The day has passed now and since been replaced by a dizzying array of southern winter weather. We have had ice, warm rain, lightening, 75° weekends, slush, wind, downpours and pretty much tiny slices of everything else since that snow. It was a fun day for us though. It started late in the evening, past the point where we needed to be out, and continued throughout the night. I don’t know what the official “inches” were but I would guess that it was four to six, maybe even a touch more. Once we were bundled up and the kids were anxious to head out into the blizzard and play. There were certainly snowmen out there that needed building and snow balls that needed targets and they were bound to oblige.
A technical problem has happened between the keyboard and the chair. I recently discovered thanks to feedback from Tina, that our website videos were not working properly and were not viewable without being invited. Well that certainly isn’t how its supposed to work. Should YouTube know what I want and just do it for me in the first place. Turns out I uploaded all but one of the videos we have published as private – meaning just that – we have to invite you to view or you can bugger off. The problem has been corrected now and all the video from past posts should be visible. Enjoy !!!
Last night Berkeley Lake Elementary School had its school concert for the third and fourth graders. Jacob has been excited about going for the past few weeks. He has been asking us to play various Michael Jackson videos online and has every now and then been dancing like a zombie in the kitchen. I didn’t know why, or didn’t put the two together, that he might be performing something special for us. Well now…were we in for a treat.
There is a lot of detail that goes into planning a wedding. There are a lot of people that go in and out of the loop or are just curious about how the planning process is going, what decisions are being made, what kind of this or how much of that, etc… Others are just nosy I wanted us to be able to use Eternally Chaotic to publish some of those bits. However, with the anticipation of many updates to come I did not want wedding posts to overwhelm the other aspects of our family blog. So without further ado I would like to introduce the “Our Wedding” section of our family website. Check back often as there is much more to come.
Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Isaac,
happy birthday to you!
It might a few months late getting online but that makes it no less of an event. In November, for the first and last time, Isaac turned seven. We planned a dinner out with family and friends as well as a party at the house so we could celebrate properly with cake and presents. We gave Isaac the choice of where he wanted to have his birthday dinner and thankfully he chose the Olive Garden – a fantastic and much yummier choice over the more usual kiddie venues such as Chucky Cheese or Monkey Joes. We will still eventually go to one of the others but instead of being the focus of a birthday party, we can just go and have a great time playing games or jumping around.
Dinner was fantastic. With such a large group I didn’t know what to expect but the OG had everything organized. They even put us in a sectioned off part of the restaurant near another large family party so we could be as loud as we wanted. After dinner we all headed back to the house to serenade the birthday boy and eat cake.
Well…this is certainly a case of better late than never. A post that should have happened months back never did. I started and stopped writing it several times but never finished. So in lieu of keeping it perpetually updated and eventually posted, here it is:
Labor Day weekend was fantastic. The family, all six of us, took a road trip to Indiana. Specifically the greater Indianapolis area. I wanted to introduce Carol, Isaac, Jacob and even Violet to my grandfather, aunts and uncles, cousins and the various kids they have all produced or acquired. I also wanted a chance to show Carol around the areas that I grew up. In all cases, and in contrast to the Bush definition of such, the trip was a “mission accomplished”.
Last night I had the pleasure of dictating a story while Jacob thought it up. This was an assignment from school that he started but wasn’t able to finish during class, so together we completed it last night. I love story telling from all different angles but I have usually been the story teller not the audience. Getting a chance to hear Jacob’s story about his “Lonely Snowman” was intriguing. His idea throughout the story was that the snowman was lonely and wanted some friends to play with. The snowman and his friends did whatever they could to ensure they continued to have fun – including the annihilation of planets and alien species in the process. Fun. You have to love boys. His story was all over the board but the general idea remained the same. More →
I am not normally a nervous person. I speak well in front of people, rarely with a slip of the tongue or bead of sweat. I remember ideas instead of lines to get my point across more on the fly, rolling with any punches that might get in the way, than by recalling words from memory. I can ramble with the best of them to keep a conversation going while I figure out what point it was I was trying to make…this list can go on and on but I might start to get an ego, and regardless of how inflated my ego might get, not a one of these traits, trained or otherwise learned over the years, helped me one bit on a very special night in November of 2009.
We have a new kind of clarity in the house now. Jacob started wearing glasses this week at both home and school. He was having trouble seeing more than a few feet in front of himself and was often found within inches of the television. After a visit to the optometrist it was determined that he needed glasses.
Well the glasses arrived on Friday and he was able to wear them to school for the first time on Monday. He was apprehensive about getting made fun of, or called names, but Carol and I have been reassuring him that the opinions of others don’t matter – take it in stride – tell them to mind their own business – etc. The glasses actually look great on him. Hopefully he will grow out of the farsightedness, but until that time the frames look good and are tough and flexible. Now we just have to get him used to taking care of them – extra chores won’t pay for replacements.
A special treat this weekend. Stone Mountain Park was hosting the 10th annual Indian Festival and Pow-Wow. An interesting assortment of Indian cultures and traditions. Right inside the gate we walked into a show getting ready to start called “East vs. West”. Two Indians, one from the eastern tribes and one from the western Sioux tribes, compared and contrasted the lifestyles and traditions of their ancestors. Seems the eastern Indians were more civilized, happy to barter and trade to make life easier, while the western ones, the Sioux in particular, raided and pillaged to get what they wanted, or to advance their lifestyle. I am sure this is a gross over exaggeration about the differences but it was neat to hear what they had to say and see the difference in the everyday tools used by each.
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