) Jan the Gryphon
Glad you are working on your Blogger transition :o)
ReplyDeleteGlad you are working on your Blogger transition :o)
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