Quotable Friday
“If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
Look At My Shoes!
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Go Look At My Shoes-
On Jodifur,
It’s Always Shoe Friday at Jodifur!
The Best Way To Forget Your Troubles
‘The Best Way To Forget Your Troubles,
is To Wear Tight Shoes.’
I just got this in an email. It’s so true. If you’re wearing tight shoes, nothing else really matters, does it? But this becomes a way to look at life. Get yourself comfortable shoes. Get yourself cute shoes. Don’t buy shoes that hurt your feet. Don’t surround yourself with anything that hurts you. Life’s fun. Don’t worry, things usually work out.
Take it one day or hour at a time. If you’re holding a baby, take it one moment at a time (they grow up fast). Relax. Get a good night’s sleep. Clean out your closets. Live today like you have everything crossed off your list and done. Take a little time for yourself… Relax.
How To Get Exactly What You Want
Ahhh, a question for the ages…
How do you get what you want?
Well I’m here to tell you! But, first of all-
this does not apply to ‘world peace’… ‘a cure for cancer’… ‘to end homelessness’… ‘I want a pony’… well, maybe the last one.
All those ‘wants’ are great. I want world peace too. I want a cancer-free world too. I want everyone to have a home too…
But we all gotta start somewhere… ‘Start Small- End Big’, I always say. So let’s master how to get exactly what we want in terms of the ‘small stuff’, then we can go from there. After all, if you have little things… and little ones, around you that make you happy- you’re going to be a better mom and person and you’ll be happier…
Happier? A Better Person, you may say? Yes. And here’s how to do it-
I am revealing an age-old philosophy… a formula… a system of beliefs, if you will.
Have you read The Secret? Yes, so have I…
Click Here to Continue Reading This At DC Metro Moms…
Why Bingo Rocks!
Filed under: Entertainment, Kindergartners, Mom Blogs, The Cool in Everyday Life
Yeah, Bingo Rocks!
Why does Bingo rock? Well, after just attending my first Bingo Night at my Kindergartner’s school I’ll tell you why-
- Bingo is easy
- Bingo is fun
- Everyone has an equal chance of winning!
- It’s inexpensive
- It involves PRIZES, and who among us, doesn’t love prizes!
- It also involves snacks
- It’s a social thing, so nobody is ‘ULTRA ANGRY COMPETITIVE’
- You can be a little distracted, and still do well (see first point above)
- A Kindergartner can win (my son won a Cooler and Beach Towel)!
- and last but not least, it’s a nice family activity
Or maybe, I’m just getting old older…
Do I sound like your Grandmother??
Quotable Friday
I’m putting this quote up a day early because I will be a Kindergarten Helper all day tomorrow at Field Day, I think I’ll be tying a lot of shoelaces and stuff like that… but get ready- this quote is great!!!!
“If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it’s not a big enough goal.”
No Pennies After 2011… Really?
It went over the blogosphere over the last month that the US Mint would be stopping production of pennies altogether in April 2011…
My son’s Kindergarten teacher even told their class that pennies were no longer going to be minted after next year.
The argument is that it is more expensive to make pennies than pennies are worth.
I completely believed this. My son did too. My husband did too.
And then we were all informed by my son’s Kindergarten teacher that it had been an April Fool’s Joke… (and she had believed it too).
I felt really dumb, I must say.
Getting rid of the penny? How can we get rid of the penny? But then I looked into it… and it makes some sense.
According to Wikipedia– “As of March 2008, it costs about 1.7 cents to mint a penny. Now that the price of the raw materials exceeds the face value, there is a risk that coins will be illegally melted down for raw materials.”
AND- “With the average wage in the U.S. being about $17 per hour in 2006, it takes about two seconds to earn one cent. Thus, it is not worthwhile for most people to deal with a penny. If it takes only two seconds extra for each transaction that uses a penny, the cost of time wasted in the U.S. is about $3.65 per person annually, about $1 billion for all America. Using a different calculation economist Robert Whaples estimates a $300 million annual loss.”
PLUS- “Pennies are not accepted by all vending machines or toll booths, and pennies are generally not accepted in bulk. In addition, people often do not use cents to pay at all; they may simply use larger denominations and get pennies in return. Pennies end up sitting in jars and are not in circulation. Economist Greg Mankiw says that ‘The purpose of the monetary system is to facilitate exchange, but… the penny no longer serves that purpose’.”
AND- Prices would not be higher — “Research by Robert Whaples, an economics professor at Wake Forest University, using data on nearly 200,000 transactions from a multi-state convenience store chain shows that rounding would have virtually no effect. Consumers would gain a tiny amount – about 1/40th of a cent per transaction.”
PLUS, and us moms know this- “The reduced-cost clad zinc penny, which has been produced since mid-1982, holds additional dangers when swallowed by children and others, unlike all previous U.S. coins. If the copper plating is breached, the penny quickly corrodes into a sharp-edged object, which is more likely to lodge in the digestive tract. Injury is more likely and furthermore, zinc and copper digested from the lodged pennies may be toxic. A five kilogram dog was fatally poisoned by swallowing two pennies.”
And One More thing- Did you know that in 2002 bills went through Congress to try to eliminate the PENNY?
A Penny For Your Thoughts?
Or should I Say,
A Nickel?
Happy HCYH Day !!!!!
From one Mom to another…
Today is National ‘HOLY CRAP YOU’RE HOT’ Day!
Send this to someone gorgeous,
but don’t send it back to me,
I’ve been getting this message all freakin’ day!
Helping Police Widow Expecting Triplets
Less than a month ago I wrote this post about a mother who is now a widow.
Melissa Ayala lost her husband, a Montgomery County Police Officer, last month and is expecting triplets next month.
She has now registered at Buy Buy Baby.
And you can view her registry directly here.
The wonderful people at Graco are donating
3 car seats to Melissa for her triplets
on behalf of Graco and DC Metro Moms!
Let’s work together to help this mom out,
Please consider getting her something from her registry.
Peace.
Quotable Friday
In Honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, one of my favorite mother quotes of all time-
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people,
promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
~Tenneva Jordan
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