Kulow Cooking School

This morning Michael and Zeke have taken over my kitchen and my heart is warmed!  Michael is teaching Zeke how to cook "brefas".  Ki has joined in the kitchen as well... he, at his age is more of a hurtle then a help.  Zeke thinks he knows it all and has decided that he is going to try his hand at teaching as well...

Rough

Michael has been really helping me with getting Ki to bed.  Last night Michael had to work and let me just say I missed him!  Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night, Michael took charge and put Ki to bed.  There was very little fussing and Ki fell asleep right away.  Tuesday night be woke up once and it was around 1:30 and went back to sleep after I covered him back up.  Wednesday night Ki woke up once but I did not even have to go into his room, he fell back to sleep on his own.  Thursday night was the same thing... woke up stirred and went right back to sleep.  Last night Michael was gone so I had to get Ki to bed on my own, there was crying and fussing for forty minutes.  Then he woke up at 1 am and did not go back to sleep until 2am... rough night!  All of us had napped yesterday because Michael knew he was going to have to work at night, so we all curled up on the couch and napped for almost two hours, even me.  Last night I stayed up until 11:30 and then Zeke woke up at 12am having a coughing fit, he was awake until 1:30... so between 11:30-2am I got a short maybe 30 minute nap.  From now on, Michael has to do night time, why I am not sure, but he can get Ki to fall asleep and stay asleep!  I am thinking that maybe today will have to be another napping day.  :-)

Really?

Just a few thoughts... here goes my soap box!  Plunk...

(Clearing my throat...)

Really, I was folding some pajamas this afternoon and written on the tags of two pairs of pajamas it truly said, "Not flame resistant, keep clothing from open flame".  Are you serious?  Is it really necessary to put that on the tags of pajamas?  I am assuming that some parent had their child in this company's pajamas and they caught fire, the parent sued and now the company has to print this on all their pajamas.  Interested if this same warning was on their day clothes, I checked some of the shirts and shorts that I have from this company... the warning was not there.  Oh goodness!

On a more serious note...

Come on Littleton, you are not a very well known city except for shootings.  You have Columbine almost 11 years ago and now the Deer Creek.  I know it is not the city's fault but seriously, when I say that I am from Littleton I get the head tilt and the, "Oh where Columbine is" look.  

How as a parent can I look at the schools here and say, "Oh I can't wait for my boys to go to school!"  Granted I know that shootings can and will happen everywhere but two shootings in the same town, making national news.  

I had to call my grandma today to inform her that we are all okay and that the shooting was not at the school that is a block from my house. 

What is our society coming to?  

I am not wanting to make the shooting a spectacle or lessen the effect that it has made on our community, please do not read that into this post!  I am just so saddened at what a "circus" our society has become.  I realize having my first comment about tags in jammies followed by the shooting does not quit flow, but being a mommy, the jammies really got me thinking.  I know that must sound ridiculous, and it probably is!  As I was folding my boys jammies I was thinking about the moms of the two kids that were shot at yesterday and thinking that it was just a few years ago that those moms were folding their child's jammies and now here they are having to deal with the harsh reality that their babies lives could have been taken in a split second as they were leaving their school day at the neighborhood junior high school.  

This weekend I was chatting with our friend Bob on Skype and he had mentioned something about the plane that went down in the IRS building in Austin.  I said in a silly tone, "If it does not happen within these four walls I probably don't know about it."  Although that is true, sad - but true!  I started thinking about that today as well.  I do live in a little bubble of Michael, Zeke and Ki - nothing else really gets through.  So that was where the pajama tag caught my eye and then led to the thinking about the moms of the two kids and then to the sad state our society is in.  

Sorry for the lengthy soap box... just a few thoughts and had to share them with someone!

You may now return to your regularly programed life.

:-)

Sad State

You know I don't get out enough when I am boogying to Imagination Movers songs.  Ki and I are eating lunch together and I have got their song in my head and I am toe tapping and head bobbing.  Oh sakes!

Let the Record State

So that there is no confusion... Bob Aurich, was the one that showed us the Strider bikes!  It is all his fault that I made Michael look at them.  It was also his fault that I will not even consider another bike for my boys.  (Is that better Bob? LOL)