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Monday Morning Musings
Because so many people I know personally have found their way to my blog, which is completely my fault, I also have to edit what I write when I’m upset. Those postings are posted somewhere else, and if you’re interested, you can email me for that.
This is the edited version of my birthday weekend.
Friday, I received lots of facebook greetings, my mom sang to me TWICE, and the kids & Jimmy bought me a chocolate cake and a Hoops & YoYo card about sharing said birthday cake lol
Saturday, we went to lunch because Ryan’s gives a free birthday lunch/dinner for your birthday, and it was yum and we all overate, and then wanted to pass out.
We had Libby’s (and Jimmy’s) hair cut.
We also went to pick up some sort of rack for Anthony & Jimmy’s musical equipment obsession.
We came home and did some stuff.
Then Jimmy & Anthony went out birthday shopping, and when they came home, they gave me the gifts. They included kahlua & creme coffee, two very nice blouses, a photo album, James Patterson’s new book, some new grill toys (kabob rack & grill pan) and ummmmmmmm – oh, a card they then lost LOL
Sunday, I went to the Flower & Garden show up in Hagerstown for a few hours, hoping for some nice flower pictures, but didn’t really get much. The lighting was awful and there were very few actual flowers. I did attend a seminar on bird houses & feeders, a new interest of mine, and bought a few things like garlic jelly (not nearly as good as Stonewall Kitchen’s!), some pepperoni bread from an older couple who just looked so … bored/sad/lonely (which sucked), and a very pretty yellow gerbera daisy plant that I have named Charlotte.
On the way to & from the show, I photographed some pretty substantial flooding that I came across, and also had a photo printed into a poster for someone to buy from me from our area’s freecycle off-shoot group. The photo came out great even at 16” x 20” so that’s pretty exciting, to know my work will hang on someone else’s wall besides mine.
This is the photo that was purchased:
My friend Jane went to Florida this weekend, and a tiny part of me wonders if it’s maybe to elope 
My sister’s got a blackberry and I’m insanely jealous now. As I mentioned on Facebook, I’ve been thinking about a Kindle and want one even more now that I find out it has free wifi. I can’t count the number of times I’ve wanted to do something online while I’ve been out on errands, and can’t because I have the cellular equivalent of two tin cans and a string for a cell phone.
Anthony’s hockey season has begun – this is his first time in a league of any sort, so he’s excited, as am I. Sorta. I was watching him practice just SKATING the other day, and when he fell, my heart leapt into my throat. Can hardly wait to see THAT happen more often. NOT.
This is why mommy needs her medicine
That’s what I’m chalking today’s yesterday’s lesson up to, anyway.
It’s also another glaring reason why I’m NOT mom of the year.
I came back from an appointment to find Jimmy had changed the way Libby was doing her homework. Instead of doing SUBTRACTION like this: 12 – 7= you figure this part out, he had taught her to take 7, and then count how many more you added to get to 12. That’s called ADDITION. I blew UP, pissed off, exceedingly angry over the idea that he’s butting in where he simply does not need to be, but also that he’d have the nerve to do so in the 20 minutes that I was gone, and oh yeah, IT’S THE WRONG WAY TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He contended that as long as you get the answer, it doesn’t MATTER how you got to it.
How the hell does that make sense for a FIRST GRADER?
But the problem didn’t end there.
