lately...
the girls played for hours downstairs with babies and toy dishes and then hosted a supper for G & I down there... they were very involved with the props and toys and it was so enjoyable to see them immersed in cooperative play... :) (and supper was good too!)
today they decided to use some sidewalk chalk... they chalked the stair railing out front, the step stone at the bottom of the stairs and all over the driveway as well... they had a super time with it...
It is 1:43 a.m. Today is my husband's late sister's birthday. She would have been 51 today. We lost her in February. Today we are burying her ashes. It will be a difficult day.
My littlest said "It is sad that the birthday girl will not be here" and I agreed. She then asked if we could give her a piece of cake. I said we would have to see how everyone feels... and she then asked if she could sing Happy Birthday too...
Isn't it amazing how kids can be... .... ... I don't know what to say here... I want to say intuitive... warm... caring... comfortable????? but perhaps when you read this you won't think so????
I should get to bed.... I have to make cupcakes in the morning so we can take one with us.
Miss you Cheryl.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Kids' Thinking
Kids have the funniest thoughts and perspectives... the way they process information and what they come up with are the best!
My daughter and I were watching a show together on a Saturday afternoon and a Monistat commercial comes on. Yes, that is what I typed: Monistat. This woman buys it and then as she is doing something else a cartoon rainbow appears just above her privates. My eldest and I looked at each other and burst out laughing, then it continued... and as one woman goes to go outside to ride a bike a cartoon thought bubble appears again, by the privates, with exclamation points and you hear a sort of "hmmmmph!" exclamation... well by this point we are roaring with laughter. And the best part of it is.... I never asked her what she thought was funny. As I did not want to discuss what Monistat is for in any way.
So then we are watching another show, a family one at that, and this young woman finds herself in the family way. She tells her boyfriend and he looks shocked. So then my eights year old says "well she can always use birth control pills"... ... ..... I whip my head around and look at her and cannot ask fast enough "how do you know about birth control pills????" and then I quickly ask "what do you think birth control pills are?" and she starts laughing at me like that is the craziest question imaginable. "Mommmmmm! come on!" she says.... so now I am close to having a heart attack. "it keeps the baby in... you know controls it.. until you are ready." I think my eyes bugged completely out of my head and then I burst out laughing. "Cuz they are called birth control mom!"
My daughter and I were watching a show together on a Saturday afternoon and a Monistat commercial comes on. Yes, that is what I typed: Monistat. This woman buys it and then as she is doing something else a cartoon rainbow appears just above her privates. My eldest and I looked at each other and burst out laughing, then it continued... and as one woman goes to go outside to ride a bike a cartoon thought bubble appears again, by the privates, with exclamation points and you hear a sort of "hmmmmph!" exclamation... well by this point we are roaring with laughter. And the best part of it is.... I never asked her what she thought was funny. As I did not want to discuss what Monistat is for in any way.
So then we are watching another show, a family one at that, and this young woman finds herself in the family way. She tells her boyfriend and he looks shocked. So then my eights year old says "well she can always use birth control pills"... ... ..... I whip my head around and look at her and cannot ask fast enough "how do you know about birth control pills????" and then I quickly ask "what do you think birth control pills are?" and she starts laughing at me like that is the craziest question imaginable. "Mommmmmm! come on!" she says.... so now I am close to having a heart attack. "it keeps the baby in... you know controls it.. until you are ready." I think my eyes bugged completely out of my head and then I burst out laughing. "Cuz they are called birth control mom!"
My Girls: Backwards up the Hotel Pool Slide!
well first off I have been dying to post about a visit we had to the hotel pool a couple weeks ago... we went to the pool nearby on a Monday afternoon around 4 p.m. There was NO ONE there! that was awesome! so we had it completely to ourselves... Melanie had gone with us as well! :)
so my girls have never quite gotten up the nerve to go down the slide. They have gone up to the top and walked back down the stairs on many occassions. So since no one is there... I put them in the mouth of the slide (taking turns of course!) and encourage them to just go back a bit to try it. So they do, over and over... going up a little bit more at a time. I kept expecting that at any moment someone would come in and I would be banned from the pool... but no one did and the kids were having a great time experimenting and testing their fears in a way they felt comfortable with.
