Our first blogged home video starring India. (Many thanks to McKenna who figured out how to post this!) Our family LOVES to watch The Office together every Thursday night.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
The Analogy
A typical week in the Wiemers' household is like a merry-go-round. It's got ups and downs, but eventually we get around to the next weekend.
Recent ups: Ammon's chili won first place at the ward chili cook-off! And we've got the ribbon to prove it. Ammon also made teacher of the month at school and received a hundred bucks for it. This is really cool because teachers are nominated by students rather than other teachers. Moving on. I made dinner 3 times last week. Ammon bought me a Harry Potter book and some new slippers for no reason in particular. If you know Ammon's feelings about Harry Potter, you know this purchase was a moral sacrifice. Lastly, I am happy to report that India is now good enough to go and participate in story time at the library again! We took a six month sabbatical from all public "playgroup" things because India would run away from me and tease other children.
Recent downs: Ammon's soccer team lost at region, but it was the first time they made it to regions in 7 years. Ammon is now shifting his extracurricular activities from soccer to debate. Next, India broke her first item at a store (worcestershire sauce), which made a huge, pungent mess. I fired her from grocery shopping with me in the future. On the flip side, today India fired me and Ammon. Then she found new parents. The new parents had way cooler toys and snacks. She and her new brother managed to escape from the new parents by crawling under pews and through a maze of legs. Then the new parents fired India, and we had to take her home with us.
What about our in-between moments? Here's an example: Ammon was intrigued by a few of our friends' ugly baby blogs, so he googled ugly babies. Unfortunately, we have found that India is terrified by the Mr. Bean baby. Shaking, screaming, running terrified. I kind of am too.
At any rate, last week was a good ride!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
FOOD GOOD
Some of you fine people may wonder what the video means other than that it is hilarious. Now that I have a few minutes of stolen time, I'll explain.
Every day, I have my students write one half page on a topic that I give to them. The topics are questions that I think would be interesting to have them write about and also to discuss. You can, if you're really bored, go to my class web site and read all of the topics for the year. http://ammon.wiemers.googlepages.com
Lately, it seems like we've been talking an unusually great amount about food. For instance, I had them write about what their favorite kind of pie is. I was shocked to learn how many people don't like pie. I think that is too bad.
I've also noticed that I have wanted to eat yummy food more lately. Whether it is that the holiday food season is approaching, or that my natural instinct to fatten up for the winter, or that the opportunity has just arisen more frequently, I have been eating too much yummy stuff lately.
For instance, on Saturday I came home from buying food at Costco to find that one of our well meaning neaighbors had dropped of a box of Krispy Kreme donuts. Well, that's not nice. I made up my mind that I was going to do good, as far as diet goes, for the entire weekend. That usually is not so. But, there was a box of delicious sitting right there. So, I partook.
As I was eating the last one, (Erin and India helped) I went to the gym. I ran an extra mile, but I'm not sure it was enough. Sugar Good -- Sugar Bad.
So what does that have to do with the video clip? The line about how he's never really glad he ate a hot pocket when he's done. That's how I feel about donuts and other sugary things. Before hand, I think "this is going to be awesome." After, I think "that was awesome, but I don't feel good."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFFTwnYXI20
I'm sure that the holiday season will be difficult, but I'm hopefull that I can win. That is, the battle of the bulge.
Every day, I have my students write one half page on a topic that I give to them. The topics are questions that I think would be interesting to have them write about and also to discuss. You can, if you're really bored, go to my class web site and read all of the topics for the year. http://ammon.wiemers.googlepages.com
Lately, it seems like we've been talking an unusually great amount about food. For instance, I had them write about what their favorite kind of pie is. I was shocked to learn how many people don't like pie. I think that is too bad.
I've also noticed that I have wanted to eat yummy food more lately. Whether it is that the holiday food season is approaching, or that my natural instinct to fatten up for the winter, or that the opportunity has just arisen more frequently, I have been eating too much yummy stuff lately.
For instance, on Saturday I came home from buying food at Costco to find that one of our well meaning neaighbors had dropped of a box of Krispy Kreme donuts. Well, that's not nice. I made up my mind that I was going to do good, as far as diet goes, for the entire weekend. That usually is not so. But, there was a box of delicious sitting right there. So, I partook.
As I was eating the last one, (Erin and India helped) I went to the gym. I ran an extra mile, but I'm not sure it was enough. Sugar Good -- Sugar Bad.
So what does that have to do with the video clip? The line about how he's never really glad he ate a hot pocket when he's done. That's how I feel about donuts and other sugary things. Before hand, I think "this is going to be awesome." After, I think "that was awesome, but I don't feel good."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFFTwnYXI20
I'm sure that the holiday season will be difficult, but I'm hopefull that I can win. That is, the battle of the bulge.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
William Tell Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU
This isn't quite my life yet, but apparently I've got a lot look forward to! (India loves to sing with this lady).
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