Happy St. Nicholas (and the Elves are Back)

Today was St, Nicholas Day.  Rather than put out shoes, st. Nick fills their stocking overnight and the kids awake to candy and small presents.  St NIck brings their new ornaments for their tree and a new pair of pajamas for our annual pajama party, along with the candy and other small things.  Here are the kids at o'dark thirty checking out what's in the stockings.  

(A got a stocking too, but he decided he wanted to wait until after school to open his which I think was his way of avoiding the pictures since I am still at work when he comes home)

St. Nick also brings the elves back with him (cause Thanksgiving is WAAAAYYYYY too early for elves in the house if you know what I mean)  So what the kids were most excited about was the return of Alex, Rainbow and Ralph.  In elf fashion, they started off by having a marshmallow fight by the stockings...

K's Birthday Interview (a little late)

How old are you today? 

Five

What did you pick for your birthday dinner? 

 Cake.  No no no, turkey  

(it was Thanksgiving)

What is your favorite food?   

Turkey 

(turkey is so not her favorite food)

 

What is your favorite color?  Why?   

Pink.  Because well I actually I like colors because I love them in the rainbow

 

If you could live anywhere where would you live?  Why?  

in Ohio well maybe because that's my perfect place  

(really?? Ohio???)

Do you like school?  Why?   

Yes, sure well because Ms Jaime and Ms Meg come  

(they are the OT and PT that work with the class)

Who is your best friend?   

Alyria

 

What do you want to be when you grow up?   

A Baker

 

What is something that you do well?   

Well I am good at doing art or activities

 

What do you want to do better this year?  

I want to do is painting

Pictures to follow soon.....

What the ----?, Subway Restaurant in Shreveport

 While his wife was still inside the restaurant, the victim attempted to re-enter, but was blocked at the door by a female SUBWAY employee who allegedly asked him "Are you Muslim?" When the victim replied that he is indeed Muslim, the SUBWAY employee reportedly responded, "We can't serve you." The employee then went inside the restaurant and locked the door behind her. Fearing for his wife's safety and distraught at the violation of his civil rights, the man called 911.

A Little More Fall Fun

From about 3 weeks ago....

 

Things I Wish I Wrote:Letter to a Future Republican Strategist regarding White People

* Warning- there is some strong language in both the excerpt and the whole article


"If you want to know exactly where you failed in 2012, and will continue to fail, here it is. Look you assholes, I’m as traditional an American as it gets, and I do not “want free stuff.”  I am a taxpayer, and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. I got my first job – dragging bags of cow manure, horse feed and fertilizer around a farm store – when I was 12. I started my first company when I was 28. I have followed the vast majority of the rules set out for middle class white males (for good and for ill.) And if it weren’t bad enough that your policy positions are a complete clusterfuck for the reasons I lay out in great detail, you manage to follow up the whole exercise with insulting me, my wife, and my friends of every stripe who didn’t vote for your political party – all of whom are hard-working, taxpaying, job creating, law abiding, great AMERICANS of EVERY COLOR AND CREED."

Read the rest here

Halloween Recap

Carving the Pumpkins

 

Of course, not everyone was into the pumpkin carving....

 

 

Ready for trick or treating- 

complete with MANY layers under the costumes (except for D who had to wear her coat over hers)

Song Star (from My Little Pony)

Super Girl

Police Officer

 

Weekend Wisdom

"Last night the Republicans got shellacked. And they had no idea it was coming. And we saw them, in real time, in real humiliating time, not believe it even as it was happening to them. And unless they’re going to secede, they’re going to have to pop the factual bubble they have been so happy living inside, if they do not want to get shellacked again. And that will be a painful process for them, I’m sure, but it will be good for the whole country - left, right, and center. You guys, we’re counting on you. Wake up.

There’s real problems in the world. There are real knowable facts in the world. Let’s accept those and talk about how we might approach our problems differently. Let’s move on from there. If the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and conservative media are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night, we will all be better off as a nation. And in that spirit, congratulations everybody. Big night."

-Rachel Maddow

click here to hear the whole thing