September 26, 2013
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Looking Ahead:)
Today I realized that I've lost all the kids school photos. Kindergarten through grade 12. Class pictures, individual shots, all gone. I realized it because Spud came home today with her 'proofs'. You know, the ones where you feel obligated to pick the least worst of all the awful shots of your child. Honestly, school photos are great for looking back and laughing, but that's about it. I think they became popular back when I was young and parents weren't snapping millions of shots of their precious children every year. Maybe that's just me taking all those pictures? The point is, do we need school pictures still?
Well, now that I've lost 36 of them ( all for my oldest two and 10 for my youngest) I can tell you that YES, school photos are important.
I wondered about ordering her next 3 years of school. I mean the point kind of is to have the entire collection right? Kindergarten through grade 12. Is grade 10 through grade 12 any fun? Not really. Still, she wants to be able to hand some out to her friends, so we'll come up with something.
The other thing I realized we lost were yearbooks. I'd bought each girl a yearbook for every year they were in school. I also lost 7 of mine and 7 of Cahuna's.
To be honest, I'm more annoyed at the money I kicked out that is now gone than the loss of the yearbooks themselves.
So Knickers lesson of the day is that school pictures are important, and yearbooks not so much.
I booked flights to LA on Nov 8. Spud's mother/daughter trip is going to be a 'mother/daughter/father' trip as Cahuna will be joining us for half of it. More than anything else in the whole entire world, Spud wants to get to the premiere of Catching Fire.
She is a Hungerhead, Fangirl, groupie extraordinaire.
She has entered every contest where Canadians are eligable. We wrote Ellen. We're contacting Lionsgate. Anyway, I've tried to talk some sense into her and have explicitly told her that 'the odds are not in her favor ' ( hehh get it??) but she still wants to at least go to where this premiere is and try to at least see her favorite stars. She says she's prepared for the back of their heads even.
I have mixed emotions. I mean really, this could be a huge huge disappointment for her right? And is it healthy to encourage this kind of idolism? NO. But then I think, oh what the F*** and I wish my parents would have let me do something like this for my 'dream vacation'. So there you have it.
On the bright side, we're going to be spending quite a while down there ( cheaper than St Lucia for sure) and will do the theme parks, some shopping and have a nice relaxing time. We're also really really really hoping to get tickets to Ellen while we're there but they aren't available yet. But wish us luck:)
We'll leave Friday evening and Cahuna will join us late Tues night. Then we will all fly home early the following Tues morning.
I'm excited:) We need something to look forward to and hopefully this isn't a flop. I don't think it can be with all the extras we'll be doing. Cahuna's hilarious at Disneyland - he gets so excited:) And I want to go back to SeaWorld. I haven't been there in ages and I LOVE it. LOVE it. And we're going to do the VIP tour at Universal. Ya:) it'll be fun:) fun:) fun:).
It might snow tonight! There's a rumor of rain, possibly flurries over night:) I hope so - I love the snow:) I'm so glad we have a furnace!!
night:)
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