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Betty3
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   Posted: 12 - Mar - 2012 at 8:37pm |
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81 here currently - beautiful!
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 11:26am |
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Rain this morning so everything has that spring green glow. High in the 70's-80's with slow winds. May have to knock out a short ride tonight.
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Elle
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 11:43am |
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Packed up the 13 year-old for school trip to Costa Rica. Thought I was going to have to get the wife a valium prescription but she's doing better today. Lots of cool pictures coming across the online journal.
Not a bad Monday. Hope all is well for everyone.
That is an awesome school trip. At 13 we went camping in the same county where we lived as a school trip:(
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 11:59am |
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The only school trip I remember was to the Chalmette battlefield. I might find it more interesting now, but at the time, talk about borrrrring.
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 12:08pm |
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I know how your wife feels Timk...my son was nominated to be a Student Ambassador with the People to People program. He's going to 6 countries in Europe for 23 days this summer. My son is begging me to just let my husband drop him off at the airport because he won't cry. He said if I have to go I am not allowed to cry and call him "my baby".
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Betty C
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 12:57pm |
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Has anyone heard of the School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) semester program for high school juniors in Washington DC? I know everything the internet has to say about it. It seems entirely credible, but is it "worth it"? My niece was accepted for next spring.
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 1:17pm |
Originally posted by Elle
Originally posted by timkPacked up the 13 year-old for school trip to Costa Rica. Thought I was going to have to get the wife a valium prescription but she's doing better today. Lots of cool pictures coming across the online journal. Not a bad Monday. Hope all is well for everyone.
That is an awesome school trip. At 13 we went camping in the same county where we lived as a school trip:(
We didn't even get a camping trip back in my day. Because I was in band, I did get to go on a band trip to Canada, but British Columbia is closer to us than most parts of the U.S. so we didn't have to go very far.
My grandson is going to Japan in June as part of a group that his middle school sends every year. He is so excited about it, and I'm excited for him. I'd have loved to have an opportunity like that when I was 14. Heck, I'd love an opportunity like that NOW!
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texls
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 4:06pm |
Wow that must be really hard to let young children go so far away, but then you don't want to limit their opportunities either. JG I agree with you son. Don't call him baby :)
I'm trying to convince my nieces husband to let her and their two teenage boys go to Florida with us. There will be about 20 or so family members, and these boys have never gone anywhere. It really irks me that he won't let them go because he can't take off work. It's the Florida panhandle, Not Mexico.
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timk
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 5:35pm |
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It was not easy when I sent my oldest out to Europe her senior year either. Still, we just focus on sending out the positive energy and strength to help them become what we hope they become - independent world travelers. It's not always easy.
To me travel is the most rewarding and educating experience you can have. I am with you Linda, it makes no sense to hold kids back. Seeing the world is an amazing opportunity.
I still remember how bored my oldest was when we went to Prague Castle. Then a few years later a story came on the news about the anniversary Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and how the crowds gathered outside of Prague Castle the night the government fell. My daughter looked over at me and said, "hey we were there." She could see it and put not only the place in context but what it meant and who the people were. You don't get that from books.
I hope they will let her go.
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 5:54pm |
I love to travel, and I've always taken nieces and nephews with me. Now I'm enjoying taking my husband to places he's never been. And YES we are going to North Carolina next month to welcome our new family members, and it happens to fall on our anniversary.
My niece's husband is very strange and "doesn't do well with travel." He has issues with safety, and issues with sleeping in strange beds and issues with "communal living". We're renting several 3 bed-3bath condos that each have over 1900 sq ft.
The man just has issues. He's very controlling and I think part of it is he's afraid to let his wife get away from his side because she might see what a normal relationship is.
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Posted: 13 - Mar - 2012 at 11:21pm |
Originally posted by texls
The man just has issues. He's very controlling and I think part of it is he's afraid to let his wife get away from his side because she might see what a normal relationship is.
That is just kind of scary. Have a safe trip. Love the Southeast scenery.
Youngest has been posting pics of swimming under the waterfall, a volcano, a boa constrictor they found on the road, mercado and food. Wife is calmed down slightly.
