Halloween

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! I love Halloween, we will go out with our youngest tonight to collect all that teeth rotting candy. I will post pictures after the weekend. Have fun everyone!!

Do all things happen for a reason?

OK I am a big one for believing that things happen for a reason but sometimes the things that happen creep me out.
I lost my sapphire necklace that the hubby gave me but didn't want to admit to him yet that I had lost it, so hadn't said anything. Then the other day I was vacuuming the floor furnace and there is a little piece in the floor furnace that if your not careful will and can be sucked up by the vacuum cleaner, maybe a good thing. Why do I say a good thing because the hubby took the bag outside to dig through it to find the little piece that sucked up and what did he find? Yeppers my sapphire necklace, I was so relieved that I just took the whole negative comments about loosing it in the first place in stride, they didn't even bother me, because I got my necklace back and got rid of the terrible ache in my stomach from worrying about where it was. (also suggested for x-mas a new jewelry box)
It does still freak me out a little because if I hadn't sucked up that plastic piece I would have just thrown the vacuum bag out.....so accident that I sucked up the plastic piece, greater power or weird coincidence?

Field Trips....Love them!!

I took my two science classes to Hutchinson to the Cosmo sphere last week it was a blast I hadn't been there in forever. We went through Doctor Goddard's Lab and he talked about combustion and then blew up this Giant Cotton ball the walls in the room shook...it was great!!

The top pictures are of Science in the classroom and this is one of my students. They discussed with the kids about all their senses being important and how if you took away hearing and sight it would effect where you thought you where in space. They put my student in a chair that spins, blindfolded him, put sound proof hear covers on him and them spun him in the chair. He was supposed to point with his thumbs which direction he was going. They only spun him one way but when the chair stopped he thought he was going the other way and pointed that way. It was very funny.

This is the picture of the great supervision that we offer at Riley. Yes that is me in one seat my co-worker in the other and the legs across all the seats are our kids, we took thirteen. It was the quietest trip I have been on they slept all the way there and home, think we will leave at 6 a.m. for every field trip!

My Birthday

I love my co-workers I got to work this morning and they had plastered the room with papers that said Happy Birthday Mrs. T. and I don't mean just a few there was maybe 8-9 on each wall.

PEZ

Ok not sure this will interest any of you but I happen to really like PEZ candies and so I thought this was very neat.
WHAT IS PEZ?
You must be living in a box if you are not familiar with this candy and its flip-top head dispensers.
Over 1 billion of these little bundles of compressed sugar are sold each year. So where did this novel approach to selling candy come from? To find out, we must take a trip back to Vienna, Austria in 1927.
Here we will find a candyman named Eduard Haas III. Eddie did not try to sell his candy to kids, however. His market was adults - adults that smoked cigarettes.
PEZ was originally marketed as a compressed breath mint for smokers (or to cover up smoker's breath). I know what you are thinking - How did those fruit flavored pellets cover your bad breath?
The answer is quite simple - they weren't fruit flavored back then!
In fact, they were peppermint flavored, which explains the origin of its unusual name. The German word for peppermint is PfeffErminZ. Take the first, middle, and last letters of the word and you get PEZ!
Which leads to the available flavors.
In the United States, only Grape, Lemon, Orange, Strawberry, and Peppermint (I am a large consumer of PEZ and don't recall ever having peppermint) flavors are available. Hop across the border to Canada and you can add Cherry to your stash.
Raspberry and Apple are available in Spain. Chocolate is available in Hungary and Thailand.
An unusual type known as IZO PEZ is also available - it is vitamin enriched (does a vitamin enriched candy make sense to you?).
The most unusual flavors, however, have to be the discontinued ones: Chlorophyll, Cinnamon, Coffee, Eucalyptus, Flower (just what do flowers taste like?), Licorice, and Menthol.
What were the marketing guys thinking of when they came up with some of these flavors?

Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.

Reminded to be amazed

I wish we could all live in a world that brings utter fascination and amazement to us everyday. I love my job now but I miss some aspects of staying home and having a daycare. The part I miss I was reminded of on Sunday. My grandparents have their annual going away dinner it combines Halloween/Thanksgiving/X-mas and birthdays in the surrounding months, so there is a lot of people in one house.
My cousins all have much younger children then mine and they had been out collecting caterpillars which of coarse grandma had provided butter tubs to each child to keep them in.
Jackson is three and had managed to capture three caterpillars. They live in Wichita and his dad was trying to convince him to let the caterpillars go before they went home the conversation went like this:
Chris (father): Jackson we need to let them go they can't go home with us.
Jackson: No we don't they can go home with me.
Chris: Jackson do you know what caterpillars turn into?
Jackson: They won't spill
Chris: OK but do you know what they turn into?
Jackson: Nooooo?
Chris: They turn into butterflies
Jackson: Butterflies? NO WAY DUDE, YOUR KIDDING ME?
Chris: Nope not kidding, butterflies
Jackson then preceded to check with mom to make sure dad wasn't kidding and then take the tub around to everyone and tell them that the caterpillars would turn into butterflies.
I wish that something would amaze me like that everyday, pure utter amazement with how life works and what will happen and most of all I wish it was an amazement that left me smiling.

Think about our future

Last night I was thinking that I would cast my vote for whatever party would pass a bill making a common sense test mandatory for parenting but after reading this maybe it needs to be the party that also makes it necessary to actually spend time with your children and monitor what they are watching on T.V. This is what I read:

• Children spend 1,023 hours a year watching T.V. compared to 900 hours in school
• On average 38.5 minutes per week of meaningful conversation happens between a parent and his or her child.