Every so often, I find the need to explain something "Obvious" to my kids. When I say "obvious" that refers to MY impression of it. Unfortunately, it's a sign of my age and nothing more.
To me, "dialing" a phone makes perfect sense. To my kids... Not so much.
Back in the day, family game night meant sitting around the kitchen table playing a board game or a marathon session of cards. We would play Monopoly, Life, Winning Ticket, Go For Broke, Risk, Hearts, Spades, Spoons, Crazy 8s and the list would go on.
That was then...
It has been a rough few months for me. Aside from fighting the normal winter-induced sniffles and respiratory issues, I have been dealing with some kind of eczema or something on my eyelids. You would think I would just suck it up and go to the doctor like a normal person but nooooo... I decided to take the easy* way out and spend two months complaining to my husband. *Easy for me. Not for my husband
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I was chatting with a friend at swim practice yesterday about how the kids are growing up. She noted to me how each day, we (as moms) are getting dumber and dumber. That "we" are becoming our moms.
Yes, I knew the day would come but we didn't realize just when. She pointed out, after watching my 8 year old's reaction to something I said, that it's pretty obvious that the time is now. Through our kids' eyes, we don't know anything. And we know even less as each day passes. Our coolness factor is fading, too. (Dads, on the other hand, are super cool at any age.)
Sigh
With the holidays behind us, I'm certain there are parents out there beginning to lament the purchases they made. When a child receives a new console gaming system, a handheld game or a tablet, it's pretty common to see them cast aside books, crafts, dolls or other items in lieu of their technology. If you think about it, anything new is going to be front and center until that initial luster has faded some.
There a few things about myself that I cannot deny.
One - I have a terrible sweet tooth
Two - I'm frugal.
These two factors came into play as I took to the kitchen to create a few custom recipes.
Hey. Stop laughing. I can TOO create stuff in the kitchen and not burn it!
For the past two years, I've participated in a different kind of gift exchange. It didn't require rushing out to the store to buy a gift or even purchasing one online. For that matter, it didn't even require money.
The idea behind the Social Fabric Virtual Gift Exchange is an opportunity to exchange one of a blogger's most treasured assets - You, my readers - with another blogger. And at the same time, share another blogger with you. You can read my last two posts
for 2011 - and
2010 - to get a better understanding of how the whole thing came about.
When we moved back from California in 2006, I was overweight from years of inactivity, stress and overeating. I invested in a gym membership. Religiously, I attended a cardio-strength class two times a week. Gradually, I felt some improvements in my body but I was still extremely overweight.
Then, as
I've explained, we started eating better. DH and I decided to add jogging and cycling to our exercise routine.
But it's Iowa. Winter. COLD outside. Neither cycling nor running are an option. I'm too much of a wuss.
