41 posts tagged “kids”
Tonight was Michael's band concert at school. As a part of the percussion section, Michael plays bass drum. He owns the required snare and bells. The band played about five songs before the Recorder Ensemble played a number of songs, followed by the Chorus who sang an exhausting seven songs. Maybe I'm biased because my kid was done, but it was really too long of a concert. I enjoyed watching Michael play and he did very well.
When I picked up the children from school, a brush fire was toasting up 776 in northern Port Charlotte. It had so much smoke that visible was reduced to zero and the sheriff deputies directed traffic in a U-turn at the Sports Complex, making El Jobean and Englewood inaccessible from Port Charlotte. After Michael's concert, we took a drive by the area and it was reduced to little piles that were burning themselves out. Smoke was still drifting over 776 but it was nowhere near what it was earlier. All these incidents keep happening when I have children with me and can't take the opportunity to photograph them.
This was a very wonderful Mother's Day! I was served breakfast in bed, complete with bloody mary, and then presented with presents! My favourite perfume, a dozen roses, a camera bag (it got returned but it was still wonderful that they thought of that), plus homemade presents from Bailey and Eddie. All the children signed their own names on the card.
Bailey had the idea of baking me a cake so Tom had to purchase all the necessary items and then help her make a chocolate cake and decorate it for me. She really got into giving me a wonderful day (breakfast in bed was her idea) and I owe a lot to both Tom and Bailey.
Today was the reception for the Twenty-Fourth Anual Elementary Art Show at the Charlotte County Visual Arts Center in beautiful downtown Punta Gorda. Each year, the art teachers from the district's elementary schools and the Charlotte County Art Guild select one student's work from each grade in each elementary school. Bailey was the Kindergarten artist for Meadow Park.
The place was crowded with every relative of each student artist searching the walls for their child's art and grabbing for complimentary punch and cookies. First, we located Bailey's exhibit, which she loudly and proudly referred to as a landscape:
As you can see, it is a landscape done in acrylic. She loves butterflies and purple. After admiring her art, we grabbed our own complimentary punch and cookies. There, we met up with her art teacher, Mr. Alvarez, who had nothing but kind words to say about Bailey.
My daughter was disappointed that there wasn't a big announcement or speech given, but had her first taste of what it's like to be in the art world. And my little star is all for it!
I had a lot of fun shooting PGFD Live Fire Training exercises and it was great experience. Everyone was very gracious and friendly. Afterwards, I made the stops I needed to make and got my final shots on the remainder of the firehouses. See 72 of the pictures on the PGFD Live Fire Training 4/30/08 set.
Artists run in my family.
Bailey's artwork has been chosen by her art teacher to be included in an art exhibit at the Charlotte County Visual Arts Center in Punta Gorda! I'm so proud of her!!!
Both my daughter and my husband are home so life can resume.
Tom now has an updated MCSE, the details of which he could explain more than I could. I'm very proud of him.
I retook station shots of CCFEMS 5, 6, and 7 and PGFD 2 and 3. Tomorrow, I have an attorney appointment after which I'll be able to redo CCFEMS 16, PGFD 1, and all the CCFEMS that are in El Jobean and over that bridge into Englewood. I also have to retake CCFEMS 2 because I just don't like what I have and I'm not selling something I can't put my name on.
At some point, I need to go to Myakkahatchee Creek Nature Park to repair a chewed up geocache that we'd adopted. Some animal gnawed on it a week or so after we adopted it to prevent it from getting archived. I'd scheduled that repair for this week but that was before the hospital gig came up.
I also need to remove some of my waymarks from the directory until I can update coordinates and photos. Many of the "Art About Town" exhibits that were scattered throughout downtown Punta Gorda have been relocated to a park across from Fisherman's Village. This effectively outdates all the information that I have for those waymarks.
This is Punta Gorda Fire Department Station 3. My photoshop skills have fallen short for this one. This was the shot I really wanted to sell for PGFD 3 but I cannot fix the hedges to their proper "PGFD" look. I'm really aggravated about it.
CCFEMS 7 always photographs beautifully. It is the station by the Punta Gorda Airport. This is the typical floorplan that's becoming the standard for all new CCFEMS stations, with very little variation from one to another; but, for some reason, Station 7 is always more photogenic. Lucky 7. Once I got done cleaning up the shot, I was very happy with it.
Tomorrow is, of course, my birthday. I am turning 29 (again).
Today was just photoshop work. I reshot CCFEMS Station 2 but I don't like any of the shots and will go back again when I can get people to move their cars out of the way. There was a [presuming] false alarm at the high school, which had Engine 1, Truck 2 and a Rescue there and gone in the time it took me to pick up the kids from their school. There was some fire off towards Deep Creek this evening but Deep Creek is such a maze that I've learned my lesson trying to chase smoke in that place.
My husband is scheduled to return from this MCSE boot camp on Sunday afternoon and I'm greatly looking forward to him back home.
Tommy has transitioned himself to regular cups, which means no more sippy cups and no more demands for drinks at bedtime. Since I always dread having to go through the transitional period of getting a child to stop a behavior they don't want to stop, having him initiate all of it and accept what comes along with it is a tremendous relief! He's still very diligent with brushing his teeth and washing his hands. He will do anything that feels grown up.
Yeah, there's work I should be doing, but photographing my daughter dancing the Charleston in her flapper outfit was far more interesting today. Mondays are for work.
What would you like to do more of?
Spend more time with this motley crew:
This is a photo for a waymark I posted this evening in the Church of the Nazarene category. Taking the church pictures was the only time I used my digital camera today. The rest of the time, I was preoccupied with black & white 35mm experimenting. I'd share it with you, but I have to use the whole roll, then drop it off for developing, then wait for it to be developed, then pick it up, then scan it, and then upload it. Is "outdated" technology worth it?
The rotten experience that I've had thanks to a couple of waymarkers (one in particular) in trying to manage the first category I created has really soured my spirits on waymarking. It takes a few deep breaths to remember why I waymark - going back to the very mission statement I wrote just a little while ago - and remember that there are good people willing to have the argument for me, even if just for the sake of plain ol' good sense, and I don't have to pull my hair out over a spoiled brat's noise! My category is fine.
Bailey and Eddie have Field Day tomorrow, Eddie has a Field Trip on Wednesday, Michael has Field Day on Thursday, and then there's Picture Day for all three on Friday. It's a big day. I won't be buying the pictures this year... not when I can do my own at a much lower cost.
Bailey outgrew her old sneakers and needed a new pair. My baby girl is in a girls size 13. I don't believe it!
Dinner this evening was meatloaf and french fries. The kids loved it but it was too greasy for me and has hurt my tummy. I've felt better since taking a nice, long hot bath... the universal cure for many aches! I spoke with Tom, who has been managing very well at boot camp. I'm going to relax in bed and read.
Bailey: At my dad's church, we had a three-legged race.
Michael: What does that have to do with the Bible?
Bailey: Uh...[pauses]... well, I think it was, like, in Noah's Ark where everybody was lined up two by two, the animals and everyone. Like that.
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