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Okay, thanks for the info! Count me in for R4 and pls. put me on stand-by. :)
Maybe something other than pacing could be done. Hmmm.... Like riding around on unicycles.... Or leap-frogging.... Just sayin'....
Square dancing???? Judithe could crack her whip every time someone turned the wrong way....OH OH I KNOW!!!!! We could do Kareoke!!!! If I start singing Steph will post a shelf just to get me to shut up!
*cowers in the corner, says in a small voice* If the whip comes out, I'll have to hide. It doesn't like me. Haha.Ooooh. Jump rope! Or.... We could just have like a ginormous type picnic thing with all those games and whatnot. Sack races, egg toss, wheelbarrow race, etc. There's booze at picnics.
Ugh! I don't think I'll be pacing or doing any strenuous excercise of any sort for at least a week. I will be up for a nice cold drink though. The next heat-wave is hitting Illinois starting today. Excessive Heat Advisory in effect until 7p.m. Friday. With the heat index they're predicting 105 - 115 each day with possible 120 the last couple days of the warning period. ::whining:: I don't like hot weather.
Wow, that certainly is extreme. Stay cool Daffodil, you can cheer us pacers along instead!
Laurie (Laurielu) wrote: "Okay, thanks for the info! Count me in for R4 and pls. put me on stand-by. :)"Gotcha on the stand-by list, Laurie. Sorry ya missed this one. See in R4 though! :)
Laura Lulu wrote: "Kristen wrote: "Where are you in Chicago? My brother lives on Ontario at Lakeshore. I'm "across the pond" in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We've got some serious heat coming this weekend. Enjoy your AC! ..."Lol! Michiganders do that with Detroit, too. :-)
Crystal S wrote: "Cindy, just pop on over to Arkansas. I have vodka in the freezer, coconut rum, vanilla rum, spiced rum (clearly I like rum!), and beer. Also I have piña coloda mix. Yum yum. I'll have to have some ..."Time to look forward to The Hunger Games in March!!! There's always another YA story to watch.
Daffodil wrote: "Ugh! I don't think I'll be pacing or doing any strenuous excercise of any sort for at least a week. I will be up for a nice cold drink though. The next heat-wave is hitting Illinois starting tod..."POOL PARTY!!
Drink requests...Hard liquor only...(no beer)
Fond memories of Salty Dogs...my first drunk...sigh...
Ruby Red Grapefruit Margaritas. My absolute FAVE!!!!Skipping the pool party - unless there is LOTS of shade. Can't tan. Just burn and peel and freckle. I'll be there at dusk.
Cindy (eclecticfirefly) wrote: "Ruby Red Grapefruit Margaritas. My absolute FAVE!!!!Skipping the pool party - unless there is LOTS of shade. Can't tan. Just burn and peel and freckle. I'll be there at dusk."
Oh. INDOOR POOL PARTY!
Now THAT'S my kind of pool party!!!Sometimes I think I would make a good vampire....except for the freckles!
Sometimes I think I would make a good vampire....except for the freckles! <-- sounds like me too! I glow in the dark, but you could play connect the dots with my freckles. My grandma used to tell me they were angel kisses. I told her they musta loooooved me.
That's cute! I just tell people I have so many freckles cuz I'm too sweet. All that brown sugar has to get out somehow.....
LOL I like that.
LOL! Good ones!
I have a lot of freckles too. No one ever said anything cute about them.
I know Mary - I had to think up my own cuteness about the freckles.
Freckled folks unite! Let's make them the new "thang2have"!
Judithe wrote: "Freckled folks unite! Let's make them the new "thang2have"!"LOL Your 'namesake' would love that. She has so many freckles it is almost her skin color! And the red hair to go with it!!
Sounds like a good pool party to me! I am actually allergic to the sun: ( my little boy tells people I am part vampire lol
Splash! It's HOT. Almost too hot to read by the pool.
I burn and peel to. I always say I'll never have a tan until the freckles take over enough.
I'm a very fair skinned blonde and I fry in the sun. My daughter got her father's Italian genes. She turns a nice golden brown even though we are very good about sunscreen. She didn't get my freckles either.
Daffodil wrote: "I burn and peel to. I always say I'll never have a tan until the freckles take over enough."My son is a freckle face and I just told him the same thing last week. He's 11, starting Jr. High next month, and all of a sudden, he wants a tan. Dude, you don't tan. The closest you'll get is your freckles connecting. He's got my husband's Irish skin and my daughter has my German skin--we tan, they burn. Even though I am actually more Irish than my husband--but he's got the Irish last name. :)
And I think freckles are the cutest thing eva. How are these not cute?
