Pinterest and a Few Rants

The kids had off today so I didn't have time to collect any thoughts that I could form into a post. My sisters and a good friend (P.L.) have introduced  me to Pinterest (N.M., you introduced me to both Twitter and Pinterest awhile ago but Twitter won that time and I'm still trying to figure that out). I am not yet addicted and still trying to figure it out but I am nervous that it is going to be another "time-suck" (much like Twitter and Facebook are now). If you are on there and want me to follow you, comment or send me a message with your username. Mine is queenofchaosmom. I figured keeping it the same as Twitter would make it less difficult. Everyone that does it says it is good for decorating, recipe and craft ideas but so far, I am just feeling very inadequate that I haven't been doing any of this stuff so far and a little pressure that now that I know of all of it, I should be doing it now.

Now my evening will be filled with 4th grade book reports and book summaries (you'd think they'd be the same thing but they are not). What irks me is that all of the ideas for the book reports have to be typed. My computer doesn't always work and my feeling is, if you want more than my kid's best handwriting, you should allow them time in school to type it. Whatever happened to having to turn things in with your best handwriting? Why is good handwriting falling by the wayside? There are 13 book project ideas. Only one doesn't have to be typed! The other twelve do...well, maybe another one doesn't. I don't know what the heck a "glog" is. The computer that the kids have to type things on has letter keys that don't always work. The "k" for instance does not always work. You really have to press it. So there are times when they type something and I hear them go, "Oh, no! I have to type it all over." Guess what animal Tommy is doing for his report? Yep...a kangaroo.

My other rant is going to be short. Apparently, when you live in my town and you want to play something besides travel sports, you are **** out of luck because all the other programs are dropped because there isn't enough participation. I had high hopes for Gia doing Kid Rock like my other kids did but unless I want to pay double to go to another park district, it's not going to happen.

For anyone that is interested, Nico's team came in 2nd in the tournament out of 12 teams. They put up a great fight after playing four games with only an hour between games but came up a little short in the final game. It was a long day and I am so proud of him and his team!