Hundreds Watch Our 2 Yr. Old Son On Stage

These are two videos when Logan, uncle, daddy and mommy all went to the Renaissance Festival. This is so cool!! There were hundreds of people there, we were pretty close to the front and there was rows and rows of seats on both sides and behind us and people standing up every where.

Logan had run down to the stage as my husband was turned and said something to his brother, as I was trying to find a sit with the camera. My brother-in-law stopped my husband from getting our son and said just watch this is what it is all about.

The second video is a little blurry trying to focus, I didn’t dare get any closer for fear Logan would see me and it would mess everything up. I also couldn’t get it all because our memory card was filling up.

It was hilarious and so awesome Logan was on the stage a good 20 minutes. When the Juggler asked if Logan had parents we raised our hands and he waved us away, like don’t come down here. Logan was a ham and I couldn’t believe how well he was doing with all those people watching. I am sure it helped that the Juggler kept telling Logan he was adorable.

To see videos go HERE.

There Is A Widget Bug

There is a bug in my Donors Choose Widget, well not just mine, they are working on the problem.

So if you would like to donate even $5 to help your favorite project, teacher and students. Go here to this link http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/viewChallenge.html?id=19148. I have 4 pages of projects listed on the Donors Choose page at the top where projects starts is next pages.

Remember you can donate as little as $5 to your favorite project or as many projects as you would like. These projects are to help teachers and students get help with the money needed for things they need, where poverty is high and with huge school budget cuts, if they even have a budget.

Some of the states I have listed with different projects are : Oh yes and these projects keep rotating around so ones featured on the first page do change.

1. Texas
2. North Carolina
3. Minnesota
4. Illinois
5. Michigan
6. Kentucky
7. Arizona
8. New Jersey
9. Montana
10. Florida
11. Indiana
12. South Carolina
12. New York
13. Wisconsin
14. Mississippi
15. Southern California

There are more projects listed in other states as well on the page. I also had 10 others listed as well and they have been fully funded. Those teachers and students received the money needed for their projects.

Update On Father-In-Law (All Hell Broke Loose)

Well some of you know by one of my earlier post that my Father-In-Law was diagnosed with Mantel Cell Lymphoma stage B (cancer and it is not curable.) If you didn’t know, you can go here and read the first post on this.

My Father-In-Laws treatments were going okay, he wasn’t getting sick or anything and yesterday all Hell Broke Loose!!!!

Logan and I were on our way to pick my father-in-law and my one sister-in-law up yesterday, when I didn’t see them outside I just felt something was wrong. My sister-in-law L came out and told me “Dad wasn’t breathing well and turned white as a ghost.” Oh Crap! I thought, so I parked the car and went in with Logan.

To make a long story short they rushed him to the hospital yesterday, his body wasn’t getting enough oxygen and was starting to shut down. They got him stabilized lastnight and this morning we got a call that his Kidneys had failed. Oh Sh….. !! this time I thought, well I might have actually said that out loud.

By this afternoon they said after a bunch of test his body was stabilizing again and everything was working on it’s own, even the kidneys, but only at 16%. All the test they ran they couldn’t tell why exactly the kidneys were reacting this way, but they would probably release him tomorrow if his body continued improving and being strong like it was.

So we got a call about 2 hours ago from a family member who has been at the hospital forever, all the kids have been rotating so someone is always there. my father-in-laws stomach is huge bloated and as hard as a rock and they don’t know why. My husband and his one brother along with a couple of sisters headed down there.

They were going to be taking him in for X-rays to see now what in the world is going on. I have not heard anything yet.

Lady with Seaweed Bikini (Pics)

I thought this was really really cool. My brother did this in Ormond Beach, Florida.

You have to see these pictures! Logan and I went to Florida to visit my family there. My brother has a knack for making things like this out of whatever is around & the fact that he is only 15, I also find pretty cool.

The only physical things we have of these are the picture you see here from my camera. I love the sand lady and her seaweed bikini. Go little brother, thought you did an excellent job, very creative.

Go here to see my brothers alligator made out of snow, he did this when they were visiting us here in Minnesota.

Huge Hallmark Virus Alert E-mail – HOAX

I am writing this post so people to not get their panties in a bunch like I first did.

False email alert warns of ‘the worst virus ever’ circulating in the form of an attachment labeled ‘POSTCARD’ or ‘POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK’. It also says that you need to send the attached e-mail to all your contacts in your e-mail list. They also say this has been confirmed by Snopes.com and Norton is gearing up for this. It mentioned if clicked it will eat or burn a whole in your hard drive.

Well folks after researching this I am afraid this too is a e-mail hoax. I guess some people out there have nothing better to do.

Now there are viruses that are very real and you need to be very aware of there threat and some do come in the form of phony Hallmark e-cards and other e-cards. The best you can do is try to find the difference between what is real and what isn’t, Snopes.com is excellent at that kind of information.

For instance this is a very real virus that is coming in a form of e-card
REAL VIRUS: Messages with subject headers such as ‘You’ve received a postcard from a school-mate!’ or ‘You’ve received a Hallmark E-Card,’ etc. may contain links to malicious Web pages.

It is a Trojan threat and does not say it will burn a whole in your hard drive and so on like the e-mail alert mentions it will do when you click on it.

Go here to find exact link on Snopes about Hallmark scam.

