Happy Passover
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lesliepearI’m not really observing it this year. My cousin didn’t invite us to Seder this year – maybe with our grandma gone, he just went to California to his brother’s. (My MIL doesn’t do a Seder). And it wouldn’t make much sense to make Seder for my 2 fussy eaters – I’d be the only one eating gefilte fish (no cats to share it with!). Alan did however make and eat Matzo Brie in his pre-school class yesterday and liked it (they’ve been really good there with doing both the Jewish and Christian (the secular side) holidays in that class.)
Tuesday night was interesting. I came home and Mark was all excited about the Blockbuster DVD’s that came in. So he was trying to play one on my PC while the other was copying another one. (My husband is a pirate, sorry.) First it was playing all funny, then we discovered I had no sound on one speaker. Turns out a pin broke on one of the cables a while back, never noticed as I usually have the sound off. Fortunately we had a spare set of Altec Lansing speakers with a subwoofer (from a good sale) in the closet, so I was able to replace the speakers, but it was a pain to switch them. (I put the old set by the dumpster, then e-mailed freecycle about it…hate tossing them if someone could fix them.) I didn’t find out till Wednesday morning that it was a Windows glitch that messed up the playback, so I fixed it before work and tested it last night. Whew! (We currently don’t have a DVD player hooked to a TV – the old one is disconnected and the pesky dvd/vcr is out for repairs again!)
Last night was open school night in Little Ferry. I suspect it was timed to get people to vote for the budget. The sample ballot arrived – 3 people running for 3 slots and one question about money, which I guess, is the budget. I’ll probably vote – too many years of seeing my mom involved in PTA and school board stuff has influenced me. Anyway, we were the only ones who came to Alan’s class at the time and had a nice chat with Mrs. “T”. Alan is doing well, needs help with fine motor skills – he doesn’t like to put his fingers in the scissors. Unofficially, she recommends putting him in the afternoon class next year (the older preschool-disabled children are there) but we’ll have to see when the formal meeting is in June. We’ll have to figure out transport to and from daycare, but they are now taking 1 child over from daycare to the afternoon class – but someone else has to walk the child back. We have all summer to figure that out.
At least last night, I got all my bills paid. And I finished sorting out Alan’s fall/winter clothes – now I have some to store for next year, some to save for a friend and not so good ones for the clothing swap. Still have to finish sorting mine (I so need to diet) and send all my woolen stuff to box storage.
I do need to get Alan shoes. He HATES trying on shoes. I got him a pair of fake Birkenstock’s from Children’s Place – they are a 12 (a little big – they didn’t have that style any smaller) but I think he will wear them. I had a nice leather pair from Target with a toggle – but they don’t seem to fit his high arch (just like mine) – I couldn’t even get him to try. I’m going to go to an old fashioned shoe store tomorrow or Saturday and see if they can fit him. I’ve done Stride Rite in the past for fit, but never liked what they had for some reason or another (price, light up).
I hope tonight to go get glasses. Trying a different optical place, maybe they’ll have something I like and that is in my budget.
Tuesday night was interesting. I came home and Mark was all excited about the Blockbuster DVD’s that came in. So he was trying to play one on my PC while the other was copying another one. (My husband is a pirate, sorry.) First it was playing all funny, then we discovered I had no sound on one speaker. Turns out a pin broke on one of the cables a while back, never noticed as I usually have the sound off. Fortunately we had a spare set of Altec Lansing speakers with a subwoofer (from a good sale) in the closet, so I was able to replace the speakers, but it was a pain to switch them. (I put the old set by the dumpster, then e-mailed freecycle about it…hate tossing them if someone could fix them.) I didn’t find out till Wednesday morning that it was a Windows glitch that messed up the playback, so I fixed it before work and tested it last night. Whew! (We currently don’t have a DVD player hooked to a TV – the old one is disconnected and the pesky dvd/vcr is out for repairs again!)
Last night was open school night in Little Ferry. I suspect it was timed to get people to vote for the budget. The sample ballot arrived – 3 people running for 3 slots and one question about money, which I guess, is the budget. I’ll probably vote – too many years of seeing my mom involved in PTA and school board stuff has influenced me. Anyway, we were the only ones who came to Alan’s class at the time and had a nice chat with Mrs. “T”. Alan is doing well, needs help with fine motor skills – he doesn’t like to put his fingers in the scissors. Unofficially, she recommends putting him in the afternoon class next year (the older preschool-disabled children are there) but we’ll have to see when the formal meeting is in June. We’ll have to figure out transport to and from daycare, but they are now taking 1 child over from daycare to the afternoon class – but someone else has to walk the child back. We have all summer to figure that out.
At least last night, I got all my bills paid. And I finished sorting out Alan’s fall/winter clothes – now I have some to store for next year, some to save for a friend and not so good ones for the clothing swap. Still have to finish sorting mine (I so need to diet) and send all my woolen stuff to box storage.
I do need to get Alan shoes. He HATES trying on shoes. I got him a pair of fake Birkenstock’s from Children’s Place – they are a 12 (a little big – they didn’t have that style any smaller) but I think he will wear them. I had a nice leather pair from Target with a toggle – but they don’t seem to fit his high arch (just like mine) – I couldn’t even get him to try. I’m going to go to an old fashioned shoe store tomorrow or Saturday and see if they can fit him. I’ve done Stride Rite in the past for fit, but never liked what they had for some reason or another (price, light up).
I hope tonight to go get glasses. Trying a different optical place, maybe they’ll have something I like and that is in my budget.
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Date: 2006-04-13 04:54 pm (UTC)My mom keeps wanting to take Arabis to a shoe-store to get fitted for Stride-Rites. I keep trying to tell her that Arabis isn't striding AT ALL, right or wrong, and it's a little early yet (she's only 10 1/2 months).
Good luck with the shoe thing. It's not my favorite thing to do either!
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-13 06:15 pm (UTC)I just bought her a pair of fake Robeez (Faux-beez?) from Target so she's been wearing those.