Finished another book

I finished Back When We Were Grownups last night. It was pretty good. It was kind of slow in parts, but interesting.

I'm on my way to the library to pick up my next book Little Giant of Aberdeen County, by Tiffany Baker . You can click the link under my bookshelf (to the right)to get a description from Amazon.

Happy reading!

Wednesday Wonderings

I though that each Wednesday I would share some interesting, obscure facts about our wonderful world. Here is my first installment:

*A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
*A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
*A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
*A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
*A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
*A snail can sleep for three years.
*Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
*Almonds are a member of the peach family.
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Have a wonderful day!

Valentine Treat Bags

Just thought I'd share what I'm making for Maddie's class V-day party. I'm filling the bags with treats and trinkets,

It's still early enough that if your interested in some for your party, drop me a line! :)

Strep Saturday

Well, Maddie started complaining of her throat hurting last night. David ended up pulling out the sofa bed and letting her sleep there with him. This morning he took her to the pediatrician. I had him take her because she is SO dramatic when it comes to the doctor. She kicked and screamed while he carried her to the car.

After a throat swab, the doc pronounced that she has strep. She got a big, strong shot in the rump. She's feeling better, but I know that by tonight she will be Miss Drama again. She is a difficult sick child!

Send us some good health vibes!

Winning has become a four-letter word

Since when did winning become a bad thing? Isn't it human nature to try and win? That's how our human ancestors survived! If they failed, it usually meant death.

A Texas girls basketball team won a game 100-0. Quite an upset. Now officials from The Covenant School say they are trying to do the right thing by seeking a forfeit and apologizing for the margin of victory. Now we have to apologize for being sucessful????? Hold on...I've got to duct tape my head cause it's going to explode! I just can not understand the logic behind this "school official's" statement.

"It is shameful and an embarrassment that this happened," Kyle Queal, the head of the school, said in a statement, adding the forfeit was requested because "a victory without honor is a great loss." WHAT???

"I think the bad judgment was in the full-court press and the 3-point shots," said Renee Peloza, whose daughter plays for Dallas Academy. "At some point, they should have backed off." I bet she blames the teachers when her daughter fails too!

The students of the losing team are the real heroes here..."At a shootaround Thursday, several Dallas Academy players said they were frustrated during the game but felt it was a learning opportunity." "Even if you are losing, you might as well keep playing," said Shelby Hyatt, a freshman on the team. "Keep trying, and it's going to be OK."

I want my girls to experience both loss and success. You've got to be a gracious winner as well as loser, but I also want them to be proud of their wins if they have worked hard to achieve success, not be ashamed of it.


(all quotes taken from http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=903780)

Wednesday Wonderings

So, we have a new president. Not the one I voted for. I pray that Obama will be successful because that is what is best for our country, but I hope that he wises up. He can't possibly think that it will help our economy by creating bigger government with excess spending, or more hand-out programs that keep people in poverty. He needs to focus on deregulating businesses and lowering their taxes so that they can create more jobs and expand business.

I hope the media wises up as well. They have set this man up as the next coming of Christ. I expected him to walk across the Potomac at his swearing in. Will his presidency be one long honeymoon with the media tripping all over themselves?

Was anyone else offended over the comments of Rev. Lowrey? He said:

..."help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right."

I have plenty to say on this subject, but unlike the radical left, I will keep them to myself.

Great Book

Keeping up with my "unresolutions", I've finished my first book that doesn't rhyme. It was Anne Tyler's Digging to America.

Here's a brief symmary from Amazon. It's a great read.
When Bitsy and Brad Donaldson and Sami and Ziba Yazdan both adopt Korean infant girls, their chance encounter at the Baltimore airport the day their daughters arrive marks the start of a long, intense if sometimes awkward friendship. Sami's mother, Maryam Yazdan, who carefully preserves her exotic "outsiderness" despite having emigrated from Iran almost 40 years earlier, is frequently perplexed by her son and daughter-in-law's ongoing relationship with the loud, opinionated, unapologetically American Donaldsons. When Bitsy's recently widowed father, Dave, endearingly falls in love with Maryam, she must come to terms with what it means to be part of a culture and a country. Stretching from the babies' arrival in 1997 until 2004, the novel is punctuated by each year's Arrival Party, a tradition manufactured and comically upheld by Bitsy; the annual festivities gradually reveal the families' evolving connections. Though the novel's perspective shifts among characters, Maryam is at the narrative and emotional heart of the touching, humorous story, as she reluctantly realizes that there may be a place in her heart for new friends, new loves and her new country after all.

Next on my list is Back When We Were Grownups also by Anne Tyler. If you have any good title selections for me, leave me a post!