Potty Training At It’s Best

Okay this toddler potty training story has humor, but is not for the faint of heart and if you are I would not read this post. lol

So my 2 1/2 year old son has been doing very well with his potty training both going #1 and #2 in his potty chair and we only use diapers at nap times and bed time. He has this thing about when he goes in his potty chair he has to show me. He takes the insert out of his toilette and bringing it to me, very carefully I might add.

So the other night my husband is in living room watching some golf and I am on the phone talking to my best friend in Florida. When I hear my son come up behind me and say mommy look I pooped. Now I know I had just put a diaper on him, because we were going to be getting ready for bed.

I slowly turned around, phone still attached to my ear and said “what honey?” My son repeated “I pooped mommy” this time pointing down at his diaper. At the same time I noticed the diaper was empty…………………. 

http://everythingdaze.blogspot.com/2008/07/potty-training-at-its-best.html

Toddlers Lack Of Sleep and Moms Drained

Well I think we are finally getting Logan on a better sleeping schedule. Thank goodness, for Logan and for me, because I have been drained and sleep deprived for so long I can’t remember.

I have read so many things, helpful tips hits, etc. on getting your toddler to sleep better with better hours and nothing really seemed to work for Logan. I had even been talking to my best friend in Florida and she told me Laurie you can not make him sleep, it is a stage he is going through and I found that to be so true.

So we had been at square one for some time, not being able to make it to circle one, lol………………….

   http://everythingdaze.blogspot.com/2008/07/toddlers-lack-of-sleep-and-moms-drained.html

Pictures – Getting Ready For The “Big Booms”

Pictures of Logan getting ready for the Big Boom fireworks. Here are some tips for next years fourth if you have a toddler. There is this one, however perfectly safe, because the spongy ear piece inside ear can not go in any farther. It does give the look of a Shreck mini me, so we went with the next one.

This next picture is the one we chose, not only did these stay on better, but your toddler won’t hear a thing. Caution to all parents, must speak up when toddler wears these.

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Mom, Me and The Horses We Loved (Part 2 0f 2)

Okay, this is the second story to go along with my first one written around June 21st, sorry it took me so long for this one. I have been blogging away about everything else I guess.

So mom and I decided to go on this 6 hour trail ride, okay at the time we didn’t know it would be 6 hours. This was in Creswell Oregon several years ago, way up in the mountains, where there is so much national forest land it is amazing.

So the first thing we came across was this very old homestead, still had the little cabin and fenced coral, etc. It was so cool and so small, I remember thinking how it was that people actually were able to live there. You had to duck to get through the door and trust me I am no 6 ft tall or anything.

Then we found this place that opened up to these beautiful grassy hills that you could look over some other mountains and forest land with some huge oak and what looked to be apple trees. This is where our fun begins and I become the butt of the joke literally.

Safara my bay mare had been in a mood that day, still enjoying the ride, but she was quite testy and as soon as she would think I wasn’t paying attention she would try to escape or do something like jump over absolutely nothing. I realized the little jerk was just trying to get me off her back. I guess she thought if she could do that she would be wild and free for a moment.

Well as the case most of the time mom and I found something to start laughing about and then it became hysterical to us. Well Safara sensing I was in tears laughing so hard and not in control as I should be, started that trot that is made to keep you out of control. You know the one , very choppy hard to stay on, very fast but not quite a gallop or run, that kind of trot.

So there I am trying to hang on for dear life, passing up my mom and her horse and seeing this very big, very low tree in my view and laughing uncontrollably still. Yes I was still laughing when I realized my horse the little fart was going to take me right under it. Okay I am sure she wanted to go right under it and me come right off from a branch.

All I could hear above my own laughter was that of my moms, yeah she wasn’t a lot of help. I did notice my mom started to laugh even harder if that was possible. So here I am now face to face with that tree and yep here goes Safara right under that bad boy. As fast as I could move I was on the side of the saddle leaning over as far as I could without falling on my face.

So I get the little nightmare under control finally, without falling off I might add and let me tell you I am not happy at this point, all laughter now gone. I whisper to my horse that I, not her am the smarter of the two of us and if she ever tries that again I will be writing down numbers to glue factories.

Well here comes my mom, oh yes still laughing trying to tell me something and then starts laughing all over again. That catchy kind of laugh where you start laughing too and you don’t even know why. So my mom the loving woman she is begins to tell me that is was the funniest thing she ever saw when Safara and I passed her up. I reminded her I could have been killed ( okay, not really) but it sounded good.

She says “wait I’m not done.” I am mortified to this day at what my mom says next. ” Both you and Safara’s butts were so in sink in that horrible trot bouncing back and forth so fast and choppy, they looked almost the same, it was the funniest thing I ever saw when you and Safara passed me.”

You have heard of owners looking like their dogs and visa versa, well here it is folks owner and horse butts that look alike. I am not exactly sure what my mom was trying to say that day about my butt. lol
No really in my moms behalf I am sure it did look pretty flippin funny, because it felt like it.

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Starbucks Closing 600 Stores – What ???

Starbucks Corp. announced yesterday they will be closing 600 stores through out the United States in the next year.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME !!! What is the world coming to, do they not realize how many people survive by caffeine alone? Starbucks is soooo good, expensive, but yummy. I can just see the whole blogging world sluggish do to the lack of Starbucks coffee. oh yeah, I am bumming big time over this.