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Well, just a little after 8 in the morning, I get a call from the school nurse. Never a happy moment in my life.
My girl, all of 7 years old, skirt/dress-loving, sweetheart, may have a fracture at her wrist.
Let me describe her....
she loves to wear skirts or dresses, put on the occasional lip gloss, perfume, cream, plays with her stuffed dolls, pretty little girl...
BUT, she also loves to play with the boys. I don't know if this is because of her big brother, or what, but she is a tomboy in a skirt!
I don't mind. She has a lot of confidence and can hold her own against anyone.....
but as the boys get older and stronger, maybe being the goalie in their soccer was not the best idea....
4 weeks, poor girl. She is upset most about missing her tennis and art classes, but I don't think it hit her yet that she can't go into the water at the beach. She loves the beach too....

Inspiration for the day

I hope this link works...let me know~
http://www.superlaugh.com/1/interview.htm

are you kidding me?

I can write only as it happened....
Last Friday night we went to going away party for some friends of ours (a usual occurrence when living overseas).
We were invited by this couple, who asked me to bring a salad. The party was lovely...
there were two servers (also usual because of cheaper labor overseas), two salads,(mine and from another lady), wine and champagne, salmon and a meat dish, desserts....
They had bought them 3 beautiful photo books about Brazil...
all seems normal right?

Skip to Tuesday and an email from the person who invited us, and held it in their house, and asked for the salad (written to all that had attended):

Thank you for joining us in our home for the farewell of Mr. and Mrs. It was a lovely evening. But as you know, nothing comes for free in this world, so please see the attached (read: excel spread sheet) for your costs for the party. Please pay at your convenience.

WHAT??? EXCUSE ME???

Both my husband and I were shocked. I could totally understand if they wanted all of us to help out with the gift that they choose to give them. But PLEASE, to pitch in for everything else? I mean maybe if they had come out BEFORE the party and said something like, let's all pitch in together and have a farewell party, etc...but after the fact? AND after they asked me to bring a salad?
The spread sheet has everything broken down into servers, food, drinks, gift, etc...
my question that I feel like emailing back to them:

Do I get to deduct the cost of my salad?

tooth fairy troubles..

In the hub-bub of reading all the new material from the first day of school, along with getting dinner ready and just a general "fullness" to the house what with my Parents and Sister and her son here....
we lost the tooth that my son lost at school!
It was a pretty depressing scene when we went to go to bed and we couldn't find the tooth. So, I suggested that we write her a note. My son had said how she probably knows when teeth fall out because a bell rings or something. But he felt really bad that his tooth wouldn't go into her collection. After much discussion and persuading, he finally wrote her a note:

Dear tooth fary,
I lost my tooth. I can't give it to you. I am sorry about your collection.

Luckily the tooth fairy is a smart girl! How do I know? Because when he woke up this morning he had a note back....it had a picture of a tooth printed on it and it said:

Dear (insert my son's name)
Thank you for the note. I did hear my bell ring when your tooth fell out....And I even saw it go into the trash can by mistake. Don't worry; I saved it before it was too late and now it is in my gigantic collection of teeth. Keep brushing and flossing The Tooth Fairy



:) enjoy your day

update on the first day....

Son: My teacher is so cool...

Daughter: I love my teacher....

Me:(in my thoughts):

Yes!  It has started off wonderfully!

My son even lost one of his teeth while eating lunch today!  That's sure is some crunchy chicken!

T minus 10 hours

So, the countdown has begun.  The kids are now asleep EARLY so that they can start school tomorrow morning.  I think they are in a mix of emotions between excited and nervous.

Fourth and Second grades...where has the time gone?

I love to see them growing up.  Every day they surprise me, make me laugh, impress me...

I think being a Mom is the best job in the world!

still here laughing....

First of all, for all of those that read my blog(which is not many but it is quality over quantity for me!) I am sorry that I have been so out of touch.

I have had my family visiting with me in my city, Brazil.

We have had many fun adventures which I will blog about later....but...

two things that I do not want to go too long without posting...

1. Thank you to My Full Hands for my award.  

 She is an amazing woman with 6 children.  Her patience, inventive solutions and fun writing style are quite enjoyable to read.  Please visit her by clicking on the link!

2. I am still laughing about my massage lady tonight.  Ok, yes, I have a massage once a week...quite a luxury I know, but we have to try to enjoy what each country has special and sort of affordable that other countries (aka USA) might have but be more expensive and not so convenient. (read: she comes to my house every Thursday night!!! :))

So, tonight, I asked her about my foot.  It has been hurting me for a really long time.  I feel like it might have a stress fracture, or a fissure (which is similar to a fracture, only much, much smaller.  I know this because my son had this a few years ago on his arm.)

I also am very in tune with pains and aches in my body, due to my ballet career.  So, she says that it could be one of those and that I should go to see an orthopedist.  All this is in Portuguese, but I do speak it well enough to understand everything until....

she says that he will probably ask me to get a ...here's the word....

it sounded like hashish!  no kidding!  I was pondering and racking my brain trying to figure out what that was.  He is going to ask me to smoke hashish kept popping into my mind.  It was so funny!  I knew that she was not meaning that, but she kept repeating it, which is something that many people do to try to make you understand what they are saying.  What most don't realize is that repeating a word is not going to help if you do not understand it from the get-go.  

Finally, she writes down where I could go and how to say orthopedist, which is very similar, but did not need that explained.  Luckily, she also wrote down...

Raio X....  and X-ray, which is VERY similar in Spanish, but...

in Portuguese, the "r" sounds like an "h" and the "x" is something like shish.

My funny for the day...hope it makes you smile, and I promise to blog more often and visit all of my blogger friends soon.....