Back to Reality

Just spent a week at the beach for Spring Break. It rained most of the time, which was actually okay, as we spent a lot of time hanging out in front of the fireplace, playing games and watching awful TV shows. The best part of the week for the kids was that we found a swimming pool at a local camp that is open to the public at certain times during the week. They had an absolute blast.

Here are a few pictures, as usual, I took so many that it will take me forever to go through them, which means this will probably be it!

Help bring Max home

Here's a great fundraiser to help this family bring home the most adorable little boy from China. His big brother is from Annie's orphanage!

http://fromlouisiana2china.blogspot.com/2011/03/first-major-fundraiser-to-bring-max.html

Iron Chefs Annie, Bethany and Jack

Charlie and I are bravely attempting to finish dinner, as served by our very creative children.

Dinner #17 was chosen for me--this was noodles, nicely folded lunch meat, a fig newton with a fruit roll wrapped around it and another fruit roll that is filled with something crunchy, I suspect it might be a chip of some kind. I am a little bit afraid to take a bite.

Charlie was served Dinner #98, which seems to be remarkably similar to Dinner #17, except that he was given green tea and mine came with water. I wish I'd thought to take some pictures before we started eating because the food was presented very attractively on special plates with chopsticks. As you might be able to tell, we watch the Food Network at our house a lot.

We were just presented with our bill, which shows Order #17, #18 and #98. I am not sure who got Dinner #18. The bill includes a section for comments and asks if we would like anything else. Our total for this amazing repast is $17.82. At the bottom, it says in big letters "THANK YOU FOR COMING."

These kids are pretty amazing.

Addendum: took a bite of the scary fruit roll thing. The filling was not chips. There was something squishy in the middle. I don't know what it is and I don't want to know.

Miss BB

Bad Teacher...Bad, Bad Teacher

What kind of teacher offers a 9 year old girl a free bunny, complete with cage and then tells her, just make sure your parents agree?? Argh! I just spent 20 minutes with Annie on the phone explaining why we can't have a bunny (I would actually love to have a bunny for a pet, but we have 2 cats and 2 dogs who would thoroughly enjoy chasing a little bunny around the house). Plus we have no place to put a bunny and what would we do with one when we go on vacation.

So now I have one whiney, angry little girl coming home who feels like she has the meanest parents in the whole world. And Annie in a bad mood is not a fun thing.

Thanks a lot, Mr. 4th Grade Reading Teacher.