Our Week

This first picture, of our kitchen counter, represents the week we’ve been having.

It started last Monday with Jake hitting the couch to rest with a fever and aches. It was the beginning of six days on the couch for him – the first three, he didn’t move at all. As you can see in the picture, though, he was handling it quite well – always keeping his cool, even when asleep with a fever.

The next morning – Tuesday – Jessie reached for something someone was cutting with scissors and got her finger caught in the scissors, losing most of her fingernail and a tiny piece of her finger. We had to bandage up her whole hand because she would have pulled off and choked on one that just covered her finger. She kept pulling off the big bandage anyway, so I spent the day wrapping and re-wrapping. If you can’t tell which finger it is that’s cut, I’ll tell you...it’s the bright red one. This is one tough girl, though – as soon as the bandage was on, she was clapping her hands and crawling around, using her hurt hand.

By Sunday morning, all four kids were sick. Ryan had already been sick for a few days and was able to get up to eat. Jessie and Emma were just coming down with it.

The girls weren’t looking quite so cool as Jake.

It’s Tuesday now - day nine - and we’re just back from the doctor where we picked up drops for two girls with pink-eye. I didn’t take pink-eye pictures. Nobody wants to see that.

It’s like a hospital around here.

Finish the Sentence

You can never have too many (or too much)...

Toby:
You can never have too many shoes.
You can never have too many flashlights.

Carol:
You can never have too many pairs of kids' boots.
You can never have too many tubes of Neosporin.

Ryan:
You can never have too much reading time.

Jake:
You can never have too many cheeseburgers.

Emma:
You can never have too much sausage.

Saint Paddy's Party

Saturday was Saint Patrick's Day and Toby was gone to a "men's dinner" with a bunch of church men. A few friends and I decided we wanted to party too so four of my friends came over with their kids and we had a green dinner of spinach fettuccini, green salad, green bread, green punch, green shamrock cookies, and green mint ice-cream. We had a great time.Here's a picture of the fourteen kids that were present...ten of them boys. What fun!

Here's Ryan showing off the green bread.

And here are three of the ladies: Michelle, Petina, and Renee. Only Betsy's missing from this picture but there's her hand on the left.

Woman:Man::Fish:___________

Ok, here's a research project for anyone willing to take it on (Brad, Lindsey, hint-hint).

There is a standard for the notation of Analogy in testing, using the colon as a symbol. for example;

Black:White::Hot:Cold would read Black "is to" White "as" Hot "is to" Cold.

Your mission? Tell me what set of standard symbols, notation, whatever, the colon is being used in, and what it is called.

Ideally, it would be a part of a set of recognized notation standards, such as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathmatical_notation

And, no, I don't know the answer already. Good luck!

ps, bonus points if you know the answer to the analogy in the title, and in what 90's song it appears.

Toby

Thoughtful Question Number Two

Here’s your next question to ponder:

If you could script the basic plot for the dream you will have tonight, what would the story be?

Toby:
The plot for the dream I would script would be for my family and me to be visited by an angel, like in biblical times, and given a message and instruction about our lives...or I’d dream about spending a week at Sandy Point.

Carol:I’m in the mountains, sitting on a rock, by a stream , reading. Nothing happens in this dream, I just sit in this perfect spot in silence.

Ryan:
I’d dream that I was kayaking in a really big ocean and my kayak somehow flipped over and I fell into the water with no lifejacket on and that I could breath underwater and no fish or anything would harm me. And I could come to the surface of the water and breath there and underwater. Either that or I would be discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cave where they were found.

Jake:
If I was listening to a story tape in bed and I turned it on – and not just the story tape went on but the people in the story tape started appearing and I turned the story tape off and the actors disappeared. And I turned it on and didn’t even have to listen to it, I could just watch it.

Gail’s here, visiting with us, so she’s putting her answer in the post instead of in a comment:

Gail:
Awaking in a field of daisies with the sun shining on me...though daisy’s stink so I’m not sure I want to be in a field of daisies...but something beautiful and spring-like, with a good book and a diet coke.

Now it's your turn - what do you want to dream tonight?

Last Snow Day of the Year

This is how I feel - Like these flowers, I was getting geared up for Spring and got caught off guard.

And there's my little angel.