brOOzi...internet for children!

I don't know about other parents, but I hawk eye my children when they are playing on line. You never know what sicko can get into a web site and place things that are not appropriate for them. I've been searching FireFox for some kinda net nanny for a while now and just found the PERFECT thing! It's called brOOzi! It places an icon right by the address bar in your FireFox browser. Once the kids click the pink thing (or the parents click it) it pulls up a browser just for the kids...and they can't type in other addresses that aren't allowed for them. You as a parent put in the web sites they can go to...now I just have to figure out how they can navigate from one page to another.

- To go from one page to another they need to pull down the address bar, kinda hard if your child can't read, but it seems that the pages stay in the same order, so they can remember by location...which will eventually become sight reading, a plus to me!

- WebKins doesn't work because of the re-direct that is required to log on.

In line with National Donut Day

There are apparently national days for all sorts of food...and all fattening crap too! No wonder the majority of our nation is obese and dying from heart attacks and children have diabetes. This really makes me sick! I don't get it. Is it silly or cute? Come on, National Empanada day??? Nutella Day? And get this there is an International Pancake Day...I think people have that confused with the International House of Pancakes. Lets get real people, this is NOT cute! We have ONE month (March) dedicated to Yoga and exercising, but for the other 11 months we can sit around and get fat. Show me that one person who is 150lbs over weight who can do ONE yoga move...can they even sit and cross their legs? Or get into a nice "child's pose"...

*sigh* It makes me sad that our national is going by way of the lazy. Any one see Walle??? That will be the US if we dont start getting people to work out a bit and eat some healthy food!

Here's the link I found of the National "Food" Days.

Dino Dig!

While at the great 99cent store the other day I told the kids that if they didn't fight and they behaved they could get a toy...and they were GREAT! So they picked these clay eggs that had hidden dino bones in them with some "excavation" tools. Yesterday was the digging day! They sat for about an hour or an hour and a half digging bones out of these clay eggs....it was a blast! The hard part was putting the bones together in the end! However, it was educational and the kids had a GREAT TIME!

Music...

I'm getting bored with music right now. It seems as if all the hip-hop/pop/rap songs are all the darn same. When I listen to country I can't tell who the heck is who because they all sound the darn same.

If anyone reads this, can you throw some suggestions my way??? Please??

National Donut Day

Really? Is this why our nation is so damn obese? Lets get real. Where is National DIET day, or better yet, National Lets Eat Healthy Day....

Here's what Wikipedia has to say

National Donut Day is on the first Friday of June each year. The holiday celebrates the doughnut (a.k.a "donut") — an edible, ring-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened. Many American doughnut stores offer free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day. In 2009, both independent doughnut shops[1] and large national franchises offered free doughnuts in the United States.

They go on to explain the day

National Doughnut Day started in 1938 as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation Army. Their goal was to help the needy during the Great Depression, and to honor the Salvation Army "Lassies" of World War I, who served doughnuts to soldiers behind the front lines in France.

Soon after the US entrance into WWI in 1917, the Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. The mission concluded that "huts" that could serve baked goods, provide writing supplies and stamps, and provide a clothes-mending service, would serve the needs of US enlisted men. Six staff members per hut should include four female volunteers who could "mother" the boys.

(The canteens/social centres that were established by the Salvation Army in the United States near army training centers were called "huts".)

About 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to France. Because of the difficulties of providing freshly-baked goods from huts established in abandoned buildings near to the front lines, two Salvation Army volunteers (Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance) came up with the idea of providing doughnuts. These are reported to have been an "instant hit", and "soon many soldiers were visiting Salvation Army huts". Margaret Sheldon wrote of one busy day "Today I made 22 pies, 300 doughnuts, 700 cups of coffee."

A legend has spread that the provision of doughnuts to US enlisted men in WWI is the origin of the term doughboy to describe US infantry, but the term was in use as early as the Mexican-American War of 1846-47.

So....I guess the day started with good intentions, however, people now a day take it to mean "Lemme shove my face full of bread that is fried and covered in sugar filled frosting"....geeze.

Ed Hardy Blog!

YAY!!!! I've been searching for a new layout for this thing to make it "newer" and here it is! Ed Hardy Blog! WooooHooo!

Ah, the rain

Or should I be screaming? I hate the rain! You can't do a single darn thing in the rain and I have no motivation to do anything when it's raining! The weekend is here and I wanted to go out and take the kids somewhere...now where do we go? Yes, I'm whining. I hate the rain. I have to apologize cause it's all my fault anyway. The weather knows when I am shopping for summer stuff, and I have been bikini shopping this week...oops, my bad. I'm sorry, I'm apologizing now.

And I didn't know that apologize had just one P...guess my spell checker straightened me out on that one.