This will always be known as the 4th of July that Liam learned to ride his bike without training wheels. Our neighbor let us borrow their old bike that their boys learned to ride on. Let’s just say this bike has seen better days; there isn’t much Liam could do to this bike. Sean took him across the street, gave him a push or two and he was off. His next lesson was braking which he figured out quickly, too. Two hours later he was riding in the neighborhood bike parade.
It’s my birthday month and a friend of a friend of mine had a great idea and I hope you will participate. RCM had the idea of contributing to a charity in some way during your birthday month and asking others to do the same. So, here is your challenge. During the month of July I would like for you to pick up a couple of extra food items each time you go to the store and put them in the donation barrel at the grocery store, at your place of worship or wherever you can find a place that will take food donations. E-mail me, call me, or leave me a response on this post every time you donate and tell me how many cans, packages, bags of whatever you donated and I will keep the tally. Let’s see how much we can collect during the month of July. Do it for all of the people who are struggling now and are having to decide between gas and food and if nothing else do it because it’s my birthday month and I am asking you to. I will be contributing,too!! Thanks in advance!!!!
I feel so sorry for our new neighbors. They just moved here-from China! They are Americans, but he works for Hallmark and they sent him and his family over there for a few years and now they’re back. This is why I feel sorry for them…the moving trucks arrived today and when they opened up the trucks, they were full of these huge crates. Ugh!!! Can you imagine? Moving is awful as it is, but having to pack everything into huge crates and send it overseas just seems like a task I would not want to even consider. Moving the few miles that we did in October was enough for me.
We don’t host a lot of parties, but I do know that when you are hosting a party it is a MAJOR faux pas to run out of liquor. You don’t want to buy too much (liquor isn’t cheap), but you don’t want to run out either. Evite has solved all of the world’s party problems with the “drink calculator“.
I read a different author!!! However, once I was about 100 pages into this book I realized I had already read this book before. I wasn’t going to stop though. I had already devoted that much time to it, so I figured I would just keep going. It is a good book and it reminds us how incredibly easy we have it. This book takes place in 1899 on a farm in Appalachia. The newly married couple have just about every possible bad thing that can happen to them take place in a year’s time. It is also a good reminder of how much work we don’t have to do. The book is very descriptive when it comes to going through the steps it takes just to have some chicken for dinner, for example, starting with going to the hen house to get the chicken, killing it, taking out all the feathers, scalding it, degutting it…goodness gracious!!! Not to mention all of the work of farming, canning, washing the clothes, ugh!!!
We had a fun and busy Saturday. We were lazy this morning and just hung out. The boys played video games while I made eggs and toast. We had breakfast together as a family which never happens, so that was nice. Then we got ourselves all cleaned up and went to go see Wall-E. It was a great movie for kids with a wonderful message about taking care of the earth and your body. The boys also got free Wall-E watches at the movie theater which they thought was pretty cool. We then went to the grocery store and then headed home so I could go swimming with the boys and Sean could go to the health club. After that we went to the Wizards game where the boys feasted on pizza, nachos, frozen lemonade and Dippin’ Dots. The Wizards won 1-0 so the boys were happy. Now they are conked out in bed.
I read somewhere recently about someone whose grandmother, I think it was, would put their pillows in the freezer in the summertime. Well, today was the first hot day of the summer and the boys were going on and on about how hot they were after camp today. So, I told them to take their shirts off and put them in the freezer. They looked at me like a was off my rocker for about two seconds and then happily complied. About thirty minutes later we took them out and they put them back on. The super cool shirts were very refreshing and the boys were much more comfortable.
Liam got a desk for his bedroom yesterday and he said it was the best day ever. Clearly, he likes it. He was so excited that after bathtime he happily found his journal and made two new entries. One of them was about his new desk, of course.
Great movie. It is the story of a woman who immigrates to America from India with her husband shortly after they are married. The movie also focuses on their oldest child as he is growing up and how easily he is swept up in American culture without even realizing what he was leaving behind.
Okay, okay, I know I said I was going to take a break from reading her books, but this was the one that came in at the library, so I read it. I am learning that this author doesn’t always like to wrap things up nice and neat at the end. Sometimes that bothers me, but it was okay with this book. It is a story of Paige and Nicholas who are from different sides of the tracks, but both have their own skeletons/issues that they bring into their relationship. The reader is left at the end not really knowing where their relationship is going.