Friday, April 19, 2002
The trip to the B&O Railroad Museum was OK. I think it would be better with Bill (if we were both in a good mood :-) and less of a hoard of children running around. Oh yes, and without two 1/2 hour bus rides, some of which was in city streets, on a 94 degree day, UGH.
I did find out one interesting tidbit. On July, 4 1828, there was a huge parade and party for the railroad. They placed the first stone a mile from the railroad. This marker was where the term milemarker came from, as it was a marker a mile from the station. But.. now that I look at the site, the man who told us the story got some other stuff wrong, so I am not sure this is right... oh well.
He also said that the President was going to come to this ceromony but some canal thingy was opening up the same day. He thought canals were going to be bigger in the future then railroads so he decided to go to the canal opening thingy....
I did find out one interesting tidbit. On July, 4 1828, there was a huge parade and party for the railroad. They placed the first stone a mile from the railroad. This marker was where the term milemarker came from, as it was a marker a mile from the station. But.. now that I look at the site, the man who told us the story got some other stuff wrong, so I am not sure this is right... oh well.
He also said that the President was going to come to this ceromony but some canal thingy was opening up the same day. He thought canals were going to be bigger in the future then railroads so he decided to go to the canal opening thingy....
BTW: I can't believe it is this unbelievably hot outside in April and we are not legally allowed to run a sprinkler for the children to play in. :-( Well, hopefully the scattered thunderstorms (HARD RAIN) will help the drought a little bit.
Well, I made it back for Rebekah's bus. BARELY. I was driving down my street and saw the neighbor's car meeting her 5th grader, and I saw Rebekah walking up the hill to our house! I honked and she ran down... never having rang the bell and not being answered. :-) Has anyone ever noticed that you hit the most red lights when you are in a rush?
I bought another Georgie... boy, do I love those things. I use it about 5 days a week. The only problem is my other one tended to spart as you plugged and unplugged it. It burned up (I actually saw flames!) two switches and the extension cord that it was in at the end was all black and burned... as was the plug. "not good", huh?
An old lady called a radio show the other day. She had absolutely nothing to say about the topic at hand, but she had a cute quote. "Learn like you are going to live forever, live like you are going to die tomorrow"... interesting idea...
First of all, this is the funniest thing going. Thank you Jennifer.
Matthew isn't eating meat every meal, but I would guess about 1/3 the time he is at least trying it! This is a wonderful change.
I think we have just had a milestone of sorts. Rebekah has had her first book report! She ended up doing it on Thursday night when they are usually week long assignments. I bet that wont be the last time that happens. :-) This time it actually wasn't her fault, the teacher didn't hand out the book report form till Thursday. This week it was real simple - title, author, date and two sentances. I guess every couple of weeks it will get more difficult. What is the best is now that we are doing book reports, the weekly speed tests for addition and subtraction are done. YEAH!!!
I have to go real soon. Listen to this day... isn't my day calm? Bill already took Rebekah to the special person day at school. He gets to stay in class till lunch. I go every week to volunteer so there is no point to me going. In fact, on Wed. when I had Matthew in the school for speech, one of the kids in Rebekah's class asked "Ms. Green, why are you _always_ in school. LOL
I amm going to bring Alyssa and Matthew into school where Alyssa's classmate's mom is going to take Alyssa. THey will go to babysitting when the mom is working out then the mom will bring her home to play. (sob sob, that is my baby!) I will take Matthew on a field trip to the B&O railroad in Baltimore. When I come back, I have to pick up Alyssa and buy them both lunch. THen bring Matthew to his OT which is 1/2 hour away. Then up to some quick shopping and back to meet Rebekah from the bus.
If things work out, Rebekah should have a playdate and Alyssa should sleep... but it is more likely that neither will work out.
Saturday I get to sleep till noon, I already worked it out with Bill. :-)
Matthew isn't eating meat every meal, but I would guess about 1/3 the time he is at least trying it! This is a wonderful change.
I think we have just had a milestone of sorts. Rebekah has had her first book report! She ended up doing it on Thursday night when they are usually week long assignments. I bet that wont be the last time that happens. :-) This time it actually wasn't her fault, the teacher didn't hand out the book report form till Thursday. This week it was real simple - title, author, date and two sentances. I guess every couple of weeks it will get more difficult. What is the best is now that we are doing book reports, the weekly speed tests for addition and subtraction are done. YEAH!!!
I have to go real soon. Listen to this day... isn't my day calm? Bill already took Rebekah to the special person day at school. He gets to stay in class till lunch. I go every week to volunteer so there is no point to me going. In fact, on Wed. when I had Matthew in the school for speech, one of the kids in Rebekah's class asked "Ms. Green, why are you _always_ in school. LOL
I amm going to bring Alyssa and Matthew into school where Alyssa's classmate's mom is going to take Alyssa. THey will go to babysitting when the mom is working out then the mom will bring her home to play. (sob sob, that is my baby!) I will take Matthew on a field trip to the B&O railroad in Baltimore. When I come back, I have to pick up Alyssa and buy them both lunch. THen bring Matthew to his OT which is 1/2 hour away. Then up to some quick shopping and back to meet Rebekah from the bus.
If things work out, Rebekah should have a playdate and Alyssa should sleep... but it is more likely that neither will work out.
