Adoption
Our friends, Kevin and Abby are adopting a baby from Ethiopia. They are close to completing the paperwork side of things are ready for the waiting and paying part of the adoption. They have been seeking creative ways to fund the almost $30,000 needed for the process. Read about their journey.
One easy way to help is to buy your amazon gifts through their site. I know you are still Christmas shopping and odds are that you might purchase one or more items from Amazon this season. If you use their amazon link to search for gifts then make a purchase, Kevin and Abby will receive 5% of your purchase and be able to put that money towards their costly but amazing adoption. Kevin has an amazon link on most of his blogs, but this one is the easiest…Click and buy lots.
I have also added their nifty sidebar application so you can keep track of their adoption journey and learn along the way.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (2)Snow and Trembling
I had a great snow day - other than the fact that I was still recovering from a nasty cold. I overlooked my slight headache and headed out. We got most of our Christmas shopping done (which is great, because I wasn’t sure when I was going to do that) and headed home before too much snow accumulated. [On a side note, we did more shopping today, which was insane. We have only a few malls in Connecticut, so the Christmas rush was particularly apparent today.]
Around 11:30 most people were freaking out about the snow, so we headed home around 2:30. All said, we got about 4-5 inches and a good covering of icy sleet on top. My school had almost 8 inches of snow.
We even got a 2 hour delay on Friday to make sure the roads were all clear.
Tonight there is supposed to be a “nor-easter” which people like to say with fear and trembling. I am not sure what the difference is between a noreaster and a named storm, but people are more afraid of the noreaster. Maybe it will mean another delay or a snow day on Monday. Either of those things would be great - especially the late start since it means I get to sleep a bit longer and don’t have to go to school an extra day in June to make up the missed day.
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Today, Storm Alexander is supposed to hit. When a snow storm is projected to have more than 6 inches of snowfall on a majority of the state, they name the storm. The storm isn’t supposed to happen until later this afternoon, but my school did not want to be stuck with all the kids at school, so we are having a snow day.
Great - except for the fact that I didn’t get the message until I was ready to step out the door this morning. I figured we would close early or close tomorrow. Usually, when I expect a closing, I take my phone to bed so when I get the call in the morning, I can keep sleeping. Not today. Oh well, I am still glad for the break - Especially since the snow hasn’t started.
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I always think about blog entries when I am driving to work and forget them when I am driving home. Sorry for the delay in posts. I’m working on my memory.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Movie Reviews
We were in the mood for any type of movie because we were Christmas gawking and were suffering from mall overload. We needed a break. We saw Enchanted because nothing else looked good. We were surprised by the movie. It was funny, with a smart twist on the classic Disney fairy tales, but it’s not like the other movies where some cave man or space alien wanders through New York City. It was entertaining. Family fun for all.
Because of the lingering effects of the mall disease, which brings on tiredness, and because of our codependency with Costco’s cheap movie tickets, we came back for another movie later in the day. We saw a sneak preview of The Golden Compass, which Tim says is the best movie of this kind that he’s seen in a long time. I was interested from the first preview because it is about a girl who has to hide from or fight against the system, which I always like. I had never heard of the book, but some people said it was anti-Christian. I don’t know if the book is, but the movie was good.
Maybe you could watch these movies in a more spread out fashion, unlike Tim and I. Though for those of you needing a double movie, these are two good choices.
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