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Monday, October 5, 2015
World Teacher Day
Posting late today, but I couldn't miss celebrating our teachers.
I've had some amazing teachers in my life. My kids have had some amazing teachers.
My kids currently have some pretty awesome teachers too.
We've been blessed.
Of all the memories of teachers in my life, one woman stands out.
Meet Ms. Pratt.
Ms. Pratt was my 10th grade English teacher... and became my good friend.
Here she is with Pixie, who's named for her. If we did the godmother thing in the LDS church, she'd totally be Pixie's. :)
We owe so much to good teachers. Happy World Teacher's Day!
I've had some amazing teachers in my life. My kids have had some amazing teachers.
My kids currently have some pretty awesome teachers too.
We've been blessed.
Of all the memories of teachers in my life, one woman stands out.
Ms. Pratt was my 10th grade English teacher... and became my good friend.
Here she is with Pixie, who's named for her. If we did the godmother thing in the LDS church, she'd totally be Pixie's. :)
We owe so much to good teachers. Happy World Teacher's Day!
Monday, May 4, 2015
May the FOURTH Be with You
Chronicle Books sent us a cool activity kit for our May the 4th party this year!! How awesome is that?
It had this great poster:
And this fun new book-- each page is like a little comic. It was a HUGE hit.
It also had stickers, activities to copy, pins... ridiculously cool.
SO-- it needed to be an awesome party. We put it together and celebrated with Alyson's crew (of Eat, Read, and Be Mommy).
We needed light sabers.... (these were a "hit" [pun so very intended] but they make an insane squeaky sound when they hit each other, so there was actually less fighting than anticipated, lol).
And blasters.... (which were actually pretty much a flop-- didn't work well AT ALL).
(Playing with the blasters)
Here are 6 of the 7 padawans.... LuLu kept wandering off.
(Epic light saber battling)
The activity that was the biggest hit, though, was rescuing the poor soldiers frozen in carbonite. Each of the padawans had a tray with "carbonite" (baking soda mixed with just enough water to pack it) and a bowl of vinegar....
along with some cool Star Wars ice "cubes"....
and they were off and "saving" the poor plastic army men.
My kids play with vinegar and baking soda on a regular basis (gotta love cheap entertainment) but this was LuLu's first time. She'd pour a bit of vinegar and look up at me exclaiming "WOW!" It was pretty cute.
And of course you can't have a party without food-- here's our tie fighter and ewok snack.
The kids read the book in between activities and overall we all had a blast!! (Ironically, excepting the part with the blasters... wouldn't do that bit again probably....)
HUGE thanks to Chronicle Books!!
Thursday, April 16, 2015
A Long Non-Bookish Snarky Post
**Warning: long post containing possibly egregious snark**
So, my Shutterfly package went on vacation to Colorado.
I emailed customer service asking why it had left Utah and nearly coming to my house and got back a general "the estimated delivery date is between [this day and this day]-- if you have not received it at that time please contact us" which is not actually helpful.
Here's my (possibly unnecessarily snarky) response:
"Okay, no offense, but that's possibly the least helpful response possible.
Maybe I didn't make my concern clear-- my concern is not that the package is late, I was concerned that there was something incorrect in the shipping information sending the package hundreds of miles out of the way. If nothing else, it seemed like a company would like to know that something like that had occurred since it can't possibly be either efficient or cost-effective for your company to ship a package nearly to its destination and then send it on vacation in another state. I'm sure Colorado is quite nice in the spring and that my photos are having a lovely time, but it seems rather silly for them to be sent there.
If this is a random occurrence but nothing is wrong with the shipping information and my photos are merely making an entirely circuitous route to my home, then feel free to disregard my messages. I was hoping to be helpful in that either there was a problem in the shipping information and catching it earlier would be better than later or your company could save shipping costs by correcting whatever routing makes some packages randomly go elsewhere needlessly. Next time, I shall simply wait until the package is late and risk things being beyond repair."
Their response?
"We thank you for contacting Shutterfly.
Please accept our apologies for the previous response. We see that the order is expected to be delivered by April 15, 2015. If you have not received it by then, please write to us. We will be glad to assist you further.
Thank you for choosing Shutterfly. Please let us know if we can offer additional information. "
Oh gee, thanks.
Here's the thing-- I love Shutterfly. I do. But oh my gosh, can you be any less helpful?
Basically what they're saying is either a) your package isn't late, so we're not going to actually read your email or b) we don't know the answer to that, so here's a stock response.
Anyway, the package arrived ahead of time, safe and sound, and looking quite relaxed for its get-away. ;)
And what was in this package, you ask? Pictures of this cute little Pixie, done by Lani Wilkinson Photography!
So, my Shutterfly package went on vacation to Colorado.
