So last week I had a little girl from down the street over to play with my kids. I thought I was safe serving peanut butter sandwiches for lunch. She put the sandwich up to her mouth and faked a cough and said, "this bread makes me cough". It was just wheat bread, snyders in fact. I told her It's just bread, I buy it from the store like your mommy buys her bread. But she wouldn't have any of that. Later I served apple slices and was told by her that she didn't like apples. *heavy sigh* I found out later from her mom that the bread was the exact same kind she buys.
Today I took the same little girl along with us to the movies. She asked if we could get popcorn. I don't usually get the popcorn, but since it was a special day out and her mom bought popcorn for us the last time we went I splurged and got some. I served each eager kid up a small cup of popcorn from the bucket. After one bite this little girl grimmaces and tells me there is something wrong with the popcorn. I taste it, it tastes exactly like popcorn. I tell her it's the same kind of popcorn we had the last time we went to the movies. But she didn't believe me. She wanted a tissue to spit the foul popcorn out into. I had none and told her to just swallow it. She held the popcorn in her mouth for several minutes with a grimmace on her face. Getting sick of her I dumped her cup of popcorn out and told her to spit it out into her cup. She spat a few times and complained, "there's still some in there". She seemed to be fine after that and watched the rest of the movie. The rest of us finished off the popcorn.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
The Meeting
Had my meeting with the campfire leader here at my house yesterday. I met my new friend Sheri, who is going to be co leader of the local Little Stars/STARflights group with me. I learned a bit about the routine of a campfire meeting, about ways the kids can earn emblems to put on their vests and we discussed places we could meet. Though nothing was set down yet. There is a Camp Fire Leadership meeting in September which Sheri and I plan on going to. We'll have a better idea of what it all entails after that. We were left project books for our grade level and we'll be going through those and planning our classes for next year. The cost isn't too bad, 15.00 for a year membership and 12.50 for the vests.
Then after all that gets started, the club leaders are responsible for purchasing/presenting emblems, it will be about one emblem per month, and then after talking about how we purchase craft/science supplies as well, we thought about having a $2.50 a month dues. Opportunities are there for the club to earn money with the candy sale in february and since it is a non profit club we can solicit money from local companies as well as get discounts to events.
Anyway the trip was all business, talking about money and background checks and forms and reading about the order of meetings. It will be fun, but there is this business side to things that accompany clubs.
Then after all that gets started, the club leaders are responsible for purchasing/presenting emblems, it will be about one emblem per month, and then after talking about how we purchase craft/science supplies as well, we thought about having a $2.50 a month dues. Opportunities are there for the club to earn money with the candy sale in february and since it is a non profit club we can solicit money from local companies as well as get discounts to events.
Anyway the trip was all business, talking about money and background checks and forms and reading about the order of meetings. It will be fun, but there is this business side to things that accompany clubs.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Muggy In Portland
Drove down to Portland this last Saturday for a Wedding Reception for Ken and Joan. The weather was about the same temperature here except that the humidity was so high it sometimes even felt like it was raining.
The drive down was nice, we stopped at Multnomah Falls for a break and then continued on to the La Quinta Inn by the convention center in Portland. It was very nice for a mid range hotel, I highly recommend it to anyone planning on staying in Portland but not spending a fortune. The Staff was nice, the accomidations were nice the pool was open 24 hours and it was within walking distance to shopping and restauraunts and a short drive from other Portland Activities such as OMSI.
We had a bit of time to waste before the reception so we walked down to the Mall with Edna and walked around a little. It was a pretty cool mall, competing with clackamas obviously, with a skating rink and huge food court.
The reception was fun! It was a "cruise" on an old fashioned Stearnwheel boat, The Stearnwheel Rose. The weather was still hot and muggy and no AC on the boat, but we all seemed to manage keeping cool by sitting on the outdoor decks and drinking lots of, hrmph, fluids :)
The cake was beautiful and there was a live band preforming, nice touch guys. I actually got Kenny to dance with me. I only make him dance once every few years or so. The appetizers were great with little terriaki chicken wings and some kind of wonderful cheese spread, MMM tasty, and a drink line that never seemed to end.
We went to McMenamins Backstage for afterparty crazyness. Though, after my throwup extravaganza at The Beach, I may have been a bit of a party pooper. I really was worried about some of the party goers, I think it was only because of my horrible experience last week. Nothing like getting asked to leave a bar to make you a bit prude the next time out. The bar was beautifull, hot (again no AC, not even a fricken fan in the place) but beautiful and Kenny and I stayed for festivities untill 2am... then we went back to the hotel and swam in the cool water of the pool. It was just right.
The next morning I woke up at 7:30 took a shower and packed, I left the alarm clock on and Kenny, trying to shut it off, set it forward an hour. We got down to breakfast before 8:30 and low and behold, didn't see anyone for the complimentary breakfast. Kenny started on his homework... I was stir crazy bored so I made probably 10 trips to the breakfast room looking for "people I recognized" it wasn't untill close to 9:30 that I found a few of them, I chatted a bit, thankfull to have some conversation. I told Dana that we had planned on going to Powells... she looked a little confused and said, "gee, a bookstore, that sounds fun" quite sarcastically. I guess I'm trained because I was actually looking forward to it. It was, other than test driving a Mini, the only thing I wanted to do this weekend. The Mini dealership is closed on Sundays :P.
Everyone left after breakfast and I was bored again. I waited a few hours, still getting up periodically to roam the hotel, I heard the shower going in Kens room and after 30 minutes or so I went to go bug them. I disturbed them, I was embarrased, so now I was bored and embarrased.
Ken finished his homework around 12:30 we went to check out and eat lunch at Stanfords, an expensive steak house a few blocks away. We called Ken to invite them but they didn't answer. The steakhouse was fantastic, my crab cakes were delicious. I guess at 17 bucks the should've been.
Ken got me out of town and filled up the gas, it seems even though gas stations in oregon are full service they're still 10cents cheaper than any in washington. I drove the rest of the way home. It was busy and I was stressed driving, I wasn't used to cruise control and I was driving badly which made Kenny question me on the road, which made me more stressed. It was a downward spiral which ended up with me giving up on cruise control and speeding from The Dalles on home.
The kids had fun at grandmas house and after they ate the rest of their dinner we all went home and went to bed, except Kenny who finished another homework assignment instead.
The drive down was nice, we stopped at Multnomah Falls for a break and then continued on to the La Quinta Inn by the convention center in Portland. It was very nice for a mid range hotel, I highly recommend it to anyone planning on staying in Portland but not spending a fortune. The Staff was nice, the accomidations were nice the pool was open 24 hours and it was within walking distance to shopping and restauraunts and a short drive from other Portland Activities such as OMSI.
We had a bit of time to waste before the reception so we walked down to the Mall with Edna and walked around a little. It was a pretty cool mall, competing with clackamas obviously, with a skating rink and huge food court.
The reception was fun! It was a "cruise" on an old fashioned Stearnwheel boat, The Stearnwheel Rose. The weather was still hot and muggy and no AC on the boat, but we all seemed to manage keeping cool by sitting on the outdoor decks and drinking lots of, hrmph, fluids :)
The cake was beautiful and there was a live band preforming, nice touch guys. I actually got Kenny to dance with me. I only make him dance once every few years or so. The appetizers were great with little terriaki chicken wings and some kind of wonderful cheese spread, MMM tasty, and a drink line that never seemed to end.
We went to McMenamins Backstage for afterparty crazyness. Though, after my throwup extravaganza at The Beach, I may have been a bit of a party pooper. I really was worried about some of the party goers, I think it was only because of my horrible experience last week. Nothing like getting asked to leave a bar to make you a bit prude the next time out. The bar was beautifull, hot (again no AC, not even a fricken fan in the place) but beautiful and Kenny and I stayed for festivities untill 2am... then we went back to the hotel and swam in the cool water of the pool. It was just right.
The next morning I woke up at 7:30 took a shower and packed, I left the alarm clock on and Kenny, trying to shut it off, set it forward an hour. We got down to breakfast before 8:30 and low and behold, didn't see anyone for the complimentary breakfast. Kenny started on his homework... I was stir crazy bored so I made probably 10 trips to the breakfast room looking for "people I recognized" it wasn't untill close to 9:30 that I found a few of them, I chatted a bit, thankfull to have some conversation. I told Dana that we had planned on going to Powells... she looked a little confused and said, "gee, a bookstore, that sounds fun" quite sarcastically. I guess I'm trained because I was actually looking forward to it. It was, other than test driving a Mini, the only thing I wanted to do this weekend. The Mini dealership is closed on Sundays :P.
Everyone left after breakfast and I was bored again. I waited a few hours, still getting up periodically to roam the hotel, I heard the shower going in Kens room and after 30 minutes or so I went to go bug them. I disturbed them, I was embarrased, so now I was bored and embarrased.
Ken finished his homework around 12:30 we went to check out and eat lunch at Stanfords, an expensive steak house a few blocks away. We called Ken to invite them but they didn't answer. The steakhouse was fantastic, my crab cakes were delicious. I guess at 17 bucks the should've been.
Ken got me out of town and filled up the gas, it seems even though gas stations in oregon are full service they're still 10cents cheaper than any in washington. I drove the rest of the way home. It was busy and I was stressed driving, I wasn't used to cruise control and I was driving badly which made Kenny question me on the road, which made me more stressed. It was a downward spiral which ended up with me giving up on cruise control and speeding from The Dalles on home.
The kids had fun at grandmas house and after they ate the rest of their dinner we all went home and went to bed, except Kenny who finished another homework assignment instead.
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