March!!! How can it be?! Yes, I saw the rotation, Kathy, and it looks so great!!! Though since I don't have S&H, I think I'd substitute the 4DS weight work. I'm torn..... I thought I had it all planned out.... with the road trip coming up, I was going to make sure I did one hiit and one step (yes, Hottie, I realize I need to practice both of them! It's just that step moves seems harder), a day of BBL, a day of Tonique, a day of total body weight work that has cardio factor (like NMTZ or Lalo), and a day of mat work, with upper body added in on the hiit day. Hmmmm, my mind will be churning on this today!!! I slept horribly last night, so I almost decided to go back to sleep, but then I started thinking about Travis off to science camp and decided if I was going to lay there awake thinking, I should work out. So, it was mat day and I did tonique mat, but only 2/3 of it because I ran out of time from staying in bed a bit.
Joanne, I have your post up in another tab so I can comment.... so much interesting stuff there. How's hubby? That sounds awful, but it is petty hilarious about the donut day!! We have been watching 30 Rock on dvd -- does anyone watch it? -- and recently saw an episode where the union brings them secret location sandwiches once a year and your donut story reminded me of that. Anyway, I hope he is feeling better and that he's able to enjoy the treats!!
Nice play, eh? I was so amazed at the caliber of talent in our middle school play as well -- it was a musical and the singing was quite good, and like you mentioned, a couple of them really had presence up there on stage. Good to know you didn't have to give up half your life for a few months to make it happen!
Oh, yeah, the three seater car thing.... yes, a "station wagon" is probably what I'll end up with. There are a handful of them, you probably just are unaware of them. Volvo makes one, and I think Larry's leaning toward that for the safety factor. Suburu makes one but it's more like a mini-suv and Larry is down on it because he thinks it's a gas hog, even though he loves the suburu. And then there are some american ones. There's a very expensive mercedes some mom at school drives (they have four kids), but we won't be going there.
We had fun yesterday -- the hockey game was awesome!! Chris, you missed the end, did you? Darn! Joanne, I also felt like they were so crazy to feel so bad and sad.... for goodness sake they were getting silver medals afterall! And I commented on it and Larry said "it's a guy thing.... it's all about winning.... if you don't win, you're a loser." Or something like that. Sad. I think if they could have had the medal ceremony later, they might have felt better about it. At least they gave Ryan Miller the mvp award. He was awesome through the series. We were somewhat torn about who to root for at the beginning of the game (as were our friends) because there are a bunch of Sharks on the Canadian team, but it became clear as the game went on that we were rooting for the Americans.
In a way though, I am glad the Canadians got it, since they hosted, it was the last event, and for crying out loud, they did invent the game.
Anyway, then we got home and it was absolutely nuts here! Our friends were here to cook dinner. They are the one with the one year old. Travis had to write a report that's due today and he hadn't even started. So, I juggled between helping Travis, watching the baby while they cooked because Larry gets too distracted, tried to help set the table, etc., kept Dylan from bugging Travis. Oh my gosh, just nuts. The baby is so cute, but our house is not at all baby-proof -- in fact, it's really baby-hazardous, and he's all over the place and very noisy, so.... it was mayhem. Dinner was excellent though, and they brought over a trial cake they had made because they are making a wedding cake for a friend in a couple of weeks and they've made a couple so far. This is the winner, and they left it all with us because they've been eating so much cake. So much for my no sugar! Chocolate cake with a blackberry filling and home-made marzipan "frosting". Yum!
On the kids being bored thing..... at a parenting thing I went to recently (led by Travis' ADHD dr.), he had a really interesting way of commenting on kids who are "bored". I'm not sure I remember it well enough now to convey it but I'll try.... he said that if kids think they are bored, it's really just that their minds aren't organized. There are plenty of things to do always, in any situation, they just need to have some structure in order to think of what to do in that situation (standing in line, for instance, even). Since I have really strong memories of "being bored" all the time when I was a kid, this really hit home for me. Last time my kids said they were bored (a couple of days ago), I made them make a list of ten things they could do. It was interesting to see what they came up with (and how long it took them). I'm not sure you could get a 12 year old to do this, so I'm not sure this helps you at all, except maybe just the perspective about the mind being unorganized.
Ok, I've gone on and on..... got to go pack lunches.....