The Birthday Photos

If This is How We Teach Social Skills, We are in Big Trouble

So I am currently shopping online for Christmas gifts for the kiddos and was looking at a listing for this toy on Target.com

Here are the product specifications....

 

This Nerf Vortex Lumatron blaster brings serious action to the battlefield. The magazine-fed disc blaster shoots glow-in-the dark. It includes a 10-disc magazine, 10 plastic discs and instructions.

• Manufacturer's Suggested Age: 4 Years and Up
• Includes: Figure
• Educational Focus: Social Skills
• Dimensions: 14.49 " H x 3.7 " W x 5.98 " L
• Product Weight: 2.4 Lb.
• Care and Cleaning: Wipe Clean With a Damp Cloth

If guns (even Nerf ones) are what passes for social skills education in this country, that certainly explains a lot

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