Take three minutes and watch this, whether you are a mom or not. This is one of the funniest songs ever.
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Christopher (six years old) sounds out words as he walks around the house these days, and today he was up first. I was still in bed while he ate cereal. He'd asked me to help him swap the wheels out on the 3-inch-long die cast trick bike we bought yesterday at the dollar store (it comes with tiny tools and interchangeable parts....I've wanted one since they came out....can't really explain why).
At about the right time for him to have finished his cereal, I heard the following as he rounded the corner into my room.
"Nec-e-s-ary.....necessary, necessary......necessary.....is it necessary to be in bed? We need to work on this."
Then he started to show me how to ride the bike with his fingers. I tried to show him different things I'd seen trick riders do, but I didn't think he had a good frame of reference. So we found this video on you-tube (which we then had to watch on the dvr that gets youtube, it was so good).
He said, "Mom, I know why you picked this one. It's got nature AND the tricks you wanted me to see."
At about the right time for him to have finished his cereal, I heard the following as he rounded the corner into my room.
"Nec-e-s-ary.....necessary, necessary......necessary.....is it necessary to be in bed? We need to work on this."
Then he started to show me how to ride the bike with his fingers. I tried to show him different things I'd seen trick riders do, but I didn't think he had a good frame of reference. So we found this video on you-tube (which we then had to watch on the dvr that gets youtube, it was so good).
He said, "Mom, I know why you picked this one. It's got nature AND the tricks you wanted me to see."
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
First off, if you were looking for up to date Save Westana information, go to our facebook page and our blog (Save Westana Girlscout Camp).....here you will only find my own blogging.
But, if you are here on purpose...holy cow, what a week! A week ago tonight, we were sitting around a table at a leader meeting talking about what we could do to save Westana. We were thinking initially about ways to get the word out to troops and parents to send letter to council in answer to their letter to members soliciting feedback due to a notice that our lease would be increasing from $5,000 a year to $25,000 a year. If you read my last blog here, you saw that I was starting up a facebook page and a blog devoted to the cause (on behalf of our group of leaders' unofficial efforts to get things going).
By the weekend our numbers were growing, and we were getting responses from very interested people. By Sunday, I sat down for 4 hours with a very knowledgeable local GS dad who's daughter and family had put hundreds of hours into Westana in recent years.
By Monday night, while trying to spruce things up, I saw the first newspaper article on line......I was in the newspaper (just not as me), as was one of my pictures. The paper didn't contact us, but they did quote our sites correctly, and the information from the DNRC and from the other organization who's lease rate increased was very helpful at getting us on the right track.
But, if you are here on purpose...holy cow, what a week! A week ago tonight, we were sitting around a table at a leader meeting talking about what we could do to save Westana. We were thinking initially about ways to get the word out to troops and parents to send letter to council in answer to their letter to members soliciting feedback due to a notice that our lease would be increasing from $5,000 a year to $25,000 a year. If you read my last blog here, you saw that I was starting up a facebook page and a blog devoted to the cause (on behalf of our group of leaders' unofficial efforts to get things going).
By the weekend our numbers were growing, and we were getting responses from very interested people. By Sunday, I sat down for 4 hours with a very knowledgeable local GS dad who's daughter and family had put hundreds of hours into Westana in recent years.
By Monday night, while trying to spruce things up, I saw the first newspaper article on line......I was in the newspaper (just not as me), as was one of my pictures. The paper didn't contact us, but they did quote our sites correctly, and the information from the DNRC and from the other organization who's lease rate increased was very helpful at getting us on the right track.
Friday, March 23, 2012
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| Winter campout Feb 2011, many more photos to come of our Westana adventures |
Our facebook page is bare bones so far, but it's never to early to "like" it and check back and share it as it grows.
http://www.facebook.com/SaveWestana
Also, here is a link, so far, to the letter/notice of the increase in the lease that is spurring this urgent need for a plan! We want to have well-formulated solutions to propose to council in time to make a difference!
Westana-DNRC-notice.pdf
Thanks for looking, more to come!
Also under construction.....http://savewestana.blogspot.com/
Sunday, October 16, 2011
When I post pictures of my yard and the empty lot next to us, they almost always show at least one species of invasive weed. The former owners of our house kept that acre to build on later, and our weeds mostly occur adjacent to that lot, as it has just about every local problem weed species.
When we were considering buying the house, the owners said they would be maintianing thier lot and that we could play on it whenever we wanted. Unfortunately, it has only been maintained by other neighbors who were willing to help her out and/or thought they were helping us out (which they were, I just wasn't happy because it felt like they were being taken advantage of, given that they all had major health problems while the former owner made six figures on her un-kept promise to maintain the property).
When we were considering buying the house, the owners said they would be maintianing thier lot and that we could play on it whenever we wanted. Unfortunately, it has only been maintained by other neighbors who were willing to help her out and/or thought they were helping us out (which they were, I just wasn't happy because it felt like they were being taken advantage of, given that they all had major health problems while the former owner made six figures on her un-kept promise to maintain the property).
I don't mind the tall grass (except for all of the extra mice we get when it goes unmowed all summer) but the property is full of invasive weeds. Pretty terrible ones that we would be actively abating if we found them on national forest lands (I even got grants in three areas to help get rid of some of these same species). The hawkweed was beautiful the first year we lived here (orange-red flower in the photo above), but this is a LOT of hawkweed.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
This is a video from earlier this summer. We were in Snohomish, Washington, visiting my aunt, brother, sister-in-law, and cousin and took a detour with my aunt to hang out the beach.
When I was a kid, my grandmother would take us to Salt Water Park and we would gather little crabs like this for hours and hours. The other adutlts took us, too....it was just often my grandma that said yes when we begged to go and often let us bring a few home.
It was a lot of fun to watch my kids help fill other kids buckets. Christopher was very taken with rocks that day, and every day since. He keeps finding heart shaped rocks for me, but they've all been in Glacier, so I couldn't keep them.
When I was a kid, my grandmother would take us to Salt Water Park and we would gather little crabs like this for hours and hours. The other adutlts took us, too....it was just often my grandma that said yes when we begged to go and often let us bring a few home.
It was a lot of fun to watch my kids help fill other kids buckets. Christopher was very taken with rocks that day, and every day since. He keeps finding heart shaped rocks for me, but they've all been in Glacier, so I couldn't keep them.
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