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Daffodil wrote: "Ugh! I don't think I'll be pacing or doing any strenuous excercise of any sort for at least a week. I will be up for a nice cold drink though. The next heat-wave is hitting Illinois starting tod..."It is going to be u.g.l.y. And my poor husband is working outside. He's a pipefitter and they're putting in the medical gas piping in a new hospital addition, so not totally outside, just in a big building with no windows, therefore no a/c. I predict he will be coming home a bit stinky.
And my kids start football/cheer training camp this week--every night from 6-8pm. And from what they're saying, it's not going to be cooling off much at night. :(
That is an awesome picture. Your kids are beautiful. Love the freckles.
Laura they are gorgeous. I wasn't aware we had kids the same age. I have an 11 year old starting middle school this year too, but a girl. :) How old is your girl?Everytime I try to do the picture posting thingee I fail.
I am checking accuweather right now, I was totally oblivious of the heat wave, but man it was uncomfortable walking to work this morning.
My kids don't burn at all, I am Italian origin and my husband is from Mexico, they are this interesting mix and have olive skin. We never ever have to worry about sunscreen in terms of preventing a sunburn. They are lucky ducks.
Here in Iowa, the heat wave is is making me feel like a puddle!
I'm German/Irish and Iroquois and I sunburn very easily. My sister sucked up all the Native American Genes. I got the German and Irish. My brother is kind of in between-dark blonde with light eyes and darker skin. My sister has the darker skin, dark eyes and almost black hair. I have the light skin, light eyes and very light hair.
Thanks! They're pretty cute. Usually. ;) Regina, Jack is 11 and Grace is 8, going into 3rd grade.
That's how I am with Grace and the sunscreen--I'm always yelling "Jack! Come get sunscreen!" but I'm not as adamant with Grace. And I know I should be. Sun=evil. Or I'll put it on both of them to start, but I know I have to reapply on Jack, especially if they're swimming, but I never reapply on the girlie. Sorry. I suck. ;)
And posting a pic is easy.
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Just post your image link between the quotes. :)
Mary wrote: "I'm German/Irish and Iroquois and I sunburn very easily. My sister sucked up all the Native American Genes. I got the German and Irish. My brother is kind of in between-dark blonde with light ey..."Mary, I'm German, Irish & Dutch--1/4 Dutch, and the other 75% is half German/half Irish. I have brown hair & light blue eyes, but my skin is just medium--not fair, but not olive. And I have to be someplace tropical, on the ocean, to burn. It's a crazy game how our genes mix it up--you have Iroquois in you where I have Dutch; I sooooo should burn more than you. :)
Thanks for the guidance. :) My #2 is almost 8, but due to birthday cut off he is going into 2nd. :)
It's my sister's fault. She used up all the Iroquois genes. Of couse she was jealous that I was a green eyed blonde and I was always jealous that she looks like Pocahontas.
Lol @ Mary. :)Regina, I do think we talked about our kids ages, but it was a while ago. But I do remember we had kids the same age, but opposite genders. :)
My girl is the same with the birthday cutoff, she'll be 9 in October. I agree with how they changed the birthday cutoff to September 1--you have to be 5 to start kindergarten. It just makes sense. But I think back to when we were kids and it was December 1st--mine's in September, they would have kept me back.
When I was pregnant with her, I had 2 cousins and 2 girlfriends who were pg at the same time. All of us had girls, but theirs were born in June, 2 in July, and one in August, so they're all a year ahead of her in school. But hey, we'll take that extra year--then my girl gets to be a superstar. Lol. :)
I have a November baby and so she was home almost an extra year. sniff, sniff. I found today that she got her monthly for the first time while visiting her father. Poor kid. (she's 13). At least his mother is there for her to go to for help.
My son was born at the end of August and I would have loved for him to have had that extra year of play. He's the youngest in his grade and it really is a lot of work for him to keep up.
I missed the cut off! I am a 12/20, and I loved being one of the older kids. :) So I have always seen it as a plus. I have 3 fall babies (two in October and 1 in November) and then a June baby, but Laura I looked at it like you, I get an extra year with my little ones before school and before they go to college. I also agree with it. I just meant he was older than and maybe more your daughter's age but I gues not because they are both fall babies. Gabriela turns 12 on 10/27, Sebastian turns 8 on 10/6, and Giovanna turns 6 on 11/26, and then I have a summer baby, Natalia, who just turned 3. Oh that sucks you weren't there for her Mary! My 11 year old got hers several months ago, she was home wtih my husband and just went up and told him. It turned out okay, we had talked alot about it (she is not shy about it at all) and then I came home from work a little early. Have you talked to her on the phone? It is good to have a female around when it happens though, glad she has her grandma.
