One of our nieces had a baby right before Christmas. A beautiful, healthy baby girl. It’s hard to realize that she’s two months old already! Before you know it we are going to have to worry about baby proofing our house for the many visits we will be getting from them. It just seems like a few days ago that we put away our old baby gates! Funny how life sneaks up on you that way. All of our kids are grown up now, and some are having kids of their own. I’m not sure I’m ready for a newest generation! I don’t feel old enough to be worrying about the newest child safety tips - I was just starting to get used to (and enjoying) knowing that the kids were past that point in life!
Ahh… the circle of life. I think maybe we should just suggest that we go visit them at their house instead, so we don’t have to go all nuts and fortify our house with all the newest safety equipment! Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see them, but if we go to them, then they are the ones who have to make sure the baby is safe. And, we can decide when the visit is over and leave to come home when the baby is cranky! I think I’ll suggest that to my wife!
I can’t imagine how school would have been for us if we had had access to the Internet. The Internet is a valuable tool for today’s educational needs. These days kids are learning and using their parents computers as young as 2 years old for goodness sake, it’s just amazing to me.
Having computers certainly would have helped me back in the day. The only way I managed to graduate was from a lot of help from tutors that my parents managed to find and pay for their assistance. They usually weren’t the kind of people that I would have liked to spend that amount of time with during what I considered my free time after school was over and done with, I can tell you that!
Today’s students can receive help with an Online Tutor, now how cool is that? My niece has been receiving Math help by Tutornext.com since her parents have been having issues with her school work this year. It’s pretty cool to have an Online Math Tutor to turn to. They seem pleased with the assistance that she is receiving so far. The school year is half way over, so if she can just keep on taking advantage of her Math Tutors Online she should make it all right. Next year she will be starting Junior High and that will be a whole new ball game for her. Man time really flies, hard to believe that this one will be starting Junior High all ready.
Last night my sister and niece came over for a short visit. My goodness, my niece is growing up fast! It seems like overnight she turned into a young woman! They had just been shopping for some new beauty tools for my niece to be trying out. She’s started to take an interest in healthy beauty products.
I’m sure that she wants to make sure that whatever she uses will be something that has not been tested on animals. She was mortified when she learned how makeup is often tested on rabbits. I won’t go into details here because I don’t want to upset anyone, but believe me, testing makeup on animals is cruel. So anyway, she wants to buy the beauty essentials necessary to obtain a clean and fresh and natural look. That always confuses me – why wear makeup if the goal is to look like you aren’t wearing makeup?
I think it is so funny to observe the females of our species. I’m referring specifically to my daughter. She will spend hours sitting at her bedroom vanity staring into the mirror, fussing with her hair and her make-up until she looks so perfect that you can’t tell she’s wearing any make-up at all and her hair looks perfectly tousled. I have a hard time suppressing a smile because I think she is beautiful no matter what.
Tonight she recruited my wife to help her go through her closet to look for the cropped denim jacket and the Jessica Simpson Clancey Boots that she wants to wear on her big date with Trevor. This big date is actually several weeks away – it is for a Valentine’s dance at school. But she wants to pick out the perfect outfit and make sure everything fits and “goes” together and is clean and not missing any buttons and seams are all properly sewn. Or maybe properly ripped – it is hard to tell in this day and age when the kids walk around wearing what they wear! Some of the things they wear look like the old clothes my wife threw out into the rag bag years ago!
Yes, it is truly amusing to watch the women fuss so much over their appearance. Makes me glad I’m a man!
I guess I’ll have to try it for myself and see if they really fixed it. I’ve tried their pizza a few times and never liked it. My kids always liked it, but it was the novelty of having it delivered. I hope they managed to fix it so it tastes good now!