How about any White House event for children where they serve food? Or do art projects? Or do food related art projects?

I'm sorry but I don't rank my kids based on what materials they use to be creative. Nope, I am not sorry.

Oh, I'm just dying to to know YOUR opinion of what point I made. :lol: Please share. Do.

"Cool Pop Tart, Josh! Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like Pop Tart Art. It's what makes America great."

Netflix just announced yesterday that How to Get Away with Murder is now available. It is only season 1 but season 2 starts next week on ABC. I've never seen it but a few people have recommended it to me. It might not fit your parameters but it has good scores on IMDB.

This is from the Dallas news article: "He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped for. “He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’†Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’†He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward. “She was like, it looks like a bomb,†he said. “I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’†The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back." XXXXX Is there another article that specifies how the clock got from the English teacher to the the admins? And I didn't realize the school district will not release their version of what happened without written permission from the family.

It had a battery, too. It looks like he just took apart a clock and shoved it in a mini-case. I've had plug-in clocks with battery back ups.

Too short for my taste. I wouldn't want to risk ALE...Accidental La b i a Exposure.

Why can't the moms of the infants deal with it every time it happens?

How did the incident escalate from the English teacher to the police? Did the English teacher bring it to the admins?

I'm a dedicated lurker...it seemed like a good time to post.

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Yeah, back then...ugh. But she has grown up a lot and mellowed. Fortunately.

:grouphug: Now you made ME tear up! :lol: I'm so happy for you!

Patch approves.

Well, that is what ended up happening in the situation I am talking about. DH and his siblings were seated at a table with his parents, his sister and her family. The rest of us were seated at a table in another room of the restaurant. So my SIL essentially got what she wanted. I'm sure she got a chuckle about it.

Hockey must be out of the question, too. Teeny tiny puck! :lol:

I love Random Capitalizations! They make me smile, even though they are Wrong.

I don't think team sports are necessary...but I do think moving, doing, playing ARE important. Engaging in hand-eye and body coordination activites are so beneficial and important to kids' development. If he enjoys the basketball even a bit still, I'd stick with it IF you practice with him daily. Dribbling, passing, shooting, jumping, running...all things you can do together. And if he doesn't want to stick with it, I'd still be doing stuff like that daily. Good luck!

In our situation...there were no mitigating circumstances or health issues for my parents-in-law at the time. And the SIL included HER DH and children, so it wasn't a sibling-only event. It wasn't just an ordinary, let's-get-together event...it was for/on Mother's Day. It wasn't an issue of spouses doing things separately from each other or personal one-on-one relationships with between children and parents.

:Iagree: My SIL tried to do this ONCE...and her siblings (DH and his brothers and sisters) put a stop to it by refusing to come without their spouses and children. The same SIL once claimed that "real" grandchildren are the children of daughters, not daughters-in-law. And also that the "right" thing to do is to have a male child first. She's grown up a lot in the intervening years, thank goodness.

I'm so sorry. You can create your own "memorial service" and it can be anything you want, anything you think would be helpful. Ideas: Invite your nearby friends and make a meal for them and your family that reminds you of your Grandma. Buy a set of those paper lanterns and attach a memory to each one. Play a song that reminds you of her and let them go. Take a day to yourself with a new journal and write down everything you love and remember about her. :grouphug:

This picture? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/culturebox/2006/09/its_me_in_that_911_photo.html The couple in the picture said they were devasted by what was happening.

So, I started this bc I am wondering what happened to the wife.

http://www.theindianalawyer.com/supreme-court-upholds-barnes-ruling/PARAMS/article/27202 In the Vanderburgh Superior case, police responded to a 911 call by an Evansville man’s wife about a domestic dispute. When they arrived, Richard Barnes was in the parking lot and the wife came outside unharmed, but both went back inside the apartment. When police tried to follow, Barnes told them they couldn’t enter, blocking them and shoving one officer against the wall, continuing to struggle with him. Barnes was subdued, charged, and ultimately found guilty of resisting police, battery on an officer, and disorderly conduct.