Egg Hunt

Karin's play group had an egg hunt on Saturday and she invited us to come along. Thanks Aunt Karin!

Happy boys with candy.

A creepy bunny. Henry didn't mind--there were cupcakes.

All of Henry's eggs had chocolate inside. Since he is allergic, I switched out the contents of each egg for him. I also found a chocolate bar today at Ozark Natural Foods that is manufactured in a plant that's soy and nut free to make up for it. He loved it. While he was eating it he kept saying, "Mama, you can't eat this because it doesn't have nuts in it." He is so used to us telling him the opposite while eating something yummy. Poor little guy. Can you imagine not being able to eat chocolate?

This Is What We Did Today

Credit Card Act of 2009

I know Congress had gotten a bad rap lately, but they certainly did a great thing in 2009 when Obama signed the Credit Card Act into law. Some of the changes are just being enacted and one of the most noticable ones is apparent on my credit card bill this month. Credit card companies are now required to tell customers how long it will take to pay off the balance of a bill if the customer only makes the minimum payment each month. I always pay my bill in full each month, but according to my bill if I were to only make the minimum payment it would take me 19 years to pay off my bill. I would be 55 years old!!! (And that's only if I don't charge anything else from now until age 55!) I think this is a great law and I am proud of our Congress for doing something sensical that will benefit Americans who are trying to stay out of insurmountable debt.

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Homeschoolers

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Homeschoolers

The above is an interesting article from Time this month. The U.S. granted a German family political asylum because they wanted to homeschool. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany. I am not a big fan of homeschooling in general because I have seen its downfalls, but where else would this happen? I love this country! Seriously.

Census

Because Americans have an innate distrust for their government, history teachers in Rogers are required to talk to our students about the importance of filling in and returning their census this month. (Larger population in Rogers = more federal money for Rogers schools.) The idea is that the kids will go home and convince their parents to fulfill their constitutional duty.

Scene: Room 105, Mrs. Sims is posing some hypothetical questions to her students.

Mrs. Sims: What kinds of things would a town need if the census finds that the town has a particularly young population?

Student 1: Parks.

Student 2: Schools.

Student 3: Youth Centers.

Mrs. Sims: Yes, good thinking.

Mrs. Sims: What kinds of things would a town need if it is found that the town has an older population?

Student 4 (in all seriousness): Golden Corrals--you're gonna need lots of Golden Corrals Mrs. Sims. Old people love Golden Corral.

Singin' in the Rain

This is Henry's version of "Singing in the Rain." Since it's sprinkling outside I thought it would be a good time. I don't know where he learned it. I'm guessing Mother's Day Out.



Not sure why blogger/bliptv insists that this video be ginormous. Sorry about that.