May 4 is called Star Wars Day because of a pun or play on words based on the similarity between "May the 4th be with you" and "May the force be with you", a phrase often spoken in the Star Wars movies.
We are almost done painting our house! With A Lot of help from our parents, Joe, and Brianne, we are finishing up much sooner than we thought. Andy is going out of town for two days tomorrow, but I think we will finish all the little bits left by this weekend. Summer is almost here, then I'll only be working every other week for the Iowa Cubs- fun job!- so I am ready to work on the inside now. I want to wallpaper a very small section of our kitchen, but have never done this. Any tips? I think I might just hire someone, even though it's such a small space.
Happy Birthday, Jim! I remember the day your bassinet got knocked over and you went rolling across the floor wrapped up in your little blanket. It wasn't me, but I picked you up right away. You didn't even cry. It got suddenly quiet in the living room. What a trooper.
I spent several hours yesterday digging a vegetable garden in the rock-hard clay on the east side of our house. I'm feeling pleasantly achy today. Crabgrass doesn't even grow there. We'll see if I can doctor the soil enough to coax out a few tomatoes or eggplants. Also leeks, lettuce, rhubarb, beets, filet beans, sugar snap peas, fennel, peppers, tomatillos, cukes, zucchini, broccoli, brussels sprouts, watermelon and mulch, mulch, mulch in a 6 x 13-foot spot. Intensive use of real estate. Weeds won't have room to grow. Oh, and a few daylilies and a border of marigolds. Meanwhile, in the front yard I have been a complete failure for 22 years at growing grass.
so...Mia broke her arm yesterday, jumping on the neighbor's trampoline.(sigh) I had a bad feeling about that trampoline. It's the small bone under the elbow. The ER doc doesn't think she will need surgery as it's just a small crack in the bone, but we will go to see the Orthopedic Doc tomorrow. The cast goes all the way from her hand to above the elbow. As we sat waiting to be discharged from the ER, I couldn't help but laugh. There sat Mia with her arm in the sling, glasses slightly crooked, orthopedic arches sticking out the side of her sandles, and the goofyist smile on her tired little face. She was thinking about going home to show off her cast to Catie and neighborhood crew. Needless to say, the trampoline is off limits for my kids now. We spent the morning testing out what she can and can't do with one arm. P.S. Jim, Brian thinks you look like a Senator in that picture.
Tonight we're meeting Diane and Richie Strong for dinner. THey're visiting his sister who lives about an hour away from us, near Jupiter, so we're meeting in Lake Worth. p
Oh, no! Tell Mia Joe and I want to sign her cast. Though hopefully it's off by the next time we see her.
Ellen - I'll send you a video I found the other day on how to wallpaper, if I can re-find it. I am in love with all the great new designs out!
(Everyone: Ellen and Andy's house looks amazing. I bet Andy's happy to be off a ladder, because the neighbor kids in a second story window were laughing at his underpants.)
Happy Birthday, Jim...you do look wonderfully dignified! Did you guys go out to eat or did Erin make you something yummy? :-)
Mama Mia! Poor thing. Yah the boys always wanted a trampoline and I've had to be mean and say "no." I figured they have enough stuff to break bones with already...ha!
Lots of yardwork these past 3 days! Saturday we worked all afternoon at S.S. and Sunday and Monday all day here. Looks good, but there's a lot more to do at home. All we have left as S.S. are the 80 bags of wood chips...what fun!
Growing up my Mom had Lillies of the Valley planted along the shady side of our garage. I loved them bc I thought they were "popcorn" plants. Everytime I ran away and made it as far as the dark-side of the garage...I would lie beside the Lillies and pretend I was miniature and living among them! Ahhhh the whimsy of youth! Yah know...no one ever found me there...I wonder if they ever looked? Hmm.
So sorry about your arm! And ant the beginning of summer, too!
