Heard this on my local radio station yesterday, and HAD to share it!
A Motown tribute to Nickelback:
Heard this on my local radio station yesterday, and HAD to share it!
A Motown tribute to Nickelback:
November 15, 2011
To all of the families and friends of the Down Syndrome Partnership of Tarrant County:
Effective immediately, ******** will be taking over the position of New Parent Packet Coordinator; while it may come as a surprise to most of you, she and I have been discussing this for several months now.
It has been my greatest honor to have been entrusted with this “job” for the past 8 years, but as with all things, the time has come to pass the responsibilities to someone new. While I will miss being one of the first people that a family contacts when their child gets a DS diagnosis, I know that future families will be in good hands in *****’s capable care.
Our longtime friend Jack is always sending along helpful tips to us “youngsters” (he recently turned 75). Since Paul just purchased a new Glock, Jack found this helpful video and sent it to us in an e-mail with the following message:
What an informative training film. Should be distributed to our military and all Law Enforcement agencies. Certainly kept my attention. I watched this 4 times and now I’m ready to buy a Glock!!!
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Thanks for that, Jack – Paul has promised to watch this video over and over and over, until he gets it right….. 😛
(We have the BEST friends!)
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As many of you know, our youngest daughter, Rebecca, was born with Down syndrome. When we found out that we were (surprise!) expecting a fourth child, we made a conscious decision NOT to have certain prenatal tests done. I will freely admit that I am not nearly as noble as I would like to think that I am; I didn’t want to even entertain the idea of someone asking me if I wanted to make a “choice”.
I love Halloween – it’s the only night of the year when you are allowed to wear a costume without being in a play:
When I was in 7th grade, my parents took me to see our High School’s performance of “Fiddler on the Roof”. They created a bit of a monster, I’m afraid; I’ve been a huge fan of musicals from that day forward. I’ve seen a lot of them since then – both onstage and onscreen – however, that particular play has remained one of my all-time favorites.
I’m dealing with some family stuff today, so I’ll just share this with you guys – DD#2 just sent it to me, and I thought it was pretty good:
She and I don’t always see eye-to-eye on politics, but we definitely share a similar sense of humor…. 😛
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Over the past couple of weeks there has been a sickening display of liberal politicians, news anchors, pundits, and D-List celebrities jumping in front of the camera and gushing about how wonderful this whole “Occupy” movement is, what brave people they are to be doing this, and what an inspiration these people are to “the rest of the country”.
The same liberal politicians and pundits who have downplayed the size and impact of the Tea Party movement over the past 2 years are now eager – nay, DESPERATE – to at last have their very own version of the Tea Party; so much so, that they have gone overboard in their gushing approval of these groups.
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It was 25 years ago today that our lives changed in the space of an instant. One second we were a couple, and the next we were a family. It still never ceases to amaze me how seamlessly that transition occurred, and how it felt like things had always been that way.
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When this whole “Occupy” movement started back on September 17th, the crew of kids down on Wall Street seemed like a harmless but well-meaning group of people. Yes, a lot of us poked gentle fun at them, but at the time, the original group was so small that nobody was really paying attention to what their core beliefs were.
After a month in the trenches, these kids who started out as wide-eyed idealists down with “the cause” are starting to get gobsmacked with lessons that they would most likely never have learned in classrooms filled with theoretical situations and simple, elegant solutions.