Now we have gotten to the point where they were were walking up and around inside it sooo far. At one point, my littlest had gone in and up and Mel and I got stressed... no sign of her.... and it was several minutes... I yelled out her name and then I heard giggling.... manic giggling---from above... I look up and see her up there waving from the landing at the top of the slide. So I said... well you might as well come down now. She beamed at me and hopped in and slid down!!!! and since she asked for me to catch her - she slammed into me! And then she kept slamming into me over and over and the other one kept watching and pondering... Then at one point when my littlest was whipping down the slide at top speed... I moved as I did not want to whammied again and came out spinning and kersplash - under she went with her Barbie life jacket on. She pops back up and burst out laughing and says I am going again without you there!
Before we left, my eldest decided to give it a go and loved it too! I was sooooo proud of her. She is much more cautious then her little sister. She asked if we uncurled the slide would it be as big a hill as Splash Mountain and I pondered it and said... yes, I think so. Then she said... "maybe, just maybe, I will go on Splash Mountain next time."
:)
so my girls have never quite gotten up the nerve to go down the slide. They have gone up to the top and walked back down the stairs on many occassions. So since no one is there... I put them in the mouth of the slide (taking turns of course!) and encourage them to just go back a bit to try it. So they do, over and over... going up a little bit more at a time. I kept expecting that at any moment someone would come in and I would be banned from the pool... but no one did and the kids were having a great time experimenting and testing their fears in a way they felt comfortable with.
Now we have gotten to the point where they were were walking up and around inside it sooo far. At one point, my littlest had gone in and up and Mel and I got stressed... no sign of her.... and it was several minutes... I yelled out her name and then I heard giggling.... manic giggling---from above... I look up and see her up there waving from the landing at the top of the slide. So I said... well you might as well come down now. She beamed at me and hopped in and slid down!!!! and since she asked for me to catch her - she slammed into me! And then she kept slamming into me over and over and the other one kept watching and pondering... Then at one point when my littlest was whipping down the slide at top speed... I moved as I did not want to whammied again and came out spinning and kersplash - under she went with her Barbie life jacket on. She pops back up and burst out laughing and says I am going again without you there!
Before we left, my eldest decided to give it a go and loved it too! I was sooooo proud of her. She is much more cautious then her little sister. She asked if we uncurled the slide would it be as big a hill as Splash Mountain and I pondered it and said... yes, I think so. Then she said... "maybe, just maybe, I will go on Splash Mountain next time."
:)
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Technical Difficulties!!!!! And Stay Tuned....
well.... my kids are up in the playroom / guest room watching the Chronicles of Narnia... and hubby wanted to watch hockey (ick!) and so I headed to the living room... thought I would watch a movie on my laptop while I did some work... I got the laptop in February...
so I put the movie in... and windows media tries to play it... and a message pops up and says that it cannot play as I do not have a dvd compatible decoder????? wt*????? so I click on help and it takes me to microsoft's help world... and suggests I buy one with many choices ranging from $11.99 to $49.99... I was soooooo p*^^ed. I mulled and contemplated... that can't be the case... every computer I have had and we have had at work for years and years plays dvds, from the day you get the computer.... what the heck?
so then I figure I must have a piece of software in the house that would do the job without me digging out a credit card. So I find Roxio Media Creator 7. I had bought it years ago... and was sooo excited... but then did not get to use it as I installed it on my old laptop and it had compatibility issues with my software that interacted with our camcorder. And since we had paid a lot for the camcorder... I had to keep that software on even though Media Creator had way more features. So I figured... I will install this.... that will enable a dvd to play and maybe I will finally get to use it! (GREAT PLAN YOU ARE SAYING RIGHT?) well not so... I try to install it and it asks for the keycode... go*^#mn it! where the heck could that be after all these years???? so then I go to the Roxio site to see about getting a new code (yah! that would be a No with a big capital "N") and while there I get mesmerized by the video advertising Roxio Media Creator 10. Wow! I think.... pretty.... shiny.... cool program with wicked features even better then #7 that I never got to enjoy.... look I can get $20 off if I prove I have an older version.... but no, I do not bite.