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Posted: 14 - Mar - 2012 at 12:23pm |
Murphy's law says if one person is on vacation, the person who fills in for her will be out sick for two days, and the work turned in from other depts on those two days will be full of mistakes and missing documents.
I hate Murphy's law.
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Posted: 14 - Mar - 2012 at 1:46pm |
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I have done a lot of travelling with kids over the years. Hard as it is for the parents to let them go, it can be just as hard and scary for the kids. It is not unsual for the trips they take with me to be the first time they have been away from Mom and Dad overnight, been responsible for their own money, taking care of themselves, packing themselves or flying. It is absolutely amazing to watch them slowly gain their independence and come home more confident. It is also why after even just a long weekend with a group of teenagers I am exhausted beyond belief. Still so very worth it and I've only had really two groups that I had to think twice about leaving at the destination.
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Posted: 14 - Mar - 2012 at 2:24pm |
One of the most nerve-wracking things was to put my 12 yr old nephew on a plane to Chicago to meet up with his mother and they were going on to Canada. She had made all of the arrangements and failed to tell anyone that her plane would be arriving several hours after his. His Dad had asked her several times for a copy of the itinerary and she wouldn't give it to him. Now we know why.So I'm in Tx and this child is in Chicago calling me very distressed and worried and hungry. He had money for food but felt shy about asking the attendants to take him to get something to eat. The attendants were probably not too happy that no one was there to meet him.
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Posted: 14 - Mar - 2012 at 3:02pm |
Originally posted by Elle
I have done a lot of travelling with kids over the years. Hard as it is for the parents to let them go, it can be just as hard and scary for the kids. It is not unsual for the trips they take with me to be the first time they have been away from Mom and Dad overnight, been responsible for their own money, taking care of themselves, packing themselves or flying. It is absolutely amazing to watch them slowly gain their independence and come home more confident. It is also why after even just a long weekend with a group of teenagers I am exhausted beyond belief. Still so very worth it and I've only had really two groups that I had to think twice about leaving at the destination.
There is a special place in my heart for people like you, Elle, who can take other peoples' kids on the kinds of trips that you do!  I'm not particularly good with other peoples' teenagers and I was always so grateful to the advisors, teachers, and chaperones who traveled with my kids on all the various school & church trips they took when they were young.
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Betty3
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Posted: 14 - Mar - 2012 at 8:47pm |
It takes a special person to do that which you do with your munchkins, Elle.
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Posted: 15 - Mar - 2012 at 11:22am |
Part of a conversation I had this morning with one of my Plant Managers who is Hispanic (who happens to be a very smart guy.)
Me: "Did your parents speak Spanish?"
PM: "Yes, when they didn't want us kids to know what they were talking about but we didn't learn Spanish at home."
Me: "That's too bad. I bet you wish now you had."
PM: "I can understand our employees when they speak Spanish but I just can't speak it myself. I did take a conversational Spanish class at a community college years ago - sort of a Rosetta Jones type course that..."
Me (interrupting him): Did you just say ROSETTA JONES?:
PM: Yes. Isn't that her name?"
While I'm totally sputtering with laughter I explained it's Rosetta Stone and why, and then the two of us howled with laughter until we both had tears running down our faces and a crowed had gathered outside my office to see what all the hilarity was about. 
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Posted: 15 - Mar - 2012 at 11:23am |
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I'm in such trouble...I bought a homemade peanut butter and chocolate egg from a church group and it tastes like Reeses PB cups USE to taste before the PB became grainy. Ohhhhhh is soooooo gooooood..... I'm going to be groaning...I can't believe I ate the whole thing soon.
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Posted: 15 - Mar - 2012 at 11:50am |
So we bought one of those K-cup coffee machines-the kind where you stick this thing of coffee in that looks like a creamer. The admin asst has appointed herself the K-cup police and is tracking down anyone who forgets to take the used K-cup out of the machine to yell at them.
Seriously???
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Posted: 15 - Mar - 2012 at 12:03pm |
Sounds like she has a little too much time on her hands. Might need to assign her additional tasks 
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