Not by Jack Handy. I’m on my way to Seattle again this week, so that’s always a good time to try to catch up on the blog. There’s a new Windows Live Writer tool which makes the process of writing the blog much easier – I should’ve downloaded it earlier. It’s easy to embed pictures and post right to the site – it beats the old way I had of writing it in OneNote and pasting it into the blog from there, which would lead to messed up fonts and no additional feature capability.
My family has spent a fair amount of time at Katie’s school lately – the week before Thanksgiving, Becky took the afternoon off to ride along to a play at MSUM. I got late notice that we were supposed to bring snacks for the day before Thanksgiving, so I rolled in with some cheese sticks and got introduced to everyone within the class by Katie. My mom came on the following Monday to help them set up the Christmas Tree and to teach some of her favorite songs. We’ve all found that Katie is maybe taking the teacher’s pet thing too far – she seems all too eager to show off in front of class. we can’t believe how little fear she has in front of audiences, so that’s a good thing.
Amelia has preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8:15 to 11. The bus takes her there, but there’s no busing the kids back to day care so we had to find alternate transportation. We asked a friend Miranda, who has a son Nate in the class, to take her back to day care. She’s been gracious enough to help out, but she mentioned to us at church one day that Amelia wasn’t always happy to see her. We mentioned this to Amelia – “can you please be nice to Nate’s mommy” and she’s complied – now whenever we ask, she’s quick to point out that “I was being nice to Nate’s mommy”.
One other Amelia story – one day I noticed she was wearing a sticker. I said, “Mia, where did you get that sticker?” She replied right away, “I was not doing nothing; I was just sitting nicely.” That makes me wonder if that’s not always the case.
My brother (through my mom) recently loaned me the book Freakonomics. Becky knew something must be up, because I finished the book in two days. This is from someone who reads books for leisure as often as the Twins win World Series. It was very good, and Becky thought so too, since she tore through it right away. I bought Super Freakonomics now and I’ll be done with it by the time I’m back from Seattle. I like the way they attack problems through the economic approach – it’s not really economics, but using data to come to conclusions of causality. I also started reading The World Is Flat (by Thomas Friedman), but since I kinda live that world, it really wasn’t interesting enough for me to keep reading.
Becky’s started a book club (wine club) now. Each month she gets together with about 5 friends to read a book, but the real time is spent having wine and talking. She really enjoys it, so it’s great to see.
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