I get to be “mean, don’t understand, too many rules, don’t have a real job, bud” dad. Seems some people think they have me figured out. The challenges of having children can be tons of fun, especially when they think they can get the best of me
Here are some safety tips I’d like to pass on to you;
Help your child pick out or make a costume that will be safe (kinda late for this tip, since everyone should already have their costume by now. Make it fire proof, the eye holes should be large enough for good peripheral vision.
Make sure that if your child is carrying a prop, such as a scythe, butcher knife or a pitchfork, that the tips are smooth and flexible enough to not cause injury if fallen on.
Kids always want to help with the pumpkin carving. Small children shouldn’t be allowed to use a sharp knife to cut the top or the face. There are many kits available that come with tiny saws that work better then knives and are safer, although you can be cut by them as well. It’s best to let the kids clean out the pumpkin and draw a face on it, which you can carve for them.
Treating your kids to a spooky Halloween dinner will make them less likely to eat the candy they collect before you have a chance to check it for them.
Teaching your kids basic everyday safety such as not getting into cars or talking to strangers, watching both ways before crossing streets and crossing when the lights tell you to, will help make them safer when they are out Trick or Treating.
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Check out these cool costumes.
Good luck to Kieana and her Sherwood Saints field hockey team who leave today to capture the provincial championship. All the best ladies.
I was reading David’s blog at www.didyousmellthat.com this morning and it got me thinking. If I had the chance to take another vacation, where or what would I like to do? We’ve done the sit by the beach on a resort thing, we’ve done the graze at the buffet on some of the largest cruise ships ever built, we been to pretty much all the islands in the Caribbean and I’ve been to Europe. So what kind of vacation would I like to try? Probably something packed with fun and a bit daring (take a break from the beach). When we were in Antigua last winter we took a tour of the island which took us pass where they were setting up a zip line. It left an impression on me. I should have asked the driver to stop so I could give it a try. Mind-you it was a pretty basic zip-line.
Kieana, our eldest daughter caught me by surprise a couple months ago when she blurted out that she’d like to go to Alaska. ALASKA? All the while whenever the topic of going to Alaska came up, I was pretty much alone and voted out! So now with some backing, this may be possible. Then this morning I found the coolest video on youtube. YEP! Supposedly the longest zip line in the world and it’s in Alaska. More reason to take a trip up there:
As I poked around Youtube I found another one, which claims to be the world’s fastest zipline in the world. And get this..it’s in South Africa, the home of the next world cup! Yet another reason to go…
We were driving out to get the girls their pumpkin to carve when I saw this old (crap) car in front of us at the stop lights. “Must be a winter beater” I thought to myself. That got me thinking, when was the last time I heard someone use the term “winter beater”. The piece of junk many people would purchase to drive around during the winter to save their new cars from the salt and the other damaging effects of the winter. Was the trusty “winter beater” replaced with those new SUVs and mega trucks everyone now seems to be driving?
Gardasil update.
Further to my post about deciding if we should allow our daughter to get the Gardasil needle, Caron had time to speak with our doctor on the issue. Basically she said that she recommends it and is giving it to patients at her office. But here is the kicker… Do you think she gave it to her daughter yet? NOPE! I think her reason/excuse was that she keeps putting it off or was it she was waiting for a better needle to come out. Whatever the reason, you’d think since she’s recommending it, she would be first to give it to her daughter if it’s really a good idea. So the uncertainty continues.
Funnies
Back to the drive to get the girls their pumpkins. Overheard Tehya say that her friend (can’t recall her name) finally got over hear fear of “apple sauce” APPLE SAUCE? I’m afraid of heights, tight spaces and snakes, but apple sauce? Here’s the part I found funny. Seems when she was a child/baby her mom would put her medicine in apple sauce to mask the taste, so every time she saw apple sauce she would think it’s medicine coming her way. I guess she figured out it wasn’t just apple sauce her mom would feed her
Vacation time?
Here’s a peek at one of the islands I traded to come to Canada. Tobago is probably one of the few places in the Caribbean that is not over-run by tourists.
Having too much on your plate can be destructive! I’m one of those people who usually have a million and one ideas and many times I find myself trying to get them all going at once. At this very moment I’m working on opening a restaurant (Lickrish), trying to streamline/monetize my websites (Genuinejobs.com , Cruisecrownprincess.com , Freeacneadvice.com, Nakedpatio.com, Laglee.com and a few others, PLUS… I have several websites that are in development mode and require my constant input.
The problem is, I can’t seem to focus on any “One” that I may complete the related task and move on to the next. So, here I am trying to do a little for each and quite frankly this is proving to be non-productive.
So the game plan, starting today is to focus on the stuff that requires my immediate attention, then complete the ones that require the least amount of work. This way I can eliminate the easy tasks and concentrate on the ones that require more of my attention. The next step - AUTOMATE!
So today’s tip to staying focused and getting more achieved… eliminate tasks that chew-up your time and try to automate as much as you can.
P.S. Congrats to our eldest daughter’s field hockey team (Sherwood High School) for winning the city championship and for advancing to the Provincial level competition. Well done ladies!
Just about froze my “KoKos” watching them play this morning in winter like conditions.
