vacation 2007

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accepted

I got my official acceptance to Eastern Illinois University today!!

Several days in the life of...

Saturday-Thad and Haleigh arrive.
Sunday-Me, Thad, Haleigh, Zack and Dylan go to Indy; Zack and Dylan (hopefully) see their dads for father's day; Todd leaves for Chicago
Monday-Bryanna arrives; Zack and Thad leave with Bible Bowl team for Tennessee
Tuesday-Bryanna and Haleigh stay with inlaws (pm)
Wednesday-Todd arrives; Bryanna and Haleigh leave with inlaws for North Carolina
Thursday-Todd, Dylan and I leave for North Carolina; pick up Thad and Zack in Tennessee on the way there.

Can YOU keep all that straight? Such is life in our household.

2007 Books

ok, so this is my 2007 listing of books!!

Sandwiched by Jennifer Archer (Next Novel)
Lucky by Jennifer Greene (Next Novel)
The Me I Used To Be by Jennifer Archer (Next Novel)
Blood Ties Book One: The Turning by Jennifer Armintrout
Blood Ties Book Two: Possession by Jennifer Armintrout
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Cyber Bride (avalon romance) by Annette Couch-Jareb
Hoot by Carl Hiaason (YA)
A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity by Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Snowed In by Christina Bartolomeo
Tick Tock by Dean R. Koontz
Your Big Break by Johanna Edwards
You've Got Male by Elizabeth Bevarly
16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber
311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber
44 Cranberry Point by Debbie Macomber
Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
Calamity Jayne by K.C. Bacus
Calmity Jayne Rides Again by K.C. Bacus
Driving Lessons by Ed McBain
Face the Fire by Nora Roberts
Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts
The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
The Innocent by Harlan Coben
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Reality Queen by Debbie Digiovanni
Reality TV Bites by Shane Bolks
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Every Little Thing by Laura Lippman
The Witch by Mary Ann Mitchell
Death Instinct by Bentley Little
The Husband by Dean Koontz
Voices of the Holocaust by Lorie Jenkins McElroy
The Bay at Midnight by Diane Chamberlain
Norah's Ark by Judy Baer

Sick

This is probably one of the most disturbing child related news stories I have read in a while. See, some people think parents who monitor their kids online activities are wrong. I disagree and I think that they should be monitored. I have no idea what some parents are thinking. Of course, maybe his parents thought they were monitoring him, for all we know. Kids are pretty good at making multiple accounts, something else parents don't take into consideration. Also, kids can go to libraries and friend's homes to use the internet and make accounts their parents won't know about. It's really not foolproof, but still. This is just disturbing on so many levels.

(x-posted to LJ)

Happy Birthday

Zack is a great kid. Everyone likes him. He is active in sports. He is musically gifted. He is smart. He has a great sense of humor. He is willing to volunteer in his community and school. He is truly a good kid, despite all my normal gripes LOL I got lucky when I had him.

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Stay-at-home mother's work worth $138,095 a year

Stay-at-home mother's work worth $138,095 a year
Wed May 2, 3:00 PM ET
If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday.
This reflected a 3 percent raise from last year's $134,121, according to Salary.com Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts.
The 10 jobs listed as comprising a mother's work were housekeeper, cook, day care center teacher, laundry machine operator, van driver, facilities manager, janitor, computer operator, chief executive officer and psychologist, it said.
The typical mother puts in a 92-hour work week, it said, working 40 hours at base pay and 52 hours overtime.
A mother who holds full-time job outside the home would earn an additional $85,939 for the work she does at home, Salary.com.
Last year she would have earned $85,876 for her at-home work, it said.
Salary.com compiled the online responses of 26,000 stay-at-home mothers and 14,000 mothers who also work outside the home.
(Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst)

(x-posted to LJ)

Every Parent Should Read This

www.FamilyWatchDog.us When you visit this site you can enter your address and a map will pop up with your house as a small icon of a house. There will be red, blue and green dots surrounding your entire neighborhood. When you click on these dots a picture of a criminal will appear with his or her home address and the description of the crime he or she has committed.The best thing is that you can show your children these pictures and see how close these people live to your home or school.This site was developed by John Walsh from America's Most Wanted. This is another tool we can use to help us keep our kids safe.