You may recall from reading earlier this summer that I’ve been counting down the days til school started up again since it ended in June! What can I say, having three kids in my face all day is not my strength. And yesterday I sent my big boy off to 2nd grade! He was just as ready as I was. He was super-cute, as you can see, and really excited. I was really proud of him because despite the fact that he and his two BFFs are all in separate classes (three 2nd grade classes, three pals, go figure!), he was cheerful and excited about his teacher and he had a great day.
Sophie doesn’t start school until next Monday, and she missed Joshua sooooo badly today. She told me at least three times, “I can’t wait for Joshua to get home!” and when he did get home she was all up in his biz-ness wanting to know what he did all day! It was pretty sweet. She missed her brother but she’s dying to start herself. Cute pics of that to come next week!
And even though I adore those big kids, I am looking forward to having 2.5 hours a day, 4 days a a week with my little guy. He deserves some mommy time, the poor neglected third child!
Last night, Jenny, my sister and I went to see “The Help.” It was a good movie and a nice night out, and it reminded me that I really like seeing movies in a theater. I had forgotten, since it happens approximately once a year. Then I saw a “fall movie preview” in my husband’s latest copy of Entertainment Weekly, and voila, I have a list of movies I want to see in the next decade sometime soon.
Here we go! (Pictures and captions from imdb.com)
1. The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
2. A comedic account of a 27-year-old guy's cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
3. A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids.
4. A woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.
5. An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon.
6. Three avid bird watchers compete to spot the rarest birds in North America at a prestigious annual event.
7.* After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.
8. A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
9. With the help of three fans, the Muppets must reunite in order to save their old studio from a greedy oil tycoon.
10. A family man is forced to deal with his twin sister from the Bronx comes to Los Angeles for a visit -- then won't leave.
So, what am I missing? What movie are you dying to see or have you seen lately that you loved?
*To celebrate the August release of the new Anne Hathaway movie One Day, Kodak is hosting a contest on their Facebook page. Share the photo of your one perfect day for a chance to win a trip for two to Paris, France and great Kodak products. The contest ends Friday, August 26, so hurry!
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So the other day I was looking at Facebook, like I do eleventybillion times a day, when a comment on my cousin Shelby’s status caught my eye (Shelby, or, “the Shelb” as I like to call her, is my much younger cousin, the daughter of the illustrious UP of Redneck Latte, and is a cute little RN living in the great state of Georgia who wants to meet a nice boy from OHIO who wants to live near his mother so she can settle down near ME. But anyways.) Here’s what I saw on Shelby’s status:
It wasn’t the status itself that caught my eye, but her commenter. Now I’ve used my advanced Photoshop skills to blur out the commenter’s last name, so we’ll call her Amy Snickerdoodle. Seeing her picture and her name, I thought to myself, “I wonder if she is the sister of Maria Snickerdoodle that I knew in college. She has a sister named Amy. I remember she came to visit Maria once when she was maybe 15 or so. That picture looks like it could be her. I think they were from Virginia though, so it would be weird if it was her since she is apparently now in Georgia.” My old college pal Maria was a couple of years younger than me, but I met her because her brother was married to my suitemate Angie’s sister, so Angie took her under her wing when she came to our college. Anypoops – Maria is one of my Facebook friends. So I clicked over to Maria’s profile to see if Amy was her sister. And YEP, sure enough – same Snickerdoodle!
So, I messaged my cuz the Shelb, and I’m all “How do you know Amy Snickerdoodle? Cause I know her sister from college and her brother is married to one of my good friends.” And the Shelb wrote back and she was all, “She’s my ROOMMATE.”
Crazy, right!? Then I have to message my friend Angie and tell her that her brother-in-law’s sister is my cousin’s roommate. And Angie and I were like, suitemates in college. I mean we shared a BATHROOM! And they share an APARTMENT! It’s like history is repeating itself! Or something.
So, it’s a small, small world. Made smaller by teeny Christian colleges and social media.
Have you had any wild six-degrees-of-separation Facebook moments?
