April 9, 2008
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The Winners…and Some Pictures
Last entry, I proposed that you write what happened at the Peter Pan playground and promised fame and glory to the winner. Let the accolades begin!
The Award for Best Paranoid Mummy Writing goes to… RJDOHNER for her excellent point that even though there is a fence around the sand-filled park, it is certainly not cat-proof.
The Award for Unintentional Violence Against a Winged Creature goes to… BUTTERSHUGS for her reminder that we need to watch our words of disbelief and clap like mad.
The Award for Best Story goes to … AJ1965 who cleverly combined all the elements of wonder and had me pegged as reading at the park, which was 100% true. (I was reading Hamlet, of all things.)
The Award for Best Story That I’d Actually Like To Have Happen Sometime goes to … ELIZABETHDNB who really got it right. We do want to fly to Neverland, but Here-and-NowLand calls too loudly.
Speaking of Here-and-NowLand, I’ve been a real [insert favorite synonym for annoying, impatient person]. We have about 30 days of school left, and I’m weary. Actually, I am behaving poorly and need a kick in the pants. But, right now, I have to put the children to bed.
Around Town on the Underground
Teacherperson, TGD, Hunter, Wit, LibbyK, Gockle, LittleMiss, and Big Ben
Comments (17)
It’s cool how you can see the rest of the family (and J.J.) in the reflection in the window above you and the boys in the first picture above!
I agree with ^ ! Good pictures and huge eprops!
Teachers did not play at the volleyball tournament. We had a fabulous day and came home with a huge trophy for 3rd place! I gave it to the principal when we got home to put in the trophy case (I forgot to take a picture first) It will be the first contribution to the case from Alt Ed. I am soooo proud! Those kids played hard!
I made the list!
After I submited mine I thought I should have had an old hobo say the ill fated words, not you. Sorry if I caused offence!
Homeschooling is tough… hang in there. I know my mom always felt the same way about this time of year. But we always made it and I wouldn’t trade my education at home for anything!!
Darn. I must have missed something. *LOL* The story of my life.
The pictures are so cool. This is going to be a year that you’ll never forget.
I’m ready for school to be over, too. Will explain hospital thing later.
You are so beautiful! I love your hair! I like the way you fixed it in the above pics… it gives you a totally new look. Very young, very hip… you look really young!
Thanks for the “Award”! I really just did it for the fun of it, but, I’m honored to recieve your approval on it! I read it to my girls this morning, too.
I keep forgetting to read “the other blog”! I’ll go there now.
I’m not sure yet whether it will become a song or remain a poem… Currently, it’s “thoughts I wrote down while trying to stay awake in New Testament class last week that came out kinda cool.”
There’s a big clock in the background!
And the winner for too lame to be on time, but still had a blast writing about Em goes to… well, me!
By the way, I actually got to see Peter Pan on stage last month, and being the Peter Pan freak I am, I was not only the most excited person in the entire theatre, but I raved about it for a week and when the week was up, rented not one, not two, but three different versions of Peter Pan (that was as many as I could find) to rave about it some more! Whoo-hoo!
I must have missed your “Ronald McDonald” hair picture! I just saw it…. so, THAT’S what’s different about you! It looks totally Suh-WEET!! …can I just keep raving about your hair? I think I finally like mine today. I washed it (what a novel idea!!) — oh, & I LOVE LOVE LOVE to wash this shorty short hair — and got to fiddle with it and I think I’ve “made it mine” so to speak. Truly, since Monday, I’ve felt kinda like Bozo, myself! I figured out how to make it more flat on the sides, and that is better for my round face. …enough about my vanity, though!
So…. what are you doing today? How’s your relationship with Jesus? I’m trying to get out of a slumpy, poopy thing myself and get my focus back on Him, where it belongs. I’ve been sick or injured so much lately (a cold, tummy yuckies, foot pain & neck out of joint!) and am getting kind of discouraged from it. But, like I said, I’m getting my focus adjusted and want to rely on Him for my motivation & energy, so…. Hope you’re having a great day & I’ll talk to ya later!
I have been a real old so and so myself lately. Are we all just exhausted by now or is there more to it?
I think you are amazing. Your kids are blessed to have you and I’m guessing your grumpy looks a lot like my good days, so while we should strive to be our best, give yourself a little break too.
You mean the Most Cautious Mummy Writting…right?!?
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Yes, of course I mean that! Hee hee. No, if I had someone of the age who ate sand, I’d not have been so free and easy. But, it’s been a long time since I had to clean a big glob of anything out of Gockle’s mouth.
Wow, I am SO behind on reading peoples blogs, lol. As for your question about my work, by specialty I am a Master Cabinet Builder, but I have experience in almost every facet of home building and equipment repair. Since there are no projects in the area right now requiring my Cabinet Making skills, I’m mostly serving as a foreman for the installation crews who handle our mass made furnishings, doing bid estimates for new jobs, and drawing up plumbing and electrical modifications for remodel jobs while dealing with the local building inspector. I know, sounds interesting and fun, but I boor easily, lol. Now i’m going to go catch up with what has been going on in merry old England with you and yours!
-As If we haven’t all been there! I call it spring fever. There there, fifty years from now you won’t know the difference. (That’s what my dad used to say to us.) Seriously, kids are resilient, and you’re giving them a great start.
Great pics. I love the family shot
Hey Mary!
How are you? What beautiful pics with all your family
Thanks for your last comment, I finished to read Atonement three days ago, and what a twist ending! If I understood correctly, Briony invented the third part where Robbie and Cecilia were supposed to be together since he died during the war and she died during an attack in the tube…Since Briony tells us she couldn’t say the truth and is nearly disappointed by her first narration, which reminds her of The Trials of Arabella, could we say that she wanted a false happy ending to echo to what she wrote as a child, or it’s so difficult for her to devote long pages to a misfortune the cause of which is herself? Does she atone by imagining this part? Thus, for my talk (which only lasts seven minutes…), do you think I should speak about this happy ending, or cyclic ending (I don’t know how to call it in English)? Briony’s desire of peace, poetic justice? I think that I sould speak about the shift from the narrated I to the narrating I, which corresponds to what you tolf me: Briony as a child and as an adult.
I’m sure you’re right by saying that I have to emphasize on the title, with its programmatic function for the reader, but also because it is a mainstring in the novel. We feel that the narrator isn’t reliable when he deals with the Marshalls’ “charity”, besides Briony acknowledges it: “So I count myself an unreliable witness.” What they did isn’t depicted as an atonement…
Who did atone you except Briony according to you?
I hope I don’t annoy you once again, and I really wanted to thank you for your advice, I’m so lucky
I’ll do the best I can to succeed in my talk. Have a nice evening dear Mary 