Thou shalt be NICE!

My incredibly talented younger brother has a CD coming out about chickens and teens.

Here is the link.

Good job Hank! and don't worry. I'm here to keep you humble.

Don’t waste the pretty.

I read this book a while back and recently watched this movie.



I liked them both… felt almost enlightened really...so when
raspberry told me that a boy named Jack was being mean and
pushing her at school, did I lovingly tell her that he
pushed her and was mean to her because that’s how boys
act when they like a girl?

Not a chance. I said, ‘Shove him back and say in a big-mean-voice
Leave Me Alone!
He will cry or he will run away but he will leave you alone.’

Her reply was, ‘But mom, teacher will turn my card to orange.’

Sweetheart, that is okay with me.



Follow up that evening…

So how was school? Was Jack mean to you?

‘I just played with Rhett and ignored Jack.’

Who is Rhett?

‘He’s in my class and he is nice and he shares his crayons with
me. So I’m going to play with Rhett. I told Jack to go away and
he had to sit in his chair because teacher saw him and now
he gets in trouble.’

So no more Jack.

A Valentine Birthday

Birthday smiles


Birthday presents


Birthday brother, cousins, and cupcake set


Birthday blowing

The cell phone that was given a mind of its own.

This morning this cute little thing:



dropped my cell phone into this:



It was quickly dried off and I hoped for the best, but by the time I arrived at work my cell phone had made 6 calls to my brother Hank and 2 calls to my brother Randon. It had also called my home, office, and Nichole, a student who works for me. It made all these calls while it was in my bag.

It had to be destroyed.




So now I am going to try this:



My goal is to keep it out of harms way (a.k.a. this)...

So Jenn, what's with the tree?

If you will look a little closer, you will realize that it isn't exactly a Christmas tree...I know it is February and I know Christmas is over, but sometimes you have to make a soon-to-be six year old happy and decorate a tree in honor of her Valentine's Day birthday.

so the Valentine's Day tree is staying up until February 14.