I had a cast and I wanted lots of people to sign it. It made me feel well liked! That was the only cool part about having a cast. I still had to clear the table and dry dishes so I didn't get out of anything and since it was the middle of summer, I missed a month of swimming.
Hope it goes well, Mia. We send our love, lisa randy emma mary
Just tell Mia she can hit people with it really hard without really trying and then pretend it a was an accident. That's what Peter did with his. He wouldn't get his signed at first either. He came around though. Did she get to pick her cast color?
Happy Birthday Jim! THis is a great photo. It's funny- Scott's dad's birthday is May 4th and Scott can never remember if it's actually on the 4th or the 5th. And yes, what's up with your wedding band on the wrong finger?
We hope Mia feels OK. Trips to the ER and doc and all that stuff. What a drag.
This is a stupid question, but how can I pack sliced apples in Jude's lunch and not have them be all brown by the time he eats them? I don't want to buy thos packages of presliced apples and I'm running out of ideas of things for him to bring eventhough he only brings his lunch once a week. He always gets cheese, crackers, carrot sticks and choc. milk.
Maybe, lemon juice. However, I think it's a situation that simply cannot be overcome. I would just send the apple...whole. I remember explaining to Eli, in Kindergarten, that it's only brown because the "air" had touched it. He seemed to understand and be happy with that answer...of course, he probably just threw it away and didn't tell me.
But at least you got stitches and braces Caitlin. Poor Mia. I can imagine how excited she is to tell everyone new why she has a cast though. After 4 nights of cleaning up dog puke and finally getting nervous enough to think that the chicken bone Buddy ate on Friday had ruptured his intestine (and almost $300 later), I found out my dog has the flu and a really small liver. Ughhhhh. I do like the new vet we went to though.
I read that you can dip apple slices in 7-Up (Sprite? Fresca?) and it prevents browning. I've tried it for just before a party and it worked - I don't know how long it holds up. It's a sad commentary that I'm more likel;y to have Fresca than a fresh lemon at my house.
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Happy Birthday Jim! What a great photo. You're standing rather jauntily with your hand on your hip.
Have a great day.
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Happy Birthday Jim! Go golfing or something today. It's the perfect day for it.
Happy Birthday Jim. Have a drink on me... oh, wait, I see you already have one. Never mind.
Also, happy star wars day!
May 4 is called Star Wars Day because of a pun or play on words based on the similarity between "May the 4th be with you" and "May the force be with you", a phrase often spoken in the Star Wars movies.
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And May the 4th be with you. Happy Birthday, Jim!
We are almost done painting our house! With A Lot of help from our parents, Joe, and Brianne, we are finishing up much sooner than we thought. Andy is going out of town for two days tomorrow, but I think we will finish all the little bits left by this weekend. Summer is almost here, then I'll only be working every other week for the Iowa Cubs- fun job!- so I am ready to work on the inside now. I want to wallpaper a very small section of our kitchen, but have never done this. Any tips? I think I might just hire someone, even though it's such a small space.
Happy Birthday James Michael Straub! You look like that radio guy...what's his name...
Happy Birthday, Jim! I remember the day your bassinet got knocked over and you went rolling across the floor wrapped up in your little blanket. It wasn't me, but I picked you up right away. You didn't even cry. It got suddenly quiet in the living room. What a trooper.
I bet it was Tom or Pete. It was the beginning of the torture.
It was John Tesh.
I spent several hours yesterday digging a vegetable garden in the rock-hard clay on the east side of our house. I'm feeling pleasantly achy today. Crabgrass doesn't even grow there. We'll see if I can doctor the soil enough to coax out a few tomatoes or eggplants. Also leeks, lettuce, rhubarb, beets, filet beans, sugar snap peas, fennel, peppers, tomatillos, cukes, zucchini, broccoli, brussels sprouts, watermelon and mulch, mulch, mulch in a 6 x 13-foot spot. Intensive use of real estate. Weeds won't have room to grow. Oh, and a few daylilies and a border of marigolds. Meanwhile, in the front yard I have been a complete failure for 22 years at growing grass.
