Yes, I went and got a new phone on the first day they were out. Not that I am a big fan of phones or Apple or anything, I have just needed a new phone for about six months now and have been waiting for the new iPhone so I could upgrade to it. I have heard good things about the new Samsung Nexus Prime, or whatever they are going to call it, but I could not wait any longer. Had this phone for almost three years and it was time for a new one.
The kids haven't done anything and there is no other news to report, so bye, see you next time.
Ok, I will make some things up and write about them. No one knows the difference anyway, so why not.
William has been back in school for a week. Got in trouble every day apparently, or so the teacher is telling us. I am guessing she wants us to do something about it. He finally had to sit in his room yesterday. No TV, no games, no computer (which really kills him), no fun at all. And to top it off, Igor was on TV last night and of course, Maeghan watched it and had the sound up loud enough for him to hear it. So, he was really feeling sorry for himself. Not that anything he did was his fault. There was always someone else to blame for everything, mostly his friend Liam. I am not sure Liam really exists as I have never seen him, but most of the things William gets in trouble for he says Liam told him to do it. I am sure Laim is the real bad guy here and William is just an innocent bystander as he never does anything wrong when he is at home with ... ok, not even I could finish writing that sentence. Guess we will just have to be a little harder on him until he starts to get it right.
He did do homework the other day. He used to be happy when he could say he had homework because he was jealous of Maeghan always having homework. But now, we found several pages of supposed homework he was to have done in the past and he never mentions having any. Usually, he just denies having any homework and since he is in Kindy, we tend to believe him. But, he pulled out a page of words he was supposed to read and write and along with it came some other folded and crumpled up papers that were stuffed into his bag. A lot of them he had already done at school, but most of them were blank and we can only assume they were given to him in the past as homework and he told us he never had any.
He did do good on the words list he had. He was able to write most of the words and it was even legible, something you could probably not say about my writing when I was a kid. He cannot read and the teachers tell us that all the other kids can read but I am a bit skeptical about that. He did recoginize several of the words, not really reading them but I am sure just recognizing the patterns and saying what they said. As much as he plays on the computer and navigates to all the different pages where his games are, he must be picking up some reading skills but again, we need to get him doing more.
Maeghan is still practicing her dance routine. It changed from last time when it was a play to a dance number to some song she cannot remember. She is always wanting to perform it for us but when she starts, she immediately forgets what she is supposed to do and what the music sounds like. I have no idea how long they have to practice this but she does not really seem to be ready. Then again, maybe that is what all the other kids are doing and they are no better than she is. We do not get to see the tryouts so we do not know what others are doing or what they might be wanting to perform. We only get to see the show when it is performed. I suppose it is because they do not want parents lobbying for their kids based on the tryouts and thinking one kid is better than another. Then again, maybe I have no idea why we are not allowed to see the tryouts.
To bring this back to the main subject of this blog, food, I had a conversation about some hot sauces on facebook that made me realise some things. That chile that I was talking about, the one that is now the hottest. Well it seems the second hottest chile, the one that the new one replaced, is used in some curry eating contest in Scotland where several people were hospitalized after eating the curry that was made with the chile. Just a minor detour from the normal talk but I did find that there are a couple of sauces based on this chili, both of them expensive and one I have already mentioned. I did discover the other one is actually a curry sauce and is used to flavor curries. I thought it was a mustard based sauce and had not tried it but will now go and get a bottle and put it in my next curry.
Ok, back to the kids and this will be short as William is now in trouble again. He is talking back to his mother and blaming everything on Maeghan. I am going to have to go and intervene soon. He is just digging himself deeper.
So, a short entry and not much news and no really good news but there it is. Maybe I will be more entertaining next time. Right now, I have to go speak to William, and play with my new phone. By the way, I don't really like the form of the new iPhone. I know it has been that way for a while but I preferred the curves of the old 3Gs I had. This one appears to be a bit harsh when you hold it. Too many sharp edges, but I am sure I will get used to it and I need a case for it anyway, so I will probably not notice once I get one.
How did I start talking about the phone again. Doesn't matter. You don't really have a choice in what I talk about anyway, just a trapped reader waiting for this blog to start getting good again. Might be a long wait.
So, until next time
Talk to you later
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