Maybe if I include lots of pics and a few videos you'll bear with me. It's been awhile.
A grumping to begin with:
My daughter has a friend who struggles to make good choices. Every time she (my daughter) takes a chance and invites this "friend" over she gets burned. Then the girl goes and posts negative things on facebook. The girl says that my daughter is two faced. Really? Because you lie to her and me about how you are getting home and after years of your lies I text your mom to let her know what you are saying now (the plan was different and hour earlier) because I DON'T TRUST YOU and that makes Sassy the two-faced, bad friend. She continues to care about you, give you second chances, and invite you over, knowing that you will probably use her, lie to her, and get mad at her for your lies and your consequences. Ugh! Her parents are such nice people. I love her mom. I hate the way she treats her mom and my daughter. Sassy decided she has had enough. She pulled the welcome mat in. She needed to in order to protect herself.
I am so glad she decided that your hateful words were not anything she needed to read and unfriended you on facebook. she doesn't need "friends" that hate and despitefully use her for having morals and values. (Not that this young lady will ever read this, but you get why I addressed that to her, right?)
Some disturbing news items:
If
THIS is inappropriate dress what do they define the shorter skirts as? I am pretty impressed by this lovely outfit. I question the reason or purpose behind the administrator who define this as inappropriate. My daughter's middle school had a dress code. It wasn't enforced. They kept making is stricter and stricter, but the girls wearing the tight bosoms showing shirts or the short-short skirts weren't the ones being asked to change or getting reprimanded for violating the dress code. It was the girls who had on modest clothes, but not the right kind of collar, or their shorts were an inch too short. We had parents on the "patrol" who volunteered to send the kids to the office. they quit after a short time, because of the discrepancy. The new principle simply disregarded the collared shirt requirement, but did enforce the decency part of the dress code. Thankfully, some sane thought with the new blood. I supported the dress code as it helped reduce gang activity, but when it isn't enforced as written is become useless.
Speaking of useless laws: Does anyone else think the money fined
here would be better served in the programs for the students? Maybe I'm the crazy one. I have some serious concerns about our law makers. If I wanted junk food in high school NO ONE would have stopped me. They kept the vending machines running to avoid students leaving school and risking accident or tardies. I also think that the federal government has NO BUSINESS in our schools. They botch things. Exhibit 1- No Child Left
Untested Behind.
Some better thoughts:
Mr and Mrs Monkey Wrench and L'il Miss Lady Bug went to California for Easter. We planned to see my paternal uncle, but he was being placed on hospice the day we arrived and we only had the one night. It was a quick trip. I got to give my aunt a squeeze before we left, but they needed to calm him down. Too many changes in too short of time had him pretty agitated.We went to an Easter Egg hunt at Jackson Park in Riverside and then headed back to Las Vegas where we played an then spent the night with some friends. Three nights on the road and all three at a different location.
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| Momma and L'il Miss Lady bug carrying the basket. |
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| Daddy and L'il Miss Lady bug waiting for the hunt to begin. |
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| Papa holding her up high to check out the scene. |
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| Sitting in Auntie Tree Monkey's lap waiting for the start, checking out the eggs on the grass. |
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| Screaming because "I do not like the grass on my knees!" |
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| "I got one!" |
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| The TWO eggs she picked up! |
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| Us with the red M&M. Who doesn't have one of those pictures? |
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| Race car shot because daddy loves racing and fast cars. |
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| See. Everyone has a picture with the red M&M. |
L'il miss lady bug turned ONE!!!! We didn't make it to the birthday party :( Sassy and Tree Monkey have dance competitions every April thru May. On the day of her party they had a dance competition that went until 5 PM. Not only were hubby and I there to support that, but Sassy made JV Cheer and it was the BIG fundraiser for the cheer leaders, so parents and cheerleaders were required to work teh dance competition. We has Sassy work it Friday all afternoon and night so she could dance on Saturday and Hubby and I worked the Saturday afternoon shift. We didn't know about the party when we signed up. Likely it wasn't planned that far ahead, but whatever. We also tried to let the party planners know that we couldn't attend until after 5:30 PM. No changes were made to accommodate our previous obligatory commitment*. Sad we couldn't be there. We did get to hear the announcement that L'il miss lady bug will be a big sister about January, AND we got to giver her her presents that we got her. She is good at pushing her baby in the stroller, but doesn't really get the baby bottle thing yet. In time.
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| At the Zoo on her birthday with her daddy |
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| Eating her birthday cake a day later at her party. |
Here is her stroller and baby....
She has her own swimming pool, swim diapers, and swim suit and Nana and Papa's home. She is almost running everywhere. She says "baby," "puppy," "dadda," "momma," "no," "uh oh," and "owie." Sometimes we hear "nana' and "papa," but they are not regular yet. She is a joy to be around and brightens any stressful day.
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| Who needs water? Auntie? What are you doing around there? |
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| Auntie was blowing up the pool. |
We got her a princess chair to sit on at our home. 'Cause that's what grandparents do....
We are done with competition dance. It has been great. It has been taxing. It has been fun. It is time to move on. Both girls made a dance team at the high school and one made cheer as well, so we will be busy still. But different busy and new busy. Kinda looking forward to it.
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| The Pom number |
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| Starstuck |
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| Hey Na-Na |
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| Where I Am |
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| Hey Na-Na at different location than above |
My baby brother and his wife are expecting. This is her on Mother's Day at our BBQ. She is a hawt momma.
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| Shirt says: America's Next Top Mommy! |
I hope to get more regular at blogging this summer. It may be more of just my rants on certain topics than about the family, but it is my blog, right?
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Our presence isn't considered crucial at these things.