I emailed customer service asking why it had left Utah and nearly coming to my house and got back a general "the estimated delivery date is between [this day and this day]-- if you have not received it at that time please contact us" which is not actually helpful.
Here's my (possibly unnecessarily snarky) response:
"Okay, no offense, but that's possibly the least helpful response possible.
Maybe I didn't make my concern clear-- my concern is not that the package is late, I was concerned that there was something incorrect in the shipping information sending the package hundreds of miles out of the way. If nothing else, it seemed like a company would like to know that something like that had occurred since it can't possibly be either efficient or cost-effective for your company to ship a package nearly to its destination and then send it on vacation in another state. I'm sure Colorado is quite nice in the spring and that my photos are having a lovely time, but it seems rather silly for them to be sent there.
If this is a random occurrence but nothing is wrong with the shipping information and my photos are merely making an entirely circuitous route to my home, then feel free to disregard my messages. I was hoping to be helpful in that either there was a problem in the shipping information and catching it earlier would be better than later or your company could save shipping costs by correcting whatever routing makes some packages randomly go elsewhere needlessly. Next time, I shall simply wait until the package is late and risk things being beyond repair."
Their response?
"We thank you for contacting Shutterfly.
Please accept our apologies for the previous response. We see that the order is expected to be delivered by April 15, 2015. If you have not received it by then, please write to us. We will be glad to assist you further.
Thank you for choosing Shutterfly. Please let us know if we can offer additional information. "
Oh gee, thanks.
Here's the thing-- I love Shutterfly. I do. But oh my gosh, can you be any less helpful?
Basically what they're saying is either a) your package isn't late, so we're not going to actually read your email or b) we don't know the answer to that, so here's a stock response.
Anyway, the package arrived ahead of time, safe and sound, and looking quite relaxed for its get-away. ;)
And what was in this package, you ask? Pictures of this cute little Pixie, done by Lani Wilkinson Photography!
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Merry Christmas!!
From all us "basket cases"
Boo
Mister
MeiMei
LuLu
and Pixie
I started taking monthly pictures of Pixie in this laundry basket, so when it was time to take pictures for Christmas cards, my mom said it would be funny if I put the other kids in the basket too. She was right. Merry Christmas!!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Never Forget
It's 9/11 once again.
And once again we remember, we cry, we try to explain...
In my house, I'm actually the only one who really remembers. My kids are all too young-- not only did it happen before they were born, but they're young enough it's not something we've talked a lot about-- and my husband was actually out of the country on an LDS mission when it happened. So not only was he not here (which makes a huge difference) he was also a missionary (not really a lot of tv watching) and 9/11 was right around the time he became ill-- ill enough to be hospitalized in Argentina, honorably released from his mission, and sent home within a couple of months. His main experience with 9/11 was how awful it was to fly back to the US just months afterward.
It's a little weird feeling like you're the only one who remembers.
But it's not just that-- 9/11/2001 was the last birthday my grandma celebrated before she died (in October) followed by my other grandma in December. It was a rough few months... a rough school year.
BUT (and I've posted this picture book every year I think) like the kids who wrote September 12th We Knew Everything Would Be All Right... I know everything is all right.
My kids are healthy (for the most part, lol) and happy. Life is good.
Oh, and this little bundle of sweetness is a month old today:
So yes, we never forget. We should never forget.
But we also remember that the sun came up the next day... and everything will be all right.
And once again we remember, we cry, we try to explain...
In my house, I'm actually the only one who really remembers. My kids are all too young-- not only did it happen before they were born, but they're young enough it's not something we've talked a lot about-- and my husband was actually out of the country on an LDS mission when it happened. So not only was he not here (which makes a huge difference) he was also a missionary (not really a lot of tv watching) and 9/11 was right around the time he became ill-- ill enough to be hospitalized in Argentina, honorably released from his mission, and sent home within a couple of months. His main experience with 9/11 was how awful it was to fly back to the US just months afterward.
It's a little weird feeling like you're the only one who remembers.
But it's not just that-- 9/11/2001 was the last birthday my grandma celebrated before she died (in October) followed by my other grandma in December. It was a rough few months... a rough school year.
BUT (and I've posted this picture book every year I think) like the kids who wrote September 12th We Knew Everything Would Be All Right... I know everything is all right.
My kids are healthy (for the most part, lol) and happy. Life is good.
Oh, and this little bundle of sweetness is a month old today:
But we also remember that the sun came up the next day... and everything will be all right.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Meet Pixie!
We're doing well and I'm already finding my post-baby reading groove. :)
Just for giggles, here's a quick look at the older monkeys as babies:
In other news, school starts in a few days, hooray! I need to post some more Summer Reading updates for sure... Or a wrap-up at any rate.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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