So hubby says... take the t.v. in here... and I say...no, I want to be able to watch a dvd on the laptop... it will need to watch one some other time so I might as well deal with this now. (Famous last words)
So I put on some headphones and crank some tunes while I get ready to purchase a decoder. My fave songs are blasting in my ears... loving the quality with the headphones on. And I purchase the cheapest dvd decorder possible. So it downloads and then I virus scan it... and install it... and then you WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!!!!!
It asks for a verification code or some other code... oh right! And it says if you have not purchased one to click here to purchase one! I am not joking! I am serious! Can you even believe it????? And now you will say... she did not then purchase one... right????? cuz am I that much of a sucker?
Well by this point I am on a mission, come hell or high water this laptop is playing a dvd... so I click on it... and the g/d activation code is double the price of the g/d decoder was!!!!!!!
so as the sage / adventure / nightmare / crisis / or whatever you wanna call it continues... I had turned my music off.... so I decide to listen to it to chill out. And ... now my music doesn't work.... you have to picture my face at that point... and my fury / confusion / desire to pound my head into the screen of the machine in front of me or perhaps chuck it against a wall..... It says I either don't have a sound card or it is in use by some other program....
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
p.s. the company that sucked me in.... was the same company that makes the program that mesmerized me and they also now make the program that interacts with our camcorder... they took it over or something... wonder if they fixed the compatibility issue and what a scam with the activation codes eh????
p.p.s. wish me luck with all this please.
so I put the movie in... and windows media tries to play it... and a message pops up and says that it cannot play as I do not have a dvd compatible decoder????? wt*????? so I click on help and it takes me to microsoft's help world... and suggests I buy one with many choices ranging from $11.99 to $49.99... I was soooooo p*^^ed. I mulled and contemplated... that can't be the case... every computer I have had and we have had at work for years and years plays dvds, from the day you get the computer.... what the heck?
so then I figure I must have a piece of software in the house that would do the job without me digging out a credit card. So I find Roxio Media Creator 7. I had bought it years ago... and was sooo excited... but then did not get to use it as I installed it on my old laptop and it had compatibility issues with my software that interacted with our camcorder. And since we had paid a lot for the camcorder... I had to keep that software on even though Media Creator had way more features. So I figured... I will install this.... that will enable a dvd to play and maybe I will finally get to use it! (GREAT PLAN YOU ARE SAYING RIGHT?) well not so... I try to install it and it asks for the keycode... go*^#mn it! where the heck could that be after all these years???? so then I go to the Roxio site to see about getting a new code (yah! that would be a No with a big capital "N") and while there I get mesmerized by the video advertising Roxio Media Creator 10. Wow! I think.... pretty.... shiny.... cool program with wicked features even better then #7 that I never got to enjoy.... look I can get $20 off if I prove I have an older version.... but no, I do not bite.
So hubby says... take the t.v. in here... and I say...no, I want to be able to watch a dvd on the laptop... it will need to watch one some other time so I might as well deal with this now. (Famous last words)
So I put on some headphones and crank some tunes while I get ready to purchase a decoder. My fave songs are blasting in my ears... loving the quality with the headphones on. And I purchase the cheapest dvd decorder possible. So it downloads and then I virus scan it... and install it... and then you WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!!!!!
It asks for a verification code or some other code... oh right! And it says if you have not purchased one to click here to purchase one! I am not joking! I am serious! Can you even believe it????? And now you will say... she did not then purchase one... right????? cuz am I that much of a sucker?
Well by this point I am on a mission, come hell or high water this laptop is playing a dvd... so I click on it... and the g/d activation code is double the price of the g/d decoder was!!!!!!!
so as the sage / adventure / nightmare / crisis / or whatever you wanna call it continues... I had turned my music off.... so I decide to listen to it to chill out. And ... now my music doesn't work.... you have to picture my face at that point... and my fury / confusion / desire to pound my head into the screen of the machine in front of me or perhaps chuck it against a wall..... It says I either don't have a sound card or it is in use by some other program....
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
p.s. the company that sucked me in.... was the same company that makes the program that mesmerized me and they also now make the program that interacts with our camcorder... they took it over or something... wonder if they fixed the compatibility issue and what a scam with the activation codes eh????
p.p.s. wish me luck with all this please.
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