So today Holden was supposed to go back to school. He's at that age when he simply loves school and he was excited about his first day back after the holidays.
And then that little boys joy was crushed by AM Pre-K being cancelled due to an unfortunate case of DENSE FOG.
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Monday, January 05, 2009
Friday, November 28, 2008
Thanksgiving
We hosted Thanksgiving this year (as we did last year) and it went off without a hitch! The food was really good, everybody who came seemed to have a good time. After dinner we played a little Trivial Pursuit (Pop Trivia 2 DVD Edition) which took forever until Maria and I finally won.
Earlier in the day I took Holden with me over to Fruitland Baptist Church here a few blocks away to help serve those less fortune than ourselves. I wasn't too sure if bringing Holden was going to be a good move or not. I was afraid he wouldn't have anything to do or wouldn't be willing or able to do anything useful.. boy was I wrong! As soon as we walked in the place was slammed. There were a lot of people coming and going... filling to-go containers to take to homes or centers where people aren't able to get out and about.
A nice older lady stopped us and introduced herself. She was sort of "in-charge" I guess you could say. She asked Holden if he wanted to help and you should have seen his face light up! He followed her over to a table covered in boxes of cornbread muffins. His job was to take a muffin out of the box, and put it in a small zip-lock bag and then set it in another box. When he started I didn't think he would stick with it or want to do it for any extended period of time... but he probably bagged 150-200 muffins! He had several friends from Church there alongside him, so that probably helped. It was a little bit funny, all the people walking by patting him on the back and giving him props for working so hard... made me proud.
I helped working the assembly line, putting the meals together for the folks who were taking them out into the community. I wish I could have done more, but I was glad to have even just a small part in serving over 1,400 thanksgiving dinners.
What I liked seeing the most was how excited Holden was to be there helping out. Although when he hit the last bag he made no qualms to tell me that we were going home. I can't wait until all the kids can take part in events like this. I think it's great to keep your kids grounded and hopefully recognize how they shouldn't take for granted the things they have.
I hope everyone out there in internet land had a great Thanksgiving as well.
Earlier in the day I took Holden with me over to Fruitland Baptist Church here a few blocks away to help serve those less fortune than ourselves. I wasn't too sure if bringing Holden was going to be a good move or not. I was afraid he wouldn't have anything to do or wouldn't be willing or able to do anything useful.. boy was I wrong! As soon as we walked in the place was slammed. There were a lot of people coming and going... filling to-go containers to take to homes or centers where people aren't able to get out and about.
A nice older lady stopped us and introduced herself. She was sort of "in-charge" I guess you could say. She asked Holden if he wanted to help and you should have seen his face light up! He followed her over to a table covered in boxes of cornbread muffins. His job was to take a muffin out of the box, and put it in a small zip-lock bag and then set it in another box. When he started I didn't think he would stick with it or want to do it for any extended period of time... but he probably bagged 150-200 muffins! He had several friends from Church there alongside him, so that probably helped. It was a little bit funny, all the people walking by patting him on the back and giving him props for working so hard... made me proud.
I helped working the assembly line, putting the meals together for the folks who were taking them out into the community. I wish I could have done more, but I was glad to have even just a small part in serving over 1,400 thanksgiving dinners.
What I liked seeing the most was how excited Holden was to be there helping out. Although when he hit the last bag he made no qualms to tell me that we were going home. I can't wait until all the kids can take part in events like this. I think it's great to keep your kids grounded and hopefully recognize how they shouldn't take for granted the things they have.
I hope everyone out there in internet land had a great Thanksgiving as well.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Reel Big Fish
I took Holden fishing yesterday in a monsoon. It poured when we loaded up into the car, and the entire drive over the the fishin' hole. We stopped and got some worms & a few more hooks for Holden's spiderman fishing rod he got for his birthday. He was excited mostly when we got the worms.. holding the worms was a big deal.
We get there and the rain has stopped.. the sun has come out and we got to work. Holden was very good at ripping the worms apart, and he was cool about letting me put the worm on the hook.
We have been practicing casting in the yard, so he already had a good grasp of how to cast. Mrs. Mary was out there watching us and had no idea... Holden pulled the rod back, and flung his hook and bobber about 20 feet out into the water. "Wow.. he casts better than me!" is all she could say.
After about 5 minutes of nibbles and bites Holden hooks his first fish.. a little Sun fish.. Holden laughed and giggled as he reeled it in and was very proud of his first fish of the day. It was pouring down rain at this point, but Reid was there and brought an umbrella out for us to keep dry (sort of).
Holden caught 3 fish total.. one got off the hook as soon as Holden started pulling it out of the water. It was the biggest fish of the day, but Holden was just happy to be out there casting and playing with the two monster horse sized dogs that were next to us. We had a blast though.. I think this fishing thing is something we are going to start to do more of.
We get there and the rain has stopped.. the sun has come out and we got to work. Holden was very good at ripping the worms apart, and he was cool about letting me put the worm on the hook.
We have been practicing casting in the yard, so he already had a good grasp of how to cast. Mrs. Mary was out there watching us and had no idea... Holden pulled the rod back, and flung his hook and bobber about 20 feet out into the water. "Wow.. he casts better than me!" is all she could say.
After about 5 minutes of nibbles and bites Holden hooks his first fish.. a little Sun fish.. Holden laughed and giggled as he reeled it in and was very proud of his first fish of the day. It was pouring down rain at this point, but Reid was there and brought an umbrella out for us to keep dry (sort of).
Holden caught 3 fish total.. one got off the hook as soon as Holden started pulling it out of the water. It was the biggest fish of the day, but Holden was just happy to be out there casting and playing with the two monster horse sized dogs that were next to us. We had a blast though.. I think this fishing thing is something we are going to start to do more of.
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