Here's one of his presents:
He didn't really appreciate it but dad and I sure thought it was funny. He likes these soups and while grocery shopping I happened across this big box of them. Only .25 each! Can't pass that up. LOL! He said he'd share.
Here's a couple photos of Oscar and Alex playing together (and yes Oscar did contribute to the hole in Alex's pants!):
I've been horribly busy and haven't had a chance to even think about blogging this week. I was going to do one long post to make up for my lack of content but it's not letting me add all the photos I wanted to. As a work around I'm going to have to do a couple different posts. So, here goes with the first one. It's a photo of the picture frame I "tweaked" that I think I made reference to in a previous post. Our neighbors were moving (great people!) and we had a culd-e-sac photo in front of their home. I found the frame at HomeGoods (great store!) and changed it around a bit. I like how it turned out considering I used supplies I had on hand:
Here's a close-up of the top portion. My first rub-on directly on a photo. Love how it turned out!
Here's a close-up of the bottom portion - sorry it's a bit blurry. Dh wasn't crazy about the placement of the "S" but I just told him to Think Outside the Box and get over it .
So what is Enterprise Village? Well, it's a mini village or town that the kids participate in. They make it come to life! And when I say mini town it truely is that. There is a City Hall building, a bank, a tv station, a radio station, a restaurant, a financial district, a print shop, a children's hospital, a business district, retail stores (sports store, build-a-bear store, cingular), a realtor, utility companies and a warehouse. Prior to showing up the students have all already been assigned jobs. Earlier this month they had to review job descriptions and submit applications. The teachers reviewed all of the students applications and decide who will work where. They have been busy learning how to write checks and deposit slips. They will go to work and take breaks to run to the bank and shop. It's so much fun!
Although the kids do everything, they do require volunteers in each area to help keep the kids on task and help the kids with anything they might need. I got my assignment today when I went and it's so cool - I'm going to be in Build-A-Bear! And guess what - - - they have a real bear stuffing machine! Now, I did find out that for this they normally have a JA worker handling the stuffing machine because she said it gets to be a bit much doing it all. But, those who know me know I'm going to have to get my hands on the stuffing machine and do at least one myself!! I'll take pictures because you really won't believe this. It looks like an actual Build-A-Bear store. LOL! In our shop we have a Business Manager, a Bookkeeper and a couple of Sales Associates. Each has their own job responsiblities and it's all very serious! The bookkeeper has to write the first checks out for the phone bill because a phone installer comes to collect the money and install the phone. Someone from the electric company will stop by and check on the furnace filter, the realtor needs to collect rent checks. This is only a small part of what goes on!
So Chad comes home today and I knew he was assigned jobs today. He got Financial Advisor! How cool is that?! (His dad is one!) They call it Financial Consultant but I told him was an Advisor! He will sell stocks. LOL! I think he gets to wear a tie also - they provide the shirts and stuff.
I'll take lots of pictures to share. It's such a neat experience.
I liked this next one because it emphasizes the fact that HE stopped the puck!
This one was cool also. I like the blurred effect for the other players.
Fun times had by all.
No photos to share at this time. Haven't had my camera out all week! Sorry.
As I got closer I kept remembering what it was like to go to Walmart in IN when I did my grocery shopping there. I remembered back then thinking how odd it was (and not quite right) to be doing grocery shopping at Walmart. But, it was so convenient and the food was just fine. I didn't always shop there but if I needed more items (other then groceries) it became a very convenient place to go. As I continued to drive and think about the past good feelings started filtering in. Feelings of being independent and grown-up. Feeling like I could be who I wanted to be or find who I was because we had no pre-conceived notions of who we were anymore having left home and not knowing anyone. (I know all of this just going to pick up zippers - go figure!)
Then I was there. It's jam packed - after all it's the weekend. My normal senses would have prevented me from attempting this on a weekend but I had to get out of the house so this wasn't a bad thing. I walked in and immediately felt a tad bit better - because of the greeter. He made a point of looking me in the eye - actually following my eye as I walked past - to say this very long but nice greeting to me. Something normally I wouldn't have paid much attention to but quite honestly needed it at that very moment (sad I know - LOL!). I felt a little better but then decided that was quite silly afterall this was just Walmart. People hate them afterall. So I continued. I grabbed a kart all the while noticing how this was a pretty nice Walmart. Didn't look dirty and questionable people there. The items were looking pretty up to date. What's up with this Walmart? I realized at that moment that it's been A LONG TIME since I've been to one.
To make a could be very long story short, I had a very pleasant experience there. I will be back. I will buy groceries there. I won't go all the time but I definately will go a lot. The key I believe is the Super part of Walmart, and that it's NEW. AWESOME.
To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson, philosopher
If not now, then when?
The Talmud
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken, Environmentalist and author
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
Gloria Steinem
Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed.
Irene Peter
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James Yorke
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
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