Fill in your front yard with Lilly of the Valley. that's what I'm going to try this year under my maple tree.
Monica
so...Mia broke her arm yesterday, jumping on the neighbor's trampoline.(sigh) I had a bad feeling about that trampoline. It's the small bone under the elbow. The ER doc doesn't think she will need surgery as it's just a small crack in the bone, but we will go to see the Orthopedic Doc tomorrow. The cast goes all the way from her hand to above the elbow. As we sat waiting to be discharged from the ER, I couldn't help but laugh. There sat Mia with her arm in the sling, glasses slightly crooked, orthopedic arches sticking out the side of her sandles, and the goofyist smile on her tired little face. She was thinking about going home to show off her cast to Catie and neighborhood crew. Needless to say, the trampoline is off limits for my kids now. We spent the morning testing out what she can and can't do with one arm.
P.S. Jim, Brian thinks you look like a Senator in that picture.
Can you move Lily of the Valleys? I have some and love them but they're in a terrible place.
Oh poor Mia! What are the arches for? I hope she doesn't need surgery too.
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Flat Feet, she has to wear them almost all the time.
Happy Birthday Jim. Since you are a Senator now can you please do something about universal health care? This family really needs it.
Tonight we're meeting Diane and Richie Strong for dinner. THey're visiting his sister who lives about an hour away from us, near Jupiter, so we're meeting in Lake Worth.
p
You can move lilies-of-the-valley but you better use a big shovel - they go really deep and they're kind of hard to dig up.
pat, say hi to Diane and Richie for us. I'm jealous.
Oh - also they're mostly a shade plant.
Oh, no! Tell Mia Joe and I want to sign her cast. Though hopefully it's off by the next time we see her.
Ellen - I'll send you a video I found the other day on how to wallpaper, if I can re-find it. I am in love with all the great new designs out!
(Everyone: Ellen and Andy's house looks amazing. I bet Andy's happy to be off a ladder, because the neighbor kids in a second story window were laughing at his underpants.)
Brianne, Mia is adament that her cast will not be signed! She thinks that sounds weird.
Bah! Tell her I spent my whole childhood hoping I would break something so people would sign my cast! Never did. Kinda jealous.
Dinner last night with Diane and Richie was great. Both look really good. It was nice to catch up on everyone.
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Happy Birthday, Jim...you do look wonderfully dignified! Did you guys go out to eat or did Erin make you something yummy? :-)
Mama Mia! Poor thing. Yah the boys always wanted a trampoline and I've had to be mean and say "no." I figured they have enough stuff to break bones with already...ha!
Lots of yardwork these past 3 days! Saturday we worked all afternoon at S.S. and Sunday and Monday all day here. Looks good, but there's a lot more to do at home. All we have left as S.S. are the 80 bags of wood chips...what fun!
Growing up my Mom had Lillies of the Valley planted along the shady side of our garage. I loved them bc I thought they were "popcorn" plants. Everytime I ran away and made it as far as the dark-side of the garage...I would lie beside the Lillies and pretend I was miniature and living among them! Ahhhh the whimsy of youth! Yah know...no one ever found me there...I wonder if they ever looked? Hmm.
Happy birthday Jim! You look marvelous. But you need to take good care of yourself since I was told you were my birthday present!
Hope you had fun!
Love,
Lisa
randy
emma
mary
Miss Mia!
So sorry about your arm! And ant the beginning of summer, too!
I had a cast and I wanted lots of people to sign it. It made me feel well liked! That was the only cool part about having a cast. I still had to clear the table and dry dishes so I didn't get out of anything and since it was the middle of summer, I missed a month of swimming.
Hope it goes well, Mia. We send our love,
lisa
randy
emma
mary
Just tell Mia she can hit people with it really hard without really trying and then pretend it a was an accident. That's what Peter did with his. He wouldn't get his signed at first either. He came around though. Did she get to pick her cast color?