Saturday I get to sleep till noon, I already worked it out with Bill. :-)
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
Also, Matthew ate 1.5 chicken drumsticks the other day, some deli turkey for a lunch, and ate 6 chicken nuggets today after basically missing lunch. oops! They had a ton of fruits and water to keep them...
I can't believe Matthew is eating this meat! jinx jinx jinx, poo poo poo, knock on wood. :-) For over 2 years now, we put 2 bites of whatever meat we are eating on his plate and he says he doesn't like it and ignores it. I am thrilled that he is eating!
I can't believe Matthew is eating this meat! jinx jinx jinx, poo poo poo, knock on wood. :-) For over 2 years now, we put 2 bites of whatever meat we are eating on his plate and he says he doesn't like it and ignores it. I am thrilled that he is eating!
Here is mail I sent some people about our day. It is not the best written and I should re-write it for this audience but I don't have the energy. :-)
My family and I went to the Israel Solidarity Rally in DC today. It was amazing. Mom and Dad from NY, brother from Virginia and all 5 of us went. Thankfully the adults outnumbered the children. Especially with my county mice children! :-)
The rally (http://www.israelrally.org/) is almost too much to explain. It was decided to have the rally last monday, national organizations found out about it on Monday night or Tues morning. Today, Monday April 15 (a work day and TAX day) about 100K people attended the rally! The organizers said 200K (or 250K on the web site), but I believe it is closer to the 100K the TV said.. but who really knows?
(The DC police have stopped estimating crowds since the 1 million man march sued them after they said there were less then 1million people. Stating the attendance before a march is kind of risky...)
Getting off the metro was VERY crowded. At one point another train came in and Rebekah was pulled back from the track and into a crowd by dad and the whistle blew. It was not a good start! But she got over it. we had to take all the kids away from the crowds at some point. It was just too much. Luckily, the loudspeakers were loud enough that we could hear even around the reflecting pool and it wasn't as crowded there.
During the heavy crowd, Matthew needed to go to the bathroom and I walked with him to the air and space smithsonian. He was in a bad mood and said he wanted to "go far far away" and wanted to "go to the car". I didn't bring him back into the crowed after that, but he was so good and brave.
The list of speakers was amazing! I am taping the replay of the rally on CSPAN, it really was pretty amazing. Weird also to here people like Patacki (NY governor) say Ahm Israel Chi which is hebrew for Israel live, or something like that. Nice Italian?? man and all.
A nun was one of the first speakers and there were many Christian groups there. Also, a Christian radio talk show host talked very well. Ellie Weisel spoke. MANY congressman and political people. Here is a list of some speakers from Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/16/News/News.47052.html
>Among those who addressed the crowd were Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Construction and Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, congressional leaders, and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
____________________________________________
Not bad for 6 days planning.
This was a great experience for my children. Here is the paragraph I had Rebekah write because I pulled her out of school for the day.
This is my day in Washington D.C. I was very hot. We were at a long rally for Israel. It was _VERY_ crowded. I washed my hands and feet in the reflecting pool in the front of the Capital Building. That was my day in D.C.
Gotta love it!
I pray that there will never be another chance to have such an emergency rally again!
Amy
My family and I went to the Israel Solidarity Rally in DC today. It was amazing. Mom and Dad from NY, brother from Virginia and all 5 of us went. Thankfully the adults outnumbered the children. Especially with my county mice children! :-)
The rally (http://www.israelrally.org/) is almost too much to explain. It was decided to have the rally last monday, national organizations found out about it on Monday night or Tues morning. Today, Monday April 15 (a work day and TAX day) about 100K people attended the rally! The organizers said 200K (or 250K on the web site), but I believe it is closer to the 100K the TV said.. but who really knows?
(The DC police have stopped estimating crowds since the 1 million man march sued them after they said there were less then 1million people. Stating the attendance before a march is kind of risky...)
Getting off the metro was VERY crowded. At one point another train came in and Rebekah was pulled back from the track and into a crowd by dad and the whistle blew. It was not a good start! But she got over it. we had to take all the kids away from the crowds at some point. It was just too much. Luckily, the loudspeakers were loud enough that we could hear even around the reflecting pool and it wasn't as crowded there.
During the heavy crowd, Matthew needed to go to the bathroom and I walked with him to the air and space smithsonian. He was in a bad mood and said he wanted to "go far far away" and wanted to "go to the car". I didn't bring him back into the crowed after that, but he was so good and brave.
The list of speakers was amazing! I am taping the replay of the rally on CSPAN, it really was pretty amazing. Weird also to here people like Patacki (NY governor) say Ahm Israel Chi which is hebrew for Israel live, or something like that. Nice Italian?? man and all.
A nun was one of the first speakers and there were many Christian groups there. Also, a Christian radio talk show host talked very well. Ellie Weisel spoke. MANY congressman and political people. Here is a list of some speakers from Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/16/News/News.47052.html
>Among those who addressed the crowd were Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz, former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Construction and Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, congressional leaders, and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
____________________________________________
Not bad for 6 days planning.
This was a great experience for my children. Here is the paragraph I had Rebekah write because I pulled her out of school for the day.
This is my day in Washington D.C. I was very hot. We were at a long rally for Israel. It was _VERY_ crowded. I washed my hands and feet in the reflecting pool in the front of the Capital Building. That was my day in D.C.
Gotta love it!
I pray that there will never be another chance to have such an emergency rally again!
Amy
