The phone starts ringing right around 4:00 every Friday afternoon. "Hello, this is F., is Nathan there?" "Hey Mrs. Edwards, it's B. Is Ryan home?" I love that my boys have friends, good friends who are good kids with parents we like. And I understand the desire to spend as much non-school time with those friends as possible. But I swear sometimes it feels like we have a sign on our door that says "send us your kids". F.'s Mom is divorced and a teacher. The only time she can get anything done is on the weekends, and when she has things to do like shopping for clothes or getting her hair done, she hates to drag F. along. So, she has him call and innocently ask what Nathan is doing, when what she really wants to ask is can she drop him off at our house? B.'s parents both work, and they have a summer house Up North. This weekend they are going up to open the house, but there's no guarantee that any of the other kids whose parents have homes up there will be … [Read more...]
LensShopper Review
LensShopper ordered this review from me as a way to spread the word about the savings they offer on contacts, especially color contacts. I wore contacts once and I liked being free of my glasses for a change, but everyone who knew me said I didn't look like "me" without them! LensShopper is a price comparison site, so what they do is provide links to contact lens merchants, with information about quantity, prices, and delivery times, so that the shopper can choose what works for their budget. The site provides a large sidebar of links making it easy to search by lens retailers, popular brands of lenses, manufacturers, contact lens types, as well as articles on eye diseases and disorders and eye surgery. If you've ever thought about getting colored contact lenses, LensShopper makes it easy to "try out" different colors on their Color Contacts page with their Color Studio. Choose a model that resembles you and then click to see how different colors of contacts will look on … [Read more...]
Photos from the playground
Saturday was a perfect Spring day, mid-70s and clear, not too windy. While Ryan and Chris stayed home and took apart our hot water heater trying to figure out why the pilot light keeps going out, I took Nathan and Kaitlyn to a nearby playground. I love watching Kaitlyn play, when she runs it's like watching joy in motion. Her hair bounce with every step! While standing near a big tree, we found little green inchworms hanging from their silk threads. Nathan picked up a thin stick and nudged one of the worms with it so it would crawl on to the stick for a closer look. Then he put the stick up to the tree trunk so the worm could crawl back on. We watched the worm do that inchworm thing, pull himself together and then stretch back out to move. Kaitlyn was cheering the worm on. The next inchworm fell off the stick into the grass, so the kids got down for a closer look. I love that despite their seven year age difference, Nathan and Kaitlyn play so well … [Read more...]
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