Monica
Mexican for lunch today!
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Monica
Right now it's just a temporary cast - I think they're at the ortho doc's right now to see what he wants to do.
Poor Mia. You just need to get braces on her and maybe a headgear and she'll be done with her awkward stage by the time she's 8.
Monica
Emma and Mary will be soooo impressed with this.
Mia, you have the personality to overcome any awkward stage.
Love,
lisa
When will my awkward stage end?
p
Signing a cast is the perfect opportunity to add insult to injury. "So sorry this happened...you JERK."
Seriously, I hope you mend quickly, Mia.
Jim, did you get a wide tie for your birthday? Are they back in? I'm so outta the loop. Happy Birthday.
Tom
So Jim...whaddup with the placement of your wedding band? Is that where the "cool" guys wear 'em?
Psst Tom...move yours.
I think it's just that Jim, unlike the rest of the world, gets skinnier as he gets older. Maybe he is a parsons.
lisa
I wonder how many more Birthdays until we see it on his big toe? :-)
Happy Birthday Jim! THis is a great photo. It's funny- Scott's dad's birthday is May 4th and Scott can never remember if it's actually on the 4th or the 5th. And yes, what's up with your wedding band on the wrong finger?
We hope Mia feels OK. Trips to the ER and doc and all that stuff. What a drag.
This is a stupid question, but how can I pack sliced apples in Jude's lunch and not have them be all brown by the time he eats them? I don't want to buy thos packages of presliced apples and I'm running out of ideas of things for him to bring eventhough he only brings his lunch once a week. He always gets cheese, crackers, carrot sticks and choc. milk.
Maybe, lemon juice. However, I think it's a situation that simply cannot be overcome. I would just send the apple...whole. I remember explaining to Eli, in Kindergarten, that it's only brown because the "air" had touched it. He seemed to understand and be happy with that answer...of course, he probably just threw it away and didn't tell me.
Step 1:Pour ½ cup lemon juice into a small bowl.
Step 2:Cut an apple into eight equal sized slices using a knife or apple slicer.
Step 3:Throw away the core.
Step 4:Soak two slices at a time for 60 seconds.
Step 5:Shake slices free of excess lemon juice.
Step 6:Place slices on paper towel to soak up excess juice.
Step 7:Store dried slices in sealable sandwich bag.
Step 8:Repeat until all slices have soaked and dried.
How about orange slices instead? Grapes? Strawberries?
You can also use pineapple juice. Just dip them in and eat the pineapples for dinner.
We got new sliding glass doors installed today. It's nice to be able to have them open and let the fresh air in. We had no screens for them before.
Monica
hey mom- (don't freak out).. i'm studying next to conor oberst.
tell mia casts are cool-- like brianne, i also always wanted one. AND a black eye. AND crutches.
But at least you got stitches and braces Caitlin. Poor Mia. I can imagine how excited she is to tell everyone new why she has a cast though.
After 4 nights of cleaning up dog puke and finally getting nervous enough to think that the chicken bone Buddy ate on Friday had ruptured his intestine (and almost $300 later), I found out my dog has the flu and a really small liver. Ughhhhh. I do like the new vet we went to though.
I hate vet bills. They bother me bc they always seem like such unexpected and slightly ridiculous charges.
p
I read that you can dip apple slices in 7-Up (Sprite? Fresca?) and it prevents browning. I've tried it for just before a party and it worked - I don't know how long it holds up. It's a sad commentary that I'm more likel;y to have Fresca than a fresh lemon at my house.
Back from the doctor - Mia has a new pink cast!
Dogs can get the flu?
Maybe, it's H1N1!
i just celebrated cinco de mayo. I had a frozen margarita swirled in wiht sangria. it was muy tasty.
p
is dog flu more dangerous than swine flu?
i had a dos equis for cinco de mayo. i love that commercial.
Dog flu is not like human real flu apparently. It's any undiagnosed sickness which is pretty much similar to flu.
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