ETA: LOL, I think I misread your post Laura, but yes, she does get to be a superstar. :)
Regina wrote: "Gabriela turns 12 on 10/27, Sebastian turns 8 on 10/6"Yep, they are almost exactly a year apart--Grace will be 9 on 10/10. :) But Gabriela is 4 months older than Jack, he won't be 12 until 2/10.
And Grace would think she was a superstar, no matter what. Lol. But being just a few months older helps a lot when they're younger. Especially in sports, since they usually do it by grade level.
My birthday is in September, so I was always one of the youngest, and yes, I hated it. Everyone turned 16 first and got to drive before me, everyone turned 18 first, everyone turned 21 first. But my mom always told me that someday I would be thankful, and she was right. Next year, all my friends will be turning 40 before me. Lol.
But, I was ahead of most kids my age, school wise. I always was in that small group of kids who got to go sit in the library for silent reading while the other kids were learning to read, I was always bored in math because they were doing baby stuff. So keeping me back another year would have been bad. I wonder if they do it on a case by case basis? My birthday is only 12 days later than the cutoff now, if I was already reading, would they have taken me in kindergarten, even though I wouldn't be 5 for 2 weeks? Or is it law?
My mom loves to talk about what a little prodigy I was, and I of course always loved it. Until I had my own kids. Then she'd say stuff like, "Oh, you were talking up a storm at this age. Singing songs...you knew all the words to "Sunshine on my Shoulder" when you were two." Blah blah blah. Lol.
Mary wrote: "sniff, sniff. I found today that she got her monthly for the first time while visiting her father. Poor kid. (she's 13). At least his mother is there for her to go to for help."Awwww. :( Dad's are cool for a lot of stuff, but not that. Grandma's good, but mom's better. :)
Thirteen is good, my niece was 13 in April and hasn't gotten hers yet, but she's all skin and bones, just like her mama, and she didn't get hers til 15. I was thirteen, and I don't remember it being traumatic. Which just means that I wasn't in the early group, or the late group. :)
But girls are getting it earlier and earlier these days. And I blame the hormones they put in the milk. If you wanted me to produce more milk, you'd pump me full of hormones, and that's the same thing they do to the cows. I hate paying a fortune for the organic milk, but if it keeps my girlie from getting her period for a few months, it was money well spent. ;)
Oh all of my kids are prodigies. ;) I completely relate to your mom. I do think there is room for movement up and down. Our school in our school district is unique, it is a public schooling but all of our classes are multi-age and all of them loop. That means Kdg and 1st are together, 2nd and 3rd are together and then 4th and 5th are together. And then each child stays in the class with the same teacher and same kids at their grade (unless there is a problem) for 2 years. It is really a nice system. But that helps kids who are working at an elevated level or below average. There isn't much advancing in our school, but I have heard of students in other schools that got moved ahead, so I do think it happens. :)
My oldest had her period 2 months before I did in terms of age, I believe our hormone free milk paid off in the end. We just both were early bloomers, it seemed to be relatively painless and smooth sailing for her. I feel like it was a major victory for me! Positive menstruation experience -- check. LOL. Hopefully it will for our other 2 little girls two.
Kinda funny Laura, you and I were preggers at the same time for your two and my two oldest. Maybe not too odd, women are pregnant every day. But in the end, we both like GRRM and Sirantha Jax so there is some coincidence there. :)
I would have been so jealous to have a sister with Iroquois features, I feel your pain Mary! I feel like my kids haven't gotten the coloring I always wanted. As I have gotten older (I am 39), I burn more -- it is odd. I now only burn on my neck, when I do my husband calls me a "redneck". Haha.
We have that looping system here, except it starts in Gr1, not K. So Cycle 1 is Grs1-2, Cycle 2 is Gr3-4 and Cycle 3 is Gr5-6. They don't always get the same teacher and I'm not convinced it is the best for all, especially since they never hold anyone back anymore. Then they get to high school and are allowed to fail. A nice little disconnect.
They do hold kids back in our district. Our district has a repuation for being a high performing district so I am sure there is pressure to hold kids back who are not making the grade and won't pass the standardized tests. I know several that have been held back. How are system works we love it, it is a nice little community when the same kids are in the class for 2 years (at least at one grade level), with the same teacher. Less pressure waiting for assignemnts too, as they only change every other year. I have noticed that it helps solidify friendships across grades for both kids and parents, it definitely broadens kids social circles but it may just be our community. The kids go to middle school at 6th grade, and the kids from our school are a step ahead as they already have friends at middle school, and then in high school, friends they have been in class with. The sports here are multi-age too, so maybe that addes to it as well.
That's so cool. You're lucky to have that in a school district.
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