This Reminds Me

We celebrated Julia’s 10th birthday yesterday at Laser Quest.   “Laser Quest” is from the Greek, meaning, “50 Decibels in Each Ear.”
But they loved it.

Rachel, Lois and Hannah offered to “chaperon,”  and actually the extra hands were quite helpful.  Lois also brought a (girl) friend and then amazingly – a male “friend” appeared.  “I just decided [...]

As promised…..here’s my second un-techy texting tip for parents with AT&T wireless service.  Which you should have.  And if you don’t, you need to ping me immediately so I can hook you up.
Texting By Email – Presented on CalmCoolConnected
(another virtual hang out)
Texting by email saves me a ton of time.  Rachel, Lois or Hannah often [...]

You know I contribute to an AT&T blog about working moms and cell phones?   Which the girls think is hysterical, since they are so much more techy than am I.
But here’s something even I use (though Rachel’s the one who told me about it) -  Cha-Cha.  242-242, texted on your wireless phone to get answers [...]

I’ve always liked hanging out with people better than myself.  Fortunately, they’re easy people to find.  Smarter - happier - more godly – prettier - quicker - better organized - deeply generous – people.
I marvel at many of my friends who make such differences at food banks, hurricane shelters, free clinics, Sunday Schools, student mentoring, etc.  And now I have [...]

When Keith and I entered the world of international adoption, we immediately joined scores of user groups, our favorite being the Russian Adoption board on adoption.com. At the American Embassy in Moscow, we surprisingly recognized and joyfully visited with another family from that board.
Monday, “Irina” – a mom and social worker in St. Petersburg – [...]

AT&T – my employer of 29 years – has started a blog about working moms and technology.  Who is one of its three contributors?  That would be moi!  And they sent me that hot little Flip camera that I just love (for free!) to make my blogging easier.  Yeah for me!  I’m so excited.

Me’n’my Flip [...]

My brother David and I were always were fascinated by sci-fi.  Anything odd.  Futuristic.  Will Robinson was our hero, and Rod Serling our mentor.  We always wanted to know what was just down the hall and around the corner….in the Twilight Zone.

Mom dissed Rod as “just plain weird.” which, of course, made the show that [...]

Both have cameras.
Be warned.
They made a strange little film about Dairy Queen that I declined to post, instead hoping for Cannes to discover it.  Then tonight – this two-minute marvel about McDonalds in Wal-mart.
I swear – we really do eat meals at home.
Really.

One of the happiest – and most informative – benefits of international adoption is memberhip in its online communities.  There’s a user board for every country/region/city – every type of child – every demographic of parent.  You name it - there’s a group of people who want to talk about it.  Keith and I belong to dozens [...]

Keith and Rachel have begun ingesting the 89-page online Texas driver’s ed course.

Ssshhhhh…don’t rat me out.  I can hear plenty well from up here. I already know what to do a four-way stop, though.
Rachel.  Driving.
I was born into an American Baptist family – reared in the church of Christ - joined the Southern Baptist church in 1